Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: It's moo Kelly if I am six forty. We're live
Speaker 2: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And we are a little
Speaker 2: more than an hour in to the curfew which was
Speaker 2: announced earlier this evening by LA Mayor Karen Bass. At
Speaker 2: this point, there's not much to report as far as
Speaker 2: violations of the curfew. We have not heard anything. Now
Speaker 2: there is some video that we've seen. We'll get Daniel
Speaker 2: to put it, pull it up of LAPD downtown. They
Speaker 2: have affected some arrests. You could see that they have
Speaker 2: people against the wall arrest and we can't can't know
Speaker 2: necessarily whether it's for a curfew violation in and of itself,
Speaker 2: or was it some act of vandalism and curfew violation.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, LAPD seems to be in
Speaker 2: a somewhat relaxed posture. It's not like they are being
Speaker 2: confronted by any wall of protesters. At this point, there's
Speaker 2: not a lot of activity going on downtown, and I
Speaker 2: don't know of any other activity around southern California as
Speaker 2: far as other protests which may be going on and
Speaker 2: that's a good thing. I'm always hoping for the best.
Speaker 2: I don't want any type of violence. I don't want
Speaker 2: any type of vandalism. I don't want any type of looting.
Speaker 2: We just had a good half hour discussion about what
Speaker 2: effective protests are and the strategy which should be employed
Speaker 2: for a particular goal. More times than not, you don't
Speaker 2: see that enacted. You don't see that strategy employed, and
Speaker 2: so we just have what I call these aimless acts
Speaker 2: of exercise where they're not actually protesting, they're not actually marching,
Speaker 2: they're just kind of walking aimlessly with no specific location
Speaker 2: destination in mind. But if you missed the message from
Speaker 2: or at least a portion of the message announcing the curfew,
Speaker 2: I think it's good to play it again. So if
Speaker 2: you're just tuning in you didn't hear it earlier when
Speaker 2: Mayor Bass was speaking during the Tim Conway Junior Show.
Speaker 2: He didn't hear LAPD chief Jim McDonald speaking during the
Speaker 2: Tim Conway Junior Show. Here was their initial update, just
Speaker 2: a portion of it, so you know that the curfew
Speaker 2: was announced, its parameters and boundaries, and also the expectations
Speaker 2: of anyone who expects to go anywhere near downtown.
Speaker 3: Many businesses have now been affected by our vandalized Last night,
Speaker 3: there were twenty three businesses that were looted, and I
Speaker 3: think that if you drive through downtown LA, the graffiti
Speaker 3: is everywhere and has caused significant damages to businesses and
Speaker 3: a number of properties. So my message to you is
Speaker 3: if you do not live or work in downtown LA,
Speaker 3: avoid the area. Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break
Speaker 3: the curfew and you will be prosecuted.
Speaker 2: Hundreds of officers.
Speaker 3: From police and sheriff departments from across the region and
Speaker 3: state are working alongside LAPD through a unified command structure.
Speaker 3: The curfew will be an advice tonight from eight pm
Speaker 3: until six am. I want to thank the Governor for
Speaker 3: his partnership, and especially thank our state and local leaders
Speaker 3: and deputies officers and deputies who are working tirelessly.
Speaker 2: So curfew guidance again.
Speaker 3: It will begin at eight pm tonight and go until
Speaker 3: six am tomorrow. I will consult with elected leaders in
Speaker 3: law enforcement officials tomorrow on the continuation of the curfew,
Speaker 3: but we certainly expect for it to last for several days.
Speaker 3: The curfew will be the curfew area will be between
Speaker 3: the five Freeway and to the one and the ten
Speaker 3: Freeway to where the one, ten Freeway and five Freeway merge.
Speaker 3: You look and look at the map and you can
Speaker 3: see that the city of Los Angeles is a massive
Speaker 3: area five hundred and two square miles. The area of
Speaker 3: downtown where the curfew will take place is one square mile.
Speaker 3: I think it is important to point this out, not
Speaker 3: to minimize the vandalism and violence that has taken place there.
