June 11, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – PART THREE of Mo’Kelly’s special in-depth coverage of the fifth straight day of protests against the ICE raids in Los Angeles with updates on the curfew for Downtown Los Angeles enacted by Mayor Bass, as well as the LAPD Chief McDonnell’s breakdown on the scope & enforcement of curfew…PLUS – Thoughts on the protests erupting Nationwide over the ICE raids AND how President Trumps forthcoming military parade & birthday celebration will impact the ICE Protests - 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 Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's moo Kelly if I am six forty. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And we are a little
more than an hour in to the curfew which was
announced earlier this evening by LA Mayor Karen Bass. At
this point, there's not much to report as far as
violations of the curfew. We have not heard anything. Now
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there is some video that we've seen. We'll get Daniel
to put it, pull it up of LAPD downtown. They
have affected some arrests. You could see that they have
people against the wall arrest and we can't can't know
necessarily whether it's for a curfew violation in and of itself,
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or was it some act of vandalism and curfew violation.
But for the most part, LAPD seems to be in
a somewhat relaxed posture. It's not like they are being
confronted by any wall of protesters. At this point, there's
not a lot of activity going on downtown, and I
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don't know of any other activity around southern California as
far as other protests which may be going on and
that's a good thing. I'm always hoping for the best.
I don't want any type of violence. I don't want
any type of vandalism. I don't want any type of looting.
We just had a good half hour discussion about what
effective protests are and the strategy which should be employed
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for a particular goal. More times than not, you don't
see that enacted. You don't see that strategy employed, and
so we just have what I call these aimless acts
of exercise where they're not actually protesting, they're not actually marching,
they're just kind of walking aimlessly with no specific location
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destination in mind. But if you missed the message from
or at least a portion of the message announcing the curfew,
I think it's good to play it again. So if
you're just tuning in you didn't hear it earlier when
Mayor Bass was speaking during the Tim Conway Junior Show.
He didn't hear LAPD chief Jim McDonald speaking during the
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Tim Conway Junior Show. Here was their initial update, just
a portion of it, so you know that the curfew
was announced, its parameters and boundaries, and also the expectations
of anyone who expects to go anywhere near downtown.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Many businesses have now been affected by our vandalized Last night,
there were twenty three businesses that were looted, and I
think that if you drive through downtown LA, the graffiti
is everywhere and has caused significant damages to businesses and
a number of properties. So my message to you is
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if you do not live or work in downtown LA,
avoid the area. Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break
the curfew and you will be prosecuted.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Hundreds of officers.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
From police and sheriff departments from across the region and
state are working alongside LAPD through a unified command structure.
The curfew will be an advice tonight from eight pm
until six am. I want to thank the Governor for
his partnership, and especially thank our state and local leaders
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and deputies officers and deputies who are working tirelessly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So curfew guidance again.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It will begin at eight pm tonight and go until
six am tomorrow. I will consult with elected leaders in
law enforcement officials tomorrow on the continuation of the curfew,
but we certainly expect for it to last for several days.
The curfew will be the curfew area will be between
the five Freeway and to the one and the ten
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Freeway to where the one, ten Freeway and five Freeway merge.
You look and look at the map and you can
see that the city of Los Angeles is a massive
area five hundred and two square miles. The area of
downtown where the curfew will take place is one square mile.
I think it is important to point this out, not
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to minimize the vandalism and violence that has taken place there.
It has been significant, but it is extremely important to
know that what is happening in this one square mile
is not affecting the city. Some of the imagery of
the protests and the violence gives the appearance as though
this is a city wide crisis, and it is not so.
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Who everyone must abide by this curfew. Limited exceptions will
apply for residents, people traveling to and from work, and
credentialed media representatives.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was Mayor Bath a portion of her remarks. If
you're looking at our YouTube show, you can see Mayor
Bass as she was speaking earlier today, but there was
also remarks right after that by LAPD chief Jim McDonald.
