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City Attorney Takes Her Own Swing at Man Sucker Punched by LAPD in 2024
Eleven months after Officer Joshua Sportiello punched Alexander Mitchell in the face, the City Attorney's office filed misdemeanor resisting charges against him. Was it in retaliation for Mitchell's civil suit?
March 6, 2026
CicLAmini Watts – Open Thread
Watts' Central Avenue and 103rd Street hosted the first edition of CicLAvia's new CicLAmini format - shorter events, targeted more toward walking - but not markedly different than the CicLAvia festivals Angelenos have come to know and love
May 22, 2023
Notes from the Skrapyard: Custom Bike Frames Shaped by a Drive to Serve
Their mutual love for bikes gave them a way to help youth, heal themselves, and leave a lasting imprint on the streets.
October 7, 2019
Long-Awaited Watts Skate and BMX Park Takes Significant Step Forward
At the Watts Gang Task Force meeting Monday morning in Watts, Councilmember Joe Buscaino announced that he had finally secured the necessary $925,000 in funds and a location for a combination skate and BMX bike park that the community has been waiting for for at least a decade. [If you can't see the video, click here.]
June 5, 2018
Los Ryderz Celebrate Six Years of Community-Building in Watts
It's tough love, to be sure. But the love couldn't be more genuine, and the members of the club have always known it.
May 10, 2018
“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety from More than Traffic
"I knew where I was," muses Slimm, the 25-year-old road captain from the Los Ryderz Bike Club regarding his fateful decision to roll past 65th on Broadway - the heart of East Coast Crips territory, "but I was just riding by..."
May 1, 2018
CicLAvia XVII Open Thread – Southeast Cities
Yesterday, CicLAvia touched down in Southeast Los Angeles County for the first time. The 10-mile car-free open streets route included the cities of Huntington Park, Lynwood, and South Gate, and the L.A. City community of Watts and the unincorporated L.A. County communities of Florence-Firestone and Walnut Park.
May 16, 2016
Little-Tokyo-to-Watts Ride Explores Shared History of Japanese- and African-American Angelenos
The unity bike ride - the third annual effort between the East Side Riders Bike Club and the Asian and Pacific Islander Obesity Prevention Alliance (APIOPA) to link the communities that lie along the historic Central Avenue corridor by unearthing their shared history - kicked off yesterday's event with a discussion of the origins of Little Tokyo.
May 2, 2016
Ride4Love Rides Again: More than 200 Cyclists Roll for Unity, Love in Watts
"This is such a great turnout!" was something I must have heard come out of my own mouth somewhere between 20 and 30 times during the East Side Riders' Ride4Love last weekend.
February 19, 2016
Los Ryderz BC Suffers Setback with Theft of Tools; Still Plans to Ride Saturday for Cancer Awareness
As he often does, Javier "JP" Partida, president and founder of Los Ryderz bike club in Watts, took some of his club members for a bike ride on Saturday. When they returned from Torrance that afternoon, they locked up the bikes and called it a day. When he came back Sunday morning to work on the bikes and finish welding the Crank Award trophies to thank local community members for their service in and around South L.A., he found that someone had broken into their storage area and looted the place.
September 29, 2015