WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:11.359 on the iHeartRadio app Stories We're falling for you today. 4 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:13.439 Of course, we are right on top of all the 5 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:17.280 protests that have developed over the weekend and will continue today. 6 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.199 Also other news, of course going on. The ex girlfriend 7 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:23.839 of Shan Di Deacomb says she had concerns about him 8 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:27.079 using his cell phones to take explicit videos of her 9 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:30.920 because others could access them. It is just a steady 10 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:34.719 stream of bad behavior on display at this trial. The 11 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.320 woman is only being referred to as Jane as back 12 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.159 on the stand today. Last week she claimed he forced 13 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:42.479 her to have sex with three male escorts back to 14 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:46.119 back while he watched. Apparently this is his thing. What 15 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:53.479 a great person she and she thought that that was 16 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:58.159 going to endear her to him. Women do a lot 17 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.039 of things to keep the relationship alive. 18 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:05.599 Russia has launched almost five hundred drones at Ukraine in 19 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:09.040 the biggest overnight drone bombardment in the three year war. 20 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:12.439 Ukrainian Air Force said this today. As well as the 21 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:15.719 almost five hundred drones, they said twenty missiles of various 22 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:18.799 types fired at different parts of Ukraine. According to the 23 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.480 Air Force said the barrage targeted mainly the central and 24 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.480 western areas of Ukraine. 25 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.799 Well, we had protests over the weekend. There were peaceful spots, 26 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.719 there were spots where people were setting waymos on fire. 27 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.000 Michael Monks was there and I got to say, Michael, 28 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.480 I listened to your coverage extensively. Yesterday as a long 29 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.560 weekend for you. You were called out there to cover 30 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:41.959 the protest Friday night hosts a show on Saturday, and 31 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:43.840 then yesterday I heard you in the neon hour, I 32 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:47.120 heard you in the six o'clock hour. You were our 33 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:51.200 man on the protests, and we appreciate that great job, 34 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:54.280 and you came in here with a head full esteem. 35 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:55.400 Today you're pissed off. 36 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.200 Oh I'm so mad about all of this, And how 37 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:01.000 much more can the city take? Really, we have a 38 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.519 lot to get, can we? Absolutely? Because when you think 39 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:06.920 back to January and the tragedy of the fires and 40 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:11.120 then the chaotic aftermath, the politicized aftermath that's still ongoing, 41 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:14.000 and the rebuilding efforts and just how draining that is. 42 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.879 Obviously more so for the people directly impacted, but for 43 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.919 the community as a whole across La County and now this, 44 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:20.639 you know. 45 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:22.039 Do we ever get a break here? 46 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:25.080 I'm two years four months here living and I am 47 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:27.919 exhausted chronic selfishness. 48 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:30.719 Well, you're the only selfishness, is what we're dealing. 49 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:35.759 You're the only reporter if I'm not mistaken, So you're 50 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.360 gonna be spread a little thin. We used to have 51 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:39.879 six or seven people this show. 52 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:42.360 Yeah, so we had a little bit of trauma here 53 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:43.520 dating back to November. 54 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:44.120 That that's true. 55 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.439 But I am the I in KFI now is what 56 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:55.199 I say. Yeah, but I'm glad to do it. You know, 57 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:57.719 it's important to our listeners who are loyal to us 58 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.360 and expect answers from our government and from day to 59 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:05.319 day activities, and so when this type of situation knocks 60 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:07.319 on our door, we're going to do it. Regardless of 61 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.240 our situation here. It's important, and this was really important. 62 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:14.039 We're sort of the center of the immigration policy universe 63 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.680 right now. Of course, these sweeps or these raids or detainments, 64 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:21.599 arrest they're happening across the country, but Los Angeles and 65 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:26.080 California and its relationship with this White House was already 66 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:28.520 a powder keg. But this is an issue where they 67 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:32.240 could not be farther apart, and this is the perfect 68 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.639 battleground for both of these ideologies to play out. And 69 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:39.159 what we're seeing in the streets is really how that 70 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:41.400 is going to go. We haven't seen the last of 71 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.719 this now. I also, I mean that is a very 72 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.120 high level way of thinking about it, and there are 73 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:51.479 people on both sides who carry those ideologies, and like 74 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.000 you said, they're playing it out on the streets of 75 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:57.000 Los Angeles. There are also people, the chronically selfish people 76 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:00.840 who are only there to burn things and break stuff. 