July 18, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/18) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Michael Monks comes on the show with the latest regarding the explosion at a LA County Sheriff's Dept. training facility that killed three people as well as Sheriff Luna's comments on ICE activity. Gov. Newsom says someone is going to get hurt at one of these ICE raids. SB549 has been pulled back to be reworked and reintroduced.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
CAFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt today. John will
be back on Monday. Rough day in Los Angeles seven
thirty this morning, an explosion at the Los Angeles Sheriff's
Departments training center in East LA. Three Los Angeles County
Sheriff's deputies were killed and at press conference earlier today,
heard live here on KFI, let's go to the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Michael Months has the latest. Michael
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a visibly shaken sheriff today for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And no question about it. Lou.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He did break down, almost started to cry at one
point when he talked about the conversations that he had
had with at least two of the three families that
lost a loved one who worked within the La County
Sheriff's Department. This was something that happened at about seven
point thirty this morning at a training facility in East LA.
Still unclear what led to this explosion. Still unclear what
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these folks were doing at the time of the explosion.
But what we know is that this training facility in
East Los Angeles is where the La County Sheriff's Department
keeps its Special Enforcement Bureau and also it's Arson and
Explosives team. Luna said that these are highly skilled individuals.
Here's part of what he said just moments ago at
a news conference.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
These aren't people who don't do this very often.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
They are fantastic experts, and unfortunately I lost three of
them today and as you can imagine, those were extremely
challenging conversations. Our intent is to look at this from
the very beginning and figure out what is it exactly
that caused this tragic event. Simply right now, I wanted
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to get out here. I know all of you had
been waiting for a while. I'm giving you the information
I have, and we're not there yet.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So basically, he was able to confirm what had been
speculated all morning that these were three people who died,
three people who worked for the Sheriff's department. But as
for the scope of the investigation, it is large. There
are a lot of local and federal agencies on scene.
But we don't have a lot of details to share
yet because they've not been released publicly.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And the sheriff made that clear that he wanted to
get out quickly to assure the city that the conditions
were safe going forward.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And I think that is to be applauded, right, that's.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The first order of business, to make sure that life
and property is safe going forward, and to acknowledge the
loss of three sheriff's deputies.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
But a lot of questions about what were we talking about?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The term is undetonated ordinances recovered the night before, from where,
what level of ordinance?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And why were they recovered?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I mean, those are really important questions to be answered,
and he said those quite Those answers don't come in hours,
they come in days.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And it's particularly curious because he emphasized that these were
folks with decades of experience. One worked for nineteen years,
another for twenty two years, another for thirty three years.
So these weren't rookies making a rookie mistake. So that's
why everyone is anxiously awaiting further details about what exactly
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was going on, what were the circumstances, and what exactly
was that explosive device that they were apparently handling. This morning,
I heard.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
The sheriff mentioned that obviously the Los Angeles Fire Departments
Arson team is involved as well as the FEDS. The
ATF is that standard protocol or is there an ATF
field office here in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Obviously there is, but are they brought in immediately?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It sounds like there were multiple pieces of this investigation.
Even the homicide Bureau is there, and so when you
hear homicide bureau, it kind of sticks in your head, like,
wait a second, what kind of investigation is this? That's
also standard? So the reasons behind why law enforcement agencies
handle investigations this way. I'm not a law enforcement guy.
I don't know exactly, but something exploded, it involved law enforcement,
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and so the federal government got involved very quickly. The
Attorney General, Pam Bondi, was on social media almost immediately
saying that she'd been in contact with US Attorney Bill A.
Saley that FBI agents and other federal agents were going
to be on the scene to help investigate. Sheriff Luna
says he welcomed this, but there might be multiple pieces
to evaluate here, the nature of the explosion, where the
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device came from. Does this investigation lead somewhere off site?
Could there be federal charges? That's all stuff they're not
going to be able to tell us, as you noted. Yes,
what Sheriff Luna did is he wanted to get out
and give us what he could.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That the content of that.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Press briefing that he gave just before twelve o'clock is
about what we expected. We didn't expect all of the details.
We want all of the details, we did not expect them.
He could not even publicly identify yet the three people
who died because it's possible, he says that some members
of their families have not yet been notified. So this
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happened quickly, it's developing quickly, but he wanted to slow
down the release of that information.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I guess what we can glean that they were moving
under det ordinances is that the explosives were already there, right,
somebody didn't drive by and throw a grenade through a window.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
They were already there.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So that at least that can help calm some concerns
that somebody tried to attack the Sheriff's training facility.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And that's where this would be.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
This is a training facility that has that special Enforcement Bureau,
that has the arson and Explosive team that Sheriff Luna
says he is elite full of veterans like the three
that the county lost today. But you also have to
keep in mind the environment that we're living in politically,
it's very volatile, especially when it involves law enforcement. And
just yesterday, Sheriff Luna had a press conference explaining to
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the media and the public why the county jails were
handing over illegal immigrant inmates to the federal government for
the first time in years in order to comply with
federal warrants. And as everyone knows, tensions are high here
on the issue of illegal immigration and people who are
demonstrating against the federal enforcement again them and questions around
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what role law enforcement agencies locally are playing in that execution.
So when you hear about an explosion at a local
law enforcement facility, you would be forgiven if your mind
went somewhere dark first.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And I think we all felt that way.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I certainly did, I speaking for myself, and i'd bemoan
that state of mind, and I hope we all do that.
We would even that our minds would go there to
think this might have been some kind of domestic violence
that was erupted out of the concerns that we have
over illegal immigration enforcement. But that's where we are all right, well,
stay right there, Michael Monts is in the twenty four
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hour KFI newsroom because I want to talk a little
bit about that. Yesterday we did hear from the Sheriff's
Department that, in fact, the coordination with immigration and Customs
enforcement is beginning to take shape, and a bit of
a victory dance in Sacramento by one of the Border
Patrol agents who effectively said, there is no such animal
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as a sanctuary city, and you need to get used
to it. So we'll talk about that coming up next.