Speaker 3: It has been significant, but it is extremely important to
Speaker 3: know that what is happening in this one square mile
Speaker 3: is not affecting the city. Some of the imagery of
Speaker 3: the protests and the violence gives the appearance as though
Speaker 3: this is a city wide crisis, and it is not so.
Speaker 3: Who everyone must abide by this curfew. Limited exceptions will
Speaker 3: apply for residents, people traveling to and from work, and
Speaker 3: credentialed media representatives.
Speaker 2: That was Mayor Bath a portion of her remarks. If
Speaker 2: you're looking at our YouTube show, you can see Mayor
Speaker 2: Bass as she was speaking earlier today, but there was
Speaker 2: also remarks right after that by LAPD chief Jim McDonald.
Speaker 2: And it's important that we play this so you know
Speaker 2: exactly what are the expectations surrounding the curfew. Mayor Bass
Speaker 2: gave you some of the boundaries and the limits, but
Speaker 2: I think Jim McDonald better contextualized expectations of you as
Speaker 2: a resident. Maybe if you live in that area, or
Speaker 2: if you happen to be traveling through that area, or
Speaker 2: if you're even if you were to be thinking of
Speaker 2: just going down to that area to protest or to
Speaker 2: hang out, to lookie lou to get content for social media,
Speaker 2: don't do it.
Speaker 4: As a mayor stated a curfew for the impacted area
Speaker 4: shown here, we'll go into effect tonight, and I want
Speaker 4: to be absolutely clear that if you win, if you're
Speaker 4: within that designated curfew zone between the hours of eight
Speaker 4: pm and six am and are not exempt under the order,
Speaker 4: you're going to be subject to arrest. The curfew boundaries
Speaker 4: of as follows from the five Freeway to the one
Speaker 4: ten Freeway and from the ten Freeway to the point
Speaker 4: where the one to ten and the five merge. Easier
Speaker 4: to look at it on that map for description. The
Speaker 4: curfew is necessary, a necessary measure to protect lives and
Speaker 4: safeguard property following several consecutive days of growing unrest throughout
Speaker 4: the city. Since Saturday, we've seen a concerning escalation and
Speaker 4: unlawful and dangerous behavior. On Saturday, LAPD officers made twenty
Speaker 4: seven arrests on summer On Sunday, that number rose to forty.
Speaker 4: By Monday, arrests totaled one hundred and fourteen, and today
Speaker 4: alone we've made one hundred and ninety seven arrests. Some
Speaker 4: the recent days, it's been as a part of a
Speaker 4: unified command with our partner agencies who've responded through Mutual
Speaker 4: Aid Compact and been very very helpful to us, and
Speaker 4: we're very thankful for that participation. Of those I mentioned
Speaker 4: for today, one hundred and thirty arrested near Commercial and Alameda.
Speaker 4: An additional sixty seven were taken into custody after unlawfully
Speaker 4: occupying the one oh one freeway near Commercial Street.
Speaker 2: Our CHP partners were instrumental in that.
Speaker 4: So again, let me be clear that this behavior blocking freeways,
Speaker 4: city streets, and on ramps, refusing to comply with lawful
Speaker 4: dispersal orders, and interfering with public safety operations is dangerous, unlawful,
Speaker 4: and won't be tolerated if you are in the curfew
Speaker 4: zone during the restricted hours without that legal exemption, you
Speaker 4: will be arrested. If you an assault an officer in
Speaker 4: any fashion, you will be arrested. We're operating under a
Speaker 4: unified command with our partners at the Los Angeles City
Speaker 4: Fire Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the California
Speaker 4: Highway Patrol. We're fully coordinated and our shared mission is
Speaker 4: clear to restore peace and ensure the safety of everyone
Speaker 4: in our city. We previously mobilized part of our department
Speaker 4: at LAPD while keeping our ability to be able to
Speaker 4: provide the services that our community deserves going. We're going
Speaker 4: to be adding to that deployment with additional internal LAPD
Speaker 4: resources in the days ahead. The curfew does not apply
Speaker 4: to residence within the designated area, individuals experiencing homelessness, credentialed media,
Speaker 4: or public safety and emergency personnel. To be clear, again,
Speaker 4: that's not about silencing voices or suppressing lawful protest. When
Speaker 4: that expression crosses into unlawful conduct, when lives are put
Speaker 4: at risk, and when our city safety is compromised, we
Speaker 4: must act, and we will act. We ridge all Angelinos
Speaker 4: to cooperate with these public safety measures. Our shared goal
Speaker 4: is to protect our communities and return to a state
Speaker 4: of calm and safety for everyone.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Let me check in with Mark Ronner before
Speaker 2: we go to the actual news break. Mark, we didn't
Speaker 2: have a chance to really talk all that much this evening.