77 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.159 I talked about this yesterday with. 78 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:05.400 With Chris Merrill and also Mark Thompson during the afternoon 79 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:09.719 during our coverage. Los Angeles has professional protesters, and I 80 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:11.759 qualify that to say these aren't necessarily people who were 81 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:15.319 dropped in by some you know, organization that's paying folks 82 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:18.160 to come protest. But they are pro in their skills 83 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:23.120 at it. They're absolutely elite experience protesters. Their experience, they 84 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:25.199 know what to bring, they know how to respond when 85 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:28.360 things go awry, and they know how to prepare for them, 86 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.680 and so they thrive in this environment. So it doesn't 87 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.720 matter if yesterday's event was about black lives matter. If 88 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:38.160 it was about the Lakers winning the championship or this, 89 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.319 you know, it's this now, and those are the ones 90 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:42.360 who showed up now. 91 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:45.279 And they were the ones wearing masks back you know, 92 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.079 the Bill Bratton days when he first put the agitators 93 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:51.920 on our radar twenty years ago. You know, he mentioned 94 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.639 that they wear masks. They are professional. This is what 95 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:57.199 they do. Some of them are bought and sold and 96 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:00.319 paid for in terms of ratching it up whatever kind 97 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:01.839 of dialogue you're trying to further. 98 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:07.120 Yeah, And what sucks as just an LA resident is 99 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:11.160 the way my neighborhood, downtown Los Angeles is just treated 100 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.639 like a battleground because one the situation has been escalated 101 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:19.720 because a policy is being enforced as promised by the President, 102 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.879 and then escalated by the presence of a new entity, 103 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.000 the National Guard, being brought here, which changed the dynamics. 104 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:31.199 I can't say for certain whether that escalated tensions, but 105 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.000 it certainly escalated the presence of what we're seeing down there. 106 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:39.120 Military garb, military vehicles, military weapons. That's a different vibe 107 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.720 even than federal police. And it's important to point out 108 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:44.839 those National Guard troops were not on the front lines. 109 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.040 They were not on the skirmish lines with any of 110 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:51.000 these any of the protesters, and haven't been for what 111 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.319 I understand what I was able to see over the weekend. 112 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.680 The National Guard troops were brought in early yesterday for 113 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:02.040 the first time and basically only provide security for federal properties, 114 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:07.240 federal buildings, federal vehicles, and things like that. The officers 115 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:10.680 that we did see on the skirmish lines yesterday and 116 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:15.439 the day before, County Sheriff LAPD, other law enforcement agencies, 117 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:19.079 including the California Highway Patrol. So the idea that this 118 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:24.319 is somehow a fight between protesters and federal agents is 119 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.120 not what's playing out on the street. 120 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:27.639 I don't know if they matter. 121 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.160 The protesters may feel like that's what they're doing, but 122 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.120 that's not at all what they're doing, and it doesn't 123 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.360 matter who's there if it's law enforcement. There are certain 124 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:40.040 elements of the protest movement, regardless again of the issue, 125 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.600 who are ready to do battle with the law enforcement. 126 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:46.120 I will just note that the earlier protest yesterday was 127 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.920 outside the federal building downtown next to the jail, where 128 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.600 apparently a lot of these detainees, including union leader David 129 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:55.319 ware To, are being held in federal custody. The skirmish 130 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.639 line was formed by the National guardsmen and that was 131 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:02.160 the first taste of things, pysical altercations that we got. 132 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.480 I'm standing, you know, in the midst of the protest crowd, 133 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:07.519 you doing gathering sound, doing commentary and analysis and reporting 134 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:12.040 the news, and suddenly it got a little hairy, and 135 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.480 it was the National Guard using their shields, pushing the 136 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:18.040 protesters off the sidewalk into Alameda Street, and I wasn't 137 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.959 clear as to why. Then they stopped, They backed off 138 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:24.319 for a minute, and then it started again, much more intensely, 139 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:26.439 and that's when some tear gas was shot out that 140 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:28.319 I got a taste of for the first time, and 141 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.319 that's not a pleasant experience. But that was the National Guard. 