Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: Of course, we are right on top of all the
Speaker 1: protests that have developed over the weekend and will continue today.
Speaker 1: Also other news, of course going on. The ex girlfriend
Speaker 1: of Shan Di Deacomb says she had concerns about him
Speaker 1: using his cell phones to take explicit videos of her
Speaker 1: because others could access them. It is just a steady
Speaker 1: stream of bad behavior on display at this trial. The
Speaker 1: woman is only being referred to as Jane as back
Speaker 1: on the stand today. Last week she claimed he forced
Speaker 1: her to have sex with three male escorts back to
Speaker 1: back while he watched. Apparently this is his thing. What
Speaker 1: a great person she and she thought that that was
Speaker 1: going to endear her to him. Women do a lot
Speaker 1: of things to keep the relationship alive.
Speaker 2: Russia has launched almost five hundred drones at Ukraine in
Speaker 2: the biggest overnight drone bombardment in the three year war.
Speaker 2: Ukrainian Air Force said this today. As well as the
Speaker 2: almost five hundred drones, they said twenty missiles of various
Speaker 2: types fired at different parts of Ukraine. According to the
Speaker 2: Air Force said the barrage targeted mainly the central and
Speaker 2: western areas of Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Well, we had protests over the weekend. There were peaceful spots,
Speaker 1: there were spots where people were setting waymos on fire.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks was there and I got to say, Michael,
Speaker 1: I listened to your coverage extensively. Yesterday as a long
Speaker 1: weekend for you. You were called out there to cover
Speaker 1: the protest Friday night hosts a show on Saturday, and
Speaker 1: then yesterday I heard you in the neon hour, I
Speaker 1: heard you in the six o'clock hour. You were our
Speaker 1: man on the protests, and we appreciate that great job,
Speaker 1: and you came in here with a head full esteem.
Speaker 3: Today you're pissed off.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm so mad about all of this, And how
Speaker 2: much more can the city take? Really, we have a
Speaker 2: lot to get, can we? Absolutely? Because when you think
Speaker 2: back to January and the tragedy of the fires and
Speaker 2: then the chaotic aftermath, the politicized aftermath that's still ongoing,
Speaker 2: and the rebuilding efforts and just how draining that is.
Speaker 2: Obviously more so for the people directly impacted, but for
Speaker 2: the community as a whole across La County and now this,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: Do we ever get a break here?
Speaker 2: I'm two years four months here living and I am
Speaker 2: exhausted chronic selfishness.
Speaker 4: Well, you're the only selfishness, is what we're dealing.
Speaker 1: You're the only reporter if I'm not mistaken, So you're
Speaker 1: gonna be spread a little thin. We used to have
Speaker 1: six or seven people this show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we had a little bit of trauma here
Speaker 2: dating back to November.
Speaker 4: That that's true.
Speaker 2: But I am the I in KFI now is what
Speaker 2: I say. Yeah, but I'm glad to do it. You know,
Speaker 2: it's important to our listeners who are loyal to us
Speaker 2: and expect answers from our government and from day to
Speaker 2: day activities, and so when this type of situation knocks
Speaker 2: on our door, we're going to do it. Regardless of
Speaker 2: our situation here. It's important, and this was really important.
Speaker 2: We're sort of the center of the immigration policy universe
Speaker 2: right now. Of course, these sweeps or these raids or detainments,
Speaker 2: arrest they're happening across the country, but Los Angeles and
Speaker 2: California and its relationship with this White House was already
Speaker 2: a powder keg. But this is an issue where they
Speaker 2: could not be farther apart, and this is the perfect
Speaker 2: battleground for both of these ideologies to play out. And
Speaker 2: what we're seeing in the streets is really how that
Speaker 2: is going to go. We haven't seen the last of
Speaker 2: this now. I also, I mean that is a very
Speaker 2: high level way of thinking about it, and there are
Speaker 2: people on both sides who carry those ideologies, and like
Speaker 2: you said, they're playing it out on the streets of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. There are also people, the chronically selfish people
Speaker 2: who are only there to burn things and break stuff.
Speaker 4: I talked about this yesterday with.
