June 10, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – PART THREE of Mo’Kelly’s special in-depth coverage of the fourth straight day of protests against the ICE raids in Los Angeles & Orange County - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
K if I AM six forty mo Kelly Here, we're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I was reminded,
you know, you can't just look at this moment in
tonts of right now, these protests, the unrushed, the violence,
you can't just look at it right now. We have
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the World Cup coming to Los Angeles in twenty twenty six.
It's twenty twenty five, okay, we have the recently announced
travel band. I don't know how that's going to impact
the Olympics in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm being very serious.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
If you're precluding people from these countries to travel to
the US, I haven't heard about any special exceptions. Well,
I know that a band is a baby. I don't
know how certain athletes are going to be able to
get in the country. I don't know how this moment
impacts the perception of Los Angeles' big picture on the
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world stage. I don't know how this impacts Karen Bass
and her bid for reelection. And let's be honest, can
anybody tell me who's running against her presently? Anyone anyone,
because I've been in pitch battle with people on social
media who are trying to tell me that this is
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going to be the end of Karen Bass's career. I
just can't find anyone who's running against her. Now, is
it likely going to be Rick Caruso? Possibly? Possibly, but
not definitely. And we always talk about on this show,
you know, why is it? I'm sorry, I am straying
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in the politics. Now, why is Los Angeles and California
keep voting for Democrats? Who is running from the Republican
Party right now? For mayor for an election which is
next year? That's not a rhetorical question. In other words,
I would love to know, because from my information, there
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isn't anyone. And for all the complaints about Los Angeles,
you would think this is the perfect time to jump
in the race. Right after the fires. You now have this,
you can complain about Metro. There are plenty of issues
to run on. I don't know. And if anyone is
going to tell you what's going to happen definitively next year,
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they're lying because they don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You don't know, Marcus, very smart, he doesn't know. Now
we can use the past as prologue to say, hey,
this happened in the past, and it usually impacts a
city or an election this way, that way, or what
have you. But no one can tell you what's going
to happen. And I know it's it's cool to get
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on social media and make all these proclamations. It's cool
to do that, and you know, call your shot. We're
always in this world of hot takes. Well, I'm gonna
give a hot take about what's going to happen now
because of this, Because of this, the Democrats are going
to lose the midterms.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't know that, you don't know that.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
We don't know what this country's going to look like
in two weeks. There could be more protests in Miami
next week, next week.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And it may change the whole perception of things.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And I don't mean to get real macabre and morbid,
but Mark Ronner is old enough and twelve is old
enough to know what I'm talking about. If I mentioned
Kent State and what happened to Kent State and how
that drastically changed the view of the Vietnam War and
also the elections in and around Kent State, whence you
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had members of I think with Army National Guard kill
four students at Kent State, that drastically changed everything. And
the only reason I mentioned that is because we have
not had a time since then where we've had the
military used in such a way to quell protests, and
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that's what it is for, to quell protests. We don't
know where any of this is going to leave. We
don't know what any of the unintended consequences are of that.
And I know it's cool, hot take. This is going
to happen. That's going to happen. Nobody knows at all.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Don't skip over the fact that and you hit on
it and you just glossed over it. This is happening
in La. What happens when these ice raids travel around
the country. Because President Trump didn't just say I'm going
to conduct ice raids on southern California. Only he said
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he was going to and he gave a number. Forgive
me for forgetting the number, but he says, I'm going
to get rid of illegal immigrants in the United States, period.
So this could go to Miami, this could go to Detroit,
this could go to Chicago, this could.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Go all over the place. This all it's happening in
Dallas right now. Oh, Dallas, right now? Yeah, okay, wow.
And it also impacts different communities. You mentioned Detroit.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I think that's one of the largest arib American communities
in the country. You can say Miami, that's Cubans and
Cuban Americans, and I say Cuban Americans because there are
people who may be citizens whose relatives are not. They
may be just protected status. There's no telling how all
this is going to impact this city. There's no telling
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how this is going to impact our state, in our country.
And I'm not talking about the foolishness of you know,
supposedly going to arrest Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom's that's theater.
That's that's grand standing. That's not actual policy which is
going on. This is a time I think the historians
of the twenty second century are going to look back
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and really dig into what and why happened. This is
one of those moments when we're living through history which
really defy explanation and don't have a solid comparison point.
There are things that we can say this is reminiscent
of that in history, Like I can say this is
reminiscent of nineteen seventy, or I can say this is
reminiscent of nineteen sixty five, but it's not exactly the
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same for a lot of reasons, like, for example, the
only other time in which a president stepped in and
summoned the National Guard against the wishes of a governor
was during the Civil Rights movement in nineteen sixty five
to enforce integration, and the National Guard was called in
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to protect the students who were trying to integrate.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It wasn't to back up law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It was truly about protecting students who were trying to
go Black sat students who are trying to go to school.
This is you can say this is the second time
in history that has happened, and that's accurate, but it's
different circumstances and to accomplish different ends.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It's completely different.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So there are things like history doesn't repeat itself, but
there is a rhyme here. There's some similarities. It can
sound the same, but it's not exactly the same. It's
KFI AM six forty. I'm o Kelly. We're going to
keep following what's going on, just to let you know.
The protests are largely disappointing, excuse me, dissipating downtown. There
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is still considerable police activity.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
If you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Kekel right now, you can see the police are lined
up for blocks and blocks, just in case anything should happen.
But it doesn't seem as if there is a sizeable
contingent of protesters.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
There are people.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Still milling around downtown, but not with any real direction,
intent or actually protests. You see a few Mexico flags,
American flags being waved, but it doesn't seem like there's
any real interaction with police. They're not in their space.
In other words, they're not at least physically provoking them.
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We can't hear what protesters are saying, but it doesn't
seem like there's any type of activity. There's nothing being
thrown at the officers. The I would say, is it
fair to say Twilve law enforcement seems relatively relaxed.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
A lot of them are sitting down.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, they're just they're standing, they're monitoring, they're not interacting.