And it's important that we play this so you know
exactly what are the expectations surrounding the curfew. Mayor Bass
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gave you some of the boundaries and the limits, but
I think Jim McDonald better contextualized expectations of you as
a resident. Maybe if you live in that area, or
if you happen to be traveling through that area, or
if you're even if you were to be thinking of
just going down to that area to protest or to
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hang out, to lookie lou to get content for social media,
don't do it.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
As a mayor stated a curfew for the impacted area
shown here, we'll go into effect tonight, and I want
to be absolutely clear that if you win, if you're
within that designated curfew zone between the hours of eight
pm and six am and are not exempt under the order,
you're going to be subject to arrest. The curfew boundaries
of as follows from the five Freeway to the one
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ten Freeway and from the ten Freeway to the point
where the one to ten and the five merge. Easier
to look at it on that map for description. The
curfew is necessary, a necessary measure to protect lives and
safeguard property following several consecutive days of growing unrest throughout
the city. Since Saturday, we've seen a concerning escalation and
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unlawful and dangerous behavior. On Saturday, LAPD officers made twenty
seven arrests on summer On Sunday, that number rose to forty.
By Monday, arrests totaled one hundred and fourteen, and today
alone we've made one hundred and ninety seven arrests. Some
the recent days, it's been as a part of a
unified command with our partner agencies who've responded through Mutual
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Aid Compact and been very very helpful to us, and
we're very thankful for that participation. Of those I mentioned
for today, one hundred and thirty arrested near Commercial and Alameda.
An additional sixty seven were taken into custody after unlawfully
occupying the one oh one freeway near Commercial Street.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Our CHP partners were instrumental in that.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
So again, let me be clear that this behavior blocking freeways,
city streets, and on ramps, refusing to comply with lawful
dispersal orders, and interfering with public safety operations is dangerous, unlawful,
and won't be tolerated if you are in the curfew
zone during the restricted hours without that legal exemption, you
will be arrested. If you an assault an officer in
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any fashion, you will be arrested. We're operating under a
unified command with our partners at the Los Angeles City
Fire Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the California
Highway Patrol. We're fully coordinated and our shared mission is
clear to restore peace and ensure the safety of everyone
in our city. We previously mobilized part of our department
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at LAPD while keeping our ability to be able to
provide the services that our community deserves going. We're going
to be adding to that deployment with additional internal LAPD
resources in the days ahead. The curfew does not apply
to residence within the designated area, individuals experiencing homelessness, credentialed media,
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or public safety and emergency personnel. To be clear, again,
that's not about silencing voices or suppressing lawful protest. When
that expression crosses into unlawful conduct, when lives are put
at risk, and when our city safety is compromised, we
must act, and we will act. We ridge all Angelinos
to cooperate with these public safety measures. Our shared goal
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is to protect our communities and return to a state
of calm and safety for everyone.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Thank you. Let me check in with Mark Ronner before
we go to the actual news break. Mark, we didn't
have a chance to really talk all that much this evening.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Well, there's been a lot going on, and I have
been looking at footage of Faylanx's of National Guard and
cops in riot gear being met with absolutely nobody. So
it's good that we're keeping this in perspective. Somebody else
pointed out that the core area of protest is roughly
three to six blocks in a city of more than
eighteen million people. So if you are seeing things on
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social media suggesting the whole city's on fire or anything
like that, that is absolutely false.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And also for a person who doesn't live here, oftentimes
people will mistake Los Angeles City for Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles County has about eight million people and a
lot of cities, actual cities within it, of course, in
unincorporated areas. La City has about three million people, And
for a person who doesn't understand the topography out here,
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they're not the same. In other words, what happened in
Santa Anna, that's Orange County. Maybe to a person who
lives in New York, it's all La to him or her,
but it's definitely not LA And we'll have other pockets
of protests which are not in LA City, but they're
in LA County, like Paramount, and we saw those protests.
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And for a person who doesn't quite understand how this
place is all connected, you know it's not LA City. Now.
What's happening downtown most definitely LA City, And what's not
happening right now downtown is LA City, absolutely nothing. We
have dozens and dozens of what I think are LAPD
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officers standing waiting hopefully nothing will happen. And I say
that in a very positive way because I don't want
anything to jump off downtown. But I can confidently say,
from what we've seen, what has been reported, what we
know in our own investigations here at KFIM six forty
twenty four hour newsroom, there's nothing of note happening downtown.
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And we'll see if that stays for the at least
for the rest of the evening. Mark Roner will be
with you until midnight. I will be with you until
ten pm. Stay till midnight. No, it's okay. I don't
like you that. No, no, we'll be here together. It'll be fun. No no, no, no, no, no.
My wife is listening right now. She probably you think
she wants you home. No, no, no, no, I don't think that.
