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My year in photos 2012

A year in photos in Los Angeles, 2013.

The AFL-CIO convention opens in Los Angeles.

Cardinal Mahony in Los Angeles

Current images of various politicians and political events in the U.S.

"Doom Town" located inside the Nevada Nuclear test site.

50th anniversary commemorating The Doors first album released Jan 4, 1967. The event was held under the Venice sign where the band formed and lived over 50 years ago.

A parody of the major coffee chain, Starbucks, "Dumb Starbucks" opened up in Los Angeles this weekend. Dumb Starbucks is giving away their coffee drinks and pastries, bought from a local super market. The line to get inside is over 3 hours long. No one is sure who is operating the pop up store.

1300 FBI agents along with LAPD officers arrested 50 people in South Los Angeles associated with the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips. The operation was code named "Gremlin Riderz" after a subset of the Crips gang. A 112 count indictment was served to the 200 member gang during coordinated raids this morning.

Gun buy back program in Los Angeles.

Huge surf at the Wedge in Newport Beach. Some sets hit 25 feet high. Hurricane Marie off the coast of Baja Mexico is generating the high surf, which is the largest seen in years.

It was a state funeral in Nickerson Gardens as Watts community members said goodbye to Kevin “Flipside” White, a rapper gunned down in front of his childhood home. Just after White was killed, Markice “Chiccen” Brider was slain at Imperial Courts housing projects in Watts. LAPD has charged a Grape Street Crip from Jordan Downs in Watts for the killings, and fear of a return to the bloody nights of decades past put everyone on alert. But at Macedonia Baptist Church, Triple O.G. Ronald “Kartoon” Antwine urged the Bounty Hunters Bloods not to retaliate against Grape Street -- to let LAPD do its job. The church full of 700 people stood and cheered. "It’s a different time, a new generation,” says Deshawn Cole, Brider's cousin. “They don’t need things to be dangerous like it was for previous generations.” Things have changed in Watts.

LA County Sheriff Lee Baca resigns his post.

The Mayoral inaugural for Eric Garcetti was held at LA City Hall. Kenia Castillo, an eighth-grader LA student administrated the oath of office to Garcetti. Kenia first met Garcetti was she was 4 years old and he attended an event in support of better working conditions for janitors like her mother.

Lance Armstrong along with Nike Sportswear and the LAF, Lance Armstrong Foundation, launched the Stages art project in Hollywood. Lance Armstrong and over 700 hundred cyclist rode down the Sunset blvd to the Montalban Theatre. The Stages Art event will fund a global fight against cancer and celebrate Lance's return to the bike racing. The art pieces will follow the Tour de France. Artist Shepard Fairey created a 3 piece mural of Lance Armstrong, which was showcased on the side of the Montablan Theatre.

An End of Watch memorial service was held for fallen LAPD Officer Nicholas Choung Lee. Officer Lee was killed on duty in a traffic collision last Friday, March 7, 2014. Thousand of law enforcement officers from all over California showed up to the memorial, held at the Our Lady Queen of Angels Cathedral in downtown LA, to show their respects.

LAPD is on high alert for an ex-LAPD turned cop killer on the loose somewhere in Southern California.

A Los Angeles Police Department officer was shot in the lobby of the West Traffic Division, which shares a building at the LAPD's Wilshire Station, and the suspect was also wounded.

Before and after images of the 1992 rioting in Los Angeles.

25 years of before and after shots of images I shot back in April and May of 1992 during the riots in Los Angeles.

Images from the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Photos by Ted Soqui © 1992 Los Angeles has undergone several days of rioting due to the acquittal of the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King. Hundreds of businesses were burned to the ground and over 55 people have been killed.

Thousands of residents from the City of West Hollywood turn out to celebrate the Marriage Equality Act that was found to be constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier in the day.

A make-shift memorial where Michael Hastings, a LA investigative journalist, died in a car crash on Highland Ave. in Los Angeles. Hastings' car ran in to a palm tree located on a median on Highland Ave at approximately 100mph in the early morning hours. The car burst in to flames and he could not be saved by local residents who attempted to put out the inferno. Hastings was most known for his 2010 piece in Rolling Stone that brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal.