I mean, there is, like you said, blocks and blocks
of police cars with their lights kind of flashing as
if to just let it be known that they're in
the area. But there's nothing happening right now, and they
seem to have kettled all of the crowd into one area.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well, there's obviously an idiot with a laser pointer.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, I was saying that at the at the helicopter idiot. Well,
I mean, come on, we knew there's some idiots in
the crowd. To be honest, there are idiots in the crowd.
But we're going to continue to follow it and we'll
let you know if this situation should materially change.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (09:16):
Kf I AM.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Six forty mo Kelly, Here'll be with you until ten
o'clock and we've dedicated to today's show to the events
in Los Angeles and Santa Anna. During the break, there
was a cutaway I think it was by k Cow
They went to Santa Anna and there was nothing going on,
absolutely nothing. There were some National guardsmen, some humbies station
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there position there, but as far as protesters, absolutely no one.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
There were.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
There was no presence really around the Federal building in
Santa Anna. So anything which is going on at this
point is going on downtown in LA and it's just
law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Standing kind of steering.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Get the remaining protesters, and let me say, if you're
out at this point, it's kind of hard for me
to call you a protester. Okay, you may disagree with Ice,
but you're not really protesting. You're not sharing a message,
you're not forwarding a cause, you're not helping your cause,
you're not in any way advancing an issue. You're not
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even confronting Ice. You're not doing anything which supposedly the
protest is about. And this is something I'd meant to
say opening up the show. When you have protests like these,
what I mean by that is impromptu protests once which
aren't planned. In other words, you were reacting to something
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Ice did, or you're reacting to a positioning of the
National Guard, or you're reacting to an announcement that marines
are coming. Those impromptu ones, you don't have a permit,
like Michael Monks was talking about, you don't have an
established area that you're protesting. Well, these are not private events,
These aren't invitation only events. And when that happens, you know, Twalie,
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remember when we would we would have open parties where
you just open the door and start playing music and
whoever was in the neighborhood that coming to the party. Well,
that's kind of like these protests, you know, and like
the open parties were. We don't do it anymore for a
number of reasons, because you don't know who's going to
walk in your house, or why the protests are open.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Anyone who could be.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
In alignment with you, agreement with you, out of alignment,
disagreement with you, only there to start some trouble, only
there to put your protests in a bad light.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, come one, come all.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And those are the things I think people forget you
as a protester, a legitimate protester, someone who cares deeply
about immigration reform, who cares deeply about due process or
how these arrests are being affected or or how you
know these raids are being administered. If you're a genuine protester,
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invariably you're going to have people joining you who are
not because you cannot control who's going to show up
to your quote unquote protest party. And I wish protesters
were a little bit more self aware in that regard,
because we hear it all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It say no, no, no, no, no. We were just to.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Protest and we had these agitators, Well, you have to
know they're going to be there, and that's not to
excuse them, but that's also you have to be prepared
for that as well. You have to have your message prepared,
you have to you have your delivery vehicle of your
message in place as well, because yes, there's going to
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be an idiot out there who wants to start a
fight with the police today. The protests may be about
ice tomorrow, it may be about Palestine next day, it
may be about police brutality. But that same idiot is
going to be at all those protests doing the same
damn thing, throwing bottles at police, throwing rocks at police,
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trying to instigate and provoke a situation because their agenda
is not the same as yours. And you may have
come out with the greatest and the best of intentions
as far as peacefully protesting, but those are the people
who will always hijack your moment and end up on
the news and the visuals that people see. And I've
been arguing back and forth with people on social media
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today who may not understand the distinction of what you're
seeing and the pervasiveness or prevalence of what you're seeing.
A lot of things that you see on TV are
just b roll looped over and over and over again.
It lacks context, it lacks scale, it lacks perspective, and
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if you watch it over and over again, you think
the whole city's gone up in flames when it hasn't.
You might think that there're thirty thousand people out there
cutting up.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's not the case.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You may think that it's far larger than it actually is.
And that also goes back to what Mark Ronner and
I were talking about maybe an hour ago, with respect
to be very very conscious of the news sources that
you choose, and also be savvy enough to recognize when
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television production, especially is about gaining eyeballs, but it's not
about disseminating information.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I've seen some people circulating footage from years ago claiming
it's current that mayhem on the streets of LA You
really need to be a cautious consumer when you're looking
at this stuff, especially if people are sharing news on
social media and you're not looking at actual journalists.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Right, I was trying to correct a person on social
media who was trying to say breaking news that there
was this bricks palette which was downtown. People were using
bricks to throw And not only was the picture not
from yesterday, it is from twenty twenty. It wasn't even
from Los Angeles. It was from New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Yeah, you got to remember and anything like this where
there are protests and crackdowns. Just as there are chaos
agents within the crowds, there are tons more chaos agents
online spreading misinformation and that only makes everything worse. Literally
everything works.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That is such a great point, there being chaos agents
online because there is a vestent interest in trying to
shape this to fit a particular belief system, a particular
political system. And my job, as I see it, is
to give you the best information possible.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
That's my job.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And now I try to color it in with some
histories like, hey, this is how I came to this conclusion,
or this is why I think it does not rise
to a certain level or it has exceeded a certain level.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
But it's nothing deeper than that. For me.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I mean, I care about the issue you, but not
to the point of trying to manipulate the issue.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yeah, pardon me. Earlier you had mentioned not having a
dog in the fight. I think both are dogs in
the fighter getting accurate information right to people, because that's
just about the most important thing right now. There are
all sorts of people who have their own agendas, propaganda,
they want to spread spins, they want to put on
everything I care about accurate information, particularly on the people's airwaves.
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You might think I'm cheesy when I say this, but
I think when you are putting information out on the
public's airwaves, it must be truthful.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
What concerns me in addition to that is when people
try to characterize these events in absolutes and disregard nuance,
disregard contexts, disregard scale.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
They're doing a disservice to people.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
They are miscategorizing and misinforming people. It may not be
quote unquote intentional, but it is misleading.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, it's not a game.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Misinformation and this information have consequences, and we do everything
we can to avoid that here.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And I hope people appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's KFI am six forty, I'm O Kelly, he's Mark Ronner.
