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Speaker 1: Can'f I am six forty you're listening to the John

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much for coming today. We will

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Speaker 3: My name is Nathan Hoffman. I'm the District Attorney of

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Speaker 2: Of the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Speaker 3: Before I announce the charges, the state charges that have

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Speaker 3: been brought that are tied to these immigration protests, let

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Speaker 3: me first put an overview about the charges. The complaints

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Speaker 3: and the information you will hear about the charges today

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Speaker 3: are not evidence. Evidence has to be presented in a

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Speaker 3: court of law. A individual is presumed innocent until and

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Speaker 3: not ultimately. It does not ultimately constitute evidence of the

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Speaker 3: So I first want to start out with a thank

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Speaker 3: you on behalf of the district Attorney's Office. I want

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Speaker 3: to thank the hundreds of law enforcement officers from the LAPD,

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Speaker 3: in this situation. It is not a situation, certainly that

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Speaker 3: law enforcement intended to actually have happened. Both the District

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Speaker 3: law enforcement do not participate in federal civil immigration enforcement.

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Speaker 2: I want to make that crystal clear. We were not

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Speaker 3: We were not involved in the participation of it or

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Speaker 2: We are not involved at.

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Speaker 3: All with respect to federal civil immigration enforcement. What happened, though,

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Speaker 3: to use their First Amendment rights of speech to peacefully assemble,

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Speaker 3: and I say law enforcement has worked incredibly hard.

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Speaker 3: Who want to engage in this legitimate protest have the

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Speaker 3: fiercely protect people's rights to peacefully assemble and peacefully engage

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Speaker 3: in First Amendment protected speech. However, when that speech crosses

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Speaker 2: We have said this repeatedly.

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Speaker 3: We've said this as a warning to people who are

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Speaker 3: They are criminals, and they will be prosecuted as criminals.

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Speaker 2: If people want to hurl insults, we will protect that.

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Speaker 3: So hurling bricks, hurling cinder blocks, hurling fireworks will not

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Speaker 2: The weeks to come. We will look through all those cases.

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Speaker 3: But let me put this in perspective for you. There

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Speaker 3: let me describe these five cases. The first case involves

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Speaker 2: His name is Juan Rodriguez. He's from Guardina.

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Speaker 3: He's been charged with one felony count of assault upon

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Speaker 2: Third case, Timmy Paulk and Raven Mitchell.

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Speaker 4: Sheriff Luna, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from

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Speaker 6: Hawkman, Thank you all for covering this story. I do

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Speaker 6: And mister Hackman said it perfectly and articulated it very well.

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Speaker 6: There's a big distinction between individuals that protest and demonstrate

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Speaker 7: You're going to get prosecuted.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Sheriff Lona, and thank you all. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 8: and again you'll hear some common themes here. Certainly, I

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Speaker 8: but when individuals choose to weaponize that right, I want

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Speaker 8: excuse me. By assaulting peace officers, endangering lives, or committing

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Speaker 8: be tolerated. Three individuals have been charged with felony assault

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Speaker 5: Motorcycles to cause harm.

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Speaker 8: These were deliberate attacks, acts of that injured officers who

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Speaker 8: Let's not forget our officers face uncertain and officered often

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Speaker 5: Over these last few days.

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Speaker 8: I've watched molotov cocktails and fireworks shot mortars being launched

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Speaker 8: It sends a strong and important message if you assault

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Speaker 8: In one case, a retail store was burglarized and tens

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Speaker 5: What they do is harm to.

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Speaker 8: Our communities, our small businesses, and our civic institutions. The

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Speaker 8: LAPD will continue to investigate all incidents thoroughly and work

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: And before we start with questions, I also want to

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Speaker 2: Now we'll take questions.

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Speaker 8: Yes, So earlier today, Major General Sherman said that National.

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Speaker 1: Guard members have detained some people they've already done this

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Speaker 9: Turn them over to law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: Can you share a little bit about which law enforcement

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Speaker 2: How many contained.