Speaker 5: Well, there's been a lot going on, and I have
Speaker 5: been looking at footage of Faylanx's of National Guard and
Speaker 5: cops in riot gear being met with absolutely nobody. So
Speaker 5: it's good that we're keeping this in perspective. Somebody else
Speaker 5: pointed out that the core area of protest is roughly
Speaker 5: three to six blocks in a city of more than
Speaker 5: eighteen million people. So if you are seeing things on
Speaker 5: social media suggesting the whole city's on fire or anything
Speaker 5: like that, that is absolutely false.
Speaker 2: And also for a person who doesn't live here, oftentimes
Speaker 2: people will mistake Los Angeles City for Los Angeles County.
Speaker 2: Los Angeles County has about eight million people and a
Speaker 2: lot of cities, actual cities within it, of course, in
Speaker 2: unincorporated areas. La City has about three million people, And
Speaker 2: for a person who doesn't understand the topography out here,
Speaker 2: they're not the same. In other words, what happened in
Speaker 2: Santa Anna, that's Orange County. Maybe to a person who
Speaker 2: lives in New York, it's all La to him or her,
Speaker 2: but it's definitely not LA And we'll have other pockets
Speaker 2: of protests which are not in LA City, but they're
Speaker 2: in LA County, like Paramount, and we saw those protests.
Speaker 2: And for a person who doesn't quite understand how this
Speaker 2: place is all connected, you know it's not LA City. Now.
Speaker 2: What's happening downtown most definitely LA City, And what's not
Speaker 2: happening right now downtown is LA City, absolutely nothing. We
Speaker 2: have dozens and dozens of what I think are LAPD
Speaker 2: officers standing waiting hopefully nothing will happen. And I say
Speaker 2: that in a very positive way because I don't want
Speaker 2: anything to jump off downtown. But I can confidently say,
Speaker 2: from what we've seen, what has been reported, what we
Speaker 2: know in our own investigations here at KFIM six forty
Speaker 2: twenty four hour newsroom, there's nothing of note happening downtown.
Speaker 2: And we'll see if that stays for the at least
Speaker 2: for the rest of the evening. Mark Roner will be
Speaker 2: with you until midnight. I will be with you until
Speaker 2: ten pm. Stay till midnight. No, it's okay. I don't
Speaker 2: like you that. No, no, we'll be here together. It'll be fun. No no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: My wife is listening right now. She probably you think
Speaker 2: she wants you home. No, no, no, no, I don't think that.
Speaker 2: I think she wants me, well put this away. She
Speaker 2: probably wants me to do the dishes. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 2: you know honeydew stuff. I don't think she wants me
Speaker 2: at home for me, honey dude. She wants me to
Speaker 2: do stuff which accommodates her. And I'm usually the one
Speaker 2: who does the dishes because when I come in, whatever
Speaker 2: dishes are in the sink, that's my responsibility. Okay, go
Speaker 2: ahead and flee like a dirty coward. Yeah, but look,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do them at one in the morning.
Speaker 2: If I leave here at midnight, what's the point. What's
Speaker 2: in it for me? It's all about me, Mark, you're
Speaker 2: the one who brought that up. What's in it for me?
Speaker 5: Well, the camaraderie of working together during breaking news, of course, yeah,
Speaker 5: we already did that during the fires. Okay, time for
Speaker 5: a break.
Speaker 1: You're listening too. Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
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Speaker 2: I am six forty O'Kelly here. We're live everywhere on
Speaker 2: YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. And we said when all
Speaker 2: of this started days ago that what you see here
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, as in the city from ice raids
Speaker 2: and tactics employed, would be also used around the country.