We are the truth tellers. Is that it we aspired,
we aspire to be. We'll have more in just a moment.
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Speaker 5 (17:32):
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Speaker 3 (17:34):
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Speaker 2 (17:36):
We're going to stay with you until ten as we
continue our coverage of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
At this point, only downtown.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
There's nothing happening in Santa Ana from what we can tell.
And I need to go back to school because there's
so many flags out there. I can't even tell you
what half those flags are, if they're a country, if
they're a part of a group. There's a mixed American
and Mexican flag out there. A lot of things going on.
But I can say this definitively, and Twalla and I
were talking about this during the break. There are no
more protesters out there. These are just people who are
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looking for trouble at this point. There are no signs
that they're holding up, there are no messages that they're
trying to impart. There's nothing positive as far as their intentions. Now,
I can say that LAPD is starting to move forward again.
It's hard to tell. I want to say there may
be sixty or seventy or so protesters from this camera
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shot that we're looking at on KKW. This is the
last remnants of those who want to say anything. There
were a few protesters who were trying to fire like
roaming candles into the crowd. I don't know if that's
a tear gas canister. Yeah, I think the police are
done that. Yeah, they're done with them.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
They've started throwing some tear gas into the crowd there.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, they've had enough. Yeah, so they're basically going to
push everyone out. And they're not a lot of people.
They're not a lot and for what I can see,
this looks like San Pedro Street, if I can read
the sign correctly. Yeah, San Pedro Street, downtown. So at
this point they're going to move everyone out those who
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are remaining. It has not escalated in any real measurable degree,
but they're still going to push people back. And there's
like a some tear gas which is separating that, separating
now police from the remaining I guess you'll call them protesters,
but the people are just hanging around at this point.
They're not trying to really achieve anything other than to
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agitate and or instigate. There's nothing positive which is going
to be gained at this point. But it is still
at this point, is that someone getting arrested. No, No,
it's not clear what anyone.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Is really doing.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Hit with tear gas, Yeah, and it got picked up,
but it's still relatively under control.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Police are slowly moving forward, still the police line.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Someone threw a firework into the crowd of law enforcement
to break up the police line. Now they've come back
into formation, but it still hasn't had any real impact
on what the police are doing.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
They're still very disciplined.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And more fireworks being thrown at the police officers, but
they're just fireworks.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
They're not like eighties.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It's just we're close to the fourth of July, so
people are bringing in everything they can to disrupt what
is going on downtown. But that's about it, and it's
still it is. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Now we're only
talking about fifty people or so who are actually in
front of police trying to be disruptive, trying to somehow
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agitate law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
They're just so just a few people.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It looks like tear gas that police had thrown into
the crowd out and one of the agitators kicked it back.
Now at law enforcement, we're looking at Kekel let's bring
up some of that audio.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Stefan.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You know, if you can tell when when you hear
those booms like that boom is it's very loud.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I mean it is like an explosion.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
It sounds like I mean it's it's like a firecracker
that's like going off in your ear.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
It's so.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And I yeah, it's really surreal honestly looking at the
way this is play. And I'm sure you know that
the police can't let this go on much longer.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Right, Well, it's interesting we noticed the at which we
saw happened last night too, with the when they would
throw the tear down the canisters and officers would try
to kick it back at them like a soccer.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Player say that game of soccer.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Yeah. Yeah, So now it's you know, pretty incredible. I
answer this question, Mike. You know, we know these are
primarily Venture County Police or please from other jurisdictions.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So Lap you can see the pds.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
They observing all of this and maybe maybe they'll make something,
you know, they create a perimeter.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Yeah, and I'm trying to look. The cchp's got a
fixed wing aircraft above, so they at least guys have
eyes on it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
That way.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
You know, certainly we're in a mutual a situation when
Church County Sheriff's CGP absolutely could call an unlawful assembly.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Now they just don't you know.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
See laped is kind enough to tweet it for us
so we can keep eye on when that happens.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But uh, these.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Officers certainly could be able to do that. Everybody you
see in the black is CHP. That's the primarily their
special response team, mixed in with other officers as well.
And then behind them and it looks like those guys
a little bit further back now, but behind them that's
where we saw.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
The vintur County. Yeah, right there.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
That second line is the ben Churk County Sheriff's Deputies.
So you've got that front line and the reason that
CHP is probably in front is because they appear to
be a little bit more prepared for the situation. They're
in some little bit more tactical gear. Uh there, as
you see, and then we'll have this situation here where
now you've got this big gap between the protesters and
the officers.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
We have this studio on our YouTube show right now
as well. You can see it at mister mc killers
that I think was CHP throwing something.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
It was it looked like one of the protesters came,
picked something up, had his or her hands in the air,
and then was hit by something coming from the other direction.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
So just now, yeah, there should be an officer I
think on the right side of the screen that's got
a launcher that they were launching. This is what we
saw them do last night too, that is launching the
tear gas canisters over into the crowd. And they have
some good distance on those things too. They were able
to shoot them pretty far to get them into the crowd.
And you saw right there, so that guy, I see
him moving around with the black Yeah, so he's that's
one of the tear gas launchers and it was very
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effective on the crowd. And John, if you go back
over to the crowd, I want to see how far
back they went, because that's what we saw yesterday too
on the freeway. It it doesn't feel good and so
this will really weed out the people who are like, Okay,
it's time to go home, and the other people who
are here to you know, cause problems.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And if you can see it on our YouTube show,
you can see that people seem to have given up.
