WEBVTT - Barbara Stone On Xavier Becerra's Basement Strategy 0:00:00.590 --> 0:00:05.040 Something's not right here. Crime is up all over the state. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.700 The homelessness in the city is out of control. 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:09.100 The economy is sick. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.900 Taxes are high. Housing is expensive and businesses are leaving. 0:00:13.060 --> 0:00:18.140 California needs fixing. And John Phillips is just the man 0:00:18.180 --> 0:00:21.930 to lead the charge. It's the Fix California Hour with 0:00:22.030 --> 0:00:23.730 John Phillips and Randy Wang. 0:00:35.229 --> 0:00:38.050 And we continue at one Oh five in the afternoon 0:00:38.229 --> 0:00:42.169 on the John Phillips show, Mr. Randy Wang's in Culver city, Johnny. 0:00:42.180 --> 0:00:45.080 We're broadcasting live on the radio on seven 90 K 0:00:45.180 --> 0:00:48.480 ABC in Southern California, eight 10 K SFO in the 0:00:48.540 --> 0:00:51.780 Bay area. And we're broadcasting on video every single day 0:00:51.940 --> 0:00:55.250 at Johnny don't like.com. That's Johnny with a Y Johnny 0:00:55.290 --> 0:00:57.870 don't like.com. Scott Allen Myers is in the chat room 0:00:57.910 --> 0:01:01.690 right now. And he said, Burbank has reported zero homeless 0:01:01.730 --> 0:01:04.250 fires in 2025. 0:01:05.830 --> 0:01:09.050 This is a Los Angeles problem, like so many problems 0:01:09.230 --> 0:01:11.910 in the region. It's a city that just doesn't function. 0:01:12.630 --> 0:01:16.830 And we're going to either elect the same person to 0:01:16.870 --> 0:01:19.560 do the bad job again or someone that will do 0:01:19.690 --> 0:01:22.560 exactly as bad of a job as she does. There 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.800 are no good choices in L.A. We've done this to ourselves. 0:01:26.819 --> 0:01:36.060 800-222-5222 is the telephone number 1-800-222-5222. It is our pleasure 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.619 to welcome our next guest to the program. She is 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.339 a professor of political science emeritus at California State University 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.339 at Fullerton, Professor Barbara Stone. Welcome. 0:01:46.819 --> 0:01:47.319 Hi, John. 0:01:48.940 --> 0:01:51.880 So you look at this last story that we just did, 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:56.440 where there are 12,000 fires that have been started this 0:01:56.500 --> 0:02:00.910 year alone in the city of Los Angeles by the homeless. 0:02:01.950 --> 0:02:05.030 If you... project that things are going to go at 0:02:05.070 --> 0:02:07.470 that same rate the rest of the year, we're going 0:02:07.490 --> 0:02:11.369 to have over 15,000 fires started by the homeless. That 0:02:11.430 --> 0:02:15.740 equates to about 47 homeless fires started every single day. 0:02:16.500 --> 0:02:19.680 And Karen Bass is patting herself on the back wanting 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:26.100 praise because it's down from 50 last year. Our alternative 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.000 candidate on the ballot, Nithya Raman, wants to bust up 0:02:30.180 --> 0:02:34.340 fewer homeless encampments than Bass is doing, and this is 0:02:34.410 --> 0:02:36.150 what we're left with in Los Angeles. 0:02:40.490 --> 0:02:46.370 Yes, and it's not going to get better. I was 0:02:46.430 --> 0:02:51.690 contemplating the other day, you realize it wasn't, oh Lord, John, what, 0:02:51.910 --> 0:02:55.869 four years ago? That I don't know how wonderful Rick 0:02:55.889 --> 0:02:59.380 Caruso would have been But I know he would have 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.060 been a lot better than these people. And at least 0:03:03.100 --> 0:03:05.460 he had some idea of what you needed to do 0:03:05.580 --> 0:03:10.690 in a city where you took into account all the residents. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.610 And remember, Joe Biden came. 0:03:15.630 --> 0:03:17.030 He was president. 0:03:17.230 --> 0:03:21.369 Kamala Harris came, giggled all the way. She was vice president. 