June 9, 2025 • 28 mins
Michael Monks joins the show to discuss the ICE Protests, he was in DTLA yesterday. National Guard in LA, What Happens Next?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app Stories We're falling for you today.
Of course, we are right on top of all the
protests that have developed over the weekend and will continue today.
Also other news, of course going on. The ex girlfriend
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of Shan Di Deacomb says she had concerns about him
using his cell phones to take explicit videos of her
because others could access them. It is just a steady
stream of bad behavior on display at this trial. The
woman is only being referred to as Jane as back
on the stand today. Last week she claimed he forced
her to have sex with three male escorts back to
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back while he watched. Apparently this is his thing. What
a great person she and she thought that that was
going to endear her to him. Women do a lot
of things to keep the relationship alive.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Russia has launched almost five hundred drones at Ukraine in
the biggest overnight drone bombardment in the three year war.
Ukrainian Air Force said this today. As well as the
almost five hundred drones, they said twenty missiles of various
types fired at different parts of Ukraine. According to the
Air Force said the barrage targeted mainly the central and
western areas of Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, we had protests over the weekend. There were peaceful spots,
there were spots where people were setting waymos on fire.
Michael Monks was there and I got to say, Michael,
I listened to your coverage extensively. Yesterday as a long
weekend for you. You were called out there to cover
the protest Friday night hosts a show on Saturday, and
then yesterday I heard you in the neon hour, I
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heard you in the six o'clock hour. You were our
man on the protests, and we appreciate that great job,
and you came in here with a head full esteem.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Today you're pissed off.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh I'm so mad about all of this, And how
much more can the city take? Really, we have a
lot to get, can we? Absolutely? Because when you think
back to January and the tragedy of the fires and
then the chaotic aftermath, the politicized aftermath that's still ongoing,
and the rebuilding efforts and just how draining that is.
Obviously more so for the people directly impacted, but for
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the community as a whole across La County and now this,
you know.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Do we ever get a break here?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm two years four months here living and I am
exhausted chronic selfishness.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Well, you're the only selfishness, is what we're dealing.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You're the only reporter if I'm not mistaken, So you're
gonna be spread a little thin. We used to have
six or seven people this show.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, so we had a little bit of trauma here
dating back to November.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
That that's true.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But I am the I in KFI now is what
I say. Yeah, but I'm glad to do it. You know,
it's important to our listeners who are loyal to us
and expect answers from our government and from day to
day activities, and so when this type of situation knocks
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on our door, we're going to do it. Regardless of
our situation here. It's important, and this was really important.
We're sort of the center of the immigration policy universe
right now. Of course, these sweeps or these raids or detainments,
arrest they're happening across the country, but Los Angeles and
California and its relationship with this White House was already
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a powder keg. But this is an issue where they
could not be farther apart, and this is the perfect
battleground for both of these ideologies to play out. And
what we're seeing in the streets is really how that
is going to go. We haven't seen the last of
this now. I also, I mean that is a very
high level way of thinking about it, and there are
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people on both sides who carry those ideologies, and like
you said, they're playing it out on the streets of
Los Angeles. There are also people, the chronically selfish people
who are only there to burn things and break stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I talked about this yesterday with.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
With Chris Merrill and also Mark Thompson during the afternoon
during our coverage. Los Angeles has professional protesters, and I
qualify that to say these aren't necessarily people who were
dropped in by some you know, organization that's paying folks
to come protest. But they are pro in their skills
at it. They're absolutely elite experience protesters. Their experience, they
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know what to bring, they know how to respond when
things go awry, and they know how to prepare for them,
and so they thrive in this environment. So it doesn't
matter if yesterday's event was about black lives matter. If
it was about the Lakers winning the championship or this,
you know, it's this now, and those are the ones
who showed up now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And they were the ones wearing masks back you know,
the Bill Bratton days when he first put the agitators
on our radar twenty years ago. You know, he mentioned
that they wear masks. They are professional. This is what
they do. Some of them are bought and sold and
paid for in terms of ratching it up whatever kind
of dialogue you're trying to further.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, And what sucks as just an LA resident is
the way my neighborhood, downtown Los Angeles is just treated
like a battleground because one the situation has been escalated
because a policy is being enforced as promised by the President,
and then escalated by the presence of a new entity,
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the National Guard, being brought here, which changed the dynamics.
I can't say for certain whether that escalated tensions, but
it certainly escalated the presence of what we're seeing down there.
Military garb, military vehicles, military weapons. That's a different vibe
even than federal police. And it's important to point out
those National Guard troops were not on the front lines.
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They were not on the skirmish lines with any of
these any of the protesters, and haven't been for what
I understand what I was able to see over the weekend.
The National Guard troops were brought in early yesterday for
the first time and basically only provide security for federal properties,
federal buildings, federal vehicles, and things like that. The officers
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that we did see on the skirmish lines yesterday and
the day before, County Sheriff LAPD, other law enforcement agencies,
including the California Highway Patrol. So the idea that this
is somehow a fight between protesters and federal agents is
not what's playing out on the street.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I don't know if they matter.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The protesters may feel like that's what they're doing, but
that's not at all what they're doing, and it doesn't
matter who's there if it's law enforcement. There are certain
elements of the protest movement, regardless again of the issue,
who are ready to do battle with the law enforcement.
I will just note that the earlier protest yesterday was
outside the federal building downtown next to the jail, where
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apparently a lot of these detainees, including union leader David
ware To, are being held in federal custody. The skirmish
line was formed by the National guardsmen and that was
the first taste of things, pysical altercations that we got.
