Homeless man gets beat up for threatening to kill someone.

From Santa Monica Close Up:

"Santa Monica Police Officers in the Homeless Liaison Unit (“HLP”) arrest a healer at Santa Monica Beach on Thursday, October 13, 2022. The Officers were enforcing public camping when the person intervened. She was charged with Penal Code 148 a 1 PC, California statute makes it a crime to willfully resist or obstruct a police officer, or EMT, in the performance of their official duties."



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The fate of the Venice Surf-A-Thon is now unknown.

Contest founder & organizer, Ger-I Lewis, made two announcements this morning via his social media accounts. Both announcements statimng he has decided not to produce the contest anymore, and the second announcement was the same as the first but he added in a sentence about gifting the contest to "the Venice neighborhood" , which he called aa "a strong and responsible group".

This news comes just 12 days after Ger-I had announced the 2022 Venice Surf-A-Thon date.

His full announcement:



"Family, friends and supporters of Venice Surf-A-Thon Surf Contest, I have decided to not to produce the Venice Surf-A-Thon Surf Contest any longer. Thank you for the support and a wonderful 28 years of fun and surfing! I decided to gift the contest to the Venice neighborhood and a strong and responsible group that is considering keeping the 'Thon going into the next 3 decades.
Sincerely, Ger-I"

Is the Venice Surfing Association the group Gert-I is talking about?

And does that mean the 2022 contest is still on?

657 Flower on fire again for 3rd time at 545am, Tuesaday 10/25. Neighbors say it’s a squatters drug den with vagrants going in and out all day and night. It burns again with 10+ fire trucks and 30 foot flames.

Surfing big waves at the Venice Pier on October 23, 2022

A walking tour through Venice, California - one of the communities that has been hardest hit from the homeless crisis. The host takes us through what it's like to live in a neighborhood that has been overrun by crime and chaos.

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded by ground and air, working with units from the nearby Santa Monica Fire Department, to quickly confine and extinguish a fire that consumed two acres of heavy brush on a steep hillside near the 15000 block of Corona del Mar on October 16, 2022.

Photos via LAFD

A tow truck removes a wrecked car from the sand in Pacific Palisades, then drives all the way down the bike path to the Santa Monica Pier, instead of using one of the many exit points, including the one where he picked up the wrecked car, he decided to go on the scenic route.

SMFD testing the fire engine hoses at Ocean Park in Santa Monica.