0:03:22.090 --> 0:03:25.710 And they literally told L.A. to elect Karen Bass, which 0:03:25.830 --> 0:03:29.950 they did. And so it's their fault, voters of L.A. 0:03:30.889 --> 0:03:36.910 But they were burning things then, and they're burning things now. And, John, 0:03:36.990 --> 0:03:40.740 I don't know what you do about it, because you've 0:03:40.780 --> 0:03:45.560 got some factors going here. By the way, one is 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:51.300 completely misunderstanding the homeless population. There is not a homeless 0:03:51.380 --> 0:03:56.000 population here. There are the very few who are homeless 0:03:56.060 --> 0:03:59.780 because of things beyond their control, and you can help them. 0:04:00.500 --> 0:04:05.650 There are women and children escaping abusive husbands. You can 0:04:05.710 --> 0:04:12.530 help them. You have the just plain crazy, and those 0:04:12.630 --> 0:04:15.230 are really hard to help, and then you have the 0:04:15.310 --> 0:04:19.880 substance abusers who overlap with the just plain crazy, and 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:24.570 you can't. You can't just expect these people, if you 0:04:24.589 --> 0:04:28.810 give them a place to live, Mayor Bass, to be okay. 0:04:29.870 --> 0:04:33.750 The problem you get into is you somewhere put together 0:04:33.810 --> 0:04:41.700 that misunderstanding with seriously misplaced compassion. And that, by the way, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.420 is always going to be on the left. The right 0:04:44.460 --> 0:04:47.460 has problems, but that's not one of them. And then 0:04:47.540 --> 0:04:52.240 you have the power of the homeless advocates. People who, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.560 if you solved homelessness tomorrow, you do realize they'd be 0:04:56.660 --> 0:05:03.430 out of a job. No more nonprofits. No more being 0:05:03.470 --> 0:05:06.830 there day and night to help these poor people. They 0:05:06.870 --> 0:05:10.219 can't have the problem solved, even if you could solve it. 0:05:10.790 --> 0:05:14.010 And you put that together, and that city is in 0:05:14.130 --> 0:05:15.270 a world of hurt. 0:05:16.070 --> 0:05:19.540 Well, here's another element that we see every single time 0:05:19.570 --> 0:05:22.099 we do this story. They go to the man on 0:05:22.140 --> 0:05:25.580 the street interview, the person whose home burned down, the 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.460 person whose car burned down, the person whose neighborhood has 0:05:29.500 --> 0:05:33.320 been infested with rats because of the homeless encampments. And 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.630 to a person, they go, these people need more services. 0:05:38.210 --> 0:05:42.270 These people need more help. They need housing to be 0:05:42.450 --> 0:05:45.230 offered to them. And then you cut to the interview 0:05:45.270 --> 0:05:47.550 with the bum saying, And the bum goes, yeah, I've 0:05:47.589 --> 0:05:50.230 been offered services a million times. I don't want it. 0:05:50.270 --> 0:05:52.330 There are rules there. I want to live here. 0:05:54.450 --> 0:05:58.120 Yep, and that goes to, excuse me, the way we're 0:05:58.150 --> 0:06:02.800 running things in the state these days, which is that 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.880 if you came up with a decent plan, the people 0:06:07.940 --> 0:06:12.500 living here these days, particularly on the west side, particularly 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:17.840 the decision-makers... many of whom's houses burned down in the Palisades, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:26.430 the idea of coercing these folks that quote-unquote need help 0:06:26.970 --> 0:06:31.309 is something that they just won't do. And as long 0:06:31.390 --> 0:06:35.090 as that's true, what you get are the encampments where 0:06:35.130 --> 0:06:37.700 you get all the people I just talked about, plus 0:06:37.740 --> 0:06:41.240 the criminals. I mean, I gather those are nice places 0:06:41.300 --> 0:06:44.570 if you want to buy certain drugs and move certain 0:06:44.630 --> 0:06:48.369 stolen materials, that they become that, and you have another 0:06:48.430 --> 0:06:54.729 group who has a real interest in keeping them going. John, 0:06:54.750 --> 0:06:58.990 I have never understood, and that's the absolute truth. I've 0:06:59.029 --> 0:07:02.050 lived all my life in the L.A. area. I have 0:07:02.450 --> 0:07:09.840 never understood the impulses of the rich West Side limousine liberals. 