I think she wants me, well put this away. She
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probably wants me to do the dishes. Oh yeah, and
you know honeydew stuff. I don't think she wants me
at home for me, honey dude. She wants me to
do stuff which accommodates her. And I'm usually the one
who does the dishes because when I come in, whatever
dishes are in the sink, that's my responsibility. Okay, go
ahead and flee like a dirty coward. Yeah, but look,
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I'm not going to do them at one in the morning.
If I leave here at midnight, what's the point. What's
in it for me? It's all about me, Mark, you're
the one who brought that up. What's in it for me?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Well, the camaraderie of working together during breaking news, of course, yeah,
we already did that during the fires. Okay, time for
a break.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
You're listening too. Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
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Speaker 2 (11:59):
I am six forty O'Kelly here. We're live everywhere on
YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. And we said when all
of this started days ago that what you see here
in Los Angeles, as in the city from ice raids
and tactics employed, would be also used around the country.
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We said that the protests in response to that, what
you see and have seen here in LA you would
also see around the country. As it stands, we're there now.
It doesn't mean that the protests and I'm using that
word in a general sense. I can't get into what
each city is doing individually. And I'm not saying this
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is a coordinated effort per se, because you know, Tawala
will say like it's a leaderless movement for the for
the most part. You know, it's not like there's a
unifying voice or message being expressed. But we do know
that anti ice protests have now begun all around the country,
including the cities of San Francisco, New York, Washington, d C, Milwaukee, Dallas, Chicago,
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and Atlanta. I'm sure on varying levels. Can't speak to
the number of protesters or where it's whether it's focused
to just one borough in New York or one portion
of the city in Atlanta, or you know, or one
area of Dallas, or there are multiple areas. But now
we are getting reports that there are similar anti ICE
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protests in all these cities. Now all those cities are
obviously later in the evening that here, with the exception
of San Francisco in the same time zone tomorrow will
give us a better sense of whether these protests are
just more numerous in cities or whether they're actually growing
in each of the cities. And also more cities are
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coming to these protests or this sentiment. These are the
things that we've been looking out for and watching and
don't know what's going to happen in each city. Each
city is very different. If you know anything about Atlanta,
it's a different social ethic than Los Angeles, if you
know anything about Washington, DC. Very different, And we don't
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know how what happens in one city will either inspire
other cities to alter protests. We don't know whether ICE
will intensify its efforts because of the protest. You know,
is at the actions of ICE which are spurring on
the protest or the protests at this point are they
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spurring on ICE? Because we do know that if violence
should break out, that is a favorable optic for the
Trump administration to do more of what they want to
do and have planned to do.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
But that right there, the points you just made, are
you protesting ICE as a government body and just an
organization in general in the other states and other cities,
because ICE has as of yet not to send it
anywhere else but Los Angeles. So if you are in Chicago,
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if you're in Watchet, if you're in any oh there
are protests going on in Omaha, Nebraska, Okay, got you.
But but but is ICE there actually rounding people up
and arresting them. And that's something that I'm like, I
don't know if you're calling ICE to yours area and
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calling attention to yourselves.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Or what right? Because if it's the goal of the
Trump administration, I say if, because I don't I can't
get my mind into the Trump administration. But if it's
the goal of the Trump administration to escalate these protests
or foment violence, then if I'm the Trump administration and
I see a large protest and let's say Atlanta or
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New Orleans, then I'm going to send ICE to those
cities to further strow up some stuff, and if there's violence,
then I'll send in a National Guard, and then I'll
send in the Marines and so forth. It's kind of
like rent and repeat for the cities. And we know
that what was happening and has been happening in LA
is a testing ground for other cities, not only for
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the Trump administration, but also for mayors. Don't think for
a moment that all these mayors and governors of these
different cities and states where there are protests, they're not
looking at Los Angeles. They're not in direct contact with
mayor baths as far as what should we be on
the lookout for, what type of tactics are being employed?
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You know, are they going to churches? Are are they
going to schools? What type of tactics are they using
to get into these semi public spaces. Because we had
talked about ICE agents do not need a warrant to
arrest people or detain people in public spaces. And a
school is considered a public space, a church in the
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like the communal areas of a church is considered a
public space. Obviously, a home depot, parking lot is considered
a public space. That's why I'm quite sure Council of Mayors.
