For the second day in a row, people protesting without a permit have shut down Los Angeles roadways and assaulted police officers, and for the second day in a row Mayor Karen Bass has publicly ignored the situation and privately told officers to stand down and retreat.
The lawbreakers, many of them holding flags from Mexico and other Latin American countries, say they’re there to protest ICE raids, which they claim are picking up sweet little abuelas and whisking them off to concentration camps. Seriously. Listen to this man interviewed live during Fox LA’s Five O’Clock News:
The unidentified man said, when asked why he was there:
“For La Raza, for the race. Like, people been working hard, they’ve been doing their thing out here in this country, L.A. specifically, and — just to get thrown out?…