0:07:10.340 --> 0:07:17.130 I just never have. somehow or another they seem to 0:07:17.230 --> 0:07:22.190 think i don't know what they think but it's the 0:07:22.230 --> 0:07:26.390 kind of thing where they are being good people when 0:07:26.430 --> 0:07:29.870 they tolerate all this and they try to take care 0:07:29.930 --> 0:07:34.030 of people when they bow down to black lives matters 0:07:34.090 --> 0:07:37.790 yes yes it's my white privilege i need to do 0:07:37.850 --> 0:07:40.740 something about that but of course they're patting themselves on 0:07:40.770 --> 0:07:43.480 the back that only they can fix it, but they 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.060 have no intention of fixing it. I literally don't understand 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.220 those people, so I'm not real helpful here. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.400 Well, I'll throw something else at you, too. If we 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:58.800 actually got serious about solving this problem and we decided, okay, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.110 either you go into a mental institution or you go 0:08:02.190 --> 0:08:05.500 into rehab or you go to prison and we're going 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.670 to go fill the paddy wagons and we're going to 0:08:07.730 --> 0:08:10.290 take all these people to prison... and we're going to 0:08:10.350 --> 0:08:13.290 destroy their stuff, and we're going to bust up the encampments, 0:08:13.390 --> 0:08:15.800 and we're going to power wash the sidewalk, and the 0:08:15.830 --> 0:08:17.780 sidewalk is going to go back to the people in 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.020 the neighborhood, I think you would have massive protests in 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.420 the streets. I don't think, politically speaking, the population that 0:08:25.500 --> 0:08:28.620 currently exists in this city would allow that to happen. 0:08:30.430 --> 0:08:34.450 I think that you're 100% correct. Plus, let's not just 0:08:34.550 --> 0:08:40.160 blame those people. Let's start with the political leadership. Always remember, 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.960 Gavin had an answer for this. Gavin has answers for 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.449 many things, which seem to change with the winds. But 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:53.950 remember Gavin's courts, his health courts, his mental health courts, 0:08:54.170 --> 0:08:57.670 excuse me, the ones where he's going to help these 0:08:57.750 --> 0:09:03.120 poor people and give them diversion and be sent to 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.579 a court where a judge can come up with a 0:09:05.660 --> 0:09:12.480 treatment plan for them, which is unbelievable. voluntary. Oh, really? Yes. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.140 These folks who are out on the street and who 0:09:15.179 --> 0:09:19.210 get maybe picked up for something or the local firefighters 0:09:19.260 --> 0:09:23.410 having found, surely you guys just set this, send them 0:09:23.470 --> 0:09:27.910 towards court. Gavin's courts are supposed to have this plan 0:09:27.950 --> 0:09:31.590 and they're going to get better. Problem is it's all voluntary. 0:09:32.290 --> 0:09:37.230 And I guess even this idiot legislature, that's not nice. 0:09:38.300 --> 0:09:44.100 Even this intellectually challenged legislature that we have right now, well, 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.400 calling people names doesn't usually help except it makes you 0:09:48.450 --> 0:09:55.429 feel better. But they had a couple of bills they 0:09:55.490 --> 0:10:00.760 passed through and or got close, and Gavin signed a couple, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:06.620 he just did it, to make it easier for one 0:10:06.660 --> 0:10:13.910 of those folks' families to input information to the judge. Okay, 0:10:14.230 --> 0:10:17.990 that's a big reform. However, they killed a couple of 0:10:18.500 --> 0:10:22.699 that would have that dealt with conservatorship and when you 0:10:22.740 --> 0:10:25.840 had uh... clear cases that you she had to do 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.020 something with go back to your list you just had 0:10:29.100 --> 0:10:32.520 weakened throw them in the clink or make them get uh... 0:10:32.300 --> 0:10:36.250 certain kinds of help they killed him we can't do 0:10:36.300 --> 0:10:39.850 that to those people it would be taking away their 0:10:40.050 --> 0:10:43.550 right to self something or other and besides and their 0:10:43.590 --> 0:10:49.809 advocates wouldn't have a whole job so john This isn't 0:10:49.850 --> 0:10:53.890 an accident. You're right. They would be violently opposed to it. 0:10:54.890 --> 0:10:58.340 And just hope they don't live like a few years 0:10:58.420 --> 0:11:00.640 ago when there was a homeless fire that was right 0:11:00.700 --> 0:11:04.830 below Brentwood. But, well, they didn't really mean that, so 0:11:04.929 --> 0:11:10.140 we'll fix that somehow. But anyway. I don't live there. 