They storm City Hall, scream in the faces of cops and drag babies into the chaos — using them like shields.
L.A.’s loudest agitators brought their fury to a historic Mid-Wilshire synagogue this week, spewing hateful rhetoric and threatening attendees as they tried to enter a community event.
Dramatic video posted on Instagram painted the scene: protesters packed outside Wilshire Boulevard Temple chanting “Free Palestine” and unleashing a volatile confrontation that left families shaken and police scrambling to keep order on Wednesday.
The activists behind the synagogue protest were no mystery. They are the same far-left disruptors who’ve spent years blowing up City Hall meetings, screaming at LAPD, stalking officials, and blasting “F—K LAPD” and “F—K ICE” across their social feeds.
The chaos outside Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s Audrey Irmas Pavilion came from a coordinated push by People’s City Council Los Angeles, Koreatown for Palestine, and the Palestinian Youth Movement — groups known for street confrontations, aggressive online mobilization, and open hostility toward law enforcement.
Their target: a community security forum featuring speakers tied to Israeli police and Elbit Systems. Protesters accused Elbit of aiding Israeli military operations and providing surveillance tools to ICE — claims repeated on flyers and banners reading “Elbit Out of Los Angeles” and “Genociders Not Welcome.”
Their call to action was blunt: “ALL OUT AT AUDREY IRMAS PAVILION… BRING YOUR NOISEMAKERS. SHUT THEM DOWN!!”
That came from People’s City Propaganda, a PCC-affiliated account.
Roughly 20 protesters clustered at the entrance and later inside, masks, keffiyehs, raised voices. Videos show them confronting attendees, including parents trying to get children inside.
And then came a familiar face: Jason Reedy.
Baby strapped to him. Again.
A woman filming gasped when she spotted the baby, but carrying an infant into confrontations has become part of Reedy’s brand.
For years he’s marched into Police Commission meetings with his infant son, shouting expletives. One commissioner once said it “made him sick” to watch. Weeks later, then LAPD Chief Michel Moore suggested that Reedy was using his child as a shield from criticism.
Reedy shrugged it off. “The commission enforces rules on the people who attend,” he fired back, “not on police who commit acts of violence.” His philosophy: “F— decorum.”
Before becoming an activist, Reedy said he was working to address food insecurity. It was the George Floyd uprising in 2020 that got in on the protest path.
“I think being Black in America radicalized me,” Reedy told Spectrum News. “I think I was awake, I wasn’t up out of bed yet.”
People’s City Council’s feeds are a nonstop torrent of anti-police vitriol, “F— LAPD,” “F—ICE,” and calls to “FREE ANT AND FREE THEM ALL!” when protesters were jailed. During this summer’s ICE demonstrations, PCC accused an LAPD officer of threatening people and ended the post with: “Fuck these pigs.”
They also film and expose plainclothes officers. “WATCH THE WATCHERS!” they wrote. “Caught 2 undercover LAPD pigs stalking protesters!”
Their tactics are open-book.
During June 12 protests against ICE, PCC posted: “Enough with the ‘peaceful protest’ chants please… the cops are shooting at you and beating you either way.”
In the comments, supporters instructed followers to build makeshift shields out of plywood:
“Wear that on the front or back of you depending on which is facing the pigs.”
Another PCC directive advised “staggered disruptions” at public meetings: “Pop off in different parts of the room… Make it difficult to carry on.”
Inside City Hall, it often works. Meetings collapse into disorder. Commissioners lose control. Police clear activists out. Reedy refuses to sit, refuses to quiet down, refuses to play by rules he doesn’t accept.
LAPD arrested one person for battery and another for vandalism on Wednesday.
Barry Shore, a Jewish author, business consultant and podcaster with more than 6 million downloads — told The Post: “Sad contemporary America. Paid protestors. Street theater that turns violent, in your face, and unable or unwilling to engage in dialogue. They are uneducated ideologues who believe the worst about whatever issue they’re paid to yell about.”
Rob Eshman, senior columnist at The Forward, said the protesters may have miscalculated. “These incidents create an atmosphere of fear,” he said, “but they’re also creating what people call the ‘October 7 surge.’ More people are returning to synagogue, more kids are enrolling in Jewish camps, there’s even increased immigration to Israel. One of the protesters’ goals is to pressure Jews — I don’t think it will have that effect.”
Mayor Karen Bass said she will deploy additional LAPD patrols to houses of worship in Koreatown.
Los Angeles City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto said her office has opened an investigation into the incident.
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