Lou Penrose on KFI AM six forty Info. John Cobelt
heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Now let's get to
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom and Debora Mark.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Loup Penrose Info, John co Belt on k I AM
six forty No Choice. That's the characterization and the exact
words from Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Chief Robert Luna on
the issue of coordinating with immigration and Customs enforcement. A pivot,
if you will, from the idea of Los Angeles being
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a sanctuary from federal immigration law Michael Muntz joined us
again from the twenty four hour KFI newsroom. Michael, this
has been, at least from the position of the federal government,
a long time coming, but now we're here.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
At least from the top cop in the Sheriff's department.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Local law enforcement officials have law contended that they do
not cooperate with federal immigration efforts, and that has also
been a point of contention among a lot of the
activists here, especially the ones who have demonstrated against illegal
immigration enforcement in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. They
have suspected that the LAPD and the Sheriff's department are
on the side of federal immigration officials, and in spite
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of the fact that the sheriff and the police chief
have both said that that is not our function, that
is not what we do. The La County Sheriff's Department
has not transferred their prisoners to federal immigration officials since
twenty twenty, but that has changed in recent months. In
May and June, the jails started to hand people over again.
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Like you said, Sheriff Luna says, there's no choice. But
as he said yesterday in his news conference, these are
the types of illegal immigrants that more people seem to
be okay with having deported. Let's hear what he said.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
We have and what we will continue to honor federal
judicial warrants. These warrants are an effective and peaceful vehicle
in transferring individuals who have committed violent or serious crimes.
To date, we have transferred twenty individuals under these specific circumstances.
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Most of these individuals have had serious or violent charges
such as attempted murder, robbery, rape, and sexual battery.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So that's a different scenario, lou than some of the
more sympathetic cases that a lot of people have pointed
to as overreach in this immigration enforcement effort. This is
in somebody's abuela being taken off Broadway Street while selling
fruit cups. Right, These are some suspected violent criminals that
are also in the country illegally.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And I've heard US Attorney Billy Sally, actually I heard
him here on CANFI say, Look, if I find somebody
that is in custody in Los Angeles and they have
committed federal crimes and illegal reentry is in fact a felony,
So it could be as simple as that, but it's
way beyond that, in a lot of these cases, I
can send my men down to the jail house at
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the sheriff's department and they have to, by federal law,
turn them over. So maybe this was always the case,
it just hasn't been practiced yet.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
There's certainly a higher level of immigration enforcement under the
Trump Department of Justice and the associated departments that are
in enforcing these policies. It was a lot more lax
under the presidency of Joe Biden. So one area that
does appear to still be of concern to Sheriff Luna
is beyond these more violent suspects, there is apparently a directive,
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a letter coming from the Department of Justice to county
sheriffs across California that says, we want the information on
all of the illegal immigrants that are currently in your custody.
Sheriff Luna and his news conference yesterday says, we have
not receive that letter yet. When we do get that letter,
we will review it. We'll have the attorneys review it.
He wants to comply, I suppose with with federal law,
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but he also says we don't keep track of that.
It's they don't necessarily arrest somebody on whatever charge and say,
by the way, are you here legally? So they don't
have that notation in anyone's file. The folks that he's
handed over to the federal government, these are folks who
have been named specifically by federal agents that this is
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a guy or a goal that we want because they're
on our list, and so they've been handed over, but
just general list of illegal immigrants currently in jail.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
The sheriff says, we don't have that. Yeah, and I'm
not surprised.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I honestly think the sheriff and his team are caught
here because for years, as a matter of best practices,
at least in Los Angeles. Yeah, you're right, there isn't
a you know, an eye block for illegal right, they're
just all they're all in the same place.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It's not like they're in a separate category.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And their immigration status was not a concern for Los
Angeles County. And now you have the federal government coming
in and saying we want all the information and all
the records, and we want you to turn over the
custody of all the people that are in your possession
and in the country illegally, And the Sheriff's department is saying,
I mean, don't If you have that information, you can
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tell us, But we don't have that information, and under
state law we're not able to We are not allowed
to like enumerate prisoners as such.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Isn't that pretty much it?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, And there's a couple of reasons for that.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
One.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
The it's not really the function of local law enforcement
to enforce immigration policy. You may have more sympathetic law
enforcement agencies in different parts of the country that are
more willing to cooperate with federal agencies, certainly, but none
of them are arresting an a legal immigrant on a
deportation charge and then executing that deportation. That is the
role of the federal government. Secondarily the sheriff and the
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police department. What they contend is, look, we are here
to keep the peace, we investigate crimes. We need cooperation
from all of these folks. So we can't have a
community of illegal immigrants afraid of helping us find bad guys.