142 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:34.800 And what ended up happening was a National Guard cleared 143 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.560 everybody away from the sidewalk and then allowed about thirty 144 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.199 federal vehicles to come by, so they had clearly gotten word, hey, 145 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.040 we've got some cars coming clear the space. 146 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:47.160 The LAPD has been trained, as Gary and I were 147 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.839 pointing out last hour, has been trained and retrained and 148 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:54.160 tweaked and all the things for this protest, specifically, for 149 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:59.680 immigration protests specifically because of the tinder box of political 150 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:03.279 that it is. I want to know if you know 151 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.040 the difference between the orders the LAPD has and containing 152 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:10.240 these protests and the orders the National Guard has when 153 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:12.240 it comes to containing these protests, because I think the 154 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:14.120 two have very different playbooks. 155 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:16.079 So we'll talk about that when we come back. 156 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.839 Michael Monks has joined us after a couple of days 157 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.600 out on the streets, right, is that an appropriate way 158 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:24.560 to say Friday night, this with this codday after his 159 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:25.959 something Saturday Night Live here. 160 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:30.519 Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from 161 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:32.159 KFI Am six forty. 162 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.639 We are standing by expecting a news conference from LAPD 163 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:40.360 at some point this morning. We do know that there 164 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.960 are also more protests that have been called for a 165 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:45.879 little bit later in the day, so this is going 166 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:47.279 to be something that we keep an eye on. 167 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:48.879 Michael Monks has joined us. 168 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.720 He was out there yesterday, had a little taste of 169 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:53.759 the old protest juice. 170 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:55.879 I did a little tear gas tier guests. Yeah, it 171 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:56.639 doesn't taste good. 172 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:00.519 I think we've all had at least some ex experience 173 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:04.080 with that beautiful cloud of freedom. 174 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.080 I never got tear gast covering anything. I did get 175 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.639 tear gas on my honeymoon in Athens. 176 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:11.879 I could see why. Yeah, by your husband. 177 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:17.559 No, that didn't start till later in the marriage. No, 178 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:19.960 But they had a bunch of protest They always have protests. 179 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:23.240 It's Syntagma square, Am I saying it right? Syntagma square 180 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:24.279 antagma square? 181 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:31.039 But yeah, okay, we were talking about a lot of 182 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.759 the questions. Specifically, we were talking about the roles that 183 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.120 National Guard troops have been playing now a few hundred 184 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:40.519 of them on the streets. Then you've got Los Angeles 185 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:44.279 Police Department, you've got the LA County Sheriff's Department, and 186 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:48.960 all of them doing these different enforcements, the different roles 187 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.919 that they're playing so far, and not one of them. 188 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.840 I didn't see anybody really cracking heads over the course 189 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.000 of the last few days, despite a couple of instances 190 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.799 where it would have been clearly called for. And one 191 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:02.679 of the points that I wanted that I was mentioning 192 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.440 was I don't know if it was. I think it 193 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:08.799 was Los Angeles Street, the overcrossing there. There were several 194 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:12.159 HP units on the one to one freeway from the 195 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:15.559 earlier enforcement to get people off of the freeway, and 196 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.759 that along Aliso Street and Los Angeles Street, there were 197 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:24.000 hundreds of people who were throwing stuff onto those CHP units, 198 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.600 and anytime an officer would come out from under the overpass, 199 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:31.320 they would get pelted with stuff. Yeah, and not just 200 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.799 stuff scooters, I mean rocks easily, very easily, And then 201 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.240 they're trying to set fire to these units that that 202 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:42.960 would have been not It wasn't even just a it 203 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:48.559 wasn't a bubbling up situation. It was violent and potentially deadly. 