Speaker 2: With Chris Merrill and also Mark Thompson during the afternoon
Speaker 2: during our coverage. Los Angeles has professional protesters, and I
Speaker 2: qualify that to say these aren't necessarily people who were
Speaker 2: dropped in by some you know, organization that's paying folks
Speaker 2: to come protest. But they are pro in their skills
Speaker 2: at it. They're absolutely elite experience protesters. Their experience, they
Speaker 2: know what to bring, they know how to respond when
Speaker 2: things go awry, and they know how to prepare for them,
Speaker 2: and so they thrive in this environment. So it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter if yesterday's event was about black lives matter. If
Speaker 2: it was about the Lakers winning the championship or this,
Speaker 2: you know, it's this now, and those are the ones
Speaker 2: who showed up now.
Speaker 1: And they were the ones wearing masks back you know,
Speaker 1: the Bill Bratton days when he first put the agitators
Speaker 1: on our radar twenty years ago. You know, he mentioned
Speaker 1: that they wear masks. They are professional. This is what
Speaker 1: they do. Some of them are bought and sold and
Speaker 1: paid for in terms of ratching it up whatever kind
Speaker 1: of dialogue you're trying to further.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what sucks as just an LA resident is
Speaker 2: the way my neighborhood, downtown Los Angeles is just treated
Speaker 2: like a battleground because one the situation has been escalated
Speaker 2: because a policy is being enforced as promised by the President,
Speaker 2: and then escalated by the presence of a new entity,
Speaker 2: the National Guard, being brought here, which changed the dynamics.
Speaker 2: I can't say for certain whether that escalated tensions, but
Speaker 2: it certainly escalated the presence of what we're seeing down there.
Speaker 2: Military garb, military vehicles, military weapons. That's a different vibe
Speaker 2: even than federal police. And it's important to point out
Speaker 2: those National Guard troops were not on the front lines.
Speaker 2: They were not on the skirmish lines with any of
Speaker 2: these any of the protesters, and haven't been for what
Speaker 2: I understand what I was able to see over the weekend.
Speaker 2: The National Guard troops were brought in early yesterday for
Speaker 2: the first time and basically only provide security for federal properties,
Speaker 2: federal buildings, federal vehicles, and things like that. The officers
Speaker 2: that we did see on the skirmish lines yesterday and
Speaker 2: the day before, County Sheriff LAPD, other law enforcement agencies,
Speaker 2: including the California Highway Patrol. So the idea that this
Speaker 2: is somehow a fight between protesters and federal agents is
Speaker 2: not what's playing out on the street.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they matter.
Speaker 2: The protesters may feel like that's what they're doing, but
Speaker 2: that's not at all what they're doing, and it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter who's there if it's law enforcement. There are certain
Speaker 2: elements of the protest movement, regardless again of the issue,
Speaker 2: who are ready to do battle with the law enforcement.
Speaker 2: I will just note that the earlier protest yesterday was
Speaker 2: outside the federal building downtown next to the jail, where
Speaker 2: apparently a lot of these detainees, including union leader David
Speaker 2: ware To, are being held in federal custody. The skirmish
Speaker 2: line was formed by the National guardsmen and that was
Speaker 2: the first taste of things, pysical altercations that we got.
Speaker 2: I'm standing, you know, in the midst of the protest crowd,
Speaker 2: you doing gathering sound, doing commentary and analysis and reporting
Speaker 2: the news, and suddenly it got a little hairy, and
Speaker 2: it was the National Guard using their shields, pushing the
Speaker 2: protesters off the sidewalk into Alameda Street, and I wasn't
Speaker 2: clear as to why. Then they stopped, They backed off
Speaker 2: for a minute, and then it started again, much more intensely,
Speaker 2: and that's when some tear gas was shot out that
Speaker 2: I got a taste of for the first time, and
Speaker 2: that's not a pleasant experience. But that was the National Guard.
Speaker 2: And what ended up happening was a National Guard cleared
Speaker 2: everybody away from the sidewalk and then allowed about thirty
Speaker 2: federal vehicles to come by, so they had clearly gotten word, hey,
Speaker 2: we've got some cars coming clear the space.
Speaker 1: The LAPD has been trained, as Gary and I were
Speaker 1: pointing out last hour, has been trained and retrained and
Speaker 1: tweaked and all the things for this protest, specifically, for
Speaker 1: immigration protests specifically because of the tinder box of political
Speaker 1: that it is. I want to know if you know
Speaker 1: the difference between the orders the LAPD has and containing
Speaker 1: these protests and the orders the National Guard has when
Speaker 1: it comes to containing these protests, because I think the
Speaker 1: two have very different playbooks.