Speaker 2: We said that the protests in response to that, what
Speaker 2: you see and have seen here in LA you would
Speaker 2: also see around the country. As it stands, we're there now.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that the protests and I'm using that
Speaker 2: word in a general sense. I can't get into what
Speaker 2: each city is doing individually. And I'm not saying this
Speaker 2: is a coordinated effort per se, because you know, Tawala
Speaker 2: will say like it's a leaderless movement for the for
Speaker 2: the most part. You know, it's not like there's a
Speaker 2: unifying voice or message being expressed. But we do know
Speaker 2: that anti ice protests have now begun all around the country,
Speaker 2: including the cities of San Francisco, New York, Washington, d C, Milwaukee, Dallas, Chicago,
Speaker 2: and Atlanta. I'm sure on varying levels. Can't speak to
Speaker 2: the number of protesters or where it's whether it's focused
Speaker 2: to just one borough in New York or one portion
Speaker 2: of the city in Atlanta, or you know, or one
Speaker 2: area of Dallas, or there are multiple areas. But now
Speaker 2: we are getting reports that there are similar anti ICE
Speaker 2: protests in all these cities. Now all those cities are
Speaker 2: obviously later in the evening that here, with the exception
Speaker 2: of San Francisco in the same time zone tomorrow will
Speaker 2: give us a better sense of whether these protests are
Speaker 2: just more numerous in cities or whether they're actually growing
Speaker 2: in each of the cities. And also more cities are
Speaker 2: coming to these protests or this sentiment. These are the
Speaker 2: things that we've been looking out for and watching and
Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen in each city. Each
Speaker 2: city is very different. If you know anything about Atlanta,
Speaker 2: it's a different social ethic than Los Angeles, if you
Speaker 2: know anything about Washington, DC. Very different, And we don't
Speaker 2: know how what happens in one city will either inspire
Speaker 2: other cities to alter protests. We don't know whether ICE
Speaker 2: will intensify its efforts because of the protest. You know,
Speaker 2: is at the actions of ICE which are spurring on
Speaker 2: the protest or the protests at this point are they
Speaker 2: spurring on ICE? Because we do know that if violence
Speaker 2: should break out, that is a favorable optic for the
Speaker 2: Trump administration to do more of what they want to
Speaker 2: do and have planned to do.
Speaker 6: But that right there, the points you just made, are
Speaker 6: you protesting ICE as a government body and just an
Speaker 6: organization in general in the other states and other cities,
Speaker 6: because ICE has as of yet not to send it
Speaker 6: anywhere else but Los Angeles. So if you are in Chicago,
Speaker 6: if you're in Watchet, if you're in any oh there
Speaker 6: are protests going on in Omaha, Nebraska, Okay, got you.
Speaker 6: But but but is ICE there actually rounding people up
Speaker 6: and arresting them. And that's something that I'm like, I
Speaker 6: don't know if you're calling ICE to yours area and
Speaker 6: calling attention to yourselves.
Speaker 2: Or what right? Because if it's the goal of the
Speaker 2: Trump administration, I say if, because I don't I can't
Speaker 2: get my mind into the Trump administration. But if it's
Speaker 2: the goal of the Trump administration to escalate these protests
Speaker 2: or foment violence, then if I'm the Trump administration and
Speaker 2: I see a large protest and let's say Atlanta or
Speaker 2: New Orleans, then I'm going to send ICE to those
Speaker 2: cities to further strow up some stuff, and if there's violence,
Speaker 2: then I'll send in a National Guard, and then I'll
Speaker 2: send in the Marines and so forth. It's kind of
Speaker 2: like rent and repeat for the cities. And we know
Speaker 2: that what was happening and has been happening in LA
Speaker 2: is a testing ground for other cities, not only for
Speaker 2: the Trump administration, but also for mayors. Don't think for
Speaker 2: a moment that all these mayors and governors of these
Speaker 2: different cities and states where there are protests, they're not
Speaker 2: looking at Los Angeles. They're not in direct contact with
Speaker 2: mayor baths as far as what should we be on
Speaker 2: the lookout for, what type of tactics are being employed?