All these mayors are in contact with each other, even
though Mayor Bass hasn't said it. Look, if you're worried
about ICE coming to your city, who's the first person
you want to call? Mayor Bass? You're gonna call her
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office and see what they are seeing, what they are experiencing.
Like for example, we know that ICE is going to
elementary schools. Elementary schools, yep. That would be important for
another city to know, in the event that they should
show up where Miami, in the event that they should
show up where Detroit arib American population, in the event
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that they should show up in any community where there
is a high influx of foreign individuals. I can't even
say justice Spanix. I mean it's more than that. You know,
we could have a situation where they go back to
Ohio and you know, they target the Haitian population. We
talked about that during the presidential election. So this is
now just coming into focus. As far as the national
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implications of what has been happening here in Los Angeles,
this story is now just getting sted. It started beyond
what you and I are seeing in our city right here.
This is going to play out all around the country
and it's already started.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
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Speaker 2 (18:27):
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Try a little experiment. I want you to imagine for
a moment that you did not turn on the TV
for the past four days. How aware of this unrest
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and protest would you be? How aware? I remember during
the nineteen ninety two Roddy King riots. You could see
the flames, you could see it light up the sky.
You could see well put its way. I lived in
the LA area, all right, so I'm a little closer
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than most, but you could see law enforcement and the
National Guard all up and down the LA Corridor. You
didn't need TV, okay, because people were on their roofs
trying to protect their houses and businesses, and you could
see the businesses light up the sky when they're being
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burned down. There was no question about what was going
on if you weren't watching the TV in LA for
the past four or five days, unless you actually happened
upon you know, downtown, or you were on the one
oh one when they were disrupting and blocking the freeway.
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I don't know how many people would even know what
was going on. I mean that sincerely, because you had
last night the La Sparks game downtown Crypto dot Com
walking distance from the protest, and they were protests. There
was no real you know, rioting air quotes last night.
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Was there looting? Was their lawlessness? Yes, but that's not
the same thing. There was the Bet Awards downtown at
the Convention Center, walking distance from everything that was going on.
It was last night, the first night you had a
soccer match at Bemo Stadium five miles from downtown. You
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had the Pride Parade a couple of miles from downtown.
You know, this is a very specific area, or has
been heretofore, has been a very very specific area within downtown.
And if you are just watching it on TV, it's
like most of the city. You think it's like, oh
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my gosh, it's you know, it's taking the LA's and
chaos and Vernie. No, it is that. I am seven
miles from downtown. I promise you they're days and I
drive through downtown every single day. In fact, Twala, you
were nice stuff to let me know, Hey, don't get
on the one on one.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
But it's not don't come in, it's just go around
ta take the other way around.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That was not the case in ninety two. That was
it was a city wide curfew.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
You know, it's different, especially because now you have social
media fanning these unnecessary flames. I remember being in Pasadena
when the Rodney King verdict riots hit and it was
within I believe within a day that it spread all
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the way to Pasadena with the curfew alone, it was.
It was massive. It was city wide, and it's spread
like wildfire. There were out to Dinas year as there's
LAPD go home, go home curfew. We had cop cars
going down street. There is a curfew in effect, go home.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Beyond the borders of Las Angles, yond on the borders
of Los Angeles. Yes, it's interesting because you know, I
love to trade with people on social media. Some are
good natured, some are in good faith, and a lot
of people are just trolls, and a lot of people
are in bad faith. But when I had someone today
who was trying to argue with me about the state
of la from fricking Arizona, It's like, get the hell
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out my face. I could open my door and the
moment I step outside, I'm in the city of la
I can get in my car and drive about maybe
ten minutes with no traffic to downtown via surface streets
and drive right through everything which is going on. It's
weird how people who were not in any way connected
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to this. That's why I said, like, imagine, you know,
turning off your TV, how basically everyone has gone about
their lives. You know, there hadn't been the types of
disruptions the Dodger celebration after the winning the World Series
in both twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, or the
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Lakers when they won the championship in twenty twenty those
were more violent comparatively speaking. Comparatively speaking, I mean, if
you want to look it up for yourself, the facts
are what the facts are. And you know, we didn't
bring in the National Guard for the Lakers or the Dodgers.