Speaker 3: So we'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks has joined us after a couple of days
Speaker 2: out on the streets, right, is that an appropriate way
Speaker 2: to say Friday night, this with this codday after his
Speaker 2: something Saturday Night Live here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2: We are standing by expecting a news conference from LAPD
Speaker 2: at some point this morning. We do know that there
Speaker 2: are also more protests that have been called for a
Speaker 2: little bit later in the day, so this is going
Speaker 2: to be something that we keep an eye on.
Speaker 4: Michael Monks has joined us.
Speaker 2: He was out there yesterday, had a little taste of
Speaker 2: the old protest juice.
Speaker 4: I did a little tear gas tier guests. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: doesn't taste good.
Speaker 2: I think we've all had at least some ex experience
Speaker 2: with that beautiful cloud of freedom.
Speaker 1: I never got tear gast covering anything. I did get
Speaker 1: tear gas on my honeymoon in Athens.
Speaker 4: I could see why. Yeah, by your husband.
Speaker 1: No, that didn't start till later in the marriage. No,
Speaker 1: But they had a bunch of protest They always have protests.
Speaker 1: It's Syntagma square, Am I saying it right? Syntagma square
Speaker 1: antagma square?
Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, we were talking about a lot of
Speaker 2: the questions. Specifically, we were talking about the roles that
Speaker 2: National Guard troops have been playing now a few hundred
Speaker 2: of them on the streets. Then you've got Los Angeles
Speaker 2: Police Department, you've got the LA County Sheriff's Department, and
Speaker 2: all of them doing these different enforcements, the different roles
Speaker 2: that they're playing so far, and not one of them.
Speaker 2: I didn't see anybody really cracking heads over the course
Speaker 2: of the last few days, despite a couple of instances
Speaker 2: where it would have been clearly called for. And one
Speaker 2: of the points that I wanted that I was mentioning
Speaker 2: was I don't know if it was. I think it
Speaker 2: was Los Angeles Street, the overcrossing there. There were several
Speaker 2: HP units on the one to one freeway from the
Speaker 2: earlier enforcement to get people off of the freeway, and
Speaker 2: that along Aliso Street and Los Angeles Street, there were
Speaker 2: hundreds of people who were throwing stuff onto those CHP units,
Speaker 2: and anytime an officer would come out from under the overpass,
Speaker 2: they would get pelted with stuff. Yeah, and not just
Speaker 2: stuff scooters, I mean rocks easily, very easily, And then
Speaker 2: they're trying to set fire to these units that that
Speaker 2: would have been not It wasn't even just a it
Speaker 2: wasn't a bubbling up situation. It was violent and potentially deadly.
Speaker 2: And we've always heard, I've always heard that that's what
Speaker 2: would then drive some sort of action by law enforcement.
Speaker 2: And it took a couple of hours before that bridge
Speaker 2: was cleared, took a couple of hours before I saw
Speaker 2: a single Los Angeles Police officer on Alameda Street outside
Speaker 2: that Federal building. And I just want to note there's
Speaker 2: a couple of things here. You can protest. We have
Speaker 2: the First Amendment, but there are some steps one needs
Speaker 2: to take. This particular protest outside the federal building was unpermitted.
Speaker 2: So from the very beginning, technically this protest was not allowed.
Speaker 2: Now they were staying on the sidewalks for the most
Speaker 2: part at the very beginning. But after the initial skirmish
Speaker 2: that I mentioned, the last segment with the National Guard,
Speaker 2: when they pushed everybody into the street to make way
Speaker 2: for some federal vehicles, hundreds more showed up. This is
Speaker 2: about seven hundred deep, and now there's tons of people
Speaker 2: pouring into Alameda Street. Traffic blocked. Traffic's still open. By
Speaker 2: the way, there's some major downtown street between union stations,
Speaker 2: City Hall to the fashion district and beyond. No enforcement
Speaker 2: at all on this street. It wasn't until two and
Speaker 2: a half hours later that a tweet came from the
Speaker 2: Central Division of the Police Department LAPD that said the
Speaker 2: South Found lanes are closed.
Speaker 4: They still kept the other side of the street.
Speaker 3: They let it get to a point here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: They just do because the optics of a police state.
Speaker 3: Out of the gate are not good.
Speaker 1: You have the hope that the protesters will tire themselves out,
Speaker 1: that if they see the police moving in for any
Speaker 1: sort of skirmish line that that will just incite more.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say by agitation.
