Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: KFI AM six, It's mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. And as we continue to watch and
Speaker 2: wait and see what happens, this is night two of
Speaker 2: what will be a curfew, a very limited curfew in
Speaker 2: downtown Los Angeles. And even though last night was relatively quiet, Yes,
Speaker 2: there were a number of arrests, but relatively speaking, it
Speaker 2: was quiet, no major incidents. We hope for the same tonight.
Speaker 2: I would say the biggest news of today had to
Speaker 2: do with the press conference given by Nathan Hawkman. We
Speaker 2: also heard from LAPD chief Jim McDonald and also Elie
Speaker 2: County Sheriff Robert Luna before I play some of that audio,
Speaker 2: and I think it's important to hear that audio. We
Speaker 2: have another day of protests and the chirons in the
Speaker 2: lower third in TV talk, as they say, usually says
Speaker 2: something that protesters continue in their fight to end ICE raids.
Speaker 2: I think everyone is clear at this point what the
Speaker 2: goal is for protesters. My question is why in the
Speaker 2: world is ICE or the federal government going to give
Speaker 2: you anything that you're asking for? Because you're continuing to
Speaker 2: walk in the middle of the street because that you
Speaker 2: are angry, because you are talking to the press and
Speaker 2: expressing your grievances. That does not in any way move
Speaker 2: the ball forward. Nothing has changed legally or societally in
Speaker 2: the past twenty four hours. Nothing will change after these
Speaker 2: protests tonight. And I'm not trying to mock them. I
Speaker 2: am trying to give you some context and perspective as
Speaker 2: to why this tactic in and of itself is one
Speaker 2: hundred percent and ineffective.
Speaker 3: There is no leverage here.
Speaker 2: It's not like it's a corporation that you can shame
Speaker 2: and boycott. It's it's not like you can embarrass the
Speaker 2: federal government. You can shame them into doing something differently.
Speaker 2: In fact, ICE has stepped up their tactics. They are
Speaker 2: going to schools and churches, They're going to actually the
Speaker 2: farm in the fields, you know, taking migrant.
Speaker 3: Workers from the fields.
Speaker 2: At this point, they've expanded their operations in and around
Speaker 2: the United States. So if anything, this is increasing in
Speaker 2: its frequency and intensity.
Speaker 3: It is not slowing down.
Speaker 2: And largely I would say unimpacted by the protests. That's
Speaker 2: an unfortunate and uncomfortable reality for some, but it is
Speaker 2: accurate as far as where we are. There are now
Speaker 2: some charges which have been levied, and these are state charges.
Speaker 2: Hate to go all civics and everything, but Nathan Hockman
Speaker 2: is a representative of La County and so these are
Speaker 2: local charges, not any federal charges. Some have been announced,
Speaker 2: but that's separate and distinct from what Nathan Hawkman and
Speaker 2: was announcing, and also LAPD Chief Jim McDonald and Sheriff
Speaker 2: Robert Luna were discussing.
Speaker 3: Here is Nathan Hawkman.
Speaker 2: If you did not hear some of this audio earlier today,
Speaker 2: so you can get a sense of his approach to this,
Speaker 2: and also actually he starts off with a little context
Speaker 2: about what we've been seeing in the media and how
Speaker 2: we should look upon it.
Speaker 4: If you only saw the social media and the media
Speaker 4: reports of what's going on over the last five days,
Speaker 4: you would think that Los Angeles is on the verge
Speaker 4: of war, that we are truly being attacked repeatedly, over
Speaker 4: and over and over again. Because that has been the
Speaker 4: media's message to both people in Los Angeles, to people
Speaker 4: in the state of California, to people in this nation,
Speaker 4: to people throughout this entire world that somehow every second
Speaker 4: of every day, there's another exploding firework on our street.
Speaker 4: A motorcycles are running into cops, that stores are being looted,
Speaker 4: that buildings are being vandalized and graffiti. But let me
Speaker 4: put this in perspective for you. There are eleven million
Speaker 4: people in this county, four million of which live in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles City. We estimate that there's probably thousands of
Speaker 4: people who've engaged in legitimate protests, let's say four thousand people.