204 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.559 And we've always heard, I've always heard that that's what 205 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:55.559 would then drive some sort of action by law enforcement. 206 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:59.200 And it took a couple of hours before that bridge 207 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:02.320 was cleared, took a couple of hours before I saw 208 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.960 a single Los Angeles Police officer on Alameda Street outside 209 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:07.919 that Federal building. And I just want to note there's 210 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:10.639 a couple of things here. You can protest. We have 211 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.600 the First Amendment, but there are some steps one needs 212 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.879 to take. This particular protest outside the federal building was unpermitted. 213 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:21.080 So from the very beginning, technically this protest was not allowed. 214 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.120 Now they were staying on the sidewalks for the most 215 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:26.879 part at the very beginning. But after the initial skirmish 216 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:28.879 that I mentioned, the last segment with the National Guard, 217 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:30.720 when they pushed everybody into the street to make way 218 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.759 for some federal vehicles, hundreds more showed up. This is 219 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:36.639 about seven hundred deep, and now there's tons of people 220 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:41.000 pouring into Alameda Street. Traffic blocked. Traffic's still open. By 221 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:44.039 the way, there's some major downtown street between union stations, 222 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:47.559 City Hall to the fashion district and beyond. No enforcement 223 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:50.519 at all on this street. It wasn't until two and 224 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:53.120 a half hours later that a tweet came from the 225 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:56.159 Central Division of the Police Department LAPD that said the 226 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:57.600 South Found lanes are closed. 227 00:11:57.600 --> 00:11:59.480 They still kept the other side of the street. 228 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.159 They let it get to a point here in Los Angeles. 229 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:08.360 They just do because the optics of a police state. 230 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:10.159 Out of the gate are not good. 231 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.759 You have the hope that the protesters will tire themselves out, 232 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.639 that if they see the police moving in for any 233 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.120 sort of skirmish line that that will just incite more. 234 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:26.200 I don't want to say by agitation. 235 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:29.399 Which is that's a I mean, that's we've seen it 236 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.240 over and over again when that happens. I mean, I know, 237 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:37.519 I use the example of Portland earlier, but that was 238 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.120 an example of you're not going to be able to 239 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:43.799 wait anybody out. You're not going to wait out protesters, 240 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:48.240 especially in such a heated issue as this. They will 241 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:52.600 continue and they'll even if you don't bring it officers 242 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.919 and you you know, get that agitation, they'll agitate themselves. 243 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.960 You'll you'll you'll have more people come in. 244 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:03.279 And amazingly the amount of damage that was not done 245 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:08.840 yesterday considering the amount of graffiti that exists all over 246 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:12.000 those I mean blocks and blocks and blocks of graffiti. 247 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.720 But I mean there's not a whole lot of businesses 248 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:16.600 for people to break into down there, not the way 249 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.240 there would be in other parts of the city. But 250 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:23.200 they will, they'll foment their own hatred. They'll they'll continue 251 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:26.399 to build. Let me, if I may just editorialize up briefly, 252 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:30.000 there aren't as many businesses downtown as there should be. 253 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:32.039 And we heard the police chiefs say late last night 254 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:33.960 during a press conference he had to update the public 255 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.639 and the media that it has gotten out of control, 256 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:40.240 this situation and that we the department are overwhelmed that's 257 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.360 not new. Downtown looks like this all the time. Now, 258 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:45.919 there may not be waymos burning in the middle of 259 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:49.519 the street at that volume, but there are waymos destroyed. 260 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:54.080 There are people killed by lunatics wielding machetes. 261 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:55.440 In downtown Los Angeles. 262 00:13:55.519 --> 00:14:00.000 There are buildings covered in graffiti, fresh graffiti every single morning. 263 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.960 The streets are covered in trash. And if you call 264 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:06.519 the police the LAPD to do anything about the open 265 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:10.480 air drug use that's taking place. The psychotic homeless people 266 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.320 who are fighting with each other are erecting tents outside 267 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:16.159 your apartment building, nothing is done about it. They have 268 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:20.440 apparently been overwhelmed for quite some time. But this downtown 269 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.399 situation is nothing new, and nobody cares about the condition 270 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:25.440 of that neighborhood. 