Speaker 2: You know, are they going to churches? Are are they
Speaker 2: going to schools? What type of tactics are they using
Speaker 2: to get into these semi public spaces. Because we had
Speaker 2: talked about ICE agents do not need a warrant to
Speaker 2: arrest people or detain people in public spaces. And a
Speaker 2: school is considered a public space, a church in the
Speaker 2: like the communal areas of a church is considered a
Speaker 2: public space. Obviously, a home depot, parking lot is considered
Speaker 2: a public space. That's why I'm quite sure Council of Mayors.
Speaker 2: All these mayors are in contact with each other, even
Speaker 2: though Mayor Bass hasn't said it. Look, if you're worried
Speaker 2: about ICE coming to your city, who's the first person
Speaker 2: you want to call? Mayor Bass? You're gonna call her
Speaker 2: office and see what they are seeing, what they are experiencing.
Speaker 2: Like for example, we know that ICE is going to
Speaker 2: elementary schools. Elementary schools, yep. That would be important for
Speaker 2: another city to know, in the event that they should
Speaker 2: show up where Miami, in the event that they should
Speaker 2: show up where Detroit arib American population, in the event
Speaker 2: that they should show up in any community where there
Speaker 2: is a high influx of foreign individuals. I can't even
Speaker 2: say justice Spanix. I mean it's more than that. You know,
Speaker 2: we could have a situation where they go back to
Speaker 2: Ohio and you know, they target the Haitian population. We
Speaker 2: talked about that during the presidential election. So this is
Speaker 2: now just coming into focus. As far as the national
Speaker 2: implications of what has been happening here in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: this story is now just getting sted. It started beyond
Speaker 2: what you and I are seeing in our city right here.
Speaker 2: This is going to play out all around the country
Speaker 2: and it's already started.
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Speaker 2: Try a little experiment. I want you to imagine for
Speaker 2: a moment that you did not turn on the TV
Speaker 2: for the past four days. How aware of this unrest
Speaker 2: and protest would you be? How aware? I remember during
Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety two Roddy King riots. You could see
Speaker 2: the flames, you could see it light up the sky.
Speaker 2: You could see well put its way. I lived in
Speaker 2: the LA area, all right, so I'm a little closer
Speaker 2: than most, but you could see law enforcement and the
Speaker 2: National Guard all up and down the LA Corridor. You
Speaker 2: didn't need TV, okay, because people were on their roofs
Speaker 2: trying to protect their houses and businesses, and you could
Speaker 2: see the businesses light up the sky when they're being
Speaker 2: burned down. There was no question about what was going
Speaker 2: on if you weren't watching the TV in LA for
Speaker 2: the past four or five days, unless you actually happened
Speaker 2: upon you know, downtown, or you were on the one
Speaker 2: oh one when they were disrupting and blocking the freeway.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many people would even know what
Speaker 2: was going on. I mean that sincerely, because you had
Speaker 2: last night the La Sparks game downtown Crypto dot Com
Speaker 2: walking distance from the protest, and they were protests. There
Speaker 2: was no real you know, rioting air quotes last night.
Speaker 2: Was there looting? Was their lawlessness? Yes, but that's not
Speaker 2: the same thing. There was the Bet Awards downtown at
Speaker 2: the Convention Center, walking distance from everything that was going on.
Speaker 2: It was last night, the first night you had a
Speaker 2: soccer match at Bemo Stadium five miles from downtown. You
Speaker 2: had the Pride Parade a couple of miles from downtown.
Speaker 2: You know, this is a very specific area, or has
Speaker 2: been heretofore, has been a very very specific area within downtown.
Speaker 2: And if you are just watching it on TV, it's
Speaker 2: like most of the city. You think it's like, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, it's you know, it's taking the LA's and
Speaker 2: chaos and Vernie. No, it is that. I am seven
Speaker 2: miles from downtown. I promise you they're days and I
Speaker 2: drive through downtown every single day. In fact, Twala, you
Speaker 2: were nice stuff to let me know, Hey, don't get
Speaker 2: on the one on one.