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Speaker 6: We're still working out a lot of the communication and

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 9: I understand most of the people arrested are not facing

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Speaker 9: serious failures, whatever those allegations would be. In recent history

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Speaker 9: in southern California, hundreds of people have been arrested on

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Speaker 9: I'm curious if you're going to take a different position

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Speaker 3: So you are correct that there are certain crimes committed,

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Speaker 2: And you're right they can.

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Speaker 3: Even misdemeanors can span a spectrum from a failure to

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Speaker 3: having spoken to Miss Felsine Soto, that she and her

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Speaker 3: think we have a precedent that was set in prior protests.

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Speaker 3: I will tell you from the District Attorney's office, which

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Speaker 3: today you've heard we are bringing these.

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Speaker 2: Charges felony charges.

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Speaker 3: We consider the actions, particularly the actions against law enforcement,

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Speaker 3: the actions against public safety, the actions defacing, as Chief

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Speaker 3: McDonald's said, historic buildings, extremely serious. In many ways, I've

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Speaker 3: I've been here over sixty years, in this city, in

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Speaker 2: Want to go ahead and commit crimes in our home,

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Speaker 2: We're going to protect our home.

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Speaker 3: We're going to make sure if someone wants to throw

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Speaker 2: After them as well.

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Speaker 3: They want to steal from our stores, We're going to

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Speaker 3: hold them accountable for their actions. And that's the way

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Speaker 3: I view it, That's the way the District Attorney's office

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Speaker 5: Two questions.

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Speaker 10: If I May the first one being all three of

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Speaker 10: I've heard obviously you also respect the rights of peaceful protesters.

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Speaker 11: You can provide any evidence of maybe organization from anarchists,

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Speaker 5: Obviously you've highlighted five cases.

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Speaker 11: Of men and women doing destruction, but is there any

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Speaker 6: Good I'm going to I'm limited in what I can

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Speaker 6: respond to that only because there's ongoing cases, but I

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Speaker 7: There is some evidence we've.

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Speaker 6: Seen that I don't want to share at this time,

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Speaker 6: and it's not because I don't want to talk to

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Speaker 6: individuals involved and bringing the best cases forward. Some of

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Speaker 6: them may be to the district attorney, but highly likely

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Speaker 6: to the US Attorney, where we're working with some of

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Speaker 12: Quick follow over to the chief, and this is coming

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Speaker 12: from somebody who's been here for several days and have

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Speaker 12: watched out your law enforcement officers have conducting themselves and

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Speaker 12: have used less lethal rounds from my perspective, only after

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Speaker 12: being agitated by other people throwing things. However, there is

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Speaker 12: a video now circulating online of less lethal methods being

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Speaker 12: used on a woman not quite a protester, standing very

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Speaker 12: close to officers being fired at with less lethal methods.

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Speaker 12: Also a caveat that we do see these police officers

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Speaker 12: give their multiple warnings, but I'm wondering if you could

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Speaker 12: comment on the use of those methods at such a

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Speaker 5: Much of a threat.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I can't speak to that individual case

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Speaker 8: because I'm not aware of what the follow up was.

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Speaker 8: But each one of these we see it generates an

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Speaker 8: investigative follow up. We will look into it thoroughly, and then,

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Speaker 8: you know, look for all the video we possibly can

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Speaker 8: out there body worn video on the officers, and then

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Speaker 8: a video from the environment there and put together as

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Speaker 8: best we can what the circumstances were.

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Speaker 11: Perhaps then you could speak to people out there who

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Speaker 11: may not understand that a warning is a warning, or

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Speaker 11: maybe officers would take that step.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, but thank you for that.

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Speaker 8: Bottom line is, once we give a dispersal order because

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Speaker 8: things have gotten out of hand and we're trying to

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Speaker 8: restore order, and you are ordered to leave that area,

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Speaker 8: and the officers are going to clear that area, and

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Speaker 8: some of the tactics use involved less lethal munitions, and certainly,

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Speaker 8: while they're way more accurate they were in years past,

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Speaker 8: certainly there's also times where they hit potentially hit a

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Speaker 8: target that was not the intended target. So if you're

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Speaker 8: in the environment and you're told to leave, please leave

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Speaker 8: because for your own safety and the safety of everyone

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Speaker 8: around you.

