Karen Bass: “These will be prosecuted as felonies.”

“No. I know a lot of people have looked at the policies, whether it's Proposition 47 or the no bail policies. These crimes do not fall anywhere near those decisions. And so these are robust. These will be prosecuted as felonies. The items that were sold in some cases were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. And so this in no way, shape or form is connected to the policies that are controversial, that should be evaluated, but.” (01:54–01:57)

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