Speaker 6: But it's not don't come in, it's just go around
Speaker 6: ta take the other way around.
Speaker 2: That was not the case in ninety two. That was
Speaker 2: it was a city wide curfew.
Speaker 6: You know, it's different, especially because now you have social
Speaker 6: media fanning these unnecessary flames. I remember being in Pasadena
Speaker 6: when the Rodney King verdict riots hit and it was
Speaker 6: within I believe within a day that it spread all
Speaker 6: the way to Pasadena with the curfew alone, it was.
Speaker 6: It was massive. It was city wide, and it's spread
Speaker 6: like wildfire. There were out to Dinas year as there's
Speaker 6: LAPD go home, go home curfew. We had cop cars
Speaker 6: going down street. There is a curfew in effect, go home.
Speaker 2: Beyond the borders of Las Angles, yond on the borders
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles. Yes, it's interesting because you know, I
Speaker 2: love to trade with people on social media. Some are
Speaker 2: good natured, some are in good faith, and a lot
Speaker 2: of people are just trolls, and a lot of people
Speaker 2: are in bad faith. But when I had someone today
Speaker 2: who was trying to argue with me about the state
Speaker 2: of la from fricking Arizona, It's like, get the hell
Speaker 2: out my face. I could open my door and the
Speaker 2: moment I step outside, I'm in the city of la
Speaker 2: I can get in my car and drive about maybe
Speaker 2: ten minutes with no traffic to downtown via surface streets
Speaker 2: and drive right through everything which is going on. It's
Speaker 2: weird how people who were not in any way connected
Speaker 2: to this. That's why I said, like, imagine, you know,
Speaker 2: turning off your TV, how basically everyone has gone about
Speaker 2: their lives. You know, there hadn't been the types of
Speaker 2: disruptions the Dodger celebration after the winning the World Series
Speaker 2: in both twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, or the
Speaker 2: Lakers when they won the championship in twenty twenty those
Speaker 2: were more violent comparatively speaking. Comparatively speaking, I mean, if
Speaker 2: you want to look it up for yourself, the facts
Speaker 2: are what the facts are. And you know, we didn't
Speaker 2: bring in the National Guard for the Lakers or the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: We didn't what happened in Philadelphia after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: didn't bring in the national Guard. So we can have
Speaker 2: a conversation, or we can have an honest conversation, you know,
Speaker 2: but not everyone is interested in an honest conversation. And
Speaker 2: also twelve, let me say thank you for getting the
Speaker 2: heads up that the one oh one was being shut
Speaker 2: down because I was thinking about taking the one on
Speaker 2: one because it was so bad on the one ten
Speaker 2: and on the five when I didn't know that, people
Speaker 2: were trying to get to the five because they didn't
Speaker 2: want to be on the one on one. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: because forgot about that detour. Yeah yeah, people were getting
Speaker 2: on the two freeway if you know how it's all
Speaker 2: laid out, you know, going from just between the one
Speaker 2: oh one and the five. So it kind of messed
Speaker 2: up everything. It was a kind of a cascading effect.
Speaker 2: But I made it here. But for the most part,
Speaker 2: and I say that to say, for the most part,
Speaker 2: our lives have not been disrupted as Angelino's. And I'm
Speaker 2: speaking as an Angelino and with the exception of maybe
Speaker 2: FOURK reporter, I think we're maybe equidistant from downtown. We're
Speaker 2: very close, without giving that word exactly where he lives.
Speaker 2: We're about equidistant from downtown. There's no one, akfi who's
Speaker 2: closer to this than me. There's no one. I live this.
Speaker 2: I live in the city of la I deal with this.
Speaker 2: I was here for nineteen ninety two, I was here
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty. You know, I have a point of
Speaker 2: reference is as much as people want to deny what
Speaker 2: my actual reality is. Has there been violenced, absolutely or
Speaker 2: some waymos set on fire? Absolutely? Has there been alluding? Yes?