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Speaker 13: Geez, do you know what's going out in Boil Heights?

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Speaker 13: I just saw a video when I was leaving my

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Speaker 13: office to get over here. There was a white car

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Speaker 13: and then two silver cars I think it was an

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Speaker 13: SUV and a silver truck came up caught off the

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Speaker 13: white car and two people hopped out. I mean they looked,

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Speaker 13: you know, like they were I couldn't tell they were

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Speaker 13: fends or local officers, and then they detained that driver.

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Speaker 13: Any idea, what's.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've heard about that too. I haven't been able

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Speaker 5: to find out more about it at this time.

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Speaker 8: I know that Hollm Beck units were dispatched to that,

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Speaker 8: So once once we free up here, we'll figure out

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Speaker 8: what was going on out there.

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Speaker 4: More chief, just to kind of follow up on that question,

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Speaker 4: just trying to understand, does that mean that you guys

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Speaker 4: have begun use of force reviews on some of these incidents?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, whenever.

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Speaker 8: Whenever anything happens of significance, we start looking at it

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Speaker 8: right away, try and capture all the video we can, any.

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Speaker 5: Other evidence we can right away.

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Speaker 8: For take a couple more questions.

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Speaker 9: There's one particular question I wanted to asked if there

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Speaker 9: was an arrest of Los Agular, at.

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Speaker 7: Least she's an a to one of our council members.

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Speaker 6: I was wondering if there was any information regarding that.

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Speaker 2: Arrest, if there were any charges.

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Speaker 5: That were posted to for her and her sister.

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Speaker 7: Antonio Aguiler.

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Speaker 2: Tried to work.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I'll have to follow up with you to

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Speaker 8: see what those if there words charges filed or not

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Speaker 8: on that one.

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Speaker 12: Maybe if if the sheriff could just clarify what he

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Speaker 12: had said earlier to the.

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Speaker 10: Question about the National Guard now given authorization to detain people,

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Speaker 10: how would it work then, I suppose, And it sounded

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Speaker 10: like from the previous answer you were saying they're only

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Speaker 10: really there to detain those that are causing harm to

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Speaker 10: federal officers. But I don't know how would hand off

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Speaker 10: work to local law enforcement if the National Guard was

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Speaker 10: to detain and say, a protester.

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Speaker 6: If let me clarify that what's been communicated to me

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Speaker 6: thus far, and we are asking for more specific communication

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Speaker 6: from the Army, which the National Guard is falling under

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Speaker 6: them now along with the Marines, is that they've expressed

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Speaker 6: to us that they have three their mission is split

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Speaker 6: up into three areas, that it is to protect federal functions,

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Speaker 6: to protect federal facilities, and to protect federal personnel. They

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Speaker 6: and as far as I know, and again I'm trying,

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Speaker 6: we are all in meetings trying to increase our communication

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Speaker 6: and coordination with them, so we're still asking for specific clarification.

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Speaker 6: My understanding at this point is that they do not

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Speaker 6: have the powers to arrest or detain, so if they

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Speaker 6: are out in the field, they they may be there,

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Speaker 6: but they're working in conjunction with federal authorities. It could

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Speaker 6: be Ice Border Patrol. There's a whole host of acronym

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Speaker 6: federal agencies that they're working with, but again, not knowing

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Speaker 6: that specific incident. That's where communication and coordination is critical.

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Speaker 13: Do you know, is there aed the Marines here? I've

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Speaker 13: been hearing since Sunday they've been on their way, and

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Speaker 13: what are we Wednesday?

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Speaker 6: I would be guessing if I try to answer that again,

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Speaker 6: I'm just gonna leave it at this.

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Speaker 7: We are doing everything we can.