I'm standing, you know, in the midst of the protest crowd,
you doing gathering sound, doing commentary and analysis and reporting
the news, and suddenly it got a little hairy, and
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it was the National Guard using their shields, pushing the
protesters off the sidewalk into Alameda Street, and I wasn't
clear as to why. Then they stopped, They backed off
for a minute, and then it started again, much more intensely,
and that's when some tear gas was shot out that
I got a taste of for the first time, and
that's not a pleasant experience. But that was the National Guard.
And what ended up happening was a National Guard cleared
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everybody away from the sidewalk and then allowed about thirty
federal vehicles to come by, so they had clearly gotten word, hey,
we've got some cars coming clear the space.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The LAPD has been trained, as Gary and I were
pointing out last hour, has been trained and retrained and
tweaked and all the things for this protest, specifically, for
immigration protests specifically because of the tinder box of political
that it is. I want to know if you know
the difference between the orders the LAPD has and containing
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these protests and the orders the National Guard has when
it comes to containing these protests, because I think the
two have very different playbooks.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So we'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Michael Monks has joined us after a couple of days
out on the streets, right, is that an appropriate way
to say Friday night, this with this codday after his
something Saturday Night Live here.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
We are standing by expecting a news conference from LAPD
at some point this morning. We do know that there
are also more protests that have been called for a
little bit later in the day, so this is going
to be something that we keep an eye on.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Michael Monks has joined us.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He was out there yesterday, had a little taste of
the old protest juice.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I did a little tear gas tier guests. Yeah, it
doesn't taste good.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I think we've all had at least some ex experience
with that beautiful cloud of freedom.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I never got tear gast covering anything. I did get
tear gas on my honeymoon in Athens.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I could see why. Yeah, by your husband.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
No, that didn't start till later in the marriage. No,
But they had a bunch of protest They always have protests.
It's Syntagma square, Am I saying it right? Syntagma square
antagma square?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But yeah, okay, we were talking about a lot of
the questions. Specifically, we were talking about the roles that
National Guard troops have been playing now a few hundred
of them on the streets. Then you've got Los Angeles
Police Department, you've got the LA County Sheriff's Department, and
all of them doing these different enforcements, the different roles
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that they're playing so far, and not one of them.
I didn't see anybody really cracking heads over the course
of the last few days, despite a couple of instances
where it would have been clearly called for. And one
of the points that I wanted that I was mentioning
was I don't know if it was. I think it
was Los Angeles Street, the overcrossing there. There were several
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HP units on the one to one freeway from the
earlier enforcement to get people off of the freeway, and
that along Aliso Street and Los Angeles Street, there were
hundreds of people who were throwing stuff onto those CHP units,
and anytime an officer would come out from under the overpass,
they would get pelted with stuff. Yeah, and not just
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stuff scooters, I mean rocks easily, very easily, And then
they're trying to set fire to these units that that
would have been not It wasn't even just a it
wasn't a bubbling up situation. It was violent and potentially deadly.
And we've always heard, I've always heard that that's what
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would then drive some sort of action by law enforcement.
And it took a couple of hours before that bridge
was cleared, took a couple of hours before I saw
a single Los Angeles Police officer on Alameda Street outside
that Federal building. And I just want to note there's
a couple of things here. You can protest. We have
the First Amendment, but there are some steps one needs
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to take. This particular protest outside the federal building was unpermitted.
So from the very beginning, technically this protest was not allowed.
Now they were staying on the sidewalks for the most
part at the very beginning. But after the initial skirmish
that I mentioned, the last segment with the National Guard,
when they pushed everybody into the street to make way
for some federal vehicles, hundreds more showed up. This is
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about seven hundred deep, and now there's tons of people
pouring into Alameda Street. Traffic blocked. Traffic's still open. By
the way, there's some major downtown street between union stations,
City Hall to the fashion district and beyond. No enforcement
at all on this street. It wasn't until two and
a half hours later that a tweet came from the
Central Division of the Police Department LAPD that said the
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South Found lanes are closed.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
They still kept the other side of the street.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They let it get to a point here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
They just do because the optics of a police state.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Out of the gate are not good.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You have the hope that the protesters will tire themselves out,
that if they see the police moving in for any
sort of skirmish line that that will just incite more.
I don't want to say by agitation.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Which is that's a I mean, that's we've seen it
over and over again when that happens. I mean, I know,
I use the example of Portland earlier, but that was
an example of you're not going to be able to
wait anybody out. You're not going to wait out protesters,
especially in such a heated issue as this. They will
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continue and they'll even if you don't bring it officers
and you you know, get that agitation, they'll agitate themselves.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
You'll you'll you'll have more people come in.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And amazingly the amount of damage that was not done
yesterday considering the amount of graffiti that exists all over
those I mean blocks and blocks and blocks of graffiti.
But I mean there's not a whole lot of businesses
for people to break into down there, not the way
there would be in other parts of the city. But
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they will, they'll foment their own hatred. They'll they'll continue
to build. Let me, if I may just editorialize up briefly,
there aren't as many businesses downtown as there should be.
And we heard the police chiefs say late last night
during a press conference he had to update the public
and the media that it has gotten out of control,
this situation and that we the department are overwhelmed that's
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not new. Downtown looks like this all the time. Now,
there may not be waymos burning in the middle of
the street at that volume, but there are waymos destroyed.
There are people killed by lunatics wielding machetes.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
In downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
There are buildings covered in graffiti, fresh graffiti every single morning.
