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Karen Bass: “What he said was going to happen, which is gang members…”

Featuring: Karen Bass, Democratic | Mayor of Los Angeles | California

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Mayor Karen Bass Discusses Federal Troop Deployment and ICE Raids in Los Angeles

Published | Video Starts at 06:12

As the mayor of the city, understanding who those people are, the day laborers, the workers, what does that mean to you that they targeted those locations? Well, let me just contrast it to what we said was going to What he said was going to happen, which is gang members, drug dealers, violent criminals. That's who they were going to target. How does that jive with Home Depot workers having to run through the parking lot to escape this? These are people who show up for work every day and basically get work day by day by day to survive our city. (06:12–06:20)

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Asserts that the stated targets of enforcement operations were gang members, drug dealers, and violent criminals.

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