Speaker 2: Are we talking about twenty twenty? Heck no? Are we
Speaker 2: talking about nineteen ninety two? F No. And there is
Speaker 2: a portion of society today who is wish casting who
Speaker 2: wants this to be nineteen ninety two. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 2: lived through it. It's not. It honestly is not. And
Speaker 2: people want to point to, well, we got the National Guard,
Speaker 2: we got marines here. This ain't nineteen ninety two. This,
Speaker 2: you know, LAPD to their credit, CHP to their credit,
Speaker 2: La County Sheriff's Department to their credit, which again, which
Speaker 2: is not La City. They have done a superb job,
Speaker 2: a spectacular job with the management of this. And I
Speaker 2: don't care who gets the credit. I don't get in
Speaker 2: all that. All I'm saying is they've done a wonderful
Speaker 2: job managing this, having a plan enacting it. We talked
Speaker 2: with Michael Monks last night and we wanted to like, well,
Speaker 2: maybe we should have a curfew to deter people coming
Speaker 2: down early enough. Then they brought it the next night.
Speaker 2: You know, we didn't have any real issues last night.
Speaker 2: We didn't have any real issues tonight. It's a wind
Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned. Unless you're wish casting hoping
Speaker 2: for something else, and there are those who are hoping
Speaker 2: for something else that's just not me.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: KFI AM sixty Mo Kelly here. We're still live on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. We're still live on YouTube. Thank you
Speaker 2: for all those momigos who are in the Motown Chat.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you. It was a very robust discussion tonight,
Speaker 2: got a little heated and emotional at times, but these
Speaker 2: are the times that we're living in now. Emotions are
Speaker 2: running high. And I was having before we close out
Speaker 2: to night. I was having a conversation with Tawala off
Speaker 2: air before the show, and we were kind of bouncing around,
Speaker 2: not to predict, but to look at the landscape and
Speaker 2: how news cycles work, how long this round of protests
Speaker 2: would go or at least the ice raids. And I
Speaker 2: was of the opinion and Mark, I would love to
Speaker 2: get your insider input as best you can as a newsperson,
Speaker 2: But I was of the opinion that these ice raids
Speaker 2: are not going to go much longer in this week. Now.
Speaker 2: They may resume next week, but they're not going to
Speaker 2: go too far into this week. And here is my thinking.
Speaker 2: We know that they have the two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 2: birthday of the Army Parade, which also coincides with the
Speaker 2: birthday of the President this Saturday. I don't think there's
Speaker 2: any way in the world that the president would risk
Speaker 2: having any other news step on that parade, even protests
Speaker 2: violent are otherwise. I'm pretty sure he would want all
Speaker 2: the focus as far as news focus on him on
Speaker 2: the parade. Now, would do you want the protests as
Speaker 2: a lead in? Absolutely, one hundred percent, because you know
Speaker 2: this kind of sets the stage for that. But if
Speaker 2: there were major protests or violence breaking out from coast
Speaker 2: to coast over the weekend, and the idiots, you're more
Speaker 2: prone to have violence over the weekend because, like I said,
Speaker 2: over the weekend, you know, that's when people have the
Speaker 2: most idle time. They're not going to work for the
Speaker 2: most part. You're going to see stuff more likely jump
Speaker 2: off on a Friday night or Saturday night as opposed
Speaker 2: to a Monday or Tuesday night. As we've seen here,
Speaker 2: you know, the lesson's been going on on this Monday
Speaker 2: and Tuesday as opposed to the Friday, Saturday Sunday. I
Speaker 2: suspect that given this parade and celebration of the army
Speaker 2: and also the President's birthday, that will probably see fewer
Speaker 2: ice raids before the end of the week as to
Speaker 2: not step on the parade.
Speaker 6: What say you, Twala, I wholeheartedly agree with that. His
Speaker 6: ego cannot allow for something to step on this moment.
Speaker 6: He's probably already informed all the other world leaders. Hey,
Speaker 6: I want you to tune in on Saturday and see
Speaker 6: my parade. Oh sure, see what I have lined up.
Speaker 6: You guys may have your marches and your parades and
Speaker 6: all of that, but you haven't seen anything until you've
Speaker 6: seen what I've got going up.