Speaker 2: Which is that's a I mean, that's we've seen it
Speaker 2: over and over again when that happens. I mean, I know,
Speaker 2: I use the example of Portland earlier, but that was
Speaker 2: an example of you're not going to be able to
Speaker 2: wait anybody out. You're not going to wait out protesters,
Speaker 2: especially in such a heated issue as this. They will
Speaker 2: continue and they'll even if you don't bring it officers
Speaker 2: and you you know, get that agitation, they'll agitate themselves.
Speaker 4: You'll you'll you'll have more people come in.
Speaker 2: And amazingly the amount of damage that was not done
Speaker 2: yesterday considering the amount of graffiti that exists all over
Speaker 2: those I mean blocks and blocks and blocks of graffiti.
Speaker 2: But I mean there's not a whole lot of businesses
Speaker 2: for people to break into down there, not the way
Speaker 2: there would be in other parts of the city. But
Speaker 2: they will, they'll foment their own hatred. They'll they'll continue
Speaker 2: to build. Let me, if I may just editorialize up briefly,
Speaker 2: there aren't as many businesses downtown as there should be.
Speaker 2: And we heard the police chiefs say late last night
Speaker 2: during a press conference he had to update the public
Speaker 2: and the media that it has gotten out of control,
Speaker 2: this situation and that we the department are overwhelmed that's
Speaker 2: not new. Downtown looks like this all the time. Now,
Speaker 2: there may not be waymos burning in the middle of
Speaker 2: the street at that volume, but there are waymos destroyed.
Speaker 2: There are people killed by lunatics wielding machetes.
Speaker 4: In downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: There are buildings covered in graffiti, fresh graffiti every single morning.
Speaker 2: The streets are covered in trash. And if you call
Speaker 2: the police the LAPD to do anything about the open
Speaker 2: air drug use that's taking place. The psychotic homeless people
Speaker 2: who are fighting with each other are erecting tents outside
Speaker 2: your apartment building, nothing is done about it. They have
Speaker 2: apparently been overwhelmed for quite some time. But this downtown
Speaker 2: situation is nothing new, and nobody cares about the condition
Speaker 2: of that neighborhood.
Speaker 1: The LAPD, though, is hamstrung with what they're allowed to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, and I haven't been in those rooms,
Speaker 1: but you know they have been told that they can't
Speaker 1: go clear the open air drug markets, you know, because
Speaker 1: of what's going on at city Hall and the political
Speaker 1: messaging and what the LA and I guess you can
Speaker 1: have the conversation to what end is it their business
Speaker 1: or in their purview? You know, you've seen the laped
Speaker 1: have to be like mental health advocates, you know, with
Speaker 1: the opioid crisis and everything else, But you know they
Speaker 1: I think there's probably some mixed mess that goes on
Speaker 1: at whatever the new Parker Center is.
Speaker 2: For sure, But at some point when you have a
Speaker 2: direct threat to safety like we had yesterday, I was
Speaker 2: really surprised, and I don't know, I kept saying yesterday,
Speaker 2: I don't know what the policy is. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the police protocol is, but I do know that
Speaker 2: as a city street, it was getting extraordinarily dangerous.
Speaker 4: It was clearly about to explode into something.
Speaker 1: Somebody who lives in downtown is like, where's the police
Speaker 1: that I pay for?
Speaker 3: Like I need all the take here? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: understand that.
Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: Ketamine is suddenly everywhere.
Speaker 1: We'll get into it coming up after Deborah's news at
Speaker 1: the top of the hour, because Trump over the weekend
Speaker 1: called Elon Musk a major drug addict, and ketamine seems
Speaker 1: to be the drug du jour there for Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: But like I said, it is everywhere people turning to
Speaker 1: it to cure a variety of ailments. I believe the
Speaker 1: most high profile one would be Matthew Perry, who unfortunately
Speaker 1: was abusing ketamine there, but that was said to at
Speaker 1: least for a small time, help him stay sober, get
Speaker 1: it life on track, and things like that. So we'll
Speaker 1: dig into what that all is all about coming up
Speaker 1: at eleven.
Speaker 2: I mentioned yesterday my nephew was hanging out with us
Speaker 2: yesterday and we just flipped back and forth between the
Speaker 2: Yankees Red Sox game and protests.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say it was like a nice little afternoon.
Speaker 1: I was still the protests part.