61 members of the Mongols Motorcycle gang, formed in Montebello, CA back in the early 1970's, were arrested by Local and Federal police agencies allowing a three year undercover investigation. Over 20 seized choppers, guns, and vest were on display for the media outside the LAPD headquarters...Authorities have filed papers seeking a court order to prevent Mongol gang members from using or displaying the gang's name and to allow law enforcement officers to stop anyone wearing a Mongols vest and to remove it...The multi-agency investigation included personnel from the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Montebello Police Department, Las Vegas Metro Police Department and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.. .The investigation involved four male ATF agents -- supported by four female ATF agents -- who infiltrated the gang and were involved in ``some of the most harrowing undercover work'' that U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said he had seen.. .Agencies participating in the morning takedown included the California Highway Patrol; United States Marshals Service; Internal Revenue Service; Los Angeles , Whittier, West Covina, Glendale, Bell Gardens, Irwindale, Baldwin Park and Pomona police departments; Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; and the sheriff's departments of Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.

Murphy Ranch in the hills of Los Angeles was originally designed to be the west coast home and US Nazi Capitol for Adolph Hitler, if the Nazis won WWII. It was built by Hollywood Nazi sympathizers, but was raided by federal authorities shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The ranch had 22 bedrooms, it's own water supply, garden, bomb shelter, and power plant. The ranch turned in to a artist colony and home to novelist Henry Miller, but is now abandoned. It is now part of the California Parks system and is a popular hiking destination.

Navy Days LA 2014 in the Port of Los Angeles. Two Navy vessels, the USS Anchorage (LPD-23) and the USS Spruance (DDG-111), sailed in the Port of los Angeles Harbor for the week long event.

Images from the New Orleans area post hurricane Katrina.

Images from the 1994 earthquake in the Northridge area of Los Angeles on January 17, 1994.

The trial and media circus of OJ Simpson in Los Angeles.

Operation Sudden Impact solves six cold case murders, and leads to the arrest of forty gang members and associates who operated in Montebello, CA. A large cache of assault weapons, many modified to fire fully automatically, were also seized. A rocket launcher was also seized by the joint task force. Operation Sudden Impact was a multi agency effort of the ATF, Montebello PD, LA Co. Sheriff Dept, and the CA DOC, and was a two year long investigation.

Former LA Undersheriiff Paul Tanaka announces that he will run for LA Co. Sheriff. The LA County Sheriffs Dept. is under scrutiny by LA officials for the inhumane treatment of prisoners in the jails which the Sheriffs dept. oversees. Lee Baca is the current Sheriff and is also seeking re-election.

Police and public safety at work.

Inside LA County's only prison located in Lancaster.

The strange macabre world of safari hunters. The Safari Hunters Convention of 2004.

Same-sex marriages begin in California. The first same-sex wedding in the Los Angeles took place at City Hall between Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami -- a Burbank couple and two of the plaintiffs in the federal case that led to the demise of Prop. 8. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa officiated.

Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. LAPD were involved in a shooting of a homeless man who attempted to grab an officer's gun. Skid Row has LA's largest concentration of homeless people who regularly camp on the sidewalks in tents and cardboard boxes.

The 68,000 square foot Huy Fong Foods, Inc. Sriracha hot chili sauce plant in Irwindale, CA. The Asian style Sriracha hot chili sauce is quickly becoming a favorite food condiment around the world. Production of the sauce has some of the plant's neighbors complaining about foul odors emitting from the plant. Sriracha is produced only in Irwindale and is made from California produce. When the founder of Huy Fong Foods, David Tran, immigrated to the U.S. from Viet Nam, he named the company after the ship that carried him over.

Protesters march through out South Los Angeles in response to the not guilty verdicts in the Trayvon Martin verdict in Florida.

30 inch water pipe burst under Sunset blvd, producing a geyser of water that flooded the UCLA campus. Water and mud flooded the athletic area of the campus with several feet of standing water. An estimated 8 million to 10 million gallons of water was lost in the main break, according to the Department of Water and Power.

Various US Flags

The border fence at the USA/Mexico border near Tijuana, Mexico.

A memorial was held for Alice Gruppioni, who was visiting Venice on her honeymoon and was killed by a deranged driver on the Venice Beach boardwalk. The driver turned himself in to police and is being held on $1 Million dollars bail. He hit 40 people with his car and injured over 11 seriously.

A town hall meeting was held at the Westminster Elementary School school in Venice over the recent LAPD shooting of a homeless man, Brendon "Dizzle" Glenn, in Venice. The unarmed homeless man was shot and killed during a confrontation with a LAPD officer on Windward Ave in the heart of the community of Venice. Hundreds of residents and activist showed up to the town hall to vent and confront civic and LAPD leaders over the shooting.