Speaker 2: If you have kl KTLA and KNBC and KCBS, KCP
Speaker 2: and Fox eleven all covering let's say, an LA protest
Speaker 2: and in the cable channels covering a major protest and
Speaker 2: not the parade, oh no, no, no no, that would
Speaker 2: not be the goal. That would not be the licus.
Speaker 6: They said, no, no, no, no, He's not looking forward
Speaker 6: to that. He is looking forward to all eyes being
Speaker 6: on his celebration, and as you said, he is in
Speaker 6: all likelihood using this moment to amp up and lead
Speaker 6: towards his grand speech or whatever it is he has
Speaker 6: to say. I told you what I was going to
Speaker 6: do America, and I did it.
Speaker 2: I'm rounding them up, I'm getting them out.
Speaker 6: He's got to be a party who wants to phrases
Speaker 6: that's what he's going to do.
Speaker 2: Mark Ronner, how would you contextualize this moment?
Speaker 5: Well, we know there's going to be protests all over
Speaker 5: the country for the weekend, especially protests in addition to
Speaker 5: the ice raids. The protest because sorry, the parade, because
Speaker 5: it's important to point out that we haven't seen a
Speaker 5: parade like that in the United States. If you look
Speaker 5: at a map of protest points that we know about,
Speaker 5: the map is covered, I mean there's no empty space
Speaker 5: and in course of DC. So yeah, then we also
Speaker 5: know that Trump said he's gonna come down hard on
Speaker 5: people who do protest that parade, So anything could happen.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think we should be prepared to get
Speaker 5: called into work.
Speaker 2: Oh man, you mean I'm not gonna get Saturday off? Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: We have perfectly capable people here at KFI over the weekend,
Speaker 5: but we should be ready for anything to happen because
Speaker 5: protests are guaranteed. We know how Trump treats protesters as
Speaker 5: of now right here in LA and so we should
Speaker 5: we should not be surprised if things turn pear shaped.
Speaker 2: It's not abstract to your point, Mark. We know what
Speaker 2: the President has said very recently. He said something to
Speaker 2: affect paraphrasing that if the protests will be treated with strongly,
Speaker 2: they'll be met with force. I would look at us
Speaker 2: a point of instigation and a dare. But the protests
Speaker 2: have already started. They've already started in Washington, DC. So yeah,
Speaker 2: would they protest the parade? Yeah? How close in proximity?
Speaker 2: I don't know. And I don't like making predictions big picture,
Speaker 2: but I think this is one that I feel comfortable
Speaker 2: in making that if there's any type of worry about
Speaker 2: the news cycle. This is very important to the president.
Speaker 2: He's made that very clear, and since his first administration
Speaker 2: is first term, that he wanted this parade. This is
Speaker 2: a big fricking deal to him. Yeah, the last thing
Speaker 2: he wants is for it not to be the center
Speaker 2: of attention. That's just not what he would want and
Speaker 2: what could be the center of attention these other protests
Speaker 2: if they get out of hand or they get so
Speaker 2: numerous that media is pulled in all sorts of directions
Speaker 2: and they don't focus in on the parade and his birthday.
Speaker 2: And again, I don't know what happens, but I do
Speaker 2: know how media works generally, and media is more apt
Speaker 2: to go to where the action is. A parade is
Speaker 2: not action. No, it's hot, It's not. Parade is not hot.
Speaker 2: It's not something that if you're a network, that you're
Speaker 2: going to spend let's say, an hour on when there's protests, unrest,
Speaker 2: what have you going on all around the country. Possibly
Speaker 2: presumably you're not Look I love the Hollywood Christmas Parade,
Speaker 2: not spending an hour watching it. I love to thank
Speaker 2: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I'm not watching it for an hour.
Speaker 2: I love the Rose Parade. I'm not watching that for
Speaker 2: an hour, especially if there's other stuff more pressing going on,
Speaker 2: you know, the news of the moment the parade. I
Speaker 2: can watch that on YouTube. I'm I'm just being honest,
Speaker 2: you know. Yea, And ratings are very important to the president.
Speaker 2: This is this is a big It's a seventy ninth
Speaker 2: birthday and a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Army.
Speaker 2: Big deal. You don't want anyone to step on his moment.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens, as he says, k if I
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