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Speaker 6: I know Chief McDonald and I and our staffs are

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Speaker 6: doing everything we can to improve our communication with the army,

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Speaker 6: so we would know those specific questions and they were

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Speaker 6: just activated I think, what was it Sunday? So there's

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Speaker 6: a lot going on behind the scenes. And first of all,

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Speaker 6: I just tell you, for i've never served in the military,

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Speaker 6: I have nothing but respect for people in the military,

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Speaker 6: whether they're soldiers in the National Guard or Marines, they

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Speaker 6: are our soldiers. So we're doing our best to put

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Speaker 6: them and ourselves and primarily our community in a position

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Speaker 6: so that we succeed together moving forward, because frankly, we're

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Speaker 6: all in an extremely difficult situation right now that none

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Speaker 6: of us have ever been involved in including the military

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Speaker 6: assistant textures.

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Speaker 11: Attorney Marie or Miraz is gonna give us some remarks

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Speaker 11: in Spanish.

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Speaker 1: Okay, No, well you want to stick with the Spanish

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Speaker 1: remarks maybe?

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 4: We're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 1: you about a half hour long press conference with the

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Speaker 1: La County District Attorney Nathan Hackman, the LAPD Chief Jim McDonell,

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Speaker 1: the county Sheriff Robert Luna, and they explained some of

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Speaker 1: the rests that they have made and answered some questions

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Speaker 1: from the press. I think one thing that needs to

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Speaker 1: be reinforced because Karen Bash and Gavin Newsom lie a

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Speaker 1: lot and they whipped up a lot of hysteria. So far,

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Speaker 1: the National Guard has had nothing to do with suppressing

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Speaker 1: the protesters and responding to the criminal acts by the

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Speaker 1: protesters or the agitators. They have been guarding two federal

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Speaker 1: buildings primarily, and that's the town federal building and the

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Speaker 1: one in Westwood as well, And they are also protecting

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Speaker 1: federal employees who work at those buildings. And they're also

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Speaker 1: working with various other law enforcement governmental agencies that are

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Speaker 1: involved in this are involved in this entire operation. So

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Speaker 1: what newsman Bass have been lying? Whipping up hysteria, misleading people.

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Speaker 1: There may come a moment where the National Guard gets

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Speaker 1: involved and gets on the street and starts detaining people.

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Speaker 1: That has not happened yet. The reason we're having riots

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Speaker 1: is because rioters are rioting. And it's got nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with the National Guard and nothing to do with Trump,

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with Tom Homan. It is rioters choosing

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Speaker 1: to riot. And as I I think McDonald said this

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Speaker 1: a day or two ago, he sees a lot of

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Speaker 1: the same people at all these.

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Speaker 2: Public ruckuses.

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Speaker 1: Okay, they move from issue to if issue, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're they're there. It's George Floyd, it's Black Lives Matter,

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Speaker 1: it's it's global warming, it's you name it whatever whatever.

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Speaker 1: The crazy issue of the moment is many of them

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Speaker 1: are hired, Many of them are are are.

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Speaker 2: Employed to do this.

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Speaker 1: Some of them are just flat out nuts and they

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Speaker 1: belong to anarchist organizations. Antifa is a real thing, and

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Speaker 1: and and that's that's what causes the trouble. And and

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Speaker 1: they latch on to, you know, the issue of the day,

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Speaker 1: the protest of the day, and often even the peaceful

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Speaker 1: protesters are organized as well. And and they're paid for.

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Speaker 1: And they talked about outside antagonists, and one reporter had

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Speaker 1: a question about, you know, who are these groups. What's

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Speaker 1: your evidence of this? And they said, well, we're investigating.

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Speaker 1: Believe me, there there are outside groups involved in creating

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Speaker 1: this ruckus. It is a political situation. They're going after Trump.

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Speaker 1: They hate Trump. They are trying to provide an event

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Speaker 1: that's going to turn the public against the current administration.

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Speaker 1: And they latch onto hot button issues. And you know

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Speaker 1: they whether, I mean, a few years ago was all

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Speaker 1: race stuff. You notice nobody's protesting about race anymore. Nobody's

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Speaker 1: protesting about police per se anymore. Now it's about immigration.

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Speaker 1: A couple of years from now, they'll be back with

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Speaker 1: some other hot issue. These nonprofits get donations, they get

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Speaker 1: government grants, they use your tax money, and they always

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Speaker 1: have a nice, warm, frilly message to explain their mission.