So they need to know, they need to feel comfortable
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that we're not going to ask about their immigration status
so that they can help us find a murderer, a burglar,
a car thief, or something along those lines.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Michael Monster, thanks so much, busy day. I appreciate you
spending some time with us to give us all the
update on on both those stories. I'm both the Sheriff's
department's of reaction to not having a choice and also,
of course this tragic explosion earlier today, seven thirty this morning,
three Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies lost their life in
this explosion. As the investigation continues, all right, when we
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come back, So with respect to that point of view
that the Sheriff's Department has and the sheriff that, look,
we have no choice but to cooperate with the federal
government when they come to us. And this, and Michael
Munks mentioned it, there is this talk of a memo
that's being prepared out of the US Justice Department being
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sent out to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Chicago, everywhere,
New York, Austin, Texas, effectively saying you have thirty days
to give us the names and the information on everybody
that you have in your custody in your city and
your state, in your town and your municipality that is
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in the country illegally and we want that information in
thirty days, so that memo, I understand.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Is being prepared.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
But there's a new twist to this all. And you
saw it yesterday in Sacramento. There was a raid in Sacramento,
a coordinated rate between Immigration and Customs enforcement and Border
patrol and local authorities, and they apprehended five people and
the headline was four illegal immigrants and one US citizen
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arrested at a local ICE ray in downtown Sacramento, in
our state's capital. And what they don't tell you, they
make it sound like, oh man, that now they're there,
when they're they're throwing a net and they're capturing US citizens, this.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Is no good. What they don't tell you is.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
The US citizen indeed was arrested along with the legal
aliens that were targeted in the raid. But it wasn't
because of a mistake. It was because the US citizen
was slashing the tires of the ICE units and eventually
assaulted one of the federal agents.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Which is a crime.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Now it isn't an immigration crime, but it is a
federal crime to damage an ICE vehicle and to assault
a federal agent. But like you have to really dig
deep in the story, or sometimes it's left out of
the story altogether, particularly when television news puts these things
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on on social media. So we need to kind of
explore that a little bit, and we'll do that coming
up next. KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Loup Penrose in for John Cobelt on KFI.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
And you're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt today on The John
Cobelt Show. The word chaos is being used a lot
by Democrat lawmakers in Los Angeles. The Governor Gavenussen uses
the word chaos a lot the chaotic way that ICE
is conducting themselves in California.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But that isn't the right word.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I've been watching this now for a number of weeks,
and the scenes surrounding these law enforcement operations are not chaotic.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
They are I mean, the best word that I can
come up with is immature.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
There's a lot of immaturity on the part of the
people that want to involve themselves in these law enforcement procedures,
and it's getting less and less mature. The agents roll
up with a signed warrant looking for an individual and
sometimes incur they encounter other illegal activity going on. But
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then you have actual legal residents who don't want the
ICE agents to enforce the law, and they start behaving
in the most immature way. Some of them cross the
line and throw rocks and bricks at ICE vehicles. Some
of them then go so far as to slash the
tires of the ICE vehicles. Not while the truck is
parked overnight, you know, at the holiday inn in Rancho Cucamunga,
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but right there in front of the ICE agent, they
stick a knife into the truck tire and then they
get tackled, and then their screaming girlfriend starts losing her mind,
and it's all It looks chaotic, but it isn't really chaotic.
There is a huge amount of immaturity in Los Angeles,
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in the community of the people that are mad that
the ICE agents are conducting these these arrests, these deportations.
Here here's well, all right, let's go. Let's go to
the one because this was my favorite one. This was
yesterday in Sacramento, and we have this all on tape
because Bill Malusion of Fox News did a ride along
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and they were conducting a stop and a detainment and
effectively a processing for deportation of individuals that these ICE
agents had signed warrants to go get. And then some
bystander who doesn't like ICE but is apparently an American,
slashes the tires and so then they tackle him, and
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then his girlfriend starts screaming at the ICE agents let
him go.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
He's an American citizen.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I have to bleep out so much of it because
she has a real potty mouth. But he's saying stay back,
and she sang for what, And.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
He says he's being arrested.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
He slashed our tires, And she's screaming like a maniac.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Catch that she's she's calling law enforcement traders because they
are doing their job, executing a warrant and now arresting
the US citizen that wants to get involved and be
mister helper and slashes the tires right in front of
the ICE agent. See that's not chaotic, that's immaturity. There
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is a huge immaturity problem. Here's another, mister helper.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I can say whatever I want, you want, I.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Can, and I can record so they can.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
No, they don't have to tell you anything.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
OK, thank you How'm a US citizen to say whatever
I want And I'm gonna record everything you guys are.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Doing and I don't care. And that was earlier this
week in Downy. This is some woman. She's in her car.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
She's driving around with one hand on the steering wheel,
on the other hand on her phone, and the passenger
side window is down, and she's getting into an argument
with law enforcement, saying I can do whatever I want.
And then you hear the guy He's like, yeah, you
can do whatever you want over there. You can continue
to record over there. If you get in our way,
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you will be breaking the law and then we'll arrest you.
And they all lose their mind. And that's the word.
It's immaturity. These people are immature. The illegals are very mature.
You know what the mature thing to do when you
see an ice ban roll up into the parking lot
of the home depot split That is smart.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So I do give the illegals credit.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
They are smart enough to run, run like Forrest gump Man,
don't stop, don't look back. So at least the illegal
I mean, they're gonna get caught, but at least the
illegal aliens are mature. It is their girlfriend or their wife,
or their friend from church or whatever. These are the
immature people that are bothering and harassing the cops as
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if it's gonna matter. So you're wasting your time. I mean,
keep filming if you want. I don't know what you
think you're gonna do, but you're gonna frustrate yourself and
then you're not gonna be able to help yourself because
you are in fact immature, and you're gonna wind up
slashing a tire or standing in front of the truck
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or throwing a rock at a truck, and then you're
gonna be in jail. Here's my favorite one. This is well,
he identifies himself.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
This is in Bell Gardens.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
This is earlier this week, and he identifies himself as
I don't know if it is the mayor or not.
I don't want to be smirched the mayor, but you
never know. Some of these elected officials are pretty stupid.
Remember the cut a hay girl.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You guys gotta get out of here.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You guys don't belong here. Who are you, guys? Who
are you?
Speaker 9 (22:28):
Guys? Hey, who are you guys? Who are you? I'm
the mayor of the city. Get out. What are you
guys doing here? Who are you? What's your name, what's
your badge number? Identify yourself, you work for the people.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I don't know if that is actually the mayor of
Bell Gardens. Somebody said that it sounded like him. That's
pretty immature. You have the mayor.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
If it's true, it's the mayor of the city. Even
if it's not true.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
The person thought that the ice agents would shudder at
the thought that the mayor is out telling them to
go away, So they thought that would work. But like,
when have you ever seen a Democrat mayor or county
supervisor go to a crowd of illegals at a day
labor center and say, hey, get out of here, scram
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what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You don't belong here. When have you ever heard a
Democrat mayor or a county.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Supervisor go to where homeless people are and say, get
out of here, scram what are you doing? You don't
belong here. But he goes up to an ice truck
and acts like that he's the king. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. By
the way they got those four people that drove nails
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into the ice trucks overnight. You want to talk about immaturity,
Listen to the ages of the four people arrested for
defacing and flattening a number of ice SUVs. Gennaro or
stow Ayella age forty three, Danielle Montenegro, age thirty, Sadat
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Jenarka age fifty four, fifty four years old, and you're
out there damaging ice vehicles.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
This is immaturity.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
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Speaker 3 (24:33):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt today. John will be
back with you on Monday. So the plan for Pacific Palisades,
at least the Democrat plan out of Sacramento sponsored by
Senator Allen to effectively turn Pacific Palisades into the projects
that's been tabled for now.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Senator Allen sending out a statement, Sandy appreciates the feedback
and that it would be best for us to pause
the bill until next year to get us more time
to see if we can get it right.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Just give us our homes back and protect us from fire.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, that's Jessica Rogers.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
She's president of the Pacific Palisades Resident Association. Matthew Seedorf
from Fox eleven with the story there.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Senate Bill five point forty nine, the proposal already passed
by the state Senate, would allow LA County to make
a so called Resilient Rebuilding Authority Group. The goal would
be to address housing shortage issues, but it would also
buy fire destroyed loss and rebuild a percentage of them
as low income housing.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Oh boy, low income housing. That sounds wonderful. That's just
what you want to live next to. So everybody that
lives there or that had a residence there, they just want.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
To go back to the way it was.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Just give us the ability and approve the plans for
us to rebuild the single family residences that we had here.