The streets are covered in trash. And if you call
the police the LAPD to do anything about the open
air drug use that's taking place. The psychotic homeless people
who are fighting with each other are erecting tents outside
your apartment building, nothing is done about it. They have
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apparently been overwhelmed for quite some time. But this downtown
situation is nothing new, and nobody cares about the condition
of that neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The LAPD, though, is hamstrung with what they're allowed to do.
I mean, I think, and I haven't been in those rooms,
but you know they have been told that they can't
go clear the open air drug markets, you know, because
of what's going on at city Hall and the political
messaging and what the LA and I guess you can
have the conversation to what end is it their business
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or in their purview? You know, you've seen the laped
have to be like mental health advocates, you know, with
the opioid crisis and everything else, But you know they
I think there's probably some mixed mess that goes on
at whatever the new Parker Center is.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
For sure, But at some point when you have a
direct threat to safety like we had yesterday, I was
really surprised, and I don't know, I kept saying yesterday,
I don't know what the policy is. I don't know
what the police protocol is, but I do know that
as a city street, it was getting extraordinarily dangerous.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It was clearly about to explode into something.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Somebody who lives in downtown is like, where's the police
that I pay for?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Like I need all the take here? Yeah, yeah, I
understand that.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
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Speaker 3 (15:35):
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Speaker 1 (15:37):
We'll get into it coming up after Deborah's news at
the top of the hour, because Trump over the weekend
called Elon Musk a major drug addict, and ketamine seems
to be the drug du jour there for Elon Musk.
But like I said, it is everywhere people turning to
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was abusing ketamine there, but that was said to at
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dig into what that all is all about coming up
at eleven.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I mentioned yesterday my nephew was hanging out with us
yesterday and we just flipped back and forth between the
Yankees Red Sox game and protests.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I was gonna say it was like a nice little afternoon.
I was still the protests part.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It was such a nice Granted that's three thousand miles away.
I know they're playing in Yankee Stadium, but nobody cared
about what was going on in downtown La. I mean,
we were here, and obviously it's a big deal, it
is a national, international story, but that there is still
some amount of solace to be found in God's greatest
game of baseball.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, baseball can make anything, destress any sort of situation.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I developed a nervous tick this weekend where I had
a baseball in my hand. Okay, I fell asleep with
a baseball in my hand on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh okay, weird. That's taking it weird into a different area, better.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Than a pacifier.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Dodgers did beat the Cardinal seven to three yesterday. They're
in San Diego to take on the second place Padres tonight.
Angels lost to the Mariners three to two. They will
host The a's Michael Monks has joined us. Michael was
out on the streets covering the protests yesterday for KFI,
and we've been talking about the.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Sort of the feeling.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You're a downtown LA resident and not only did you
not have to drive to work yesterday, you got to
see firsthand what goes on. You know, we've referenced a
couple times that this is not an uncommon thing in
Los Angeles to see protests about whatever, even specifically immigration protests.
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And this is a different feel because now we have
at the upper echelons of power the governor saying he's
going to sue the President of the United States for
going over his head and calling in the National Guard,
and basically the President saying, if you can't handle it
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to the lapd La County Sheriff's Department HP, then we'll
handle it the federal government, and then Governor Newsom, in
an interview last night on MSNBC, basically said, to get
to President Trump. If you can't handle it, we will.
What are we doing, What are we doing? What we
have found ourselves, And especially if you live or work
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in downtown Los Angeles and you still have some positive
feelings towards that. We're caught in the middle of this
political match that has been building for a while. President
Trump and California have a tense relationship. The California is
a very important state regardless of how it votes, It's
just a very important state economically, and so the governor
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knows that. But they are going to be fighting each
other on a variety of fronts. This is the one
that happens to impact all of us directly because it
involves a lot of people who live here, Whether they
should be here, that's what we're debating, right, That's what
the policy makers are debating. But there are a lot
of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County and Los Angeles
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that are part of it. There's no doubt that those
of us in this room, that most of the people
who are listening know somebody they may not know the status.
But you know somebody, you interact with somebody, So this
is naturally going to be ground zero for this debate. Unfortunately,
because of the behavior of the leaders in these various offices,
they treat it to score cheap political points rather than
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expressing concern for the safety and the security and the
prosperity frankly of the community.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So when you talk to people out there protesting, what
was their anger directed towards. Was it local, was it national?
Was it personal? Was it all of the above?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I love this part of it because it can't I
lost that there are many people who are protesting the
immigration policy enforcement that is taking place because of what
President Trump ran on and because what he is directing now.
He made this very clear on the campaign trail that
this is a top priority, and now he is following
through with that. Even in a place that did not
give him very many votes. This is exactly where he
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wants to be doing it, because you can run those
numbers up very easily. In La County. There are folks
who are down there saying, please don't separate families. There
are immigrants who have fled difficult situations in their native countries. Yes,
they cross the border illegally. Yes, their presence here is unlawful,
but they go to work, they provide services, they may
take care of your children, and they also have children,
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so please do not separate them. This is an inhumane policy.
There's got to be a better way to handle this.
On the other hand, there are people that we were
just talking about in Los Angeles who long to fight
with law enforcement, and they come down and completely dilute
the message. I will say there was a march downtown
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after the initial protest at the Federal building. It started
at City Hall. They gathered people so fast, on very
short notice. They flooded Temple Street with a march against
ice enforcement, thousands and thousands deep, blocks and blocks long.
I had never seen a march like that in downtown
Los Angeles. And all of that messaging from that march,
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which was a very powerful visual, which would have been
a more effective message than burning waymos and throwing line
scooters off a bridge to the chp on the freeway.
