Karen Bass: “Because I think that they're experimenting with us. They…”

“Why did you come here? Why. Why did you come to the nation's second largest city? Why did you do the body blow to our economy? Why do you think it is? Because I think that they're experimenting with us. They want to see if they can get away with the seizure of power. And in the second, in the nation's second largest city, in the state with the fourth largest economy on Earth, then they can do it anywhere.” (10:29–10:35)

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