Mayor Karen Bass says Los Angeles is being used as a 'test case' and 'an experiment by the federal government'
Mayor says ‘nothing warranted’ the intervention and that cannot ‘emphasize enough the level of fear and terror that is in Angelinos right now’ due to Ice raids
Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has accused the federal government of using her city as a “test case” for the federal government taking over from local and state authorities and said the intervention was completely unwarranted.
She told the press conference Los Angeles was being used as “a test case for what happens when the federal government moves in and takes the authority away from the state or away from local government.” She added:
I don’t think our city should be used for an experiment.
She asked “do you know what the national guard are doing? They are guarding two buildings ... that’s what they’re doing, so they need marines on top of it?”
She notes that Trump had congratulated the National Guard on restoring the peace before they had even arrived in the city.
She said that the city had been peaceful before Ice raids that began last week, adding “this is chaos that was started in Washington DC” and that “nothing warranted the raids, nothing was happening”.
She said the Ice raids had induced a “level of fear” in residents, including legal residents. “I can’t emphasize enough the level of fear and terror that is in Angelinos right now, not knowing if tomorrow or tonight, it might be where they live, it might be their workplace, should you send your kids to school, should you go to work?”
Can you imagine having your annual appointment to Ice… and you are told that you need to go to the facility to check in and then you are detained… when you are legal? …
What this means is that people are going to be afraid to maintain appointments which means they will fall into the closet and … end up losing their status.
She adds that “we are a city of immigrants and we have always embraced that”.
This kinds of atmosphere it creates a chaos in our city .. we did not need this,” she said.
It was peaceful until dump sent in agitators in to cause the problem that we've witnessed. This is dump by the leader of our own country. FDT FDT FDT 86/47. HE IS A FASCIST PIG OR TACO.
Yeah, don’t ya just hate it when mean Orange Man twists people’s arms and makes them do stupid shit like burn cars and throw objects at law enforcement'?