They've cost themselves all of that goodwill.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
What are you hearing about today?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
We're hearing that there is going to be a protest again,
another organized effort at noon. We've heard the superintendent coming
out in front of this to talk about what it
means for LA Unified. In the past, we have seen
students kind of filter out through the schools and join
the protests. Do we know if this is anticipated to
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be a big one, if it's just going to be
a few people outside of city yelling what's the deal?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It seems like there's going to be a dilution of
this effort as well, because there are many fronts.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
We heard from the superintendent of LAUSD just moments ago
he had a press conference. Some unions are having a
press conference today, and there's also various elected officials from
the Senator like Adam Schiff, the governor, and members of
Congress calling for the release of this union leader, David Wuerta.
And that's another issue, Like they're having press events and
they're showing up the Federal Building to see this David.
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Where nobody cares about that. I mean, I'm just going
to tell you, and nobody on the street knows who
David Wherta is. He's a power player, a political power player.
But it doesn't matter to the people who live here
in Los Angeles what this guy is doing. So they
they're messaging it's not your maid, it's not the person
who takes care of your kids, not the guy who
runs a taco stand or has a more prominent job
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than that.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Well, I want to point something out.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
We got to talk back from somebody who had a
suggestion for Karen Bess.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Hey, Gary and Shannon says Joseph and San Diego. I
guess I would assume that the the mayor of LA
would send a press release at least to the citizens
of LA that it's their right to protest, but we
don't need the violence and the destruction and the looting.
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I feel like that would go a long way.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yeah, that would go a long way into the garbage can.
That would go nowhere. I mean, I think that's your point.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, the majority of the people on the street are
not listening to any They didn't even tell you who
the mayor of LA was.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
When the police start those skirmish lines and they announce, hey,
you have to disperse right now, this is now an
unlawful assembly. Most people leave, they really do. That is
an effective measure because people don't want to go to jail,
right some people do, and it's those people that do
want to go to jail because of the cheap political
points that we were talking about. There are images from
yesterday and Saturday and Friday that can be weaponized either
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by the federal government or by the activist on the
ground here to prove their point that LA is lawless
and out of control, or that a military police state
has now decided upon Los Angeles and we need to
fight back. But it doesn't matter what the mayor says
right now. It matters what the mayor does. It matters
what the police department does and if they can't keep
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traffic and people out of the streets on Alameda Street
one block.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I love you, but it's killing me Alameda maybe for
a white girl. No, that's the way everyone says it.
It's no, it is not as it's like San Pedro.
It's not San Pedro, San Pedro.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, I know, but it's Alameda Street.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, I'm just saying, I'm sorry, wish.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Neighborhood do you live in?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So, uh, it's Alameda.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
But girls, girls whoa do not girl me? Do we
have a pronunciation guy?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
We have a pronunciation guy that I needed when I
first started here, And I'm gonna look it up and
the one that I won't accept. I do accept san
Pedro reluctantly, and Los Felis. I accept that one. You're
very reluctantly.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You're a Seplevita person.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I'll tell you what I am not. I'm not a
Dwarty person.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
You're not a Dwarty.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I'm not a dwar I'm sorry. He will be war
to me. Okay, what about the Cohunga pass. That's a
good one too.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You know, in Washington, when I moved to Seattle to
be a reporter, I afked up every name for.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
A long time, supposed to prop you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
When I came down here, my uncle Jim lived in Laguna,
and one of the first things he did is like,
come over, we're going to talk about names, place names,
place names, and he just and I thought, you're off
your ass, you're crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
But I'm thinking, well, remember what happened in Seattle. But
he was right.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
There's so many different Ukaipa, Huh, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Michael, Thank you forever, my pleasure. It's my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Who saw Hammock coming. We're over there and you.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Kuipa, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KF I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Of course, we're following the stories of the ongoing protests,
and if there are any that pop up today, we
will bring those to you. There was a word that
we might see a news conference from LAPD coming up
at some point, so keeping an eye after that. I
wanted to point out a couple of things I teased
earlier regarding some information and trying to keep straight exactly
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what's going on behind the scenes. The original cause or
the original argument here is the ongoing ice enforcement operations
that are taking place into other parts of in parts
of southern California.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
US Attorney Bill A.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Sale, the new US attorney for the Central District, was
on with Conan Nolan over the weekend and specifically talked about,
for example, what happened on Saturday. Saturday in Paramount, there
were stories about how federal agents were raiding a home
depot and chasing people through the parking lot at home
depot to take them into custody.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
It was not an immigration rate at home depot. What
happened there is we actually have a federal facility, there's
a Homeland Security building their adjacent to that home depot,
and that we were staging there this morning for some
targeted operations that were that actually did happen today, they
still occurred, so it was just a staging area for
our federal agents. But they were spotted and word got
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out and these agitators who are organizing this resistance effort
started mobilizing people to that location and it turned into
it turned into an ugly scene pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And then Who's also asked and Bill Asaley explained, who
are these operations targeting? Are they really just picking people
up in a home home depot parking lot? And his
answer was absolutely, unequivocally no.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
We're going out and executing search warrant not with search warrans,
but arrest warrants on people who are charged with federal
felonies related to their immigration status prior to people who've
been previously deported and re entered it's a felony. We
also were executing administrative removal orders, so these are people
who've exhausted their their due process rights in immigration court.
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There's a final order for their deportation. We're going out
and executing this orders as well.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So I think just in terms of trying to keep
the information straight about what's actually happening when it comes
to these immigration enforcement operations that are taking place.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
All right, We'll stay on top of this, and we
have our eyes on downtown as well as any press
conferences that may pop up with regard to what's happening
today with this plan protest, keep it right here.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
We will stay on top of it. On Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
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Of course, we are right on top of all the
protests that have developed over the weekend and will continue today.
