It took 11 wins for the LA Dodgers to become Champions of Major League Baseball. Each game provided unique stories. Following are split second moments captured during their post season run.Los Angeles, CA, Saturday, October 5, 2024 - Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani (17) hits a three-run homer in the second inning against San Diego Padres pitcher Dylan Cease (84) in game one of the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium.

Queens, New York, Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - Dodger s manager Dave Roberts and bench coach Bob Geren celebrate a sixth inning homer hit by Enrique Hernández in game three of the National League Championship Series against the New York Mets at Citi Field.

Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, October 20, 2024 - Dodgers dh Shohei Ohtani dons an NLCS championship shirt after beating the New York Mets in game six of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium.

Los Angeles, CA, Friday October 26, 2024 - Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman (5) celebrates after homering against New York Yankees starter Carlos Rodon in Game two of the World Series at Dodger Stadium.

Bronx, New York, Monday, October 26, 2024 - Mookie Betts, right, joins other Dodgers in the dugout as they stand during the seventh inning stretch as “God Bless America,” is played during game three of the World Series at Yankee Stadium.

Bronx, New York, Tuesday October 29, 2024 - Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts battles fans for a foul ball in Game four of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. The fan who grabbed his glove was identified as season-ticket holder Austin Capobianco. Capobianco and another fan, John Peter, were ejected from the game and eventually banned from attending games by major league baseball.

Bronx,, New York, Wednesday, October 30, 2024 -Starting pitcher Jack Flaherty battles high emotion after he allowed four earned runs on four hits and one walk over 1 1/3 innings in game five against the New York Yankees. He was relieved of his duties in the second inning, walking off the mound with Los Angeles facing a 4–0 deficit. The Dodgers rallied to win the game and clinch the championship.

Bronx,, New York, Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - Dodgers centerfielder Enrique Hernandez slides safely into third base as Yankees third baseman Jazz Chisolm mishandles at throw in Game five of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. The error opened the way for the Dodgers to come back from a 5-0 deficit.

Bronx,, New York, Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - World Series MVP Freddie Freeman exults the moment the Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in game 5 to win the championship at Yankee Stadium.

Bronx, New York, Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - The LA Dodgers locker room is filled with beer, champagne and happiness after the team beat the New York Yankees in Game five to win the World Series at Yankee Stadium. A few latino players wore clown masks designed by Mr. Cartoon, an iconic LA artist.

FENTANYL PARKIn MacArthur Park, many problems have been ignored, nor are they easy to fix. They’re deeply rooted in poverty, homelessness, the lack of affordable housing, a low-wage economy and gang-controlled criminal enterprise. With the addition of cheap and powerfully destructive drugs like fentanyl has become a crisis in the Westlake District. According to firefighters with Station 11 in MacArthur Park, through August of 2024 there have been 599 drug overdose calls, compared with 36 runs for structure fires in the area. That’s just one measure of how bad the epidemic is in the low-income neighborhood where homelessness is rampant and drugs are sold and consumed in the open. Fentanyl, over time, attacks muscle and spine, cuts people in half, twists them in knots, and buries them. It’s not uncommon to see people in the park with multiple festering ulcers on their arms and legs — one of the side-effects of tranq being mixed with fentanyl. Nor is it uncommon to see people bent in half, like twisted statues, because of muscle rigidity that firefighters refer to as the “Fentanyl fold.” Fentanyl addict Aaron Conner said he doesn’t think people are ready for rehab. “I can’t deal with life sober. It’s too frustrating,” he said. A homeless man, cloaked in a blanket, walks by a pair of men who prep a pipe for a hit of fentanyl near an infamous alley known for fentanyl use along Wilshire Blvd. in the Westlake District on December 12, 2024.

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 9, 2024 - Two men are passed out on a park bench in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on October 9, 2024. EMT’s and firefighters from Station 11 refer to this body posture as the “fentanyl fold,” Firefighters, and paramedics from Station 11 have saved many from drug overdoses in the park. They spend most of their time these days helping drug addicts who have overdosed on fentanyl.

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 21, 2024 - A man smokes an illegal substance along 7th Street, about a block from Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant, in the MacArthur Park area in Los Angeles on August 21, 2024.

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 9, 2024 - - Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and firefighters, with Los Angeles Fire Station 11, work to revive a man who overdosed on fentanyl at the corner of S. Alvarado and Wilshire Blvd. In MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on October 9, 2024. The EMT’s were able to revive the man with Narcan, used in fentanyl overdoses, and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. Station 11 is constantly called on to handle drug overdoses and other non-fire emergencies.