Speaker 4: That means that ninety nine point nine percent of people
Speaker 4: who live in Los Angeles City or generally in Los
Speaker 4: Angeles County have not engaged in any protest at all. Now,
Speaker 4: amongst the people who've engaged in protests, we estimate there
Speaker 4: are hundreds of people, let's say up to maybe four
Speaker 4: hundred to use rough percentages, who've engaged in this type
Speaker 4: of illegal activity. So what does that mean. That means
Speaker 4: that ninety nine point nine percent of people who live
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles City or live in Los Angeles County
Speaker 4: have not committed any illegal acts in connection with this
Speaker 4: protest whatsoever. So let's put that as a context when
Speaker 4: we look at these images over and over again, that
Speaker 4: the media wants to put out there to try and
Speaker 4: scare us all, then understand what the resources that we
Speaker 4: can bring, that law enforcement can bring to this task.
Speaker 4: The Los Angeles Police Department has over eighty five hundred officers.
Speaker 4: Sheriff Luna has ever nine thousand officers, the California Highway Patrol,
Speaker 4: the local law enforcement agencies that have all been enlisted
Speaker 4: and have been so generous in helping us out bring
Speaker 4: additional thousands of officers if needed for any level of
Speaker 4: civil unrest that might occur, and that civil unrest has
Speaker 4: been on a downward trend over the last several days.
Speaker 4: But these law enforcement officers are absolutely ready anything that
Speaker 4: comes their way. So let me describe these five cases.
Speaker 4: The first case involves an individual has been charged.
Speaker 5: His name is Juan Rodriguez. He's from Guardina.
Speaker 4: He's been charged with one felony count of assault upon
Speaker 4: a peace officer, resisting arrests and advocating violence against an
Speaker 4: officer that has caused.
Speaker 5: Injury in the At five PM on June.
Speaker 4: Eighth, mister Rodriguez allegedly passed out commercial grade fireworks to
Speaker 4: a group of protesters who lit them and through these
Speaker 4: commercial grade fireworks at police officers at the intersection of
Speaker 4: First Street and Los Angeles Street. He's also accused of
Speaker 4: throwing the fireworks himself at the officers, and one of
Speaker 4: these fireworks exploded and injured in an officer from the
Speaker 4: exploding sparks. If convicted as charge, mister Rodriguez will be
Speaker 4: facing six years and four months in state prison. Second case,
Speaker 4: it involves Randy Paul Ruiz and Georgina Ravalero. Both have
Speaker 4: been charged with two felony counts of assault upon a
Speaker 4: police peace officer. On June eighth, at approximately three p
Speaker 4: forty pm, police were holding a skirmish line at the
Speaker 4: corner of Temple and Alameda Streets, where mister Ruiz allegedly
Speaker 4: drove his motorcycle into a line of officers. Minutes later,
Speaker 4: Miss Ravalero is accused of driving another motorcycle into the officers,
Speaker 4: injuring one and knocking down several others. If convicted as charge,
Speaker 4: Ruiz and Ravaliro each face up to six years and
Speaker 4: four months in state prison.
Speaker 5: Third case, Timmy paulk and Raven Mitchell.
Speaker 4: This case involves both of these individuals being charged with
Speaker 4: one felony count of second degree commercial burglary and grand theft.
Speaker 4: On June eighth, at about ten point fifteen pm, Mitchell
Speaker 4: was double park near a Nike store in the six
Speaker 4: hundred block of South Broadway.
Speaker 5: There was allegedly being looted by a group of people.
Speaker 4: Paulk is accused of stealing multiple items from that store
Speaker 4: and getting into the car driven by Mitchell. They fled,
Speaker 4: but they were arrested a short time later. If convicted
Speaker 4: is charged, they each face up to three years in
Speaker 4: state prison. The next two cases are Los Angeles Sheri's
Speaker 4: Department cases. Sheriff Luna will provide additional facts about these cases,
Speaker 4: but let me just give a quick overview of each one.
Speaker 4: Ulysses Sanchez Ulysses Sanchez has been charged with one felony
Speaker 4: count of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a
Speaker 4: firearm by a felon, and one misdemeanor count each of
Speaker 4: reckless driving and possession of a smoking device.
Speaker 5: On June eight, nine five pm.
Speaker 4: Mister Sanchez engaged in reckless driving it is minivan in
Speaker 4: downtown Los Angeles. Many of you saw the video footage
Speaker 4: of this where he was driving in doughnuts and injuring individuals.