Also other news, of course going on. The ex girlfriend
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of Shan Di Deacomb says she had concerns about him
using his cell phones to take explicit videos of her
because others could access them. It is just a steady
stream of bad behavior on display at this trial. The
woman is only being referred to as Jane as back
on the stand today. Last week she claimed he forced
her to have sex with three male escorts back to
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back while he watched. Apparently this is his thing. What
a great person she and she thought that that was
going to endear her to him. Women do a lot
of things to keep the relationship alive.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Russia has launched almost five hundred drones at Ukraine in
the biggest overnight drone bombardment in the three year war.
Ukrainian Air Force said this today. As well as the
almost five hundred drones, they said twenty missiles of various
types fired at different parts of Ukraine. According to the
Air Force said the barrage targeted mainly the central and
western areas of Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, we had protests over the weekend. There were peaceful spots,
there were spots where people were setting waymos on fire.
Michael Monks was there and I got to say, Michael,
I listened to your coverage extensively. Yesterday as a long
weekend for you. You were called out there to cover
the protest Friday night hosts a show on Saturday, and
then yesterday I heard you in the neon hour, I
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heard you in the six o'clock hour. You were our
man on the protests, and we appreciate that great job,
and you came in here with a head full esteem.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Today you're pissed off.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh I'm so mad about all of this, And how
much more can the city take? Really, we have a
lot to get, can we? Absolutely? Because when you think
back to January and the tragedy of the fires and
then the chaotic aftermath, the politicized aftermath that's still ongoing,
and the rebuilding efforts and just how draining that is.
Obviously more so for the people directly impacted, but for
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the community as a whole across La County and now this,
you know.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Do we ever get a break here?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm two years four months here living and I am
exhausted chronic selfishness.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Well, you're the only selfishness, is what we're dealing.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You're the only reporter if I'm not mistaken, So you're
gonna be spread a little thin. We used to have
six or seven people this show.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, so we had a little bit of trauma here
dating back to November.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
That that's true.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But I am the I in KFI now is what
I say. Yeah, but I'm glad to do it. You know,
it's important to our listeners who are loyal to us
and expect answers from our government and from day to
day activities, and so when this type of situation knocks
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on our door, we're going to do it. Regardless of
our situation here. It's important, and this was really important.
We're sort of the center of the immigration policy universe
right now. Of course, these sweeps or these raids or detainments,
arrest they're happening across the country, but Los Angeles and
California and its relationship with this White House was already
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a powder keg. But this is an issue where they
could not be farther apart, and this is the perfect
battleground for both of these ideologies to play out. And
what we're seeing in the streets is really how that
is going to go. We haven't seen the last of
this now. I also, I mean that is a very
high level way of thinking about it, and there are
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people on both sides who carry those ideologies, and like
you said, they're playing it out on the streets of
Los Angeles. There are also people, the chronically selfish people
who are only there to burn things and break stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I talked about this yesterday with.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
With Chris Merrill and also Mark Thompson during the afternoon
during our coverage. Los Angeles has professional protesters, and I
qualify that to say these aren't necessarily people who were
dropped in by some you know, organization that's paying folks
to come protest. But they are pro in their skills
at it. They're absolutely elite experience protesters. Their experience, they
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know what to bring, they know how to respond when
things go awry, and they know how to prepare for them,
and so they thrive in this environment. So it doesn't
matter if yesterday's event was about black lives matter. If
it was about the Lakers winning the championship or this,
you know, it's this now, and those are the ones
who showed up now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And they were the ones wearing masks back you know,
the Bill Bratton days when he first put the agitators
on our radar twenty years ago. You know, he mentioned
that they wear masks. They are professional. This is what
they do. Some of them are bought and sold and
paid for in terms of ratching it up whatever kind
of dialogue you're trying to further.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, And what sucks as just an LA resident is
the way my neighborhood, downtown Los Angeles is just treated
like a battleground because one the situation has been escalated
because a policy is being enforced as promised by the President,
and then escalated by the presence of a new entity,
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the National Guard, being brought here, which changed the dynamics.
I can't say for certain whether that escalated tensions, but
it certainly escalated the presence of what we're seeing down there.
Military garb, military vehicles, military weapons. That's a different vibe
even than federal police. And it's important to point out
those National Guard troops were not on the front lines.
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They were not on the skirmish lines with any of
these any of the protesters, and haven't been for what
I understand what I was able to see over the weekend.
The National Guard troops were brought in early yesterday for
the first time and basically only provide security for federal properties,
federal buildings, federal vehicles, and things like that. The officers
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that we did see on the skirmish lines yesterday and
the day before, County Sheriff LAPD, other law enforcement agencies,
including the California Highway Patrol. So the idea that this
is somehow a fight between protesters and federal agents is
not what's playing out on the street.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I don't know if they matter.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The protesters may feel like that's what they're doing, but
that's not at all what they're doing, and it doesn't
matter who's there if it's law enforcement. There are certain
elements of the protest movement, regardless again of the issue,
who are ready to do battle with the law enforcement.
I will just note that the earlier protest yesterday was
outside the federal building downtown next to the jail, where
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apparently a lot of these detainees, including union leader David
ware To, are being held in federal custody. The skirmish
line was formed by the National guardsmen and that was
the first taste of things, pysical altercations that we got.