0:11:12.179 --> 0:11:15.460 Well, advice that you've been giving me for many moons 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.059 is do not buy property in the city limits of L.A. 0:11:18.580 --> 0:11:19.939 Well, I wish I had that advice. 0:11:22.490 --> 0:11:23.530 Yeah, Randy. 0:11:25.890 --> 0:11:26.309 Anyway. 0:11:27.350 --> 0:11:30.310 Let's shift gears and talk about the governor's race because 0:11:30.530 --> 0:11:35.300 Javier Becerra is not actively campaigning. He essentially shut his 0:11:35.380 --> 0:11:38.690 campaign down after the primary. In fact, If you go 0:11:38.710 --> 0:11:41.050 to the campaign website, he still has a bunch of 0:11:41.110 --> 0:11:44.770 attacks on Tom Steyer that's there and references to the 0:11:44.809 --> 0:11:50.470 primary election and nothing geared towards the general election. He 0:11:50.490 --> 0:11:53.740 has refused just about every interview request that has been 0:11:53.750 --> 0:11:57.440 given to him, including on left-leaning outlets like Pod Save 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:01.040 America with the Obama Bros. He wouldn't go on that show. 0:12:01.100 --> 0:12:04.140 Steve Hilton did. He would not do it. Same thing 0:12:04.179 --> 0:12:07.100 goes for local TV. Same thing goes for local radio. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.120 I don't think he's doing cable news. He's in Joe 0:12:10.140 --> 0:12:13.660 Biden's basement, and he's not coming out. The Berkeley poll 0:12:13.700 --> 0:12:16.740 has him up north of 20 points, so it clearly 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:21.260 is working out for him. I guess his advisors decided 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.199 that he needed to do something, so he did an 0:12:24.340 --> 0:12:28.569 interview with the San Francisco Standard, I believe it was, 0:12:29.380 --> 0:12:32.070 where it was, I guess, supposed to be a jokey 0:12:32.150 --> 0:12:34.650 sort of interview where one of the first questions was 0:12:34.710 --> 0:12:38.349 about 9-11 being an inside job. And then over the 0:12:38.410 --> 0:12:41.790 course of the interview, he revealed that he doesn't know 0:12:41.850 --> 0:12:47.950 who the mayor of San Francisco is. And the pharmaceutical 0:12:48.010 --> 0:12:54.960 company that he sued that started the opioid epidemic, he said, yeah, sure, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:59.020 I take campaign contributions from them. Why not? And you go, okay, 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.160 this is why they don't let this man anywhere near 0:13:01.179 --> 0:13:04.760 a microphone. What do you make of his strategy and 0:13:04.820 --> 0:13:06.640 how pathetic is it that it's going to work? 0:13:08.700 --> 0:13:12.380 Well, I can think of two or three different approaches, 0:13:12.460 --> 0:13:16.800 the majority of which actually amuse me. Always remember the 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.420 poor guy obviously has a name that is incredibly difficult 0:13:20.470 --> 0:13:24.530 to pronounce because it started with the president appointing him, 0:13:24.610 --> 0:13:29.610 calling him Javier Baccaria. And I've heard some wild variations 0:13:29.730 --> 0:13:33.810 on that since. But when you have that kind of problem, 0:13:33.850 --> 0:13:37.210 you probably have an inferiority complex and it's showing up. 0:13:38.050 --> 0:13:43.790 I suspect, I almost believe that. What he's doing is 0:13:43.850 --> 0:13:49.610 copying Adam Schiff, that you do whatever works out for 0:13:49.670 --> 0:13:53.790 you in a primary, you get yourself one-on-one with a Republican, 0:13:54.390 --> 0:13:58.090 and then you don't have to do anything because you've won. 0:13:58.179 --> 0:14:03.140 That 60-40 spread, which keeps showing up in virtually every poll, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.699 is just about what the partisan spread is in the states. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.940 It has nothing to do with them liking Javier. It 0:14:10.980 --> 0:14:13.060 just has to do with the top of the ticket. 0:14:13.700 --> 0:14:16.140 That's how they vote. In fact, all the way down 0:14:16.210 --> 0:14:19.970 the ticket, that's how they vote. And then we've been 0:14:20.030 --> 0:14:24.290 talking about some of the constituencies they respond to, and 0:14:24.330 --> 0:14:27.290 that's where it is. He doesn't have to do more. 0:14:27.930 --> 0:14:31.160 And if you've ever watched him, I did when he 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.440 was A.G., We never saw him when he was Health 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.280 and Human Services because they paid no attention to him. 0:14:38.980 --> 0:14:44.600 But when he was running in the primary, he performed minimally. 0:14:45.660 --> 0:14:47.950 And when he did, it was to make sure I 0:14:48.030 --> 0:14:50.310 say this, but I'm a little here so I don't 0:14:50.350 --> 0:14:54.770 make anybody mad and I'm going to win. Of course, 0:14:54.790 --> 0:14:57.710 you know, I may be wrong. I may be being 0:14:57.950 --> 0:15:01.690 totally unfair here. It may be that the numbers are 0:15:01.750 --> 0:15:06.960 such that Javier knows he's going to win and he's 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:13.250 spending time gathering the appropriate staff, studying the issues so 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.130 that he hits the ground running to be a great governor. 0:15:16.210 --> 0:15:16.750 What do you think? 0:15:18.550 --> 0:15:22.870 I think he's going to be a disaster because it's 0:15:22.930 --> 0:15:25.590 like you play golf. If you haven't played golf in 0:15:25.630 --> 0:15:28.600 a long time and then you take the clubs out 0:15:28.940 --> 0:15:31.200 and you go out there on the golf course, you 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.480 embarrass yourself. because a lot of it is muscle memory. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.600 A lot of it is just doing it over and 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.440 over and over again and learning where to put your feet, 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.580 learning where to hit the ball, learning how to follow through, 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.980 where to put your hands on the club. And it's 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.450 easy to forget those things if you haven't done it 0:15:49.470 --> 0:15:53.230 in a while. This guy is not doing interviews. This 0:15:53.250 --> 0:15:56.890 guy is not traveling. This guy is not debating. This 0:15:56.910 --> 0:15:59.310 guy is not doing any of the things that candidates 0:15:59.370 --> 0:16:03.650 typically do. Look at how bad Joe Biden was after 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.680 he spent a year in the basement not doing anything. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:12.520 I really do think that his aging process was put on, 0:16:12.540 --> 0:16:17.350 I don't know, was accelerated because of what happened to 0:16:17.410 --> 0:16:21.070 him during COVID. If you don't do these things on 0:16:21.110 --> 0:16:25.430 a daily basis, you get rusty real fast. And I 0:16:25.470 --> 0:16:27.810 think we're going to end up with a governor who's 0:16:27.850 --> 0:16:28.410 the tin man. 0:16:30.910 --> 0:16:33.350 Two things on that. By the way, I'm absolutely certain 0:16:33.370 --> 0:16:35.930 you're right about Biden. I can't prove it, but I'm 0:16:35.990 --> 0:16:39.130 certain you're right. And you could argue that that will 0:16:39.170 --> 0:16:45.810 happen with Javier. The only problem with that thinking is 0:16:45.910 --> 0:16:49.190 it implies that at one point in time he was better. 