We didn't what happened in Philadelphia after the Super Bowl,
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didn't bring in the national Guard. So we can have
a conversation, or we can have an honest conversation, you know,
but not everyone is interested in an honest conversation. And
also twelve, let me say thank you for getting the
heads up that the one oh one was being shut
down because I was thinking about taking the one on
one because it was so bad on the one ten
and on the five when I didn't know that, people
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were trying to get to the five because they didn't
want to be on the one on one. Oh yeah,
because forgot about that detour. Yeah yeah, people were getting
on the two freeway if you know how it's all
laid out, you know, going from just between the one
oh one and the five. So it kind of messed
up everything. It was a kind of a cascading effect.
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But I made it here. But for the most part,
and I say that to say, for the most part,
our lives have not been disrupted as Angelino's. And I'm
speaking as an Angelino and with the exception of maybe
FOURK reporter, I think we're maybe equidistant from downtown. We're
very close, without giving that word exactly where he lives.
We're about equidistant from downtown. There's no one, akfi who's
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closer to this than me. There's no one. I live this.
I live in the city of la I deal with this.
I was here for nineteen ninety two, I was here
for twenty twenty. You know, I have a point of
reference is as much as people want to deny what
my actual reality is. Has there been violenced, absolutely or
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some waymos set on fire? Absolutely? Has there been alluding? Yes?
Are we talking about twenty twenty? Heck no? Are we
talking about nineteen ninety two? F No. And there is
a portion of society today who is wish casting who
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wants this to be nineteen ninety two. I'm sorry, I
lived through it. It's not. It honestly is not. And
people want to point to, well, we got the National Guard,
we got marines here. This ain't nineteen ninety two. This,
you know, LAPD to their credit, CHP to their credit,
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La County Sheriff's Department to their credit, which again, which
is not La City. They have done a superb job,
a spectacular job with the management of this. And I
don't care who gets the credit. I don't get in
all that. All I'm saying is they've done a wonderful
job managing this, having a plan enacting it. We talked
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with Michael Monks last night and we wanted to like, well,
maybe we should have a curfew to deter people coming
down early enough. Then they brought it the next night.
You know, we didn't have any real issues last night.
We didn't have any real issues tonight. It's a wind
as far as I'm concerned. Unless you're wish casting hoping
for something else, and there are those who are hoping
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for something else that's just not me.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
KFI AM sixty Mo Kelly here. We're still live on
the iHeartRadio app. We're still live on YouTube. Thank you
for all those momigos who are in the Motown Chat.
We appreciate you. It was a very robust discussion tonight,
got a little heated and emotional at times, but these
are the times that we're living in now. Emotions are
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running high. And I was having before we close out
to night. I was having a conversation with Tawala off
air before the show, and we were kind of bouncing around,
not to predict, but to look at the landscape and
how news cycles work, how long this round of protests
would go or at least the ice raids. And I
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was of the opinion and Mark, I would love to
get your insider input as best you can as a newsperson,
But I was of the opinion that these ice raids
are not going to go much longer in this week. Now.
They may resume next week, but they're not going to
go too far into this week. And here is my thinking.
We know that they have the two hundred and fiftieth
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birthday of the Army Parade, which also coincides with the
birthday of the President this Saturday. I don't think there's
any way in the world that the president would risk
having any other news step on that parade, even protests
violent are otherwise. I'm pretty sure he would want all
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the focus as far as news focus on him on
the parade. Now, would do you want the protests as
a lead in? Absolutely, one hundred percent, because you know
this kind of sets the stage for that. But if
there were major protests or violence breaking out from coast
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to coast over the weekend, and the idiots, you're more
prone to have violence over the weekend because, like I said,
over the weekend, you know, that's when people have the
most idle time. They're not going to work for the
most part. You're going to see stuff more likely jump
off on a Friday night or Saturday night as opposed
to a Monday or Tuesday night. As we've seen here,
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you know, the lesson's been going on on this Monday
and Tuesday as opposed to the Friday, Saturday Sunday. I
suspect that given this parade and celebration of the army
and also the President's birthday, that will probably see fewer
ice raids before the end of the week as to
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not step on the parade.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
What say you, Twala, I wholeheartedly agree with that. His
ego cannot allow for something to step on this moment.
He's probably already informed all the other world leaders. Hey,
I want you to tune in on Saturday and see
my parade. Oh sure, see what I have lined up.