At this point, the remaining protesters seem to be, for
the most part, all walking away and actually getting in
their cars. I don't know how close they could have
gotten their cars to that location, but they are entering
their cars on San Pedro Street downtown and starting to
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drive away. What was maybe fifty people when we started
this segment, I would have to say it's down to
maybe twenty is what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Stragglers which remain. We got one more segment.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
We'll let you know everything we see, everything we hear,
and everything we know before we go.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
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I think, and I don't want to get ahead of
myself and sort of contradict everything I said, but I
do expect there to be more ice rays in southern
California tomorrow because why the Marines are coming.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
So it almost almost.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Be counterintuitive to think that the President was not about
the business of making sure that there were more federal
arrests and raids in southern California because you have the
expanded National Guard. I think two thousand more were being deployed,
as well as the seven hundred Marines. That just says
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they're going to be more ice rays tomorrow. Well, does
that mean specifically in the downtown area?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
We saw that they were in Paramount if I'm not mistaken,
earlier today. So there'll be other cities around the Southland
which I would expect them to be mark. You said Dallas.
Do we know anything more about what might be happening
in Dallas?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
No, I just saw the same kinds of footage of
crackdowns on protesters in Dallas. I don't have a lot
of detail yet. Just give me a moment's OK.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But if anything, that's another city that we should be
watching for tomorrow. And there are people all around the
country who are watching la and if we want to
make a comparison to twenty twenty, a lot of it
had to do with people watching the coverage and then
protesting right where they are. I expect there to be
other protests around the country in the coming days, which
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may not be directly connected to ice raids. It may
be just an expression of anti ICE sentiment around the
country because of what they see in Southern California. And
there'll be more to see in Southern California if only
because of the National Guard and the Marines and more
ICE rays. There likely will be more protests if we
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can keep them nonviolent like they were tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Fantastic, Absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Do I think the protesters accomplished anything, Absolutely not, Absolutely not.
And here's something that's different now than maybe nineteen ninety two.
In fact, I know this is something different now than
in nineteen ninety two. You don't have a generation of
or I should say you back then, you didn't have
a generation of people who were that had grown up
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with the phone in their hand and desperate to get
content for their social media.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
You see, the.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Would be protesters and agitators all have phones, always trying
to record and get content for whatever reasons, for their
social media channels. And I think that extends a lot
of these encounters because they're looking to generate content and
some are looking to generate some sort of conflict. You
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didn't have that in nineteen ninety two because there was
nothing other than just TV, and after a certain point,
that's not going to be enough for everyone to hang around.
But because of social media, these take on a different
feel and a level of importance with people who don't
have any connection to this at all. I know that
there are social media warriors out there right now who
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are just about trying to get stuff up on x
or on threads or their Facebook page just for that
reason to generate content. Don't have any real interest in
the issue, don't have any real interest in immigration or
immigration reform or ice or anything like that. They're just
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there so they can document whatever they can and also
show all their followers that they were somehow part of it. Now,
I just got to ask you this to aller and
I don't mean to put too much of your business
out there, but I think you can handle this question.
Is this a moment where you sit your kids down
and say this is going on, that's going on, you know,
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try to give them some context, or do they just
kind of figure it out on their own.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I actually had to have a conversation with my son
who decided he wanted to go and hang out with
his friends and go to the beach over the weekend,
to which point I said, hey, man, I need you
to understand you and you can spread this too through
your whole crew. Right now in La it is tense.
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We do know that the National Guard is on their way,
and this was late yesterday. We knew the National Guards
all the way. We know that they are arresting people.
We don't know yet if there's any type of curfew.
I know that there was something going on on the
freeway on my way here. I need you to be very,
very careful. I would appreciate it if you all would
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just go somewhere and stay there, don't be out, okay.
And I said to Mark because he was going to
go to the beach and I was going to do
today and on Sunday, Sunday, And I said, before you go,
before you go, you need to call me because I'm
monitoring the news and if it is looking too crazy,
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you would not be going anywhere. I understand you're grown,
but you are my grown son, all right, and I
will be coming to get you if it's going down,
and if you do go, be back before dark. The
whole conversation we had to have before he made any moves,
because it's just I can't have my son get caught
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up in any madness, just trying to get home.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
No, I was concerned about just driving in tonight because
we didn't know what today was going to look like.
Was it going to be an escalation of last night
or was it going to be like tonight a de escalation.
Because I told Tawala and I have a full broadcast
studio at home, I was not sure whether I was
going to be able to drive and get through downtown
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right if people were blocking freeways or they're just blocking downtown.
We heard Michael Monks talk about how they had shut
down certain exits downtown. Well, if you've ever driven the
one T in North and I know Stephan could speak
to this, the overpasses. As you get closer to downtown,
you will see more and more political signs and protests
just on a normal day, you know, and at a
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time like this, conceivably they could have shut down the
one ten freeway and I just would have been, as
they say, asked out, you know, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
And also I had to think.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
About if tonight had turned into something really bad, how
do I get home?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Now.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
I'll see we've got a car, we're driving out into
the street for what reason?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
What is happening here?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, we have some idiot who hopefully is not going
to do something stupid with this car we're monitoring. Kekal
right now. He made this U turn for some dubious
reason on a street where he should not be driving,
and is slowly approaching back to the protest area. Hey, Stephan,
before we close out, let's turn up to the audio
on this real quick.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
I don't know the crowd's we responding again, they're they're
they're kind of pushing.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Back, but I can't really see.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Uh yeah, no, I see, Oh look at you can see. Yah.
The officers have now formed a line and they're moving
further and further down Second Street, and they are pushing
the crowd back to the point where, yeah, they've almost
cleared the entire crowd. Now this okay, that a little
scary there. For a second, I thought this there's a
Toyle Corolla. That's what the watching very quickly toward the officers,
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and it was unclear what it was going to do with.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
The driver turned around. Now, so that's good. It just
everything just seems volatile right now.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Right Okay, it was nothing, but you might have heard
the anchor say, we've got a bit maybe a couple
dozen people left out there, maybe there are not that many.
They're not organized, they're not trying to constructively do anything.