There is no reason to repurpose Pacific Palisades into the projects.
And it's interesting the word used by Senator Allen. He
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said that he wants to effectively shelve the idea of
Senate Bill five forty nine for now until next year
to quote get it right. And I'm here to tell
you I know these people like the back of my hand.
When it comes to housing in Sacramento, Democrats don't think
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like you homeowners do. Many of the Democrats in Sacramento
that work on and vote for legislation are not homeowners,
never been a homeowner. I mean, I think that is
lost upon a lot of Californians. Just how unqualified most
of the legislature in Sacramento is to effectively create policy
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over most of our lives.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Most of the Democrats have never had a job, like
not like a real job.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
They were a staffer for a Democrat mayor, or they
were a staffer for a Democrat board a supervisors person,
and then they ran for the local school board. And
then they while they were working on the while they
were on the school board, they were a staffer in
some other assembly member's office, and you know, the then
worked on a campaign and got half paid in campaign funds,
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and then they worked their way up and now all
of a sudden, the middle of the state legislature and
they're saying, you know what we ought to do with
Pacific Palisades, since we have a housing shortage, we should
rezone a lot of it and do a house house
house apartment building, house house house, three apartment buildings, house house, house.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Section eight city, and they think it's a good idea
because they have.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
No concept of housing values, of real estate, of what
makes the Pacific Palisades Pacific Palisades, and what makes a
corner of town that should be zoned for multifamily appropriate
for multifamily, Like, they don't understand those things as concepts
and comma. They come from a philosophical school of thought
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that effectively they're belligerent to anybody that owns their own house.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
They really are. You see this a lot in the
Mbie crowd.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
That's the yes in my backyard chorus of the Democrat
Party in Sacramento that is constantly trying to ruin a
good thing for those of us that got away from
low income housing. Right, I mean, let's be honest, Please,
you work hard to take your family away from bad
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neighborhoods and into better neighborhoods. You always hear the phrase, right,
we want to put our kids in a good school district.
You know where good school districts are where single family
houses are, right, you know where the bad school districts
are where there's a lot of low income housing. So
there are certain realities and we can have all kinds
of thoughtful discussions about why that is and what institutional
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conditions there are in our society that make that be
the case, and if it's true or if it's not,
and if there are racial insensitivities that underscore some of
those realities.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
We can have all those discussions, but.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
If you have a house in the Pacific Palisades, you
don't want to be part of those discussions. That's the
whole goal, to be away from those discussions. And that's
what the people of Pacific Palasades want. They just want
to go back to the way it was. And now
you have Democrats in Sacramento that want to effectively reimagine
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the entire community there as some mixed use community among
people that belong there and people that clearly don't belong there,
who could never afford to live in the Palisades. And
that's the egalitarian thinking among Democrats. They don't want you
to move out to the suburbs and have a nice backyard.
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They want to force you to have to be next
to people that you clearly have have different levels of prosperity.
So we'll talk about what's going on next and what
exactly Senator Ben Allen means when he says we're going
to we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna see if we
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can't get it right. That's my favorite phrase. That they're
working hard. They're putting it aside for now until they
can get it right. And get it right means they
need they need to basically eliminate any opposition. So the
good news is Pacific Palisades represented by people that have
significant influence and already Mayor Karen Bass has said that
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she does not like the idea. Gavin Newsoen put out
a social media tweet, we're now just a I guess
a message on X is that what it's called. That
said he does not want to bulldoze all of Pacific
Palisades and turn it into the projects. But no one
said that Allen's idea was a bad idea, and it
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got the votes in the Assembly. I mean, it's working
its way through and it's not a new idea. You
have to understand how these people think. They don't think
of housing the way you think of housing. They don't
think a house is a private contract between you, your blender,
the mortgage company, the builder, and the past owner.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Right, you go buy a house what do you do.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You have your real estate agent call their real estate agent,
you make an offer, You secure the loan, and you
put the money down the down payment, and then you
begin the escrow process and then they hand you your
keys and you're done. No, not to democrats, to democrats
in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
They believe they're in that conversation.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
They believe they have a seat at that table because
in their mind, look, government was the one that permitted
the building of the house in the first place, So
there would be no house for you to buy and
no house for.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You to sell if it wasn't for government.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
So government is involved in this and can stay involved
in it, even though it's a private party transaction. They
look at houses all housing, whether it's low income housing,
whether it's a single family, detach residents in Pacific palisades,
whether it's a house that you inherited, it doesn't matter.