Speaker 4: Mister Sanchez is a third striker. If convicted as charge,
Speaker 4: Sanchez faces up to twenty five years to life in
Speaker 4: state prison. The fifth case is Christopher Gonzalez and Joselyn Johnson.
Speaker 4: In this case, they had both been charged with one
Speaker 4: felony count of conspiracy to commit vandalism and two felony
Speaker 4: accounts of.
Speaker 5: Vandalism as well.
Speaker 4: On June ninth, at six thirty pm, mister Gonzalez is
Speaker 4: accused of vandalizing an apartment complex down here on the
Speaker 4: five hundred block of South Broadway, and mister Gonzalez allegedly
Speaker 4: painted graffiti right here on the Hall of Justice. They
Speaker 4: each face three year in eight months and stay prison.
Speaker 4: I'm going to turn the microphone over to Sheriff Luna
Speaker 4: to go into greater detail. But again I cannot commend
Speaker 4: enough the tireless work that law enforcement has brought to
Speaker 4: this task to try and keep us safe and still
Speaker 4: ensure that people who want to legitimately protest get that opportunity.
Speaker 2: That is La County DA Nathan Hoffman from earlier today
Speaker 2: in the press conference, and as he said in that audio,
Speaker 2: he turned the mic over to Eli County Sheriff's Robert Luna,
Speaker 2: will hear from him and also LAPD Chief Jim McDonald
Speaker 2: on the other side of this break.
Speaker 1: You're listening too later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: IF I AM six forty, I'm Mo Kelly. I'll be
Speaker 2: with you until ten o'clock. We're live everywhere on YouTube
Speaker 2: and the iHeartRadio app, and we were listening to some
Speaker 2: of the press conference today was very important after the
Speaker 2: first night of the KURF you the very limited curfew,
Speaker 2: I would say, one square mile downtown. We got a
Speaker 2: sense of how that translated to actions by law enforcement,
Speaker 2: not the National Guard, not ICE agents, but law enforcement
Speaker 2: talking about La County Sheriff's Department, LA PD and other
Speaker 2: associated agencies who are also lending their help. Last segment,
Speaker 2: we listened to a good portion of La County DA
Speaker 2: Nathan Hoffman and his assessment of the media portrayal of
Speaker 2: what has been happening in the city and also some
Speaker 2: arrests and charges which have been levied against a number
Speaker 2: of individuals. He was getting ready to hand the baton
Speaker 2: off to Ellie County Sheriff Robert Luna and his remarks
Speaker 2: so much longer, but I'm just going to play just
Speaker 2: a little bit of it so you get a sense
Speaker 2: of the bigger picture of how local law enforcement is
Speaker 2: managing these protests and also criminal behavior.
Speaker 6: I do want to start off not only by thanking
Speaker 6: all of you for being here, but I do want
Speaker 6: to take just a quick second to thank the district attorney.
Speaker 6: The day after the protests started, he called me. He
Speaker 6: told me he was assigning a special prosecutor to deal
Speaker 6: with violence against our deputy sheriffs or any other related
Speaker 6: police officers. And I really appreciate that because just for
Speaker 6: a quick second, if you could think of the mindset
Speaker 6: of our employees having to leave their families and coming
Speaker 6: to work, to know that they're going to be in
Speaker 6: the middle of some of that isolated chaos that you've seen,
Speaker 6: it is good to know that when they are being
Speaker 6: violently attacked, whether it's with rocks, bottles, molotov cocktails, pyro technics,
Speaker 6: pepper spray. I could go on and on that they
Speaker 6: know that the individuals that we're going to focus on them,
Speaker 6: and we have a district attorney who's going to bring
Speaker 6: forward charges. And just really quick I received the same
Speaker 6: call from the US attorney here in Los Angeles, and
Speaker 6: I think all of you saw something earlier today where
Speaker 6: he is doing the same thing with federal charges. So
Speaker 6: I just say that, and mister Hackman said it perfectly
Speaker 6: and articulated it very well. There's a big distinction between
Speaker 6: individuals that protest and demonstrate to violent, destructive basically anarchists,
Speaker 6: I mean, just creating that chaos. What we're talking about
Speaker 6: are the individuals who don't care about the issue at hand,
Speaker 6: because we will facilitate all peaceful First Amendment activity, But
Speaker 6: when you have people that are out here to commit
Speaker 6: acts of violence against our deputy sheriffs or police officers
Speaker 6: or just they're destroying our city, we're gonna stop it.