They're just hanging around waiting for something to happen and
maybe start something. But there is no organized protest at
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this point. It's just a few stragglers. So congratulations and
thanks to LAPD. I heard Ventura County Sheriff's Department also
CHP for the job that they did to make sure
that this did not escalate into something violent. We'll see
what happens later on tonight or tomorrow. Keep it here
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K if I AM six forty mo Kelly Here, we're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I was reminded,
you know, you can't just look at this moment in
tonts of right now, these protests, the unrushed, the violence,
you can't just look at it right now. We have
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the World Cup coming to Los Angeles in twenty twenty six.
It's twenty twenty five, okay, we have the recently announced
travel band. I don't know how that's going to impact
the Olympics in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm being very serious.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
If you're precluding people from these countries to travel to
the US, I haven't heard about any special exceptions. Well,
I know that a band is a baby. I don't
know how certain athletes are going to be able to
get in the country. I don't know how this moment
impacts the perception of Los Angeles' big picture on the
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world stage. I don't know how this impacts Karen Bass
and her bid for reelection. And let's be honest, can
anybody tell me who's running against her presently? Anyone anyone,
because I've been in pitch battle with people on social
media who are trying to tell me that this is
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going to be the end of Karen Bass's career. I
just can't find anyone who's running against her. Now, is
it likely going to be Rick Caruso? Possibly? Possibly, but
not definitely. And we always talk about on this show,
you know, why is it? I'm sorry, I am straying
(01:55):
in the politics. Now, why is Los Angeles and California
keep voting for Democrats? Who is running from the Republican
Party right now? For mayor for an election which is
next year? That's not a rhetorical question. In other words,
I would love to know, because from my information, there
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isn't anyone. And for all the complaints about Los Angeles,
you would think this is the perfect time to jump
in the race. Right after the fires. You now have this,
you can complain about Metro. There are plenty of issues
to run on. I don't know. And if anyone is
going to tell you what's going to happen definitively next year,
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they're lying because they don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You don't know, Marcus, very smart, he doesn't know. Now
we can use the past as prologue to say, hey,
this happened in the past, and it usually impacts a
city or an election this way, that way, or what
have you. But no one can tell you what's going
to happen. And I know it's it's cool to get
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on social media and make all these proclamations. It's cool
to do that, and you know, call your shot. We're
always in this world of hot takes. Well, I'm gonna
give a hot take about what's going to happen now
because of this, Because of this, the Democrats are going
to lose the midterms.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't know that, you don't know that.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
We don't know what this country's going to look like
in two weeks. There could be more protests in Miami
next week, next week.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And it may change the whole perception of things.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And I don't mean to get real macabre and morbid,
but Mark Ronner is old enough and twelve is old
enough to know what I'm talking about. If I mentioned
Kent State and what happened to Kent State and how
that drastically changed the view of the Vietnam War and
also the elections in and around Kent State, whence you
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had members of I think with Army National Guard kill
four students at Kent State, that drastically changed everything. And
the only reason I mentioned that is because we have
not had a time since then where we've had the
military used in such a way to quell protests, and
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that's what it is for, to quell protests. We don't
know where any of this is going to leave. We
don't know what any of the unintended consequences are of that.
And I know it's cool, hot take. This is going
to happen. That's going to happen. Nobody knows at all.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Don't skip over the fact that and you hit on
it and you just glossed over it. This is happening
in La. What happens when these ice raids travel around
the country. Because President Trump didn't just say I'm going
to conduct ice raids on southern California. Only he said
(04:56):
he was going to and he gave a number. Forgive
me for forgetting the number, but he says, I'm going
to get rid of illegal immigrants in the United States, period.
So this could go to Miami, this could go to Detroit,
this could go to Chicago, this could.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Go all over the place. This all it's happening in
Dallas right now. Oh, Dallas, right now? Yeah, okay, wow.
And it also impacts different communities. You mentioned Detroit.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I think that's one of the largest arib American communities
in the country. You can say Miami, that's Cubans and
Cuban Americans, and I say Cuban Americans because there are
people who may be citizens whose relatives are not. They
may be just protected status. There's no telling how all
this is going to impact this city. There's no telling
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how this is going to impact our state, in our country.
And I'm not talking about the foolishness of you know,
supposedly going to arrest Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom's that's theater.
That's that's grand standing. That's not actual policy which is
going on. This is a time I think the historians
of the twenty second century are going to look back
(06:04):
and really dig into what and why happened. This is
one of those moments when we're living through history which
really defy explanation and don't have a solid comparison point.
There are things that we can say this is reminiscent
of that in history, Like I can say this is
reminiscent of nineteen seventy, or I can say this is
reminiscent of nineteen sixty five, but it's not exactly the
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same for a lot of reasons, like, for example, the
only other time in which a president stepped in and
summoned the National Guard against the wishes of a governor
was during the Civil Rights movement in nineteen sixty five
to enforce integration, and the National Guard was called in
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to protect the students who were trying to integrate.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It wasn't to back up law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It was truly about protecting students who were trying to
go Black sat students who are trying to go to school.
This is you can say this is the second time
in history that has happened, and that's accurate, but it's
different circumstances and to accomplish different ends.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It's completely different.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So there are things like history doesn't repeat itself, but
there is a rhyme here. There's some similarities. It can
sound the same, but it's not exactly the same. It's
KFI AM six forty. I'm o Kelly. We're going to
keep following what's going on, just to let you know.
The protests are largely disappointing, excuse me, dissipating downtown. There
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is still considerable police activity.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
If you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Kekel right now, you can see the police are lined
up for blocks and blocks, just in case anything should happen.
But it doesn't seem as if there is a sizeable
contingent of protesters.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
There are people.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Still milling around downtown, but not with any real direction,
intent or actually protests. You see a few Mexico flags,
American flags being waved, but it doesn't seem like there's
any real interaction with police. They're not in their space.
In other words, they're not at least physically provoking them.
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We can't hear what protesters are saying, but it doesn't
seem like there's any type of activity. There's nothing being
thrown at the officers. The I would say, is it
fair to say Twilve law enforcement seems relatively relaxed.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
A lot of them are sitting down.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, they're just they're standing, they're monitoring, they're not interacting.
