MONTECITO, Calif. (KEYT) A who's who of journalists paid there respects to Lou Cannon on Saturday.

The journalist best known for his books on Ronald Reagan was a mentor to local journalists.

His beloved wife Mary, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and friends gathered at Our Lady of Carmel Catholic Church in Montecito.

During his eulogy his oldest son, Carl M. Cannon, quoted some of the many remembrances published from coast to coast.

He also shared a few baseball game stories from his childhood.

He said his dad was being buried wearing a Dodger tie.

And like Reagan he loved Santa Barbara County and California.

"This was the place he loved, he lived here longer than anywhere else, he had friends here, fell in love with this place when Ronald Reagan was president and he never stopped loving it."

Carl Cannon joked that his father was not a hoarder but had mountains of papers in the Summerland home he shared with Mary.

Cannon said his father's biography is slated for release in the spring.

Friends and family reminisced over photos at the Carr winery following the burial.

Cannon died in early December, following a stroke, at the age of 92.

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VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) The 10th annual Women's March took place in Ventura.

Organizers chose "Courage is Contagious " as the theme.

Participants met in Plaza Park and listened to speakers and checked out information booths before marching to and from Main St.

Justice For All Ventura County President Shane Meserve said now is the time to sign up and volunteer for the nonprofits making a difference.

"2026 is a pivotal year and we have a lot of work to do, so this is our kick off for our big work in 2026," said Meserve.

Some women wore the knitted pink hats that became a symbol of the first women's marches. 

A couple of women dressed as characters from The Handmaid's Tale.

Most carried homemade signs.

Some showed photos or mentioned Renee Nicole Good.

Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minnesota on January 7.

Justice for All, Indivisible Ventura and Planned Parenthood helped sponsor the event.

For more information visit https://justiceforallvc.org

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif.— In the trailer for the documentary “MLK/FBI” a commentator says “He [Martin Luther King Jr.] realized how sick this country was. We were trying to reveal the truth about segregation.”

It’s a documentary that aims to shed light on the U.S. government’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“We revere activism. But this was during a time of segregation. He was growing up during Jim Crow laws where black people were to be seen and not heard. So he was considered a troublemaker,” said UCSB and Westmont Film Studies Professor Wendy Ely Jackson.

Jackson’s mentor Sam Pollard is the filmmaker behind what many are calling a timely documentary.

“It doesn't just start in the 60s. He was under surveillance from the time that he was at Morehouse College, which is an all men's college in Atlanta, Georgia, where he got his undergraduate degree. So the questions around surveillance that people don't know about, specifically where he was concerned-- as we are very much so now--what things are ethical, what things are taken out of context?” said Wendy Jackson.

Thanks to newly declassified documents much of the FBI intelligence is available to the public.

“Perhaps he [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.] could have been a little bit dangerous to the FBI because when he spoke people listened and maybe wanted to act upon it,” said Martin Luther King Committee President Gregory Freeland.

“Violence is self-defeating. He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword” is a quote famously uttered by the late Dr. King.

And Dr. King’s daughter-in-law Leah Weber King agrees.

“Fighting back the same way that our oppressors are fighting us would not get us to where we're trying to go,” said Leah.

She says she is heartbroken to see parallels between the turmoil of the 60’s and today’s political climate.

“I’ve never walked around with rose colored glasses to think that racism and inequality just disappeared after my father law was off the scene. I do think it may have been quieted a bit, but now we have in office many people who now give permission to say the quiet part out loud,” said Leah.

Many are hopeful the documentary will empower viewers to take action.

“People looking at this documentary, you should ask yourself questions. 'What do I find there?' Remembering that all politics is local first, right. We'd like to talk about national politics, but the way you affect your immediate life is voting,” said Wendy Jackson.

Monday morning, the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee is organizing it’s annual “Unity March” up State Street.

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Por Kaanita Iyer, CNN

Minneapolis ha sido escenario de tensas manifestaciones contra el despliegue de agentes federales por parte del Gobierno de Trump como parte de una ofensiva migratoria, lo que ha generado interrogantes sobre el alcance de las facultades de estos agentes en el terreno y sobre cómo puede responder el presidente Donald Trump.

A medida que las protestas se intensificaban tras el tiroteo mortal de Renee Good, de 37 años, por parte de un agente del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés), el Gobierno de Trump defendió al agente y redobló sus esfuerzos en el área de Minneapolis, enviando más recursos.

Trump también ha amenazado con dar un paso extremo al invocar la Ley de Insurrección para sofocar las protestas, mientras que la secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, ha sugerido que, en algunos casos, las personas podrían ser requeridas a “validar su identidad”.

Estas son algunas de las preguntas más comunes, con sus respuestas.

La ley que Trump amenaza con invocar le permitiría desplegar militares estadounidenses en servicio activo en Minnesota cuando sea “necesario para hacer cumplir las leyes (de Estados Unidos) o para sofocar una rebelión”.

La legislación establece que el presidente puede enviar fuerzas militares para controlar situaciones que considere “obstrucciones ilegales, agrupaciones o asambleas ilícitas, o rebelión contra la autoridad de Estados Unidos”.

El gobernador o la legislatura de un estado también pueden solicitar militares, como ocurrió la última vez que se invocó la ley en 1992, pero el gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, ha reprendido abiertamente el aumento de la actividad federal en Minneapolis.

Existen precedentes de presidentes que han invocado la Ley de Insurrección sin el respaldo de un gobernador.

Los presidentes Dwight Eisenhower y John F. Kennedy la utilizaron contra la voluntad de mandatarios estatales para facilitar la integración escolar tras el histórico fallo de la Corte Suprema en Brown vs. Board of Education.

El viernes, Trump dijo que no hay razones para usar la Ley de Insurrección “en este momento”, aunque afirmó que la invocaría si lo considera necesario.

“No creo que haya ninguna razón ahora mismo para usarla, pero si la necesitara, la usaría. Es muy poderosa”, dijo el presidente a los periodistas.

De acuerdo con una política del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés), los agentes migratorios pueden usar fuerza letal contra una persona que represente una amenaza inminente de muerte o de lesiones corporales graves. Históricamente, las agencias federales encargadas de hacer cumplir la ley han dedicado semanas o incluso meses a realizar investigaciones exhaustivas antes de decidir si el uso de la fuerza por parte de un agente fue apropiado.

Sin embargo, funcionarios del Gobierno de Trump se han apresurado a defender enérgicamente a los agentes migratorios tras casos de alto perfil en los que se ha usado la fuerza, lo que ha generado dudas sobre si los mecanismos diseñados para exigir rendición de cuentas a las fuerzas del orden han sido abandonados durante el segundo mandato de Trump, escribe Josh Campbell, de CNN.

El Gobierno ha sostenido que los agentes son inmunes a procesos judiciales por parte de autoridades estatales o locales. Y, según Campbell, cualquier procesamiento federal parece poco probable debido a que Trump ha colocado a aliados políticos al frente del Departamento de Justicia y el FBI.

En agosto, durante la intervención federal en el Departamento de Policía de Washington, Trump dio luz verde a las fuerzas del orden para utilizar una fuerza que podría exceder ampliamente la gravedad de las circunstancias, de acuerdo con Campbell.

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