271 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:29.919 The LAPD, though, is hamstrung with what they're allowed to do. 272 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.679 I mean, I think, and I haven't been in those rooms, 273 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:35.600 but you know they have been told that they can't 274 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:39.000 go clear the open air drug markets, you know, because 275 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.639 of what's going on at city Hall and the political 276 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.879 messaging and what the LA and I guess you can 277 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.639 have the conversation to what end is it their business 278 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:50.440 or in their purview? You know, you've seen the laped 279 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:53.759 have to be like mental health advocates, you know, with 280 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:58.240 the opioid crisis and everything else, But you know they 281 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.000 I think there's probably some mixed mess that goes on 282 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:03.320 at whatever the new Parker Center is. 283 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:05.639 For sure, But at some point when you have a 284 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:08.679 direct threat to safety like we had yesterday, I was 285 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.440 really surprised, and I don't know, I kept saying yesterday, 286 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.240 I don't know what the policy is. I don't know 287 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:15.399 what the police protocol is, but I do know that 288 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.519 as a city street, it was getting extraordinarily dangerous. 289 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.639 It was clearly about to explode into something. 290 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:23.360 Somebody who lives in downtown is like, where's the police 291 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:24.120 that I pay for? 292 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:26.519 Like I need all the take here? Yeah, yeah, I 293 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:27.159 understand that. 294 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:27.960 Don't go anywhere. 295 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.720 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 296 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:33.840 AM six forty. 297 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:37.799 Ketamine is suddenly everywhere. 298 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:40.240 We'll get into it coming up after Deborah's news at 299 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:42.559 the top of the hour, because Trump over the weekend 300 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:46.720 called Elon Musk a major drug addict, and ketamine seems 301 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:49.399 to be the drug du jour there for Elon Musk. 302 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.399 But like I said, it is everywhere people turning to 303 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.720 it to cure a variety of ailments. I believe the 304 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.320 most high profile one would be Matthew Perry, who unfortunately 305 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.159 was abusing ketamine there, but that was said to at 306 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:07.080 least for a small time, help him stay sober, get 307 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:09.679 it life on track, and things like that. So we'll 308 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.200 dig into what that all is all about coming up 309 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:12.679 at eleven. 310 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.200 I mentioned yesterday my nephew was hanging out with us 311 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.200 yesterday and we just flipped back and forth between the 312 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:21.879 Yankees Red Sox game and protests. 313 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:25.120 I was gonna say it was like a nice little afternoon. 314 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:26.559 I was still the protests part. 315 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.559 It was such a nice Granted that's three thousand miles away. 316 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:32.440 I know they're playing in Yankee Stadium, but nobody cared 317 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:34.919 about what was going on in downtown La. I mean, 318 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:36.919 we were here, and obviously it's a big deal, it 319 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:40.080 is a national, international story, but that there is still 320 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:45.879 some amount of solace to be found in God's greatest 321 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:46.639 game of baseball. 322 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:51.440 Well, baseball can make anything, destress any sort of situation. 323 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:55.759 I developed a nervous tick this weekend where I had 324 00:16:55.759 --> 00:17:01.159 a baseball in my hand. Okay, I fell asleep with 325 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:02.879 a baseball in my hand on Saturday night. 326 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:07.759 Oh okay, weird. That's taking it weird into a different area, better. 327 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:08.319 Than a pacifier. 328 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.160 Dodgers did beat the Cardinal seven to three yesterday. They're 329 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:13.559 in San Diego to take on the second place Padres tonight. 330 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.359 Angels lost to the Mariners three to two. They will 331 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.599 host The a's Michael Monks has joined us. Michael was 332 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:23.319 out on the streets covering the protests yesterday for KFI, 333 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:28.599 and we've been talking about the. 334 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:28.640 Sort of the feeling. 335 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:32.359 You're a downtown LA resident and not only did you 336 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:35.960 not have to drive to work yesterday, you got to 337 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:40.799 see firsthand what goes on. You know, we've referenced a 338 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:44.039 couple times that this is not an uncommon thing in 339 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:49.680 Los Angeles to see protests about whatever, even specifically immigration protests. 