Speaker 3: You see it.
Speaker 6: It's frustrating. And as the days go have on on,
Speaker 6: arrest are climbing and now the prosecutions are taking place.
Speaker 6: And just this warning because if you didn't get caught
Speaker 6: the last couple of nights, there's a lot of evidence
Speaker 6: out there and you're probably going to get detectives or
Speaker 6: others knocking on your door and arresting you and bringing
Speaker 6: you in for either committing all these acts that we've
Speaker 6: talked about. So just a little bit on some of
Speaker 6: the cases. On Saturday, during civil arrest in Paramount, a
Speaker 6: local gas station was burglarized looted on a laundri boulevard.
Speaker 6: After the unlawful assembly concluded, Compton deputies responded to the
Speaker 6: gas station to secure the location and take the reports
Speaker 6: of the burglaries that had occurred. While at the location,
Speaker 6: an individual shouted at them and through two full cans
Speaker 6: of beer in their direction. And I don't think it
Speaker 6: was to say thank you, It was for the opposite reason.
Speaker 6: The deputies ordered him to leave, However, he refused and
Speaker 6: through a a third full can of beer at our deputies.
Speaker 6: Based on the suspects assaultive actions, deputies used less lethal force,
Speaker 6: specifically a forty millimeter baton launcher, striking the suspect. The
Speaker 6: deputies were able to immediately handcuff the suspect without any
Speaker 6: further incident. The suspect, twenty year old Eduadlo Servantes, a
Speaker 6: resident of Lynnwood, was arrested for assault with a deadly
Speaker 6: weapon on a police officer. He was released on his
Speaker 6: own recognissance yesterday at the Compton Court. Separately, two suspects
Speaker 6: arrested for failiny vandalism here at the Hall of Justice
Speaker 6: on Monday, deputies were driving in the two thousand or
Speaker 6: two hundred block of Temple Street near the Hall of
Speaker 6: Justice when they observed en act of vandalism and progress.
Speaker 6: They witnessed a twenty year old Christopher Gonzalez Reese defacing
Speaker 6: the south wall of the Hall of Justice building. Not
Speaker 6: with a spray can. He was literally standing there with
Speaker 6: a paint roller a very long stay and writing graffiti
Speaker 6: over an area measuring about eighteen feet by twelve The
Speaker 6: suspect was using page paint, and the content of the
Speaker 6: graffiti included profanity directed at a federal agency. The same
Speaker 6: suspect was previously identified as the same individual who was
Speaker 6: observed committing a similar act of vandalism on the south
Speaker 6: wall of building located in the five hundred block in
Speaker 6: North Broadway.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a little bit snippet of Robert Luna.
Speaker 2: You get the sense of the types of crimes that
Speaker 2: they're charging these individuals with. These are state level crimes,
Speaker 2: not to be confused with the federal level crimes which
Speaker 2: are coming down, but those are connected to ice and
Speaker 2: what have you. So when we come back, we're definitely
Speaker 2: going to have some more audio from LAPD Chief excuse me,
Speaker 2: LAPD Chief Jim McDonald and also wanted to start giving
Speaker 2: some context. We have a second night of curfew, which
Speaker 2: will be starting in half an hour. I'm curious to
Speaker 2: see if they the first night had any impact on
Speaker 2: the second night, meaning if they arrested some four hundred people.
Speaker 2: I think DA Nathan Hoffman said whether those arrests filtered
Speaker 2: down to the behavior tonight. Does that work as a
Speaker 2: deterrent or something else. Will we see fewer people out
Speaker 2: on the streets after the curfew or will we see more.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to have a deterrent effect. I
Speaker 2: think it's going to be fewer people out there tonight,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't take a lot of idiots to change
Speaker 2: that calculus. So hopefully we won't see any real incidents.
Speaker 2: And I have not seen any involvement.
Speaker 3: Mark. You let me know if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: As far as the presence of the National Guard and
Speaker 2: Marines in a more aggressive posture, I know they've been
Speaker 2: kind of staked out in front of Federal building, but
Speaker 2: I haven't seen them being employed or deployed any particular location.
Speaker 1: It's my impression from the things that I'm obsessively combing
Speaker 1: over on every platform possible.
