Karen Bass: “On Thursday of last week, Los Angeles was peaceful. There…”

“The staff, the mayoral staff standing behind me represent the best of our organizers and community liaisons and they will be leading that effort. I do want to go back and say that. Just go back in time a minute. On Thursday of last week, Los Angeles was peaceful. There was nothing going on here that warranted the federal intervention that took place the very next day. If we want to look at the cause of what is happening here, I take it back to raids that took place on Friday and the uncertainty and the fear …” (03:27–03:39)

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