I'm standing, you know, in the midst of the protest crowd,
you doing gathering sound, doing commentary and analysis and reporting
the news, and suddenly it got a little hairy, and
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it was the National Guard using their shields, pushing the
protesters off the sidewalk into Alameda Street, and I wasn't
clear as to why. Then they stopped, They backed off
for a minute, and then it started again, much more intensely,
and that's when some tear gas was shot out that
I got a taste of for the first time, and
that's not a pleasant experience. But that was the National Guard.
And what ended up happening was a National Guard cleared
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everybody away from the sidewalk and then allowed about thirty
federal vehicles to come by, so they had clearly gotten word, hey,
we've got some cars coming clear the space.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The LAPD has been trained, as Gary and I were
pointing out last hour, has been trained and retrained and
tweaked and all the things for this protest, specifically, for
immigration protests specifically because of the tinder box of political
that it is. I want to know if you know
the difference between the orders the LAPD has and containing
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these protests and the orders the National Guard has when
it comes to containing these protests, because I think the
two have very different playbooks.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So we'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Michael Monks has joined us after a couple of days
out on the streets, right, is that an appropriate way
to say Friday night, this with this codday after his
something Saturday Night Live here.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
We are standing by expecting a news conference from LAPD
at some point this morning. We do know that there
are also more protests that have been called for a
little bit later in the day, so this is going
to be something that we keep an eye on.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Michael Monks has joined us.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He was out there yesterday, had a little taste of
the old protest juice.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I did a little tear gas tier guests. Yeah, it
doesn't taste good.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I think we've all had at least some ex experience
with that beautiful cloud of freedom.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I never got tear gast covering anything. I did get
tear gas on my honeymoon in Athens.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I could see why. Yeah, by your husband.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
No, that didn't start till later in the marriage. No,
But they had a bunch of protest They always have protests.
It's Syntagma square, Am I saying it right? Syntagma square
antagma square?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But yeah, okay, we were talking about a lot of
the questions. Specifically, we were talking about the roles that
National Guard troops have been playing now a few hundred
of them on the streets. Then you've got Los Angeles
Police Department, you've got the LA County Sheriff's Department, and
all of them doing these different enforcements, the different roles
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that they're playing so far, and not one of them.
I didn't see anybody really cracking heads over the course
of the last few days, despite a couple of instances
where it would have been clearly called for. And one
of the points that I wanted that I was mentioning
was I don't know if it was. I think it
was Los Angeles Street, the overcrossing there. There were several
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HP units on the one to one freeway from the
earlier enforcement to get people off of the freeway, and
that along Aliso Street and Los Angeles Street, there were
hundreds of people who were throwing stuff onto those CHP units,
and anytime an officer would come out from under the overpass,
they would get pelted with stuff. Yeah, and not just
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stuff scooters, I mean rocks easily, very easily, And then
they're trying to set fire to these units that that
would have been not It wasn't even just a it
wasn't a bubbling up situation. It was violent and potentially deadly.
And we've always heard, I've always heard that that's what
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would then drive some sort of action by law enforcement.
And it took a couple of hours before that bridge
was cleared, took a couple of hours before I saw
a single Los Angeles Police officer on Alameda Street outside
that Federal building. And I just want to note there's
a couple of things here. You can protest. We have
the First Amendment, but there are some steps one needs
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to take. This particular protest outside the federal building was unpermitted.
So from the very beginning, technically this protest was not allowed.
Now they were staying on the sidewalks for the most
part at the very beginning. But after the initial skirmish
that I mentioned, the last segment with the National Guard,
when they pushed everybody into the street to make way
for some federal vehicles, hundreds more showed up. This is
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about seven hundred deep, and now there's tons of people
pouring into Alameda Street. Traffic blocked. Traffic's still open. By
the way, there's some major downtown street between union stations,
City Hall to the fashion district and beyond. No enforcement
at all on this street. It wasn't until two and
a half hours later that a tweet came from the
Central Division of the Police Department LAPD that said the
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South Found lanes are closed.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
They still kept the other side of the street.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They let it get to a point here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
They just do because the optics of a police state.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Out of the gate are not good.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You have the hope that the protesters will tire themselves out,
that if they see the police moving in for any
sort of skirmish line that that will just incite more.
I don't want to say by agitation.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Which is that's a I mean, that's we've seen it
over and over again when that happens. I mean, I know,
I use the example of Portland earlier, but that was
an example of you're not going to be able to
wait anybody out. You're not going to wait out protesters,
especially in such a heated issue as this. They will
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continue and they'll even if you don't bring it officers
and you you know, get that agitation, they'll agitate themselves.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
You'll you'll you'll have more people come in.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And amazingly the amount of damage that was not done
yesterday considering the amount of graffiti that exists all over
those I mean blocks and blocks and blocks of graffiti.
But I mean there's not a whole lot of businesses
for people to break into down there, not the way
there would be in other parts of the city. But
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they will, they'll foment their own hatred. They'll they'll continue
to build. Let me, if I may just editorialize up briefly,
there aren't as many businesses downtown as there should be.
And we heard the police chiefs say late last night
during a press conference he had to update the public
and the media that it has gotten out of control,
this situation and that we the department are overwhelmed that's
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not new. Downtown looks like this all the time. Now,
there may not be waymos burning in the middle of
the street at that volume, but there are waymos destroyed.
There are people killed by lunatics wielding machetes.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
In downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
There are buildings covered in graffiti, fresh graffiti every single morning.
The streets are covered in trash. And if you call
the police the LAPD to do anything about the open
air drug use that's taking place. The psychotic homeless people
who are fighting with each other are erecting tents outside
your apartment building, nothing is done about it. They have
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apparently been overwhelmed for quite some time. But this downtown
situation is nothing new, and nobody cares about the condition
of that neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The LAPD, though, is hamstrung with what they're allowed to do.