They believe that they're part of the entire transaction. Democrats
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look at housing of all kinds, public housing, private housing, multifamily,
single family. They look at it as a utility. They
think of it as just I mean, it's just another
part of the society that they have an obligation to
be involved in to make sure that everybody has a house,
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because they believe everybody has a right to a house,
and that person has a right to a house wherever
they want. So it does make sense in this kind
of convoluted mind of a Democrat in Sacramento who has
never made a house payment, that, Yeah, now there's land
and we have a housing shortage in La County. So sure,
let's go and get in there and rezone it and
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turn everything into the projects. We'll talk about it coming
up next on KFI AM six forty live everywhere.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:06):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt today. John will
be back on Monday. Rough day in Los Angeles seven
thirty this morning, an explosion at the Los Angeles Sheriff's
Departments training center in East LA. Three Los Angeles County
Sheriff's deputies were killed and at press conference earlier today,
heard live here on KFI, let's go to the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Michael Months has the latest. Michael
(00:29):
a visibly shaken sheriff today for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And no question about it. Lou.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He did break down, almost started to cry at one
point when he talked about the conversations that he had
had with at least two of the three families that
lost a loved one who worked within the La County
Sheriff's Department. This was something that happened at about seven
point thirty this morning at a training facility in East LA.
Still unclear what led to this explosion. Still unclear what
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these folks were doing at the time of the explosion.
But what we know is that this training facility in
East Los Angeles is where the La County Sheriff's Department
keeps its Special Enforcement Bureau and also it's Arson and
Explosives team. Luna said that these are highly skilled individuals.
Here's part of what he said just moments ago at
a news conference.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
These aren't people who don't do this very often.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
They are fantastic experts, and unfortunately I lost three of
them today and as you can imagine, those were extremely
challenging conversations. Our intent is to look at this from
the very beginning and figure out what is it exactly
that caused this tragic event. Simply right now, I wanted
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to get out here. I know all of you had
been waiting for a while. I'm giving you the information
I have, and we're not there yet.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So basically, he was able to confirm what had been
speculated all morning that these were three people who died,
three people who worked for the Sheriff's department. But as
for the scope of the investigation, it is large. There
are a lot of local and federal agencies on scene.
But we don't have a lot of details to share
yet because they've not been released publicly.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And the sheriff made that clear that he wanted to
get out quickly to assure the city that the conditions
were safe going forward.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And I think that is to be applauded, right, that's.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The first order of business, to make sure that life
and property is safe going forward, and to acknowledge the
loss of three sheriff's deputies.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
But a lot of questions about what were we talking about?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The term is undetonated ordinances recovered the night before, from where,
what level of ordinance?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And why were they recovered?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I mean, those are really important questions to be answered,
and he said those quite Those answers don't come in hours,
they come in days.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And it's particularly curious because he emphasized that these were
folks with decades of experience. One worked for nineteen years,
another for twenty two years, another for thirty three years.
So these weren't rookies making a rookie mistake. So that's
why everyone is anxiously awaiting further details about what exactly
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was going on, what were the circumstances, and what exactly
was that explosive device that they were apparently handling. This morning,
I heard.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
The sheriff mentioned that obviously the Los Angeles Fire Departments
Arson team is involved as well as the FEDS. The
ATF is that standard protocol or is there an ATF
field office here in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Obviously there is, but are they brought in immediately?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It sounds like there were multiple pieces of this investigation.
Even the homicide Bureau is there, and so when you
hear homicide bureau, it kind of sticks in your head, like,
wait a second, what kind of investigation is this? That's
also standard? So the reasons behind why law enforcement agencies
handle investigations this way. I'm not a law enforcement guy.
I don't know exactly, but something exploded, it involved law enforcement,
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and so the federal government got involved very quickly. The
Attorney General, Pam Bondi, was on social media almost immediately
saying that she'd been in contact with US Attorney Bill A.
Saley that FBI agents and other federal agents were going
to be on the scene to help investigate. Sheriff Luna
says he welcomed this, but there might be multiple pieces
to evaluate here, the nature of the explosion, where the
(04:15):
device came from. Does this investigation lead somewhere off site?
Could there be federal charges? That's all stuff they're not
going to be able to tell us, as you noted. Yes,
what Sheriff Luna did is he wanted to get out
and give us what he could.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That the content of that.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Press briefing that he gave just before twelve o'clock is
about what we expected. We didn't expect all of the details.
We want all of the details, we did not expect them.
He could not even publicly identify yet the three people
who died because it's possible, he says that some members
of their families have not yet been notified. So this
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happened quickly, it's developing quickly, but he wanted to slow
down the release of that information.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I guess what we can glean that they were moving
under det ordinances is that the explosives were already there, right,
somebody didn't drive by and throw a grenade through a window.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
They were already there.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So that at least that can help calm some concerns
that somebody tried to attack the Sheriff's training facility.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And that's where this would be.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
This is a training facility that has that special Enforcement Bureau,
that has the arson and Explosive team that Sheriff Luna
says he is elite full of veterans like the three
that the county lost today. But you also have to
keep in mind the environment that we're living in politically,
it's very volatile, especially when it involves law enforcement. And
just yesterday, Sheriff Luna had a press conference explaining to
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the media and the public why the county jails were
handing over illegal immigrant inmates to the federal government for
the first time in years in order to comply with
federal warrants. And as everyone knows, tensions are high here
on the issue of illegal immigration and people who are
demonstrating against the federal enforcement again them and questions around
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what role law enforcement agencies locally are playing in that execution.
So when you hear about an explosion at a local
law enforcement facility, you would be forgiven if your mind
went somewhere dark first.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And I think we all felt that way.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I certainly did, I speaking for myself, and i'd bemoan
that state of mind, and I hope we all do that.
We would even that our minds would go there to
think this might have been some kind of domestic violence
that was erupted out of the concerns that we have
over illegal immigration enforcement. But that's where we are all right, well,
stay right there, Michael Monts is in the twenty four
(06:39):
hour KFI newsroom because I want to talk a little
bit about that. Yesterday we did hear from the Sheriff's
Department that, in fact, the coordination with immigration and Customs
enforcement is beginning to take shape, and a bit of
a victory dance in Sacramento by one of the Border
Patrol agents who effectively said, there is no such animal
(07:01):
as a sanctuary city, and you need to get used
to it. So we'll talk about that coming up next.