Speaker 3: Things are slowing down tonight.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, then, well let's keep it moving in
Speaker 2: that direction. When we come back, we'll have more and
Speaker 2: have some Dodger thoughts, yes, as in the La Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and how this might impact that franchise and organization.
Speaker 1: You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio appened giving you just a
Speaker 2: little bit more this evening about what is going on
Speaker 2: in the city of La, the curfew, specifically about one
Speaker 2: square mile downtown LA. And I was just thinking just
Speaker 2: kind of in my head today and it came to
Speaker 2: me how this might have sports implications. This is not
Speaker 2: necessarily going beyond the box score, but this is something
Speaker 2: we would discuss if we had Jackie Ray, we went
Speaker 2: beyond the box score. We know that the Dodgers, the
Speaker 2: LA Dodge most recently visited to White House as a
Speaker 2: celebratory lap victory lap as most winners do, for winning
Speaker 2: the World Series in twenty twenty four, and there was conversation,
Speaker 2: there was criticism as to the Dodgers going or not going,
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets and also the manager Dave Roberts had express
Speaker 2: I would say, misgivings in previous years about going to
Speaker 2: the White House to shake hands with President Trump.
Speaker 3: Mookie Bets when he was a member of the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: I think it was twenty eighteen, and also Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: is manager of the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Fast forward to twenty twenty five, they went to the
Speaker 2: White House. It was pretty much uneventful from what I
Speaker 2: could tell. There were some overtly political remarks given by
Speaker 2: President Trump in relation to politicians in this state that
Speaker 2: he didn't like or care for, like Senator Adam Schiff.
Speaker 2: And I had long made the argument that we need
Speaker 2: to end the tradition because now it's just overtly political.
Speaker 2: There's really no upside to it.
Speaker 3: There is no.
Speaker 2: Sense of camaraderie or well being which comes out of it.
Speaker 2: It's always a question for players like.
Speaker 3: Why are you going? Are you going?
Speaker 2: And then there's pushback in and I'll say backlash from
Speaker 2: whatever decision is made if you go or you don't go. Well,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers did choose to go. Here's where I'm going
Speaker 2: with this. May twentieth, less than a month ago, was
Speaker 2: Mexican Heritage Night. The Dodgers commonly have themed nights. They
Speaker 2: have Black Heritage Night, they have Pride Night, which is
Speaker 2: coming up I think next week if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: Or later this week, but very soon because it's Pride Month.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers obviously have a very strong tie to the
Speaker 2: Hispanic community, to the Latino community, very strong tie. It
Speaker 2: is a big part of their fan demographic. And if
Speaker 2: you don't know, the city of Los Angeles is about
Speaker 2: sixty nine percent Latino. If I'm not mistaken, okay, if
Speaker 2: their fan base is definitely connected to that demographic shift
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles. I wonder in the wake of visiting
Speaker 2: the Trump White House and not really having anything to say,
Speaker 2: because if you remember, they went to the White House
Speaker 2: right around the time of Jackie Robinson Day, and it
Speaker 2: was all sorts of pushbackers like how can you do
Speaker 2: that in the face of Jackie Robinson Day and the
Speaker 2: perception of President Trump. Now you have Mexican Heritage Night
Speaker 2: two weeks ago, and now you have these ice raids,
Speaker 2: and I would say a mostly Hispanic team mostly in
Speaker 2: a mostly Hispanic city, and I would be willing to
Speaker 2: wager that just about every Hispanic member of that team
Speaker 2: definitely feels some kind of way, has some feeling about
Speaker 2: these ice raids, and quite possibly knows someone who was
Speaker 2: directly impacted, maybe one of the player's family members. We
Speaker 2: that's distinctly possible. Okay, that's a distinct possibility. The point
Speaker 2: of me bringing this up is there's going to come
Speaker 2: a point in which the Dodgers are going to have
Speaker 2: to go on record one way or the other. They're
Speaker 2: going to have to say something. And I can tell
Speaker 2: you right now, whatever they say, it's not going to
Speaker 2: be quote unquote the right thing. It's not going to
Speaker 2: be universally received. But the Dodgers are a business. They
Speaker 2: are a business which has great tradition here in the city.
Speaker 2: It has great Hispanic and Latino tradition here in the city.