0:16:50.770 --> 0:16:53.350 Like Joe Biden, I never thought much of him. He 0:16:53.690 --> 0:16:58.710 was kind of a whore. But he was considerably better 0:16:58.830 --> 0:17:01.790 than what he ended up. I'm not at all sure 0:17:02.890 --> 0:17:08.360 Becerra was. But you've got someone, every point I can 0:17:08.410 --> 0:17:10.760 trace him, and I admit to only paying so much 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:15.160 attention to him, he has gotten ahead on being your 0:17:15.260 --> 0:17:23.510 not particularly offensive Hispanic. Seems like a nice guy, have 0:17:23.550 --> 0:17:25.710 no idea what he is or isn't, but he goes 0:17:25.810 --> 0:17:27.830 out of his way to sort of seem that way. 0:17:28.930 --> 0:17:31.370 And I'm not sure you're not looking at what he's 0:17:31.550 --> 0:17:34.880 always been. When he was AG, I don't remember him 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.800 doing much of anything other than filing some lawsuits to 0:17:39.859 --> 0:17:43.239 make himself look better. Now, with that, and we're going 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:48.280 to find out, John, although, man, I don't know how 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:53.440 you make this work. He becomes governor of California. He 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:58.709 has a Hispanic surname. He has heavy support in that area. 0:18:00.010 --> 0:18:02.350 You don't tell me he's not going to think, well, 0:18:02.470 --> 0:18:06.830 I'm the one that should be president. If his mind 0:18:06.930 --> 0:18:11.890 is still working, he will see himself as president. Now, 0:18:11.950 --> 0:18:14.770 his problem is he's already got two from the state. 0:18:15.730 --> 0:18:19.030 But I don't know. Gavin seems to have an urge 0:18:19.109 --> 0:18:23.600 for self-destruction. And as you pointed out, we always have Kamala. 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:30.100 And I'm telling you, that woman is the most annoying 0:18:30.140 --> 0:18:33.440 politician I have ever seen in my life. And she 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:41.830 annoys other women much more than she annoys you guys. Okay, 0:18:41.930 --> 0:18:46.010 let's go back and be somewhat serious. Anyway, if he 0:18:46.070 --> 0:18:49.710 has it, I can see him thinking, well, I should 0:18:49.750 --> 0:18:53.600 be president. At which point, then it'll be fascinating to 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.119 watch what he does. Otherwise, he'll just hang on to 0:18:56.180 --> 0:18:59.940 survive and be happy with the honors in the office. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:06.600 Professor Barbara Stone, political science professor at California State University 0:19:06.900 --> 0:19:10.060 at Fullerton. Thanks so much for stopping by. Always fun. 0:19:11.550 --> 0:19:13.140 My pleasure, John. 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For more on a video filmed at 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.520 Disneyland that is going viral, here is KTLA. 0:21:16.750 --> 0:21:19.690 Media influencer says that she was groped by a stranger 0:21:19.750 --> 0:21:23.990 while live streaming with friends at Disneyland. KTLA's Gillian Smockler 0:21:24.010 --> 0:21:27.540 shows us how the disturbing incident unfolds on camera and 0:21:27.630 --> 0:21:28.410 how that live. 0:21:28.430 --> 0:21:29.639 You know what you don't see a lot of at 0:21:29.700 --> 0:21:30.600 Disneyland anymore? 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:35.880 Kids. Maybe it was Donald. You know, he was once 0:21:35.940 --> 0:21:36.520 in the Navy. 0:21:37.580 --> 0:21:39.340 Stream helped lead to an arrest. 0:21:40.340 --> 0:21:43.200 A video from inside Disneyland is now going viral after 0:21:43.260 --> 0:21:47.700 a popular influencer claims a complete stranger touched her inappropriately. 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.440 And now she's speaking exclusively with us about what happened 0:21:51.770 --> 0:21:54.850 and why she refuses to stay silent. It's known as 0:21:54.890 --> 0:21:58.590 the happiest place on earth, but for one woman visiting Disneyland, 0:21:58.609 --> 0:22:03.230 the night took a disturbing turn. Influencer, you at see Castro. 0:22:03.250 --> 0:22:04.630 Oh, of course I know her. 0:22:04.650 --> 0:22:05.930 I don't. 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.260 As posing for a picture with friends, when she says 0:22:10.300 --> 0:22:13.380 a man walking behind her touched her inappropriately. 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.090 Is her friend wearing a pregnancy shirt? 0:22:17.410 --> 0:22:19.129 It looks like she's wearing a crop top. 0:22:25.330 --> 0:22:26.889 Oh boy, he went for a scoop. 0:22:29.450 --> 0:22:31.670 It looks like she reacted in the moment, too. 0:22:32.150 --> 0:22:33.890 Yeah, that's what makes this special. 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:38.580 The contact itself is difficult to see clearly on camera. 