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Speaker 1: If you go to the website, and the truth is

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Speaker 1: a lot of them are doing a lot of bad things.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna mention Shirley again because they are in

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Speaker 1: the news again today. CHURLA is the Coalition for Humane

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Speaker 1: Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles hr LA. They've been out

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Speaker 1: here for years. They have gone full bore, they want

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Speaker 1: to abolish ICE for years. Twenty eighteen, let's say they

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Speaker 1: have managed to get some serious funding from the Democratic legislature.

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Speaker 1: So understand, you work, you pay state taxes, the California

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Speaker 1: Assembly and state Senate, and Governor Newsom then take that

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Speaker 1: They have received. This is twenty twenty three numbers. Thirty

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Speaker 1: three million, nine hundred and sixty six thousand, five hundred

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Speaker 1: IRS forum nine to ninety. They also got another ten

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Speaker 1: million dollars plus from gifts, grants, and other contributions for

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Speaker 1: a total of forty four million dollars. I have in

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Speaker 1: front of me the accounting sheet. I have the readout

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Speaker 1: of the money they've gotten from various organizations, including the

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Speaker 1: state government. And here is here is one donation for

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Speaker 1: thirty three million dollars donation. It's the tax money. It's

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Speaker 1: our tax money that's rooted to these organizations, and they

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Speaker 1: use it primarily to agitate. They want ICE abolished. They

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Speaker 1: want ICE abolished, and they want it defunded. And they

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Speaker 1: themselves want to be funded with our tax money. So

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Speaker 1: no tax money for ICE, but tax money for CHURLA.

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Speaker 1: They're subversive organizations and they finance violence. And Josh Hawley,

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Speaker 1: the Republican senator from Missouri, he's getting involved in this

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Speaker 1: and he's launched a federal investigation into TURLA. He says

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Speaker 1: they might be financially supporting the violent protests. He says

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Speaker 1: it's coordinated. He's chairman of the Judiciary Submittee, Subcommittee on

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Speaker 1: Crime and Terrorism. He goes, who is funding the LA riots?

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Speaker 1: This violence isn't spontaneous. I'm launching an investigation to find out.

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Speaker 1: And the letter was addressed to CURLA executive director and Jelicasalis,

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Speaker 1: and it says that credible reporting has indicated that the

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Speaker 1: organization has provided logistical support and financial resources to individuals

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Speaker 1: engaged in these disruptive actions. We had carl Demaia on

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Speaker 1: the Republican assemblymen who discovered the thirty four million dollars

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Speaker 1: of your tax money that's been given to CURLA that

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Speaker 1: they may have used to finance some of the violence

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Speaker 1: you've seen over the weekend. The letter is what he

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Speaker 1: writes in the letter, bank Rolling civil unrest is not

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Speaker 1: protected speech. It is aiding in a betting criminal conduct.

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Speaker 1: You must cease and desist any further involvement in the

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Speaker 1: organization funding a promotion of these unlawful activities. And the

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Speaker 1: letter requested Charlotte provide internal communications relating to any protest

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Speaker 1: or funding financial documents related to the same, and blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah, blah blah. Irs Records obtained by Fox News

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Speaker 1: show that Churla has received thirty four million dollars in

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Speaker 1: government grants, including three from Joe Biden's administration for seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Trump has cut the federal funding,

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Speaker 1: but CURLA still gets California state grants and La City grants,

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Speaker 1: thank some of the money to support lawyers fighting deportations.

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Speaker 1: Churla is responsible for creating the so called Rapid Response Network,

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Speaker 1: the hotline Immigrants used to report ice raids. The network

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Speaker 1: then sends text alerts so that the illegals have.

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Speaker 5: A chance to hide.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Bass has been publicizing the rapid response network,

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Speaker 1: She's in on this too. She knows exactly what Turla

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Speaker 1: is doing, and she supports Turla, and the city helps

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Speaker 1: fund Curla. But Turla is not the only one. New

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Speaker 1: York Post has a story today lefty nonprofits are openly

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Speaker 1: fueling La riots. They're handing out f ICE protective gears.

