Kathryn Barger:
Well, L.A. County, we are the umbrella with — we have 88 cities under our jurisdiction. L.A. City is one of them. Obviously, Mayor Bass is very, very, very involved in this, working with the governor. We have our Office of Emergency Management that stands ready to assist in any way possible.
There’s mutual aid taking place between the sheriff and LAPD. I’m hoping that people can take a step back, stop tweeting and actually pick up the phone, talk. You can agree to disagree, but they end the day, what’s happening on our streets is totally unacceptable. And these are anarchists. These are not peaceful protesters.
These are people that are taking advantage of the situation, looting, looting downtown, looting businesses that, quite frankly, are literally just trying to get by each day. And I find it highly, highly, highly inappropriate.
And as a local leader, I’m not going to buy into all this rhetoric. I will work with the feds and I will work with the state, but I recognize there are some of the issues that the state’s put into play that have basically put us in the situation, including laws that do not allow us to work with the federal government, with ICE, which to me is a disservice to the men and women that work for ICE, because it’s putting them in a situation of what you’re seeing.
They have to mask themselves because there’s people that are doxxing them. And I find it fascinating that we talk about the ICE that are masked, but one talks about the protesters.
