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In reply to the discussion: Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA: This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 2 [View all]angrychair
(12,545 posts)48. Performative
The LA police have been just standing around while these goons grab people at random with no warrant or cause and not identifying themselves or their purpose.
Unless I'm wrong, the LA police work for her but they seem to be ICE lapdogs.
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Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA: This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 2 [View all]
riversedge
Jul 2025
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Mayor Bass isn't "concern tweeting" -- she went there in person as soon as she heard what was going on
Hekate
Jul 2025
#4
Holy Fuck and they can't understand why Canadians and others do not want to visit the US of A
Bev54
Jul 2025
#6
As all my LA friends told me, only kids playing and homeless folks hang out here
obamanut2012
Jul 2025
#8
What kind of police operations proceed by sweeping through a park like slave patrollers?
Prairie Gates
Jul 2025
#9
Kidnapping children and terrorizing children is a Federal Crime and a State Crime!
Tarzanrock
Jul 2025
#19
The police are not allowed to terrorize people and beat the shit out of them.
Tarzanrock
Jul 2025
#22
One of the reasons the piece of shit and ICE is arresting so many law abiding
Eliot Rosewater
Jul 2025
#28
When I was a small child in the 1950s, there was a division of Los Angeles Mounted Police (LAMP)....
Hekate
Jul 2025
#59
Our country is sick. I'm over in Ventura, where ICE plus whatever thugs they drag along...
Hekate
Jul 2025
#64
Agreed. I made a post about the recent arrests of members of the Armenian Mafia
tulipsandroses
Jul 2025
#54