Speaker 2: It was such a nice Granted that's three thousand miles away.
Speaker 2: I know they're playing in Yankee Stadium, but nobody cared
Speaker 2: about what was going on in downtown La. I mean,
Speaker 2: we were here, and obviously it's a big deal, it
Speaker 2: is a national, international story, but that there is still
Speaker 2: some amount of solace to be found in God's greatest
Speaker 2: game of baseball.
Speaker 1: Well, baseball can make anything, destress any sort of situation.
Speaker 2: I developed a nervous tick this weekend where I had
Speaker 2: a baseball in my hand. Okay, I fell asleep with
Speaker 2: a baseball in my hand on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, weird. That's taking it weird into a different area, better.
Speaker 4: Than a pacifier.
Speaker 2: Dodgers did beat the Cardinal seven to three yesterday. They're
Speaker 2: in San Diego to take on the second place Padres tonight.
Speaker 2: Angels lost to the Mariners three to two. They will
Speaker 2: host The a's Michael Monks has joined us. Michael was
Speaker 2: out on the streets covering the protests yesterday for KFI,
Speaker 2: and we've been talking about the.
Speaker 4: Sort of the feeling.
Speaker 2: You're a downtown LA resident and not only did you
Speaker 2: not have to drive to work yesterday, you got to
Speaker 2: see firsthand what goes on. You know, we've referenced a
Speaker 2: couple times that this is not an uncommon thing in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles to see protests about whatever, even specifically immigration protests.
Speaker 2: And this is a different feel because now we have
Speaker 2: at the upper echelons of power the governor saying he's
Speaker 2: going to sue the President of the United States for
Speaker 2: going over his head and calling in the National Guard,
Speaker 2: and basically the President saying, if you can't handle it
Speaker 2: to the lapd La County Sheriff's Department HP, then we'll
Speaker 2: handle it the federal government, and then Governor Newsom, in
Speaker 2: an interview last night on MSNBC, basically said, to get
Speaker 2: to President Trump. If you can't handle it, we will.
Speaker 2: What are we doing, What are we doing? What we
Speaker 2: have found ourselves, And especially if you live or work
Speaker 2: in downtown Los Angeles and you still have some positive
Speaker 2: feelings towards that. We're caught in the middle of this
Speaker 2: political match that has been building for a while. President
Speaker 2: Trump and California have a tense relationship. The California is
Speaker 2: a very important state regardless of how it votes, It's
Speaker 2: just a very important state economically, and so the governor
Speaker 2: knows that. But they are going to be fighting each
Speaker 2: other on a variety of fronts. This is the one
Speaker 2: that happens to impact all of us directly because it
Speaker 2: involves a lot of people who live here, Whether they
Speaker 2: should be here, that's what we're debating, right, That's what
Speaker 2: the policy makers are debating. But there are a lot
Speaker 2: of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County and Los Angeles
Speaker 2: that are part of it. There's no doubt that those
Speaker 2: of us in this room, that most of the people
Speaker 2: who are listening know somebody they may not know the status.
Speaker 2: But you know somebody, you interact with somebody, So this
Speaker 2: is naturally going to be ground zero for this debate. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: because of the behavior of the leaders in these various offices,
Speaker 2: they treat it to score cheap political points rather than
Speaker 2: expressing concern for the safety and the security and the
Speaker 2: prosperity frankly of the community.
Speaker 1: So when you talk to people out there protesting, what
Speaker 1: was their anger directed towards. Was it local, was it national?
Speaker 1: Was it personal? Was it all of the above?
Speaker 2: I love this part of it because it can't I
Speaker 2: lost that there are many people who are protesting the
Speaker 2: immigration policy enforcement that is taking place because of what
Speaker 2: President Trump ran on and because what he is directing now.
Speaker 2: He made this very clear on the campaign trail that
Speaker 2: this is a top priority, and now he is following
Speaker 2: through with that. Even in a place that did not
Speaker 2: give him very many votes. This is exactly where he
Speaker 2: wants to be doing it, because you can run those
Speaker 2: numbers up very easily. In La County. There are folks
Speaker 2: who are down there saying, please don't separate families. There
Speaker 2: are immigrants who have fled difficult situations in their native countries. Yes,
Speaker 2: they cross the border illegally. Yes, their presence here is unlawful,
Speaker 2: but they go to work, they provide services, they may
Speaker 2: take care of your children, and they also have children,
Speaker 2: so please do not separate them. This is an inhumane policy.