You guys may have your marches and your parades and
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all of that, but you haven't seen anything until you've
seen what I've got going up.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
If you have kl KTLA and KNBC and KCBS, KCP
and Fox eleven all covering let's say, an LA protest
and in the cable channels covering a major protest and
not the parade, oh no, no, no no, that would
not be the goal. That would not be the licus.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
They said, no, no, no, no, He's not looking forward
to that. He is looking forward to all eyes being
on his celebration, and as you said, he is in
all likelihood using this moment to amp up and lead
towards his grand speech or whatever it is he has
to say. I told you what I was going to
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do America, and I did it.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I'm rounding them up, I'm getting them out.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
He's got to be a party who wants to phrases
that's what he's going to do.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Mark Ronner, how would you contextualize this moment?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Well, we know there's going to be protests all over
the country for the weekend, especially protests in addition to
the ice raids. The protest because sorry, the parade, because
it's important to point out that we haven't seen a
parade like that in the United States. If you look
at a map of protest points that we know about,
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the map is covered, I mean there's no empty space
and in course of DC. So yeah, then we also
know that Trump said he's gonna come down hard on
people who do protest that parade, So anything could happen.
I mean, I think we should be prepared to get
called into work.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Oh man, you mean I'm not gonna get Saturday off? Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
We have perfectly capable people here at KFI over the weekend,
but we should be ready for anything to happen because
protests are guaranteed. We know how Trump treats protesters as
of now right here in LA and so we should
we should not be surprised if things turn pear shaped.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
It's not abstract to your point, Mark. We know what
the President has said very recently. He said something to
affect paraphrasing that if the protests will be treated with strongly,
they'll be met with force. I would look at us
a point of instigation and a dare. But the protests
have already started. They've already started in Washington, DC. So yeah,
(32:07):
would they protest the parade? Yeah? How close in proximity?
I don't know. And I don't like making predictions big picture,
but I think this is one that I feel comfortable
in making that if there's any type of worry about
the news cycle. This is very important to the president.
He's made that very clear, and since his first administration
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is first term, that he wanted this parade. This is
a big fricking deal to him. Yeah, the last thing
he wants is for it not to be the center
of attention. That's just not what he would want and
what could be the center of attention these other protests
if they get out of hand or they get so
(32:51):
numerous that media is pulled in all sorts of directions
and they don't focus in on the parade and his birthday.
And again, I don't know what happens, but I do
know how media works generally, and media is more apt
to go to where the action is. A parade is
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not action. No, it's hot, It's not. Parade is not hot.
It's not something that if you're a network, that you're
going to spend let's say, an hour on when there's protests, unrest,
what have you going on all around the country. Possibly
presumably you're not Look I love the Hollywood Christmas Parade,
(33:33):
not spending an hour watching it. I love to thank
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I'm not watching it for an hour.
I love the Rose Parade. I'm not watching that for
an hour, especially if there's other stuff more pressing going on,
you know, the news of the moment the parade. I
can watch that on YouTube. I'm I'm just being honest,
(33:54):
you know. Yea, And ratings are very important to the president.
This is this is a big It's a seventy ninth
birthday and a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Army.
Big deal. You don't want anyone to step on his moment.
We'll see what happens, as he says, k if I
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's moo Kelly if I am six forty. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And we are a little
more than an hour in to the curfew which was
announced earlier this evening by LA Mayor Karen Bass. At
this point, there's not much to report as far as
violations of the curfew. We have not heard anything. Now
(00:34):
there is some video that we've seen. We'll get Daniel
to put it, pull it up of LAPD downtown. They
have affected some arrests. You could see that they have
people against the wall arrest and we can't can't know
necessarily whether it's for a curfew violation in and of itself,
(00:54):
or was it some act of vandalism and curfew violation.
But for the most part, LAPD seems to be in
a somewhat relaxed posture. It's not like they are being
confronted by any wall of protesters. At this point, there's
not a lot of activity going on downtown, and I
(01:15):
don't know of any other activity around southern California as
far as other protests which may be going on and
that's a good thing. I'm always hoping for the best.
I don't want any type of violence. I don't want
any type of vandalism. I don't want any type of looting.
We just had a good half hour discussion about what
effective protests are and the strategy which should be employed
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for a particular goal. More times than not, you don't
see that enacted. You don't see that strategy employed, and
so we just have what I call these aimless acts
of exercise where they're not actually protesting, they're not actually marching,
they're just kind of walking aimlessly with no specific location
(01:58):
destination in mind. But if you missed the message from
or at least a portion of the message announcing the curfew,
I think it's good to play it again. So if
you're just tuning in you didn't hear it earlier when
Mayor Bass was speaking during the Tim Conway Junior Show.