Lou Penrose on KFI AM six forty Info. John Cobelt
heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Now let's get to
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom and Debora Mark.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Loup Penrose Info, John co Belt on k I AM
six forty No Choice. That's the characterization and the exact
words from Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Chief Robert Luna on
the issue of coordinating with immigration and Customs enforcement. A pivot,
if you will, from the idea of Los Angeles being
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a sanctuary from federal immigration law Michael Muntz joined us
again from the twenty four hour KFI newsroom. Michael, this
has been, at least from the position of the federal government,
a long time coming, but now we're here.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
At least from the top cop in the Sheriff's department.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Local law enforcement officials have law contended that they do
not cooperate with federal immigration efforts, and that has also
been a point of contention among a lot of the
activists here, especially the ones who have demonstrated against illegal
immigration enforcement in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. They
have suspected that the LAPD and the Sheriff's department are
on the side of federal immigration officials, and in spite
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of the fact that the sheriff and the police chief
have both said that that is not our function, that
is not what we do. The La County Sheriff's Department
has not transferred their prisoners to federal immigration officials since
twenty twenty, but that has changed in recent months. In
May and June, the jails started to hand people over again.
(08:44):
Like you said, Sheriff Luna says, there's no choice. But
as he said yesterday in his news conference, these are
the types of illegal immigrants that more people seem to
be okay with having deported. Let's hear what he said.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
We have and what we will continue to honor federal
judicial warrants. These warrants are an effective and peaceful vehicle
in transferring individuals who have committed violent or serious crimes.
To date, we have transferred twenty individuals under these specific circumstances.
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Most of these individuals have had serious or violent charges
such as attempted murder, robbery, rape, and sexual battery.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So that's a different scenario, lou than some of the
more sympathetic cases that a lot of people have pointed
to as overreach in this immigration enforcement effort. This is
in somebody's abuela being taken off Broadway Street while selling
fruit cups. Right, These are some suspected violent criminals that
are also in the country illegally.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And I've heard US Attorney Billy Sally, actually I heard
him here on CANFI say, Look, if I find somebody
that is in custody in Los Angeles and they have
committed federal crimes and illegal reentry is in fact a felony,
So it could be as simple as that, but it's
way beyond that, in a lot of these cases, I
can send my men down to the jail house at
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the sheriff's department and they have to, by federal law,
turn them over. So maybe this was always the case,
it just hasn't been practiced yet.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
There's certainly a higher level of immigration enforcement under the
Trump Department of Justice and the associated departments that are
in enforcing these policies. It was a lot more lax
under the presidency of Joe Biden. So one area that
does appear to still be of concern to Sheriff Luna
is beyond these more violent suspects, there is apparently a directive,
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a letter coming from the Department of Justice to county
sheriffs across California that says, we want the information on
all of the illegal immigrants that are currently in your custody.
Sheriff Luna and his news conference yesterday says, we have
not receive that letter yet. When we do get that letter,
we will review it. We'll have the attorneys review it.
He wants to comply, I suppose with with federal law,
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but he also says we don't keep track of that.
It's they don't necessarily arrest somebody on whatever charge and say,
by the way, are you here legally? So they don't
have that notation in anyone's file. The folks that he's
handed over to the federal government, these are folks who
have been named specifically by federal agents that this is
(11:29):
a guy or a goal that we want because they're
on our list, and so they've been handed over, but
just general list of illegal immigrants currently in jail.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
The sheriff says, we don't have that. Yeah, and I'm
not surprised.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I honestly think the sheriff and his team are caught
here because for years, as a matter of best practices,
at least in Los Angeles. Yeah, you're right, there isn't
a you know, an eye block for illegal right, they're
just all they're all in the same place.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It's not like they're in a separate category.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And their immigration status was not a concern for Los
Angeles County. And now you have the federal government coming
in and saying we want all the information and all
the records, and we want you to turn over the
custody of all the people that are in your possession
and in the country illegally, And the Sheriff's department is saying,
I mean, don't If you have that information, you can
(12:18):
tell us, But we don't have that information, and under
state law we're not able to We are not allowed
to like enumerate prisoners as such.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Isn't that pretty much it?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, And there's a couple of reasons for that.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
One.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
The it's not really the function of local law enforcement
to enforce immigration policy. You may have more sympathetic law
enforcement agencies in different parts of the country that are
more willing to cooperate with federal agencies, certainly, but none
of them are arresting an a legal immigrant on a
deportation charge and then executing that deportation. That is the
role of the federal government. Secondarily the sheriff and the
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police department. What they contend is, look, we are here
to keep the peace, we investigate crimes. We need cooperation
from all of these folks. So we can't have a
community of illegal immigrants afraid of helping us find bad guys.
So they need to know, they need to feel comfortable
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that we're not going to ask about their immigration status
so that they can help us find a murderer, a burglar,
a car thief, or something along those lines.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Michael Monster, thanks so much, busy day. I appreciate you
spending some time with us to give us all the
update on on both those stories. I'm both the Sheriff's
department's of reaction to not having a choice and also,
of course this tragic explosion earlier today, seven thirty this morning,
three Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies lost their life in
this explosion. As the investigation continues, all right, when we
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come back, So with respect to that point of view
that the Sheriff's Department has and the sheriff that, look,
we have no choice but to cooperate with the federal
government when they come to us. And this, and Michael
Munks mentioned it, there is this talk of a memo
that's being prepared out of the US Justice Department being
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sent out to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Chicago, everywhere,
New York, Austin, Texas, effectively saying you have thirty days
to give us the names and the information on everybody
that you have in your custody in your city and
your state, in your town and your municipality that is
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in the country illegally and we want that information in
thirty days, so that memo, I understand.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Is being prepared.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
But there's a new twist to this all. And you
saw it yesterday in Sacramento. There was a raid in Sacramento,
a coordinated rate between Immigration and Customs enforcement and Border
patrol and local authorities, and they apprehended five people and
the headline was four illegal immigrants and one US citizen
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arrested at a local ICE ray in downtown Sacramento, in
our state's capital. And what they don't tell you, they
make it sound like, oh man, that now they're there,
when they're they're throwing a net and they're capturing US citizens, this.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Is no good. What they don't tell you is.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
The US citizen indeed was arrested along with the legal
aliens that were targeted in the raid. But it wasn't
because of a mistake. It was because the US citizen
was slashing the tires of the ICE units and eventually
assaulted one of the federal agents.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Which is a crime.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Now it isn't an immigration crime, but it is a
federal crime to damage an ICE vehicle and to assault
a federal agent. But like you have to really dig
deep in the story, or sometimes it's left out of
the story altogether, particularly when television news puts these things
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on on social media. So we need to kind of
explore that a little bit, and we'll do that coming
up next. KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Loup Penrose in for John Cobelt on KFI.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
And you're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt today on The John
Cobelt Show. The word chaos is being used a lot
by Democrat lawmakers in Los Angeles. The Governor Gavenussen uses
the word chaos a lot the chaotic way that ICE
is conducting themselves in California.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But that isn't the right word.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I've been watching this now for a number of weeks,
and the scenes surrounding these law enforcement operations are not chaotic.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
They are I mean, the best word that I can
come up with is immature.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
There's a lot of immaturity on the part of the
people that want to involve themselves in these law enforcement procedures,
and it's getting less and less mature. The agents roll
up with a signed warrant looking for an individual and
sometimes incur they encounter other illegal activity going on. But
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then you have actual legal residents who don't want the
ICE agents to enforce the law, and they start behaving
in the most immature way. Some of them cross the
line and throw rocks and bricks at ICE vehicles. Some
of them then go so far as to slash the
tires of the ICE vehicles. Not while the truck is
parked overnight, you know, at the holiday inn in Rancho Cucamunga,
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but right there in front of the ICE agent, they
stick a knife into the truck tire and then they
get tackled, and then their screaming girlfriend starts losing her mind,
and it's all It looks chaotic, but it isn't really chaotic.
