Bikeside LA

(Editor’s note – this article originally circulated in CityWatch, an email newsletter on City Hall.  If you want to understand LA politics, you must read CityWatch! Subscribe here!) “The drivers that hit us and run are driving in your neighborhoods, past your kid’s school, your mother’s church, and your house” – that was the message [...]

Until Sara or I can write a proper post, here are some photos from the Blood In protest, courtesy Gary Kavanagh and “Barleye”:

For immediate release.  For information & interviews contact alexcthompson@gmail.com. On Tuesday, July 27th, and Friday, July 30th, cyclists will gather at the Beverly Hills Courthouse to protest the tepid sentence handed down by Judge Elden S. Fox for Celine Mahdavi.  Mahdavi hit cyclist Louis Deliz and left him to die in the street on December [...]

Celine Mahdavi stands before the court for Felony Hit & Run and Felony DUI. I’m outside the Beverly Hills Municipal Courthouse awaiting the arrival of Louis “Birdman” Deliz. The air is crisp and full of the murmur of morning gridlock along Burton Way. Louis shows up, I give him a handshake and we wait for [...]