I mean, there is, like you said, blocks and blocks
of police cars with their lights kind of flashing as
if to just let it be known that they're in
the area. But there's nothing happening right now, and they
seem to have kettled all of the crowd into one area.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well, there's obviously an idiot with a laser pointer.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, I was saying that at the at the helicopter idiot. Well,
I mean, come on, we knew there's some idiots in
the crowd. To be honest, there are idiots in the crowd.
But we're going to continue to follow it and we'll
let you know if this situation should materially change.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
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Six forty mo Kelly, Here'll be with you until ten
o'clock and we've dedicated to today's show to the events
in Los Angeles and Santa Anna. During the break, there
was a cutaway I think it was by k Cow
They went to Santa Anna and there was nothing going on,
absolutely nothing. There were some National guardsmen, some humbies station
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there position there, but as far as protesters, absolutely no one.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
There were.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
There was no presence really around the Federal building in
Santa Anna. So anything which is going on at this
point is going on downtown in LA and it's just
law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Standing kind of steering.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Get the remaining protesters, and let me say, if you're
out at this point, it's kind of hard for me
to call you a protester. Okay, you may disagree with Ice,
but you're not really protesting. You're not sharing a message,
you're not forwarding a cause, you're not helping your cause,
you're not in any way advancing an issue. You're not
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even confronting Ice. You're not doing anything which supposedly the
protest is about. And this is something I'd meant to
say opening up the show. When you have protests like these,
what I mean by that is impromptu protests once which
aren't planned. In other words, you were reacting to something
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Ice did, or you're reacting to a positioning of the
National Guard, or you're reacting to an announcement that marines
are coming. Those impromptu ones, you don't have a permit,
like Michael Monks was talking about, you don't have an
established area that you're protesting. Well, these are not private events,
These aren't invitation only events. And when that happens, you know, Twalie,
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remember when we would we would have open parties where
you just open the door and start playing music and
whoever was in the neighborhood that coming to the party. Well,
that's kind of like these protests, you know, and like
the open parties were. We don't do it anymore for a
number of reasons, because you don't know who's going to
walk in your house, or why the protests are open.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Anyone who could be.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
In alignment with you, agreement with you, out of alignment,
disagreement with you, only there to start some trouble, only
there to put your protests in a bad light.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, come one, come all.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And those are the things I think people forget you
as a protester, a legitimate protester, someone who cares deeply
about immigration reform, who cares deeply about due process or
how these arrests are being affected or or how you
know these raids are being administered. If you're a genuine protester,
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invariably you're going to have people joining you who are
not because you cannot control who's going to show up
to your quote unquote protest party. And I wish protesters
were a little bit more self aware in that regard,
because we hear it all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It say no, no, no, no, no. We were just to.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Protest and we had these agitators, Well, you have to
know they're going to be there, and that's not to
excuse them, but that's also you have to be prepared
for that as well. You have to have your message prepared,
you have to you have your delivery vehicle of your
message in place as well, because yes, there's going to
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be an idiot out there who wants to start a
fight with the police today. The protests may be about
ice tomorrow, it may be about Palestine next day, it
may be about police brutality. But that same idiot is
going to be at all those protests doing the same
damn thing, throwing bottles at police, throwing rocks at police,
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trying to instigate and provoke a situation because their agenda
is not the same as yours. And you may have
come out with the greatest and the best of intentions
as far as peacefully protesting, but those are the people
who will always hijack your moment and end up on
the news and the visuals that people see. And I've
been arguing back and forth with people on social media
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today who may not understand the distinction of what you're
seeing and the pervasiveness or prevalence of what you're seeing.
A lot of things that you see on TV are
just b roll looped over and over and over again.
It lacks context, it lacks scale, it lacks perspective, and
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if you watch it over and over again, you think
the whole city's gone up in flames when it hasn't.
You might think that there're thirty thousand people out there
cutting up.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's not the case.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You may think that it's far larger than it actually is.
And that also goes back to what Mark Ronner and
I were talking about maybe an hour ago, with respect
to be very very conscious of the news sources that
you choose, and also be savvy enough to recognize when
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television production, especially is about gaining eyeballs, but it's not
about disseminating information.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I've seen some people circulating footage from years ago claiming
it's current that mayhem on the streets of LA You
really need to be a cautious consumer when you're looking
at this stuff, especially if people are sharing news on
social media and you're not looking at actual journalists.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Right, I was trying to correct a person on social
media who was trying to say breaking news that there
was this bricks palette which was downtown. People were using
bricks to throw And not only was the picture not
from yesterday, it is from twenty twenty. It wasn't even
from Los Angeles. It was from New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Yeah, you got to remember and anything like this where
there are protests and crackdowns. Just as there are chaos
agents within the crowds, there are tons more chaos agents
online spreading misinformation and that only makes everything worse. Literally
everything works.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That is such a great point, there being chaos agents
online because there is a vestent interest in trying to
shape this to fit a particular belief system, a particular
political system. And my job, as I see it, is
to give you the best information possible.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
That's my job.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And now I try to color it in with some
histories like, hey, this is how I came to this conclusion,
or this is why I think it does not rise
to a certain level or it has exceeded a certain level.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
But it's nothing deeper than that. For me.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I mean, I care about the issue you, but not
to the point of trying to manipulate the issue.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yeah, pardon me. Earlier you had mentioned not having a
dog in the fight. I think both are dogs in
the fighter getting accurate information right to people, because that's
just about the most important thing right now. There are
all sorts of people who have their own agendas, propaganda,
they want to spread spins, they want to put on
everything I care about accurate information, particularly on the people's airwaves.
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You might think I'm cheesy when I say this, but
I think when you are putting information out on the
public's airwaves, it must be truthful.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
What concerns me in addition to that is when people
try to characterize these events in absolutes and disregard nuance,
disregard contexts, disregard scale.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
They're doing a disservice to people.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
They are miscategorizing and misinforming people. It may not be
quote unquote intentional, but it is misleading.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, it's not a game.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Misinformation and this information have consequences, and we do everything
we can to avoid that here.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And I hope people appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's KFI am six forty, I'm O Kelly, he's Mark Ronner.