340 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:54.359 And this is a different feel because now we have 341 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:59.279 at the upper echelons of power the governor saying he's 342 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:02.640 going to sue the President of the United States for 343 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:06.440 going over his head and calling in the National Guard, 344 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.960 and basically the President saying, if you can't handle it 345 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:14.720 to the lapd La County Sheriff's Department HP, then we'll 346 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:18.079 handle it the federal government, and then Governor Newsom, in 347 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:22.720 an interview last night on MSNBC, basically said, to get 348 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.039 to President Trump. If you can't handle it, we will. 349 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:30.599 What are we doing, What are we doing? What we 350 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:33.160 have found ourselves, And especially if you live or work 351 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:37.079 in downtown Los Angeles and you still have some positive 352 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:40.440 feelings towards that. We're caught in the middle of this 353 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.920 political match that has been building for a while. President 354 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:48.519 Trump and California have a tense relationship. The California is 355 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:50.799 a very important state regardless of how it votes, It's 356 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:53.279 just a very important state economically, and so the governor 357 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:56.200 knows that. But they are going to be fighting each 358 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.000 other on a variety of fronts. This is the one 359 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.000 that happens to impact all of us directly because it 360 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:04.759 involves a lot of people who live here, Whether they 361 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:06.960 should be here, that's what we're debating, right, That's what 362 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.240 the policy makers are debating. But there are a lot 363 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:13.680 of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County and Los Angeles 364 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:15.480 that are part of it. There's no doubt that those 365 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:18.160 of us in this room, that most of the people 366 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:20.799 who are listening know somebody they may not know the status. 367 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:24.039 But you know somebody, you interact with somebody, So this 368 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:27.440 is naturally going to be ground zero for this debate. Unfortunately, 369 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:32.000 because of the behavior of the leaders in these various offices, 370 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:36.400 they treat it to score cheap political points rather than 371 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:41.519 expressing concern for the safety and the security and the 372 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:43.839 prosperity frankly of the community. 373 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:49.119 So when you talk to people out there protesting, what 374 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:54.920 was their anger directed towards. Was it local, was it national? 375 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:57.359 Was it personal? Was it all of the above? 376 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:00.039 I love this part of it because it can't I 377 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.680 lost that there are many people who are protesting the 378 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:08.119 immigration policy enforcement that is taking place because of what 379 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:11.000 President Trump ran on and because what he is directing now. 380 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:13.160 He made this very clear on the campaign trail that 381 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:15.400 this is a top priority, and now he is following 382 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:17.319 through with that. Even in a place that did not 383 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:20.400 give him very many votes. This is exactly where he 384 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:21.960 wants to be doing it, because you can run those 385 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:25.200 numbers up very easily. In La County. There are folks 386 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:27.559 who are down there saying, please don't separate families. There 387 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:32.039 are immigrants who have fled difficult situations in their native countries. Yes, 388 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:35.000 they cross the border illegally. Yes, their presence here is unlawful, 389 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:38.319 but they go to work, they provide services, they may 390 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:41.799 take care of your children, and they also have children, 391 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.000 so please do not separate them. This is an inhumane policy. 392 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:46.720 There's got to be a better way to handle this. 393 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:50.000 On the other hand, there are people that we were 394 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:53.400 just talking about in Los Angeles who long to fight 395 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:57.880 with law enforcement, and they come down and completely dilute 396 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:01.839 the message. I will say there was a march downtown 397 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:04.559 after the initial protest at the Federal building. It started 398 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:07.799 at City Hall. They gathered people so fast, on very 399 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:12.319 short notice. They flooded Temple Street with a march against 400 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:16.480 ice enforcement, thousands and thousands deep, blocks and blocks long. 401 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:19.440