Speaker 2: There's got to be a better way to handle this.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, there are people that we were
Speaker 2: just talking about in Los Angeles who long to fight
Speaker 2: with law enforcement, and they come down and completely dilute
Speaker 2: the message. I will say there was a march downtown
Speaker 2: after the initial protest at the Federal building. It started
Speaker 2: at City Hall. They gathered people so fast, on very
Speaker 2: short notice. They flooded Temple Street with a march against
Speaker 2: ice enforcement, thousands and thousands deep, blocks and blocks long.
Speaker 2: I had never seen a march like that in downtown
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. And all of that messaging from that march,
Speaker 2: which was a very powerful visual, which would have been
Speaker 2: a more effective message than burning waymos and throwing line
Speaker 2: scooters off a bridge to the chp on the freeway.
Speaker 2: They've cost themselves all of that goodwill.
Speaker 3: What are you hearing about today?
Speaker 1: We're hearing that there is going to be a protest again,
Speaker 1: another organized effort at noon. We've heard the superintendent coming
Speaker 1: out in front of this to talk about what it
Speaker 1: means for LA Unified. In the past, we have seen
Speaker 1: students kind of filter out through the schools and join
Speaker 1: the protests. Do we know if this is anticipated to
Speaker 1: be a big one, if it's just going to be
Speaker 1: a few people outside of city yelling what's the deal?
Speaker 2: It seems like there's going to be a dilution of
Speaker 2: this effort as well, because there are many fronts.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: We heard from the superintendent of LAUSD just moments ago
Speaker 2: he had a press conference. Some unions are having a
Speaker 2: press conference today, and there's also various elected officials from
Speaker 2: the Senator like Adam Schiff, the governor, and members of
Speaker 2: Congress calling for the release of this union leader, David Wuerta.
Speaker 2: And that's another issue, Like they're having press events and
Speaker 2: they're showing up the Federal Building to see this David.
Speaker 2: Where nobody cares about that. I mean, I'm just going
Speaker 2: to tell you, and nobody on the street knows who
Speaker 2: David Wherta is. He's a power player, a political power player.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter to the people who live here
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles what this guy is doing. So they
Speaker 2: they're messaging it's not your maid, it's not the person
Speaker 2: who takes care of your kids, not the guy who
Speaker 2: runs a taco stand or has a more prominent job
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 4: Well, I want to point something out.
Speaker 2: We got to talk back from somebody who had a
Speaker 2: suggestion for Karen Bess.
Speaker 6: Hey, Gary and Shannon says Joseph and San Diego. I
Speaker 6: guess I would assume that the the mayor of LA
Speaker 6: would send a press release at least to the citizens
Speaker 6: of LA that it's their right to protest, but we
Speaker 6: don't need the violence and the destruction and the looting.
Speaker 6: I feel like that would go a long way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would go a long way into the garbage can.
Speaker 4: That would go nowhere. I mean, I think that's your point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the majority of the people on the street are
Speaker 2: not listening to any They didn't even tell you who
Speaker 2: the mayor of LA was.
Speaker 4: I will tell you.
Speaker 2: When the police start those skirmish lines and they announce, hey,
Speaker 2: you have to disperse right now, this is now an
Speaker 2: unlawful assembly. Most people leave, they really do. That is
Speaker 2: an effective measure because people don't want to go to jail,
Speaker 2: right some people do, and it's those people that do
Speaker 2: want to go to jail because of the cheap political
Speaker 2: points that we were talking about. There are images from
Speaker 2: yesterday and Saturday and Friday that can be weaponized either
Speaker 2: by the federal government or by the activist on the
Speaker 2: ground here to prove their point that LA is lawless
Speaker 2: and out of control, or that a military police state
Speaker 2: has now decided upon Los Angeles and we need to
Speaker 2: fight back. But it doesn't matter what the mayor says
Speaker 2: right now. It matters what the mayor does. It matters
Speaker 2: what the police department does and if they can't keep
Speaker 2: traffic and people out of the streets on Alameda Street
Speaker 2: one block.
Speaker 1: I love you, but it's killing me Alameda maybe for
Speaker 1: a white girl. No, that's the way everyone says it.
Speaker 1: It's no, it is not as it's like San Pedro.
Speaker 1: It's not San Pedro, San Pedro.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, but it's Alameda Street.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just saying, I'm sorry, wish.