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Speaker 2 (17:36):
We're going to stay with you until ten as we
continue our coverage of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
At this point, only downtown.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
There's nothing happening in Santa Ana from what we can tell.
And I need to go back to school because there's
so many flags out there. I can't even tell you
what half those flags are, if they're a country, if
they're a part of a group. There's a mixed American
and Mexican flag out there. A lot of things going on.
But I can say this definitively, and Twalla and I
were talking about this during the break. There are no
more protesters out there. These are just people who are
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looking for trouble at this point. There are no signs
that they're holding up, there are no messages that they're
trying to impart. There's nothing positive as far as their intentions. Now,
I can say that LAPD is starting to move forward again.
It's hard to tell. I want to say there may
be sixty or seventy or so protesters from this camera
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shot that we're looking at on KKW. This is the
last remnants of those who want to say anything. There
were a few protesters who were trying to fire like
roaming candles into the crowd. I don't know if that's
a tear gas canister. Yeah, I think the police are
done that. Yeah, they're done with them.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
They've started throwing some tear gas into the crowd there.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, they've had enough. Yeah, so they're basically going to
push everyone out. And they're not a lot of people.
They're not a lot and for what I can see,
this looks like San Pedro Street, if I can read
the sign correctly. Yeah, San Pedro Street, downtown. So at
this point they're going to move everyone out those who
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are remaining. It has not escalated in any real measurable degree,
but they're still going to push people back. And there's
like a some tear gas which is separating that, separating
now police from the remaining I guess you'll call them protesters,
but the people are just hanging around at this point.
They're not trying to really achieve anything other than to
(19:34):
agitate and or instigate. There's nothing positive which is going
to be gained at this point. But it is still
at this point, is that someone getting arrested. No, No,
it's not clear what anyone.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Is really doing.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Hit with tear gas, Yeah, and it got picked up,
but it's still relatively under control.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Police are slowly moving forward, still the police line.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Someone threw a firework into the crowd of law enforcement
to break up the police line. Now they've come back
into formation, but it still hasn't had any real impact
on what the police are doing.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
They're still very disciplined.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And more fireworks being thrown at the police officers, but
they're just fireworks.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
They're not like eighties.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It's just we're close to the fourth of July, so
people are bringing in everything they can to disrupt what
is going on downtown. But that's about it, and it's
still it is. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Now we're only
talking about fifty people or so who are actually in
front of police trying to be disruptive, trying to somehow
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agitate law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
They're just so just a few people.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It looks like tear gas that police had thrown into
the crowd out and one of the agitators kicked it back.
Now at law enforcement, we're looking at Kekel let's bring
up some of that audio.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Stefan.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You know, if you can tell when when you hear
those booms like that boom is it's very loud.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I mean it is like an explosion.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
It sounds like I mean it's it's like a firecracker
that's like going off in your ear.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
It's so.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And I yeah, it's really surreal honestly looking at the
way this is play. And I'm sure you know that
the police can't let this go on much longer.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Right, Well, it's interesting we noticed the at which we
saw happened last night too, with the when they would
throw the tear down the canisters and officers would try
to kick it back at them like a soccer.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Player say that game of soccer.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Yeah. Yeah, So now it's you know, pretty incredible. I
answer this question, Mike. You know, we know these are
primarily Venture County Police or please from other jurisdictions.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So Lap you can see the pds.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
They observing all of this and maybe maybe they'll make something,
you know, they create a perimeter.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Yeah, and I'm trying to look. The cchp's got a
fixed wing aircraft above, so they at least guys have
eyes on it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
That way.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
You know, certainly we're in a mutual a situation when
Church County Sheriff's CGP absolutely could call an unlawful assembly.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Now they just don't you know.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
See laped is kind enough to tweet it for us
so we can keep eye on when that happens.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But uh, these.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Officers certainly could be able to do that. Everybody you
see in the black is CHP. That's the primarily their
special response team, mixed in with other officers as well.
And then behind them and it looks like those guys
a little bit further back now, but behind them that's
where we saw.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
The vintur County. Yeah, right there.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
That second line is the ben Churk County Sheriff's Deputies.
So you've got that front line and the reason that
CHP is probably in front is because they appear to
be a little bit more prepared for the situation. They're
in some little bit more tactical gear. Uh there, as
you see, and then we'll have this situation here where
now you've got this big gap between the protesters and
the officers.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
We have this studio on our YouTube show right now
as well. You can see it at mister mc killers
that I think was CHP throwing something.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
It was it looked like one of the protesters came,
picked something up, had his or her hands in the air,
and then was hit by something coming from the other direction.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
So just now, yeah, there should be an officer I
think on the right side of the screen that's got
a launcher that they were launching. This is what we
saw them do last night too, that is launching the
tear gas canisters over into the crowd. And they have
some good distance on those things too. They were able
to shoot them pretty far to get them into the crowd.
And you saw right there, so that guy, I see
him moving around with the black Yeah, so he's that's
one of the tear gas launchers and it was very
(23:40):
effective on the crowd. And John, if you go back
over to the crowd, I want to see how far
back they went, because that's what we saw yesterday too
on the freeway. It it doesn't feel good and so
this will really weed out the people who are like, Okay,
it's time to go home, and the other people who
are here to you know, cause problems.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And if you can see it on our YouTube show,
you can see that people seem to have given up.
At this point, the remaining protesters seem to be, for
the most part, all walking away and actually getting in
their cars. I don't know how close they could have
gotten their cars to that location, but they are entering
their cars on San Pedro Street downtown and starting to
(24:16):
drive away. What was maybe fifty people when we started
this segment, I would have to say it's down to
maybe twenty is what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Stragglers which remain. We got one more segment.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
We'll let you know everything we see, everything we hear,
and everything we know before we go.
