That became the hustle for Jo Ann Rivas, one-time Greater Toluca Lake Neighborhood Council member and full-time bigot, harasser and attention-seeker.
It backfired.
This April, she humiliated herself and embarrassed the community by livestreaming her own deranged disruption of an LA City Council meeting and posting it to YouTube.
Once trapped in the headlights and exposed as the exploitative, unhinged hater she is, Jo Ann Rivas’ only choice was to cut and run.
The video documents how Rivas first demanded to be ejected, then complained of discrimination when the council obliged.
“I’m just going to keep interrupting until they kick me out,” she declared, then wailed that the government was “kicking out a disabled person.”
When not disrupting formal gatherings, Rivas and her cronies loiter outside churches, filming themselves harassing parishioners and taunting police.
All of her sick antics have one common denominator: desperation for eyeballs and YouTube revenue—no matter what it takes.
Case in point: an estimated 100 swatting calls—a dangerous drain on community resources and all at taxpayer expense—were very much in line with Rivas’ playbook. By a macabre “coincidence,” her hate club was on hand to create videos of every one, each livestream complete with plea for monetary support to continue their mayhem.
As with all this recorded hate, she intended her lunatic livestream of the LA City Council to go viral.
Until she didn’t.
In a rare moment of clarity, Rivas apparently realized that she had made a fool of herself on the most-watched video platform on the planet, and attempted to censor and take down the video by filing a fraudulent copyright claim.
She failed.
In a recent letter shared with Freedom, STAND League—a global coalition that exposes bigotry and champions religious freedom worldwide—notified the Greater Toluca Lake Neighborhood Council of Rivas’ misconduct and her subsequent attempt to bury the evidence. “Given her quasi-public role on the council, her actions are disturbing and should be brought to the full council’s attention,” the letter concluded.
The reply from leadership was terse and swift: “Jo Ann Rivas resigned from the Greater Toluca Lake Neighborhood Council on Tuesday, October 21st, 2025.”
Once trapped in the headlights and exposed as the exploitative, unhinged hater she is, Jo Ann Rivas’ only choice was to cut and run.
And given the council’s instant response to STAND’s letter, it seems they were delighted to see the back of her.
No one wants untethered frothing hatred in their neighborhood.
Not in Toluca Lake—not anywhere else.
Jo Ann Rivas’ wish came true. She went viral. Permanently. And for all eternity, anyone can press play and witness the depths to which one misbegotten soul can sink.