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 12, 2024 - - A drug addict collects pipes and other paraphernalia he uses for his drug addiction n MacArthur Park in the Westlake District on December 12, 2024.

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 12, 2024 - - A man, center, smokes a pipe, as Aaron Conner, 31, right, preps a pipe for a hit of fentanyl near an alley known for fentanyl users in the Westlake District on December 12, 2024. “People don’t need to get clean, they need to get high,” said Conner. Conner said he uses fentanyl and doesn’t think people are ready for rehab. “I can’t deal with life sober. It’s too frustrating,” he said.

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 12, 2024 - - LAPD officers Daniel Vidal, from left, Richard Castro and Nick Velasco, from the Rampart Division, detain a man for smoking fentanyl in public while working their beat in MacArthur Park in the Westlake District on December 12, 2024.

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 10, 2024 - - Los Angeles City Council Member Eunisses Hernandez, from left, counterclockwise, physician assistant Brett Feldman and Dr. Ronald Olson, both with the USC Street Medicine, listen to Rosa Morales, 42, center, talk about her health concerns while she has been living homeless along Beacon Street in the Westlake District of Los Angeles on October 10, 2024. Her use of fentanyl, mixed with a tranquilizer called xylazine, is causing sores on her legs and other parts of her body.

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 12, 2024 - - “People don’t need to get clean, they need to get high,” said fentanyl addict Aaron Conner, 31, in the Westlake District on December 12, 2024. Conner said he uses fentanyl and doesn’t think people are ready for rehab. “I can’t deal with life sober. It’s too frustrating,” he said. His use of fentanyl, mixed with a tranquilizer called xylazine, is the reason he has sores on his face.

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 9, 2024 - - Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics with Los Angeles Fire Station 11 revive a man who overdosed at the corner of S. Alvarado and Wilshire Blvd. In MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on October 9, 2024. When they approached the man he was lying unconscious on the sidewalk. The EMT’s were able to revive the man with Narcan, used in fentanyl overdoses, and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. Station 11 is constantly called on to handle drug overdoses and other non-fire emergencies.

Campo, CA, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - Immigrant advocates say that deterrence policies such as President Biden’s order to restrict asylum can lower border crossings for a while, but that the numbers eventually pick back up because the conditions people are fleeing haven’t changed. They say the policy will push people into more remote, dangerous areas and lead to more injuries and deaths.“An average person who’s fleeing their country is not going to say, ‘What are U.S. immigration laws right now?’” said Melissa Shepard, directing attorney at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. “I don’t think any amount of restriction is really going to stop somebody from trying to seek safety.”Migrant arrests in San Diego reached 8,989 for the week ending April 16, according to figures the agency posted on X. Tucson — which previously had been the top region for crossings — had 7,500 arrests for the week ending April 19.By the end of June, three weeks after the executive order took effect, the seven-day average of migrant arrests had dropped more than 40% to fewer than 2,400 encounters per day, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The agency said that’s the lowest level of illegal crossings since Biden took office.Meanwhile, driven by the promise of a better life, men, women and families navigate uncertainty and dangerous landscapes, still seeking asylum. Exhausted after a nine hour journey over unfamiliar mountainous terrain, this family collapses near Campo Rd. where Border Patrol agents will detain them hours later.

Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, April 25, 2024 - Hundreds of asylum seekers who used a CBP phone app to make an appointment with U.S. officials, are lead to their scheduled interviews at the San Ysidro Border Crossing. Those trying to seek asylum legally are using the app with varied success. Often waiting weeks to get an appointment.

Jacumba Hot Springs, CA, Sunday, May 12, 2024 - Asylum seekers would routinely cross through a break in the fence and make camp nearby until Border Patrol agents would detain them and begin the asylum process. In the wake of President Biden’s executive order limiting asylum claims at the southern border, traffic has slowed to a crawl.

Jacumba Hot Springs, CA, Sunday, May 12, 2024 - A family from Colombia huddle in a makeshift shelter as they wait to be picked up by Border Patrol agents.

Campo, CA, Monday, June 3, 2024 - Men seeking asylum are detained by border patrol after crossing the US/Mexico border hours earlier. Immigrant advocates say that deterrence policies such as Biden’s asylum order can lower crossings for a while, but that the numbers eventually pick back up because the conditions people are fleeing haven’t changed. They say the policy will push people into more remote, dangerous areas and lead to more injuries and deaths.“An average person who’s fleeing their country is not going to say, ‘What are U.S. immigration laws right now?’” said Melissa Shepard, directing attorney at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. “I don’t think any amount of restriction is really going to stop somebody from trying to seek safety.”

Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - Rosario de Leon, 38, left, from Mexico’s Chiapas state and her wife, Gracia Cortez, 27, from El Salvador groom each other outside Movimiento Juventud 200, a migrant shelter. They said they had faced discrimination as a gay couple, including in Tijuana, and fled gang extortion.Cortez said the new rule is fair. Hopefully, it means more appointments could open up through the app, she said.“It’s not fair that someone enters irregularly while others are following the rules,” she said. “We all need to be patient.”Movimiento Juventud 2000, a migrant shelter, where dozens of families seeking asylum are living as they wait to meet with US officials.

Jacumba Hot Springs, CA, Sunday, May 12, 2024 - A man seeking asylum is detained by Border Patrol.

San Diego, CA, Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - Pedro Rios of the American Friends Service Committee offers a cup of noodles to an asylum seeker.Rios said numbers are significantly lower at the crossing west of San Ysidro known as Whiskey 8. A few weeks ago Border Patrol was typically picking up 50 or more people at a time; now a handful of people will wait for agents to arrive.Migrants who arrive at Whiskey 8 are stuck between two border barriers dividing the U.S. from Mexico. Under a white canopy on the American side, Rios asks whether anyone is hurt and offers them water, instant soup and backpacks.“You are already in the United States,” he told 10 migrants from Ecuador, Colombia and Guatemala last month, speaking to them between the metal bars. “This is San Ysidro, Calif.”

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. The City of Long Beach began issuing notices to the unhoused living on the streets mandating that they clear their possessions. The notices began appearing on property after California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order requiring cities to dismantle homeless encampments. A 48-hour-notice is required before personal belongings can be cleared. This executive order was preceded by a Supreme Court ruling on June 28 that upheld a ban on residents sleeping outdoors. These recent decisions have impacted Richard Daily, 61, who lives on Atlantic Avenue near 52nd Street in Long Beach. Daily has received this notice issued by the city of Long Beach during a time where he is mourning the loss of his dog.

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. Ester Chang, an employee of The Cove Hotel, 200 East Willow Street in Long Beach, tases a woman multiple times near a driveway leading into the hotel parking lot. Chang said that she felt threatened when the woman approached her inside the hotel and that the woman had been causing property damage on the premises. Chang said that she gave the woman multiple chances to leave and that tasing and pepper spraying are used as a last resort. Paramedics arrived on scene to help the woman who had also been pepper sprayed.

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. A couple embraces and finds happiness in an area of Anaheim Street in Long Beach, California, that has many unhoused people living in the area. Although Long Beach has experienced a decrease in homelessness since 2023, there are 3,376 unhoused individuals living in the city; 49 percent of them are chronically homeless. Nationwide, drug and alcohol overdoses are the primary causes of death in the homeless population.

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. A young woman sits on the edge of the street along Long Beach Boulevard in Long Beach, California. Although Long Beach has experienced a decrease in homelessness since 2023, there are still 3,376 unhoused individuals living in the city; 49 percent of them are chronically homeless. Nationwide, drug and alcohol overdoses are the primary causes of death in the homeless population.

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. Susano Rueda of Los Angeles and his dog, Bella, share a joyful moment along Long Beach Boulevard in Long Beach.

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. A small group of demonstrators displays signs in support of Donald Trump over the 405 Freeway near Cherry Avenue in Long Beach.

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. A woman carries laundry in the morning near Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach.

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. Bridgette Farley and her dog, Pearl, of Long Beach, CA, stop for a portrait on Pacific Coast Highway just west of Long Beach Boulevard. They were on their way to catch the metro for a musical performance.

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. Although Long Beach has experienced a decrease in homelessness since 2023, there are still 3,376 unhoused individuals living in the city; 49 percent of them are chronically homeless. Nationwide, drug and alcohol overdoses are the primary causes of death in the homeless population. Children from a nearby elementary school walk past an unhoused individual who has found shelter near a Pizza Hut off Willow Street in Long Beach, California. A “Now Hiring” sign is posted in the store’s window.

Intersections In Time_Long Beach From My Car_ Long Beach From My Car is a photo essay of images I take during my travels driving through both Long Beach and Signal Hill California. All the images are taken from within my vehicle and depict the current plights of Long Beach residents especially the unhoused. The essay also documents unusual or interesting scenes that provoke emotion in the viewer. An individual sleeps on a rock in the median dividing Pacific Avenue just north of Pacific Coast Highway.

A crowd gather at a protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 2, 2024.

A wall of signs protect a protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 2, 2024.

LAPD enter a protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 2, 2024.

Students rally at a protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 2, 2024.

Skirmishes break out at a protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 2, 2024.