I mean, I think, and I haven't been in those rooms,
but you know they have been told that they can't
go clear the open air drug markets, you know, because
of what's going on at city Hall and the political
messaging and what the LA and I guess you can
have the conversation to what end is it their business
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or in their purview? You know, you've seen the laped
have to be like mental health advocates, you know, with
the opioid crisis and everything else, But you know they
I think there's probably some mixed mess that goes on
at whatever the new Parker Center is.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
For sure, But at some point when you have a
direct threat to safety like we had yesterday, I was
really surprised, and I don't know, I kept saying yesterday,
I don't know what the policy is. I don't know
what the police protocol is, but I do know that
as a city street, it was getting extraordinarily dangerous.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It was clearly about to explode into something.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Somebody who lives in downtown is like, where's the police
that I pay for?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Like I need all the take here? Yeah, yeah, I
understand that.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Ketamine is suddenly everywhere.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We'll get into it coming up after Deborah's news at
the top of the hour, because Trump over the weekend
called Elon Musk a major drug addict, and ketamine seems
to be the drug du jour there for Elon Musk.
But like I said, it is everywhere people turning to
it to cure a variety of ailments. I believe the
most high profile one would be Matthew Perry, who unfortunately
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was abusing ketamine there, but that was said to at
least for a small time, help him stay sober, get
it life on track, and things like that. So we'll
dig into what that all is all about coming up
at eleven.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I mentioned yesterday my nephew was hanging out with us
yesterday and we just flipped back and forth between the
Yankees Red Sox game and protests.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I was gonna say it was like a nice little afternoon.
I was still the protests part.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It was such a nice Granted that's three thousand miles away.
I know they're playing in Yankee Stadium, but nobody cared
about what was going on in downtown La. I mean,
we were here, and obviously it's a big deal, it
is a national, international story, but that there is still
some amount of solace to be found in God's greatest
game of baseball.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, baseball can make anything, destress any sort of situation.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I developed a nervous tick this weekend where I had
a baseball in my hand. Okay, I fell asleep with
a baseball in my hand on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh okay, weird. That's taking it weird into a different area, better.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Than a pacifier.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Dodgers did beat the Cardinal seven to three yesterday. They're
in San Diego to take on the second place Padres tonight.
Angels lost to the Mariners three to two. They will
host The a's Michael Monks has joined us. Michael was
out on the streets covering the protests yesterday for KFI,
and we've been talking about the.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Sort of the feeling.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You're a downtown LA resident and not only did you
not have to drive to work yesterday, you got to
see firsthand what goes on. You know, we've referenced a
couple times that this is not an uncommon thing in
Los Angeles to see protests about whatever, even specifically immigration protests.
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And this is a different feel because now we have
at the upper echelons of power the governor saying he's
going to sue the President of the United States for
going over his head and calling in the National Guard,
and basically the President saying, if you can't handle it
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to the lapd La County Sheriff's Department HP, then we'll
handle it the federal government, and then Governor Newsom, in
an interview last night on MSNBC, basically said, to get
to President Trump. If you can't handle it, we will.
What are we doing, What are we doing? What we
have found ourselves, And especially if you live or work
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in downtown Los Angeles and you still have some positive
feelings towards that. We're caught in the middle of this
political match that has been building for a while. President
Trump and California have a tense relationship. The California is
a very important state regardless of how it votes, It's
just a very important state economically, and so the governor
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knows that. But they are going to be fighting each
other on a variety of fronts. This is the one
that happens to impact all of us directly because it
involves a lot of people who live here, Whether they
should be here, that's what we're debating, right, That's what
the policy makers are debating. But there are a lot
of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County and Los Angeles
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that are part of it. There's no doubt that those
of us in this room, that most of the people
who are listening know somebody they may not know the status.
But you know somebody, you interact with somebody, So this
is naturally going to be ground zero for this debate. Unfortunately,
because of the behavior of the leaders in these various offices,
they treat it to score cheap political points rather than
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expressing concern for the safety and the security and the
prosperity frankly of the community.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So when you talk to people out there protesting, what
was their anger directed towards. Was it local, was it national?
Was it personal? Was it all of the above?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I love this part of it because it can't I
lost that there are many people who are protesting the
immigration policy enforcement that is taking place because of what
President Trump ran on and because what he is directing now.
He made this very clear on the campaign trail that
this is a top priority, and now he is following
through with that. Even in a place that did not
give him very many votes. This is exactly where he
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wants to be doing it, because you can run those
numbers up very easily. In La County. There are folks
who are down there saying, please don't separate families. There
are immigrants who have fled difficult situations in their native countries. Yes,
they cross the border illegally. Yes, their presence here is unlawful,
but they go to work, they provide services, they may
take care of your children, and they also have children,
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so please do not separate them. This is an inhumane policy.
There's got to be a better way to handle this.
On the other hand, there are people that we were
just talking about in Los Angeles who long to fight
with law enforcement, and they come down and completely dilute
the message. I will say there was a march downtown
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after the initial protest at the Federal building. It started
at City Hall. They gathered people so fast, on very
short notice. They flooded Temple Street with a march against
ice enforcement, thousands and thousands deep, blocks and blocks long.
I had never seen a march like that in downtown
Los Angeles. And all of that messaging from that march,
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which was a very powerful visual, which would have been
a more effective message than burning waymos and throwing line
scooters off a bridge to the chp on the freeway.