Speaker 2: And no business such as the Dodgers is independent of
Speaker 2: what happens in the city. It's not like the Dodgers
Speaker 2: exist independently and they can ignore a large section of
Speaker 2: its fan base. It may not, or maybe I'm just
Speaker 2: the one who's kicking off the conversation, but the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going to have to say something. They're not going
Speaker 2: to be able to navigate this and act as if
Speaker 2: this doesn't apply to them, because historically the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: had something to say about everything.
Speaker 3: You can't have a Mexican Heritage Night.
Speaker 2: And ignore what is happening in the city right now
Speaker 2: from top to bottom. Yes it's happening in Los Angeles proper,
Speaker 2: but it's more happening in Los Angeles County, in different
Speaker 2: parts of Los Angeles County and also Orange County.
Speaker 3: That's something that I know is bubbling under.
Speaker 2: And at a certain point, the Dodgers are going to
Speaker 2: have to answer to their own fan base because this
Speaker 2: is going to go on how long? Probably most of
Speaker 2: the summer? What is baseball season? All summer? As this
Speaker 2: goes on with every single day in which I'll say,
Speaker 2: the ice raids either.
Speaker 3: Evolve or grow, and more and more.
Speaker 2: People are getting scooped up, the larger the possibility and
Speaker 2: likelihood that it's going to directly touch the Dodgers' organization,
Speaker 2: and they have to make and look, I'm not smarter
Speaker 2: than the organization. I know they've already had these conversations internally.
Speaker 2: What are we going to do? How are we going
Speaker 2: to approach this. When do we say something publicly? Maybe
Speaker 2: not even if, but when, because I don't know if
Speaker 2: they'll be able to avoid this enough. And here's something else.
Speaker 2: There may come a point in time depending on the city.
Speaker 2: It's not just in La. Remember it started in Miami.
Speaker 2: You have the Texas National Guard. I don't know the
Speaker 2: Dodgers' schedule. I don't have it right in front of me,
Speaker 2: but they will be playing in a number of cities
Speaker 2: where at some point they may be directly confronted with
Speaker 2: either the protests or the news of the protests, or
Speaker 2: something which may impact.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: Now, the organization, I would say, got lucky my word,
Speaker 2: because they've been on the road, they've been out of
Speaker 2: town when all this is happening, so they haven't had
Speaker 2: to directly deal with it. They didn't have to cancel
Speaker 2: or postpone any games. They don't have players who are
Speaker 2: in press conferences after games here who would be asked
Speaker 2: a question by media and then have to respond accordingly.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I don't know when it's going to happen,
Speaker 2: but it's definitely going to happen where Dodger fans are
Speaker 2: going to look at the organization and say where do
Speaker 2: you stand? Do you stand at all. It's one thing
Speaker 2: to have a Mexican Heritage Night. It's another thing if
Speaker 2: you can have a Black Heritage Night, which they do,
Speaker 2: It's another thing. You're going to have a pride night.
Speaker 2: But if you're not going to address the communities who
Speaker 2: are directly impacted, that's going to leave their fans feeling
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Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty, mister bo Kelly here live everywhere
Speaker 2: on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. And since I mentioned YouTube,
Speaker 2: we have the Momigos in Motown chatting it up. And
Speaker 2: last secondhen I was talking about the Dodgers and how
Speaker 2: I think they will have to address this directly at
Speaker 2: some point, if only because of the nature of the
Speaker 2: demographics of the Dodgers' fan base, also the history of
Speaker 2: the organization and franchise, as far as Jackie Robinson and
Speaker 2: breaking the color barrier, Fernando Valezuela and Fernando Mania, which
Speaker 2: kicked off the Latino Revolution. As far as Dodgers fandom,
Speaker 2: the embrace of the organization of Hispanics and Latinos, I
Speaker 2: don't know if they can avoid this.
Speaker 3: And here's something else to remember.