Law enforcement officers enter to clear out the protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 2, 2024.

Skirmishes break out at a protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 2, 2024.

Law enforcement officers clear out the protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 2, 2024.

Law enforcement officers clear out the protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 2, 2024.

A native of Long Beach, California, Albert is a 38-year-old Romani-American man and part of the conservative Machvaya nation whose traditions date back more than a thousand years ago to their native India. The Machvaya spent considerable time enslaved in Romania and as part of the militia in Serbia before immigrating to the United States in the mid-1800s. Albert is a descendant of a proud and upstanding Romani family that is well know in California. Like many American minorities, some Romani families are experiencing severe economic hardship while other individuals struggle with homelessness. Albert has been living on and off the streets since the death of his mother many years ago. With a loan from stepfather, Albert purchased a 2000 Toyota Echo for $200. He repaid his stepfather with the $200 he gets monthly in General Relief aid.Albert’s cousin calls him “a walking miracle,” due to the physical trauma Albert experienced as a child that led him to abuse drugs and to a life on the streets. According to his aunt, Albert was severely beaten while living in a halfway house and was in a coma for three months.Albert smiles on the day he got his new car, which is not drivable but gives him a place to sleep. The car became Albert’s home and he slept in it for four months.

Albert has been living on and off the streets since the death of his mother many years ago. He is participating in a pilot program with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS), so that he can find housing through the General Relief Housing Subsidy Program. He has a his new car, a cell phone, blankets and clothes.

Albert checks his reflection in a window to see the fit of a shirt at a Goodwill store in Long Beach, California. He shopped for designer brands, which are the types of clothes he wore before becoming homeless. His cousin says that Albert had been an intelligent and hardworking businessman.

Albert uses a local laundry mat in Long Beach to wash and dry his clothing. While his clothes are washing and drying he asks patrons in the strip mall parking lot if they need their headlights cleaned or body work done to their cars.

Albert’s spends most of his day looking for customers who need bodywork on their cars in local strip malls. He approaches customers in a straightforward manner, “Sorry to bother you” and asks if he can do bodywork on their car, which is a trade he learned from his uncle Albert. He also searches for people willing to have their lights oxidized. “I make the headlights white again.” Albert buffs a customer’s headlights and the waits for an hour for her to return from inside the store to pay him. Albert may look for work all day and not make any money. Regardless, he remains polite and ends all his interactions with a simple, “God bless you.”

Albert may go several days without food. He receives a very limited income in the form of General Relief from the County of Los Angeles, which is given to adults without income or resources. “I don’t read. That’s the problem. I only read 40 or 60 words. I taught myself how to read. I went to school and told the people that I never went to school in my life and they put me in special ed for reading. Ruby (his mother) didn’t know how to read either.” Illiteracy in the Romani community is very high and most children only attend elementary school while others may finish middle school. It is estremely rare for those in Albert’s particular Romani tribe to finish high school.

At the young age of 38, Albert suffers from gum disease and severe tooth decay from a lack of dental hygiene and from drinking sugary beverages as a child. Albert has an appointment to have his teeth extracted and replaced with dentures. He is taking the bus from Long Beach to Compton to consult with his social worker.

Since his car is unreliable, he takes the bus from Long Beach and then walks two miles through Compton to reach the DPSS so that he can get an update about his housing status.

Albert may go several days without food. He receives a very limited income in the form of General Relief from the County of Los Angeles, which is given to adults without income or resources. “I don’t read. That’s the problem. I only read 40 or 60 words. I taught myself how to read. I went to school and told the people that I never went to school in my life and they put me in special ed for reading. Ruby (his mother) didn’t know how to read either.” Illiteracy in the Romani community is very high and most children only attend elementary school while others may finish middle school. It is estremely rare for those in Albert’s particular Romani tribe to finish high school.

After visiting the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) in Compton for help obtaining housing, Albert returns to Long Beach and finds a $65 ticket on his car for expired tags. He received a warning from a parking enforcement attendant that his car would be towed if seen on the street again without proper registration. Albert keeps everything he owns in his car and he would lose all his possessions if the car were towed.

Since his car is unreliable, he takes the bus from Long Beach and then walks two miles through Compton to reach the DPSS so that he can get an update about his housing status.

“It’s lonely being by myself. No friends, no girlfriend. I talk mostly on the phone. It’s hard for me. I talk to Gus (his brother) and my family. I have to make money. I have to make money for Gus to eat. I made two hundred and fifty dollars and I gave a hundred to Gus and some to Wasso (his stepfather). They feed Gus, but he says it’s tasteless. He’s in a jail program. I’m not. I’m free.”