There is a huge amount of immaturity in Los Angeles,
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in the community of the people that are mad that
the ICE agents are conducting these these arrests, these deportations.
Here here's well, all right, let's go. Let's go to
the one because this was my favorite one. This was
yesterday in Sacramento, and we have this all on tape
because Bill Malusion of Fox News did a ride along
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and they were conducting a stop and a detainment and
effectively a processing for deportation of individuals that these ICE
agents had signed warrants to go get. And then some
bystander who doesn't like ICE but is apparently an American,
slashes the tires and so then they tackle him, and
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then his girlfriend starts screaming at the ICE agents let
him go.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
He's an American citizen.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I have to bleep out so much of it because
she has a real potty mouth. But he's saying stay back,
and she sang for what, And.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
He says he's being arrested.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
He slashed our tires, And she's screaming like a maniac.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Catch that she's she's calling law enforcement traders because they
are doing their job, executing a warrant and now arresting
the US citizen that wants to get involved and be
mister helper and slashes the tires right in front of
the ICE agent. See that's not chaotic, that's immaturity. There
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is a huge immaturity problem. Here's another, mister helper.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I can say whatever I want, you want, I.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Can, and I can record so they can.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
No, they don't have to tell you anything.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
OK, thank you How'm a US citizen to say whatever
I want And I'm gonna record everything you guys are.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Doing and I don't care. And that was earlier this
week in Downy. This is some woman. She's in her car.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
She's driving around with one hand on the steering wheel,
on the other hand on her phone, and the passenger
side window is down, and she's getting into an argument
with law enforcement, saying I can do whatever I want.
And then you hear the guy He's like, yeah, you
can do whatever you want over there. You can continue
to record over there. If you get in our way,
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you will be breaking the law and then we'll arrest you.
And they all lose their mind. And that's the word.
It's immaturity. These people are immature. The illegals are very mature.
You know what the mature thing to do when you
see an ice ban roll up into the parking lot
of the home depot split That is smart.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So I do give the illegals credit.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
They are smart enough to run, run like Forrest gump Man,
don't stop, don't look back. So at least the illegal
I mean, they're gonna get caught, but at least the
illegal aliens are mature. It is their girlfriend or their wife,
or their friend from church or whatever. These are the
immature people that are bothering and harassing the cops as
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if it's gonna matter. So you're wasting your time. I mean,
keep filming if you want. I don't know what you
think you're gonna do, but you're gonna frustrate yourself and
then you're not gonna be able to help yourself because
you are in fact immature, and you're gonna wind up
slashing a tire or standing in front of the truck
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or throwing a rock at a truck, and then you're
gonna be in jail. Here's my favorite one. This is well,
he identifies himself.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
This is in Bell Gardens.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
This is earlier this week, and he identifies himself as
I don't know if it is the mayor or not.
I don't want to be smirched the mayor, but you
never know. Some of these elected officials are pretty stupid.
Remember the cut a hay girl.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You guys gotta get out of here.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You guys don't belong here. Who are you, guys? Who
are you?
Speaker 9 (22:28):
Guys? Hey, who are you guys? Who are you? I'm
the mayor of the city. Get out. What are you
guys doing here? Who are you? What's your name, what's
your badge number? Identify yourself, you work for the people.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I don't know if that is actually the mayor of
Bell Gardens. Somebody said that it sounded like him. That's
pretty immature. You have the mayor.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
If it's true, it's the mayor of the city. Even
if it's not true.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
The person thought that the ice agents would shudder at
the thought that the mayor is out telling them to
go away, So they thought that would work. But like,
when have you ever seen a Democrat mayor or county
supervisor go to a crowd of illegals at a day
labor center and say, hey, get out of here, scram
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what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You don't belong here. When have you ever heard a
Democrat mayor or a county.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Supervisor go to where homeless people are and say, get
out of here, scram what are you doing? You don't
belong here. But he goes up to an ice truck
and acts like that he's the king. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. By
the way they got those four people that drove nails
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into the ice trucks overnight. You want to talk about immaturity,
Listen to the ages of the four people arrested for
defacing and flattening a number of ice SUVs. Gennaro or
stow Ayella age forty three, Danielle Montenegro, age thirty, Sadat
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Jenarka age fifty four, fifty four years old, and you're
out there damaging ice vehicles.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
This is immaturity.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
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Speaker 3 (24:33):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt today. John will be
back with you on Monday. So the plan for Pacific Palisades,
at least the Democrat plan out of Sacramento sponsored by
Senator Allen to effectively turn Pacific Palisades into the projects
that's been tabled for now.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Senator Allen sending out a statement, Sandy appreciates the feedback
and that it would be best for us to pause
the bill until next year to get us more time
to see if we can get it right.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Just give us our homes back and protect us from fire.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, that's Jessica Rogers.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
She's president of the Pacific Palisades Resident Association. Matthew Seedorf
from Fox eleven with the story there.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Senate Bill five point forty nine, the proposal already passed
by the state Senate, would allow LA County to make
a so called Resilient Rebuilding Authority Group. The goal would
be to address housing shortage issues, but it would also
buy fire destroyed loss and rebuild a percentage of them
as low income housing.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Oh boy, low income housing. That sounds wonderful. That's just
what you want to live next to. So everybody that
lives there or that had a residence there, they just want.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
To go back to the way it was.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Just give us the ability and approve the plans for
us to rebuild the single family residences that we had here.