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.960 But you can see the man pass behind Castro, then 0:22:42.020 --> 0:22:44.560 watch her immediately turn around and confront him. 0:22:46.420 --> 0:22:48.710 I felt it go up and then I just felt 0:22:48.730 --> 0:22:50.350 a finger touch me. 0:22:50.369 --> 0:22:58.850 Oh, so gross. Also, there's no kids at Disneyland anymore, apparently. 0:22:59.450 --> 0:23:01.449 Well, you can rule out Mickey because I don't think 0:23:01.510 --> 0:23:02.470 Mickey has fingers. 0:23:03.460 --> 0:23:04.619 Very inappropriately. 0:23:04.940 --> 0:23:07.750 My first instinct was to turn around and punch because 0:23:07.850 --> 0:23:09.290 I felt extremely violated. 0:23:09.470 --> 0:23:12.530 Castro says she was shaken and immediately started looking for 0:23:12.570 --> 0:23:16.710 Disney's security. She says security began searching the park and 0:23:16.750 --> 0:23:19.340 her friend's live stream became crucial evidence. 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:22.900 They couldn't find him, so they made sure to get 0:23:22.940 --> 0:23:24.940 some of his scent and have Pluto follow him around 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:25.379 the park. 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:28.020 Well, it's too bad he wasn't wearing mouse ears that 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:29.830 had his name on the back. It would be easier 0:23:29.850 --> 0:23:30.710 to identify him. 0:23:31.550 --> 0:23:33.770 I feel like if it would have happened to anybody else, 0:23:33.990 --> 0:23:36.790 they wouldn't have believed them. But because it happened to me, 0:23:36.810 --> 0:23:40.160 I have the footage to kind of show what happened. 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:43.899 When security initially couldn't find the man, Castro posted his 0:23:43.980 --> 0:23:45.680 picture in the video online. 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:48.810 Oh boy, she's going to send her fans after him. 0:23:48.830 --> 0:23:54.669 I mean, yeah, you don't do that in general, and 0:23:54.690 --> 0:23:56.810 you definitely don't do that at Disneyland. 0:23:57.420 --> 0:24:00.000 Okay, do you think he was being a pervert or 0:24:00.020 --> 0:24:01.780 do you think it was incidental contact? 0:24:03.630 --> 0:24:07.570 Well, if you just accidentally brush against somebody as you're 0:24:07.609 --> 0:24:11.750 walking through a very crowded park, yeah, that's possible. But 0:24:11.850 --> 0:24:13.969 she claims that it wasn't just a touch, it was 0:24:14.030 --> 0:24:15.730 a touch and a lift. That guy knew what he 0:24:15.780 --> 0:24:16.300 was doing. 0:24:16.730 --> 0:24:19.060 Because I could tell you, when I go to these 0:24:19.140 --> 0:24:23.080 theme parks and they're crowded, people are bumping up against you, 0:24:23.180 --> 0:24:26.990 people are touching you, people are trying to get by 0:24:27.050 --> 0:24:30.869 you all the time. And I don't like being touched 0:24:30.930 --> 0:24:33.790 by strangers, which is one of the reasons why if 0:24:33.850 --> 0:24:36.390 I go to a place like that, I don't go 0:24:36.450 --> 0:24:39.280 in the middle of summer. You go when it's not 0:24:39.380 --> 0:24:42.660 quite as crowded so that that doesn't happen quite as much. 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:45.960 But it's the middle of summer. So if she's at 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:48.840 a theme park when the weather is good and the 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:51.500 kids are out of school, then it's going to be 0:24:51.580 --> 0:24:53.720 filled with people and you're going to get touched all 0:24:53.740 --> 0:24:54.290 day long. 0:24:54.290 --> 0:24:58.100 15 minutes later, security called. 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:00.500 She was like, hey, we got him. We found the guy. 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:02.880 And I was like, no way. I was so happy. 0:25:02.980 --> 0:25:06.889 Disneyland says its security team located the suspect and contacted 0:25:07.030 --> 0:25:09.990 Anaheim police who arrested him for sexual battery. 0:25:10.190 --> 0:25:12.050 Well, this is Orange County. You knew this story was 0:25:12.090 --> 0:25:13.210 going to end in an arrest. 0:25:14.990 --> 0:25:17.250 It was released on a citation with a pending court. 0:25:17.270 --> 0:25:19.149 You want to do this and not get arrested? Go 0:25:19.170 --> 0:25:19.969 to Magic Mountain. 0:25:22.210 --> 0:25:23.180 It's expected there. 0:25:24.230 --> 0:25:24.490