He didn't hear LAPD chief Jim McDonald speaking during the
(02:19):
Tim Conway Junior Show. Here was their initial update, just
a portion of it, so you know that the curfew
was announced, its parameters and boundaries, and also the expectations
of anyone who expects to go anywhere near downtown.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Many businesses have now been affected by our vandalized Last night,
there were twenty three businesses that were looted, and I
think that if you drive through downtown LA, the graffiti
is everywhere and has caused significant damages to businesses and
a number of properties. So my message to you is
(02:59):
if you do not live or work in downtown LA,
avoid the area. Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break
the curfew and you will be prosecuted.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Hundreds of officers.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
From police and sheriff departments from across the region and
state are working alongside LAPD through a unified command structure.
The curfew will be an advice tonight from eight pm
until six am. I want to thank the Governor for
his partnership, and especially thank our state and local leaders
(03:32):
and deputies officers and deputies who are working tirelessly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So curfew guidance again.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It will begin at eight pm tonight and go until
six am tomorrow. I will consult with elected leaders in
law enforcement officials tomorrow on the continuation of the curfew,
but we certainly expect for it to last for several days.
The curfew will be the curfew area will be between
the five Freeway and to the one and the ten
(04:01):
Freeway to where the one, ten Freeway and five Freeway merge.
You look and look at the map and you can
see that the city of Los Angeles is a massive
area five hundred and two square miles. The area of
downtown where the curfew will take place is one square mile.
I think it is important to point this out, not
(04:22):
to minimize the vandalism and violence that has taken place there.
It has been significant, but it is extremely important to
know that what is happening in this one square mile
is not affecting the city. Some of the imagery of
the protests and the violence gives the appearance as though
this is a city wide crisis, and it is not so.
(04:45):
Who everyone must abide by this curfew. Limited exceptions will
apply for residents, people traveling to and from work, and
credentialed media representatives.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was Mayor Bath a portion of her remarks. If
you're looking at our YouTube show, you can see Mayor
Bass as she was speaking earlier today, but there was
also remarks right after that by LAPD chief Jim McDonald.
And it's important that we play this so you know
exactly what are the expectations surrounding the curfew. Mayor Bass
(05:19):
gave you some of the boundaries and the limits, but
I think Jim McDonald better contextualized expectations of you as
a resident. Maybe if you live in that area, or
if you happen to be traveling through that area, or
if you're even if you were to be thinking of
just going down to that area to protest or to
(05:40):
hang out, to lookie lou to get content for social media,
don't do it.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
As a mayor stated a curfew for the impacted area
shown here, we'll go into effect tonight, and I want
to be absolutely clear that if you win, if you're
within that designated curfew zone between the hours of eight
pm and six am and are not exempt under the order,
you're going to be subject to arrest. The curfew boundaries
of as follows from the five Freeway to the one
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ten Freeway and from the ten Freeway to the point
where the one to ten and the five merge. Easier
to look at it on that map for description. The
curfew is necessary, a necessary measure to protect lives and
safeguard property following several consecutive days of growing unrest throughout
the city. Since Saturday, we've seen a concerning escalation and
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unlawful and dangerous behavior. On Saturday, LAPD officers made twenty
seven arrests on summer On Sunday, that number rose to forty.
By Monday, arrests totaled one hundred and fourteen, and today
alone we've made one hundred and ninety seven arrests. Some
the recent days, it's been as a part of a
unified command with our partner agencies who've responded through Mutual
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Aid Compact and been very very helpful to us, and
we're very thankful for that participation. Of those I mentioned
for today, one hundred and thirty arrested near Commercial and Alameda.