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I think, and I don't want to get ahead of
myself and sort of contradict everything I said, but I
do expect there to be more ice rays in southern
California tomorrow because why the Marines are coming.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
So it almost almost.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Be counterintuitive to think that the President was not about
the business of making sure that there were more federal
arrests and raids in southern California because you have the
expanded National Guard. I think two thousand more were being deployed,
as well as the seven hundred Marines. That just says
(25:25):
they're going to be more ice rays tomorrow. Well, does
that mean specifically in the downtown area?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
We saw that they were in Paramount if I'm not mistaken,
earlier today. So there'll be other cities around the Southland
which I would expect them to be mark. You said Dallas.
Do we know anything more about what might be happening
in Dallas?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
No, I just saw the same kinds of footage of
crackdowns on protesters in Dallas. I don't have a lot
of detail yet. Just give me a moment's OK.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But if anything, that's another city that we should be
watching for tomorrow. And there are people all around the
country who are watching la and if we want to
make a comparison to twenty twenty, a lot of it
had to do with people watching the coverage and then
protesting right where they are. I expect there to be
other protests around the country in the coming days, which
(26:17):
may not be directly connected to ice raids. It may
be just an expression of anti ICE sentiment around the
country because of what they see in Southern California. And
there'll be more to see in Southern California if only
because of the National Guard and the Marines and more
ICE rays. There likely will be more protests if we
(26:38):
can keep them nonviolent like they were tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Fantastic, Absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Do I think the protesters accomplished anything, Absolutely not, Absolutely not.
And here's something that's different now than maybe nineteen ninety two.
In fact, I know this is something different now than
in nineteen ninety two. You don't have a generation of
or I should say you back then, you didn't have
a generation of people who were that had grown up
(27:06):
with the phone in their hand and desperate to get
content for their social media.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
You see, the.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Would be protesters and agitators all have phones, always trying
to record and get content for whatever reasons, for their
social media channels. And I think that extends a lot
of these encounters because they're looking to generate content and
some are looking to generate some sort of conflict. You
(27:35):
didn't have that in nineteen ninety two because there was
nothing other than just TV, and after a certain point,
that's not going to be enough for everyone to hang around.
But because of social media, these take on a different
feel and a level of importance with people who don't
have any connection to this at all. I know that
there are social media warriors out there right now who
(27:57):
are just about trying to get stuff up on x
or on threads or their Facebook page just for that
reason to generate content. Don't have any real interest in
the issue, don't have any real interest in immigration or
immigration reform or ice or anything like that. They're just
(28:17):
there so they can document whatever they can and also
show all their followers that they were somehow part of it. Now,
I just got to ask you this to aller and
I don't mean to put too much of your business
out there, but I think you can handle this question.
Is this a moment where you sit your kids down
and say this is going on, that's going on, you know,
(28:42):
try to give them some context, or do they just
kind of figure it out on their own.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I actually had to have a conversation with my son
who decided he wanted to go and hang out with
his friends and go to the beach over the weekend,
to which point I said, hey, man, I need you
to understand you and you can spread this too through
your whole crew. Right now in La it is tense.
(29:07):
We do know that the National Guard is on their way,
and this was late yesterday. We knew the National Guards
all the way. We know that they are arresting people.
We don't know yet if there's any type of curfew.
I know that there was something going on on the
freeway on my way here. I need you to be very,
very careful. I would appreciate it if you all would
(29:29):
just go somewhere and stay there, don't be out, okay.
And I said to Mark because he was going to
go to the beach and I was going to do
today and on Sunday, Sunday, And I said, before you go,
before you go, you need to call me because I'm
monitoring the news and if it is looking too crazy,
(29:51):
you would not be going anywhere. I understand you're grown,
but you are my grown son, all right, and I
will be coming to get you if it's going down,
and if you do go, be back before dark. The
whole conversation we had to have before he made any moves,
because it's just I can't have my son get caught
(30:11):
up in any madness, just trying to get home.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
No, I was concerned about just driving in tonight because
we didn't know what today was going to look like.
Was it going to be an escalation of last night
or was it going to be like tonight a de escalation.
Because I told Tawala and I have a full broadcast
studio at home, I was not sure whether I was
going to be able to drive and get through downtown
(30:36):
right if people were blocking freeways or they're just blocking downtown.
We heard Michael Monks talk about how they had shut
down certain exits downtown. Well, if you've ever driven the
one T in North and I know Stephan could speak
to this, the overpasses. As you get closer to downtown,
you will see more and more political signs and protests
just on a normal day, you know, and at a
(30:59):
time like this, conceivably they could have shut down the
one ten freeway and I just would have been, as
they say, asked out, you know, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
And also I had to think.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
About if tonight had turned into something really bad, how
do I get home?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Now.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
I'll see we've got a car, we're driving out into
the street for what reason?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
What is happening here?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, we have some idiot who hopefully is not going
to do something stupid with this car we're monitoring. Kekal
right now. He made this U turn for some dubious
reason on a street where he should not be driving,
and is slowly approaching back to the protest area. Hey, Stephan,
before we close out, let's turn up to the audio
on this real quick.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
I don't know the crowd's we responding again, they're they're
they're kind of pushing.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Back, but I can't really see.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Uh yeah, no, I see, Oh look at you can see. Yah.
The officers have now formed a line and they're moving
further and further down Second Street, and they are pushing
the crowd back to the point where, yeah, they've almost
cleared the entire crowd. Now this okay, that a little
scary there. For a second, I thought this there's a
Toyle Corolla. That's what the watching very quickly toward the officers,
(32:13):
and it was unclear what it was going to do with.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
The driver turned around. Now, so that's good. It just
everything just seems volatile right now.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Right Okay, it was nothing, but you might have heard
the anchor say, we've got a bit maybe a couple
dozen people left out there, maybe there are not that many.
They're not organized, they're not trying to constructively do anything.
They're just hanging around waiting for something to happen and
maybe start something. But there is no organized protest at
(32:43):
this point. It's just a few stragglers. So congratulations and
thanks to LAPD. I heard Ventura County Sheriff's Department also
CHP for the job that they did to make sure
that this did not escalate into something violent. We'll see
what happens later on tonight or tomorrow. Keep it here
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