There is no reason to repurpose Pacific Palisades into the projects.
And it's interesting the word used by Senator Allen. He
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said that he wants to effectively shelve the idea of
Senate Bill five forty nine for now until next year
to quote get it right. And I'm here to tell
you I know these people like the back of my hand.
When it comes to housing in Sacramento, Democrats don't think
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like you homeowners do. Many of the Democrats in Sacramento
that work on and vote for legislation are not homeowners,
never been a homeowner. I mean, I think that is
lost upon a lot of Californians. Just how unqualified most
of the legislature in Sacramento is to effectively create policy
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over most of our lives.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Most of the Democrats have never had a job, like
not like a real job.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
They were a staffer for a Democrat mayor, or they
were a staffer for a Democrat board a supervisors person,
and then they ran for the local school board. And
then they while they were working on the while they
were on the school board, they were a staffer in
some other assembly member's office, and you know, the then
worked on a campaign and got half paid in campaign funds,
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and then they worked their way up and now all
of a sudden, the middle of the state legislature and
they're saying, you know what we ought to do with
Pacific Palisades, since we have a housing shortage, we should
rezone a lot of it and do a house house
house apartment building, house house house, three apartment buildings, house house, house.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Section eight city, and they think it's a good idea
because they have.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
No concept of housing values, of real estate, of what
makes the Pacific Palisades Pacific Palisades, and what makes a
corner of town that should be zoned for multifamily appropriate
for multifamily, Like, they don't understand those things as concepts
and comma. They come from a philosophical school of thought
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that effectively they're belligerent to anybody that owns their own house.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
They really are. You see this a lot in the
Mbie crowd.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
That's the yes in my backyard chorus of the Democrat
Party in Sacramento that is constantly trying to ruin a
good thing for those of us that got away from
low income housing. Right, I mean, let's be honest, Please,
you work hard to take your family away from bad
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neighborhoods and into better neighborhoods. You always hear the phrase, right,
we want to put our kids in a good school district.
You know where good school districts are where single family
houses are, right, you know where the bad school districts
are where there's a lot of low income housing. So
there are certain realities and we can have all kinds
of thoughtful discussions about why that is and what institutional
(29:02):
conditions there are in our society that make that be
the case, and if it's true or if it's not,
and if there are racial insensitivities that underscore some of
those realities.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
We can have all those discussions, but.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
If you have a house in the Pacific Palisades, you
don't want to be part of those discussions. That's the
whole goal, to be away from those discussions. And that's
what the people of Pacific Palasades want. They just want
to go back to the way it was. And now
you have Democrats in Sacramento that want to effectively reimagine
(29:37):
the entire community there as some mixed use community among
people that belong there and people that clearly don't belong there,
who could never afford to live in the Palisades. And
that's the egalitarian thinking among Democrats. They don't want you
to move out to the suburbs and have a nice backyard.
(29:58):
They want to force you to have to be next
to people that you clearly have have different levels of prosperity.
So we'll talk about what's going on next and what
exactly Senator Ben Allen means when he says we're going
to we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna see if we
(30:19):
can't get it right. That's my favorite phrase. That they're
working hard. They're putting it aside for now until they
can get it right. And get it right means they
need they need to basically eliminate any opposition. So the
good news is Pacific Palisades represented by people that have
significant influence and already Mayor Karen Bass has said that
(30:41):
she does not like the idea. Gavin Newsoen put out
a social media tweet, we're now just a I guess
a message on X is that what it's called. That
said he does not want to bulldoze all of Pacific
Palisades and turn it into the projects. But no one
said that Allen's idea was a bad idea, and it
(31:03):
got the votes in the Assembly. I mean, it's working
its way through and it's not a new idea. You
have to understand how these people think. They don't think
of housing the way you think of housing. They don't
think a house is a private contract between you, your blender,
the mortgage company, the builder, and the past owner.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Right, you go buy a house what do you do.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You have your real estate agent call their real estate agent,
you make an offer, You secure the loan, and you
put the money down the down payment, and then you
begin the escrow process and then they hand you your
keys and you're done. No, not to democrats, to democrats
in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
They believe they're in that conversation.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
They believe they have a seat at that table because
in their mind, look, government was the one that permitted
the building of the house in the first place, So
there would be no house for you to buy and
no house for.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You to sell if it wasn't for government.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
So government is involved in this and can stay involved
in it, even though it's a private party transaction. They
look at houses all housing, whether it's low income housing,
whether it's a single family, detach residents in Pacific palisades,
whether it's a house that you inherited, it doesn't matter.
They believe that they're part of the entire transaction. Democrats
(32:24):
look at housing of all kinds, public housing, private housing, multifamily,
single family. They look at it as a utility. They
think of it as just I mean, it's just another
part of the society that they have an obligation to
be involved in to make sure that everybody has a house,
(32:44):
because they believe everybody has a right to a house,
and that person has a right to a house wherever
they want. So it does make sense in this kind
of convoluted mind of a Democrat in Sacramento who has
never made a house payment, that, Yeah, now there's land
and we have a housing shortage in La County. So sure,
let's go and get in there and rezone it and
(33:04):
turn everything into the projects. We'll talk about it coming
up next on KFI AM six forty live everywhere.
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