Speaker 4: Neighborhood do you live in?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: So, uh, it's Alameda.
Speaker 4: But girls, girls whoa do not girl me? Do we
Speaker 4: have a pronunciation guy?
Speaker 2: We have a pronunciation guy that I needed when I
Speaker 2: first started here, And I'm gonna look it up and
Speaker 2: the one that I won't accept. I do accept san
Speaker 2: Pedro reluctantly, and Los Felis. I accept that one. You're
Speaker 2: very reluctantly.
Speaker 3: You're a Seplevita person.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what I am not. I'm not a
Speaker 4: Dwarty person.
Speaker 3: You're not a Dwarty.
Speaker 4: I'm not a dwar I'm sorry. He will be war
Speaker 4: to me. Okay, what about the Cohunga pass. That's a
Speaker 4: good one too.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: You know, in Washington, when I moved to Seattle to
Speaker 1: be a reporter, I afked up every name for.
Speaker 3: A long time, supposed to prop you.
Speaker 1: When I came down here, my uncle Jim lived in Laguna,
Speaker 1: and one of the first things he did is like,
Speaker 1: come over, we're going to talk about names, place names,
Speaker 1: place names, and he just and I thought, you're off
Speaker 1: your ass, you're crazy.
Speaker 3: But I'm thinking, well, remember what happened in Seattle. But
Speaker 3: he was right.
Speaker 1: There's so many different Ukaipa, Huh, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: Michael, Thank you forever, my pleasure. It's my pleasure.
Speaker 3: Who saw Hammock coming. We're over there and you.
Speaker 5: Kuipa, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
Speaker 5: KF I am six forty.
Speaker 2: Of course, we're following the stories of the ongoing protests,
Speaker 2: and if there are any that pop up today, we
Speaker 2: will bring those to you. There was a word that
Speaker 2: we might see a news conference from LAPD coming up
Speaker 2: at some point, so keeping an eye after that. I
Speaker 2: wanted to point out a couple of things I teased
Speaker 2: earlier regarding some information and trying to keep straight exactly
Speaker 2: what's going on behind the scenes. The original cause or
Speaker 2: the original argument here is the ongoing ice enforcement operations
Speaker 2: that are taking place into other parts of in parts
Speaker 2: of southern California.
Speaker 4: US Attorney Bill A.
Speaker 2: Sale, the new US attorney for the Central District, was
Speaker 2: on with Conan Nolan over the weekend and specifically talked about,
Speaker 2: for example, what happened on Saturday. Saturday in Paramount, there
Speaker 2: were stories about how federal agents were raiding a home
Speaker 2: depot and chasing people through the parking lot at home
Speaker 2: depot to take them into custody.
Speaker 7: It was not an immigration rate at home depot. What
Speaker 7: happened there is we actually have a federal facility, there's
Speaker 7: a Homeland Security building their adjacent to that home depot,
Speaker 7: and that we were staging there this morning for some
Speaker 7: targeted operations that were that actually did happen today, they
Speaker 7: still occurred, so it was just a staging area for
Speaker 7: our federal agents. But they were spotted and word got
Speaker 7: out and these agitators who are organizing this resistance effort
Speaker 7: started mobilizing people to that location and it turned into
Speaker 7: it turned into an ugly scene pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: And then Who's also asked and Bill Asaley explained, who
Speaker 2: are these operations targeting? Are they really just picking people
Speaker 2: up in a home home depot parking lot? And his
Speaker 2: answer was absolutely, unequivocally no.
Speaker 7: We're going out and executing search warrant not with search warrans,
Speaker 7: but arrest warrants on people who are charged with federal
Speaker 7: felonies related to their immigration status prior to people who've
Speaker 7: been previously deported and re entered it's a felony. We
Speaker 7: also were executing administrative removal orders, so these are people
Speaker 7: who've exhausted their their due process rights in immigration court.
Speaker 7: There's a final order for their deportation. We're going out
Speaker 7: and executing this orders as well.
Speaker 2: So I think just in terms of trying to keep
Speaker 2: the information straight about what's actually happening when it comes
Speaker 2: to these immigration enforcement operations that are taking place.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll stay on top of this, and we
Speaker 1: have our eyes on downtown as well as any press
Speaker 1: conferences that may pop up with regard to what's happening
Speaker 1: today with this plan protest, keep it right here.
Speaker 3: We will stay on top of it. On Gary and Shannon.
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