They've cost themselves all of that goodwill.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
What are you hearing about today?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
We're hearing that there is going to be a protest again,
another organized effort at noon. We've heard the superintendent coming
out in front of this to talk about what it
means for LA Unified. In the past, we have seen
students kind of filter out through the schools and join
the protests. Do we know if this is anticipated to
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be a big one, if it's just going to be
a few people outside of city yelling what's the deal?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It seems like there's going to be a dilution of
this effort as well, because there are many fronts.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
We heard from the superintendent of LAUSD just moments ago
he had a press conference. Some unions are having a
press conference today, and there's also various elected officials from
the Senator like Adam Schiff, the governor, and members of
Congress calling for the release of this union leader, David Wuerta.
And that's another issue, Like they're having press events and
they're showing up the Federal Building to see this David.
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Where nobody cares about that. I mean, I'm just going
to tell you, and nobody on the street knows who
David Wherta is. He's a power player, a political power player.
But it doesn't matter to the people who live here
in Los Angeles what this guy is doing. So they
they're messaging it's not your maid, it's not the person
who takes care of your kids, not the guy who
runs a taco stand or has a more prominent job
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than that.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Well, I want to point something out.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
We got to talk back from somebody who had a
suggestion for Karen Bess.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Hey, Gary and Shannon says Joseph and San Diego. I
guess I would assume that the the mayor of LA
would send a press release at least to the citizens
of LA that it's their right to protest, but we
don't need the violence and the destruction and the looting.
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I feel like that would go a long way.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yeah, that would go a long way into the garbage can.
That would go nowhere. I mean, I think that's your point.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, the majority of the people on the street are
not listening to any They didn't even tell you who
the mayor of LA was.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
When the police start those skirmish lines and they announce, hey,
you have to disperse right now, this is now an
unlawful assembly. Most people leave, they really do. That is
an effective measure because people don't want to go to jail,
right some people do, and it's those people that do
want to go to jail because of the cheap political
points that we were talking about. There are images from
yesterday and Saturday and Friday that can be weaponized either
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by the federal government or by the activist on the
ground here to prove their point that LA is lawless
and out of control, or that a military police state
has now decided upon Los Angeles and we need to
fight back. But it doesn't matter what the mayor says
right now. It matters what the mayor does. It matters
what the police department does and if they can't keep
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traffic and people out of the streets on Alameda Street
one block.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I love you, but it's killing me Alameda maybe for
a white girl. No, that's the way everyone says it.
It's no, it is not as it's like San Pedro.
It's not San Pedro, San Pedro.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, I know, but it's Alameda Street.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, I'm just saying, I'm sorry, wish.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Neighborhood do you live in?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So, uh, it's Alameda.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
But girls, girls whoa do not girl me? Do we
have a pronunciation guy?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
We have a pronunciation guy that I needed when I
first started here, And I'm gonna look it up and
the one that I won't accept. I do accept san
Pedro reluctantly, and Los Felis. I accept that one. You're
very reluctantly.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You're a Seplevita person.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I'll tell you what I am not. I'm not a
Dwarty person.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
You're not a Dwarty.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I'm not a dwar I'm sorry. He will be war
to me. Okay, what about the Cohunga pass. That's a
good one too.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You know, in Washington, when I moved to Seattle to
be a reporter, I afked up every name for.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
A long time, supposed to prop you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
When I came down here, my uncle Jim lived in Laguna,
and one of the first things he did is like,
come over, we're going to talk about names, place names,
place names, and he just and I thought, you're off
your ass, you're crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
But I'm thinking, well, remember what happened in Seattle. But
he was right.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
There's so many different Ukaipa, Huh, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Michael, Thank you forever, my pleasure. It's my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Who saw Hammock coming. We're over there and you.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Kuipa, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KF I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Of course, we're following the stories of the ongoing protests,
and if there are any that pop up today, we
will bring those to you. There was a word that
we might see a news conference from LAPD coming up
at some point, so keeping an eye after that. I
wanted to point out a couple of things I teased
earlier regarding some information and trying to keep straight exactly
(26:14):
what's going on behind the scenes. The original cause or
the original argument here is the ongoing ice enforcement operations
that are taking place into other parts of in parts
of southern California.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
US Attorney Bill A.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Sale, the new US attorney for the Central District, was
on with Conan Nolan over the weekend and specifically talked about,
for example, what happened on Saturday. Saturday in Paramount, there
were stories about how federal agents were raiding a home
depot and chasing people through the parking lot at home
depot to take them into custody.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
It was not an immigration rate at home depot. What
happened there is we actually have a federal facility, there's
a Homeland Security building their adjacent to that home depot,
and that we were staging there this morning for some
targeted operations that were that actually did happen today, they
still occurred, so it was just a staging area for
our federal agents. But they were spotted and word got
(27:15):
out and these agitators who are organizing this resistance effort
started mobilizing people to that location and it turned into
it turned into an ugly scene pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And then Who's also asked and Bill Asaley explained, who
are these operations targeting? Are they really just picking people
up in a home home depot parking lot? And his
answer was absolutely, unequivocally no.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
We're going out and executing search warrant not with search warrans,
but arrest warrants on people who are charged with federal
felonies related to their immigration status prior to people who've
been previously deported and re entered it's a felony. We
also were executing administrative removal orders, so these are people
who've exhausted their their due process rights in immigration court.
(28:02):
There's a final order for their deportation. We're going out
and executing this orders as well.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So I think just in terms of trying to keep
the information straight about what's actually happening when it comes
to these immigration enforcement operations that are taking place.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
All right, We'll stay on top of this, and we
have our eyes on downtown as well as any press
conferences that may pop up with regard to what's happening
today with this plan protest, keep it right here.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
We will stay on top of it. On Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You
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