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Speaker 1: Yes the F word, that's the name of the personal

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Speaker 1: protective equipment. Remember PPEs from the COVID days. Well, According

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Speaker 1: to the New York Post, left wing nonprofit groups are

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Speaker 1: openly helping to fuel the riots by handing out f

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Speaker 1: ICE packs. They include goggles, face masks, gloves, and a

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Speaker 1: phone number for jail support, distributed by a nonprofit called

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Speaker 1: Operation Healthy Hearts. You see, they always have happy names.

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Speaker 1: Operation Healthy Hearts generally organized as community service like food

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Speaker 1: drives for people on skid row, but they have created

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Speaker 1: the f ice ppe pack, and they have a long

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Speaker 1: history of pumping out left wing rhetoric on social media,

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Speaker 1: and they've been denouncing law enforcement since the protests started.

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Speaker 1: Another group that's advertising the f ICE kits Mutual Aida

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Network m ALA and Meylon says it's a

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Speaker 1: central information network for aid groups and nonprofits. Mayland was

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Speaker 1: founded during the COVID nineteen pandemic, but as a history

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Speaker 1: of supporting partisan left wing causes on social media, including

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Speaker 1: anti Israel protests. Oh, that was another big round of protests.

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Speaker 1: And it's the same people. They did George Floyd, they

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Speaker 1: did f the police, they do Palestine, they do climate change,

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Speaker 1: they do they do the anti ICE protests, same organizations,

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Speaker 1: same people. Many of them blew up in the last

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Speaker 1: five to seven years. And of course what they're doing

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Speaker 1: is protesting that these violent criminals are finally getting arrested

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Speaker 1: and will be deported by the federal government. Like the

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Speaker 1: murderer I told you about from Mexico, Like the child

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Speaker 1: molester from Cambodia, another child molester from Laos Lutas with

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Speaker 1: a child. These are all convictions. Another illegal alien from Mexico,

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Speaker 1: drug trafficking. They've all been arrested by ICE. They're all

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Speaker 1: being deport They've all been convicted in the past. This

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Speaker 1: is what CHERLA is protecting. So when they sent out

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Speaker 1: texts on their rapid response network, which Karen Bass has

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Speaker 1: been advertising for. It's so these guys can get away

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Speaker 1: so that ice doesn't catch them. This is a whole

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Speaker 1: network of evil that has caused a lot of crime

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Speaker 1: and disruption here in Los Angeles. So of course Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass and Gavin Newsom are protecting them and telling lies

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Speaker 1: about the National Guard. The National Guard has simply protected

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Speaker 1: the two major federal buildings they were assigned to. They're

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Speaker 1: protecting federal employees. They have not been sent to the

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Speaker 1: streets to arrest any protesters or any illegal aliens.

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Speaker 4: Yet you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI

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Speaker 4: A sixty.

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass is involved in money laundering that helps finance

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Speaker 1: the groups who then turn the money over to the protesters.

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Speaker 1: I'll explain to you how the money laundering operation works,

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Speaker 1: but first listen to Karen Bass denying that there are

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Speaker 1: outside agitators who are committing the violence during these riots.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 14: I mean, my guess is that you have social media

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Speaker 14: phenomena that calls for parties that calls for street takeovers,

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Speaker 14: and I think it's in the same vein. What I

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Speaker 14: do believe very strongly is that The groups that are

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Speaker 14: vandalizing downtown are not a part of the immigrant rights movement.

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Speaker 14: Are not concerned about immigrants, are concerned about wrecking havoc

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Speaker 14: and are breaking immigrant rights. Organizations that have been institutions,

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Speaker 14: well established, well respected institutions in our city for decades,

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Speaker 14: are used to doing protests. They are very well organized

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Speaker 14: and coordinated, and they don't tolerate the violence. Yesterday's demonstration

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Speaker 14: that was put on by labor, especially in solidarity with

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Speaker 14: David Werta, they had a system there where they wouldn't

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Speaker 14: let people in a certain area stuff.