Speaker 2: If ICE is going to churches, schools, home depots, in
Speaker 2: other words, anywhere where they expect to find Latinos, you're
Speaker 2: telling me they wouldn't show up the parking lot of
Speaker 2: a Dodger game. I'm going to assume that that is
Speaker 2: in play, no pun intended. I'm going to assume when
Speaker 2: you have literally thousands of people high percentage hispanic who
Speaker 2: may be citizens, who may be undocumented, becau it's a
Speaker 2: baseball game, why would ICE not show up there at
Speaker 2: a given point. And if you think that, I'm out
Speaker 2: of my mind for thinking that. No, there are other
Speaker 2: organizations which are concerned about it as well. Because of
Speaker 2: the protests here, Mexico's national soccer team is switching its
Speaker 2: hotels due to security concerns ahead of a Gold Cup. Okay,
Speaker 2: they have changed their hotel accommodations here in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: one because they're concerned about the protests. But when you
Speaker 2: say protest, that means proximity to Ice, as well, because
Speaker 2: as far as anyone is concerned, doesn't matter that they
Speaker 2: on the national soccer team. They're not American citizens, and
Speaker 2: no one wants to get caught up in that Mexico
Speaker 2: is gonna kick off play in the Gold Cup facing
Speaker 2: the Dominican Republic on Saturday. Oh my goodness, Mexico Dominican Republic, LA.
Speaker 2: Are you saying that they would not be concerned that
Speaker 2: Ice would just show up in the parking lot to
Speaker 2: see who they might wrangle when you have thousands and
Speaker 2: thousands of Latino and Hispanic people. Okay, you have Mexico
Speaker 2: versus Dominican Republic, you have Psurinam versus Mexico, and then
Speaker 2: on Sunday the twenty second, you have Mexico versus Costa Rica,
Speaker 2: all in different locations. But my point is these locations
Speaker 2: would be targets. And we have a message from the
Speaker 2: YouTube chat and let me back up a bit. Mark
Speaker 2: Island Music says, Hey, bo Kelly, I sincerely would like
Speaker 2: to hear your thoughts on the Dodgers motive for accepting
Speaker 2: the White House invitation if time permits. Thank you for
Speaker 2: your response, respect your point of view. Mark Island Music,
Speaker 2: thanks so much for being part of the YouTube Momigo's
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Speaker 3: This is my.
Speaker 2: I don't know specifically, but if I were to get
Speaker 2: in the minds of people who care about the Dodgers organization,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers weren't trying to pick a fight at that time,
Speaker 2: and I believe they made a conscious decision, at least
Speaker 2: in their minds, the path of least resistance was to
Speaker 2: just go. They probably had a team meeting and got
Speaker 2: a consensus of who was willing to go, and what
Speaker 2: you could tell I would say ninety nine percent of
Speaker 2: the team whip except for the be Freddie Freeman, and
Speaker 2: they would know that in advance. They didn't have to
Speaker 2: worry about whether only half the team would show up.
Speaker 2: And since they knew that most of the team would
Speaker 2: show up, the decision was made to go. Now, if
Speaker 2: the Dodger players, if a high percentage of them said hell, no,
Speaker 2: we won't go, then no, they probably would.
Speaker 3: Not have gone.
Speaker 2: But since the overwhelming majority were fine with the idea
Speaker 2: of going to the White House, the organization made a decision.
Speaker 2: And what I think they did was they ate the
Speaker 2: criticism they dealt with. It is like maybe a week
Speaker 2: of bad press in the media and then they knew it.
Speaker 3: Would eventually blow over.
Speaker 2: This is something that's different, and it's not going to
Speaker 2: be a one off where you're going to the White
Speaker 2: House for an afternoon and shaking hands with the president.
Speaker 2: These protests are going to be going on all summer.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are be playing baseball all summer. And just
Speaker 2: like I told you about the Mexico national soccer team
Speaker 2: where they had to take into account where they were
Speaker 2: relative to protests and maybe ICE activity, the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: going to have to do the same thing. If they're
Speaker 2: not going to ignore Dodger Stadium parking lot, they're not.
Speaker 2: And they don't even have to necessarily even go into
Speaker 2: the parking lot of Dodger Stadium. They can just get
Speaker 2: you an Elysium MARKT drive, you know, they get you
Speaker 2: at stadium way. They can get you on the way
Speaker 2: to the stadium, or wait till the game's over and
Speaker 2: get you on the way out like a Sunday afternoon game.
Speaker 2: If you and remember I said ICE was trying to
Speaker 2: get their numbers up as far as arrest this weekend
Speaker 2: or in more generally, this next thirty day period, why
Speaker 2: would you not go to a location where you might
Speaker 2: encounter I don't know ten thousand Latino people.
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