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Speaker 1: They had a mask stopped and David Wirked as the

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Speaker 1: union leader that got arrested because he was blocking and

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Speaker 1: this is on video. He was blocking ICE agents. That's

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Speaker 1: a federal crime. It is too bad on him, but

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Speaker 1: Bass covers for him. I told you, Charla, it got

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Speaker 1: thirty four million dollars of our state tax. Buddy, Charla

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Speaker 1: got seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the Biden administration.

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Speaker 1: They are funding outside agitators. They themselves are outside agitators.

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Speaker 1: The groups I told you that are distributing the f

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Speaker 1: ICE packages, these are the personal protective Equipment packages. Goggles,

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Speaker 1: face masks. So when these people do things like throw

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Speaker 1: rocks and concreted cops and the cops hit him with

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Speaker 1: tear gas or fire rubber bullets at them, they have

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Speaker 1: goggles and face masks to keep them from either inhaling

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Speaker 1: too much tear gas or getting a rubber bullet in

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Speaker 1: the eye. The LA Poverty Department is one of them.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned the Mutual Aid Society. Mutual Aid Social Therapy

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Speaker 1: is the name of the group. And then Susan Shelley

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Speaker 1: has a story in the Orange County Register. And here's

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Speaker 1: how it works. Follow this with me. Karen Bass gets

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Speaker 1: behested payments. You know what to behested payment is when

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Speaker 1: you ask your donors, would you put a lot of

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Speaker 1: your money into this nonprofit that I've created, and then

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Speaker 1: I'll decide where that nonprofit money goes. Eric Arcetti mastered this.

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Speaker 1: He would raise millions of dollars. They call it dark money.

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Speaker 1: So Bass calls you up. You're a regular donor. Generally

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Speaker 1: you have business and contracts before the city. For example,

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom does this and his wife does this. To

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Speaker 1: do this, Newsom and Gavin and Jennifer Newsom, they shake

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Speaker 1: down PG and e PG and has to make behested

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Speaker 1: payments to whatever whack ball charities Gavin and Jennifer have

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Speaker 1: going at the time, and those are usually run by

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Speaker 1: friends and relatives, and everybody takes home a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Well Bass in this case. In January, she shook down

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Speaker 1: the Pledgling Foundation eight hundred thousand dollars. The name of

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Speaker 1: the donor is secret. They split up the eight hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars into seventy separate contributions and transfer the money

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Speaker 1: to the California Community Foundation. On its website it says

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Speaker 1: Emma is one of its areas of focus. They established

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Speaker 1: the Immigrants Are La Coalition.

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Speaker 2: See you got this.

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Speaker 1: Bass goes to a donor says, give me eight hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. She then chops it up into seventy separate

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Speaker 1: contributions so it's hard to follow. Sends the seventy contributions

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Speaker 1: to the Pledgeling Foundation. They in turn give it to

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Speaker 1: the California Community Foundation and they subsidize immigration activity. They

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Speaker 1: establish another group, Immigrants Are La Coalition, who also got

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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty million dollars from the Biden administration.

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Speaker 1: You see how this works. So that's the funding for

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Speaker 1: the riots. Sometimes it's private don't that are indebted to Bass.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's tax money, like the thirty four million that

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Speaker 1: came from the California Legislature and Newsom. Bass got a

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Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty five thousand donation from the California

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Speaker 1: Community Foundation and gave it to Community Partners. Its website

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Speaker 1: features a photo of protesters holding signs that read immigration

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Speaker 1: is an LGBT issue. It's and Susan Shelley suggests that

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Speaker 1: the IRS Criminal Division should take an interest in the

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Speaker 1: LA riots and these organizations that are funding the riots

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Speaker 1: and where the money comes from. It's a massive money

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Speaker 1: laugering operation. Newsom and his wife are in on it.

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Speaker 1: Bass is in on it. The Biden administration was in

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Speaker 1: on it. When we come back, Michael Munks from KFI News,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to tell us this was asked about

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Speaker 1: in the press conference with the police chief and the

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Speaker 1: Sheriff's the sheriff and Nathan Hockman. Some incident in Boyle Heights.

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Speaker 1: There was a vehicle collision. There were a couple of

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security officers involved, something like that. We'll find out

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Speaker 1: the details of Michael Deborah Mark live in the KFI

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