An additional sixty seven were taken into custody after unlawfully
occupying the one oh one freeway near Commercial Street.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Our CHP partners were instrumental in that.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
So again, let me be clear that this behavior blocking freeways,
city streets, and on ramps, refusing to comply with lawful
dispersal orders, and interfering with public safety operations is dangerous, unlawful,
and won't be tolerated if you are in the curfew
zone during the restricted hours without that legal exemption, you
will be arrested. If you an assault an officer in
(07:35):
any fashion, you will be arrested. We're operating under a
unified command with our partners at the Los Angeles City
Fire Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the California
Highway Patrol. We're fully coordinated and our shared mission is
clear to restore peace and ensure the safety of everyone
in our city. We previously mobilized part of our department
(07:57):
at LAPD while keeping our ability to be able to
provide the services that our community deserves going. We're going
to be adding to that deployment with additional internal LAPD
resources in the days ahead. The curfew does not apply
to residence within the designated area, individuals experiencing homelessness, credentialed media,
(08:19):
or public safety and emergency personnel. To be clear, again,
that's not about silencing voices or suppressing lawful protest. When
that expression crosses into unlawful conduct, when lives are put
at risk, and when our city safety is compromised, we
must act, and we will act. We ridge all Angelinos
to cooperate with these public safety measures. Our shared goal
(08:41):
is to protect our communities and return to a state
of calm and safety for everyone.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Thank you. Let me check in with Mark Ronner before
we go to the actual news break. Mark, we didn't
have a chance to really talk all that much this evening.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Well, there's been a lot going on, and I have
been looking at footage of Faylanx's of National Guard and
cops in riot gear being met with absolutely nobody. So
it's good that we're keeping this in perspective. Somebody else
pointed out that the core area of protest is roughly
three to six blocks in a city of more than
eighteen million people. So if you are seeing things on
(09:18):
social media suggesting the whole city's on fire or anything
like that, that is absolutely false.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And also for a person who doesn't live here, oftentimes
people will mistake Los Angeles City for Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles County has about eight million people and a
lot of cities, actual cities within it, of course, in
unincorporated areas. La City has about three million people, And
for a person who doesn't understand the topography out here,
(09:45):
they're not the same. In other words, what happened in
Santa Anna, that's Orange County. Maybe to a person who
lives in New York, it's all La to him or her,
but it's definitely not LA And we'll have other pockets
of protests which are not in LA City, but they're
in LA County, like Paramount, and we saw those protests.
(10:09):
And for a person who doesn't quite understand how this
place is all connected, you know it's not LA City. Now.
What's happening downtown most definitely LA City, And what's not
happening right now downtown is LA City, absolutely nothing. We
have dozens and dozens of what I think are LAPD
(10:30):
officers standing waiting hopefully nothing will happen. And I say
that in a very positive way because I don't want
anything to jump off downtown. But I can confidently say,
from what we've seen, what has been reported, what we
know in our own investigations here at KFIM six forty
twenty four hour newsroom, there's nothing of note happening downtown.
(10:54):
And we'll see if that stays for the at least
for the rest of the evening. Mark Roner will be
with you until midnight. I will be with you until
ten pm. Stay till midnight. No, it's okay. I don't
like you that. No, no, we'll be here together. It'll be fun. No no, no, no, no, no.
My wife is listening right now. She probably you think
she wants you home. No, no, no, no, I don't think that.
I think she wants me, well put this away. She
(11:16):
probably wants me to do the dishes. Oh yeah, and
you know honeydew stuff. I don't think she wants me
at home for me, honey dude. She wants me to
do stuff which accommodates her. And I'm usually the one
who does the dishes because when I come in, whatever
dishes are in the sink, that's my responsibility. Okay, go
ahead and flee like a dirty coward. Yeah, but look,
(11:37):
I'm not going to do them at one in the morning.
If I leave here at midnight, what's the point. What's
in it for me? It's all about me, Mark, you're
the one who brought that up. What's in it for me?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Well, the camaraderie of working together during breaking news, of course, yeah,
we already did that during the fires. Okay, time for
a break.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
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Speaker 2 (11:59):
I am six forty O'Kelly here. We're live everywhere on
YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. And we said when all
of this started days ago that what you see here
in Los Angeles, as in the city from ice raids
and tactics employed, would be also used around the country.
(12:20):
We said that the protests in response to that, what
you see and have seen here in LA you would
also see around the country. As it stands, we're there now.
It doesn't mean that the protests and I'm using that
word in a general sense. I can't get into what
each city is doing individually. And I'm not saying this
(12:42):
is a coordinated effort per se, because you know, Tawala
will say like it's a leaderless movement for the for
the most part. You know, it's not like there's a
unifying voice or message being expressed. But we do know
that anti ice protests have now begun all around the country,
including the cities of San Francisco, New York, Washington, d C, Milwaukee, Dallas, Chicago,
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and Atlanta. I'm sure on varying levels. Can't speak to
the number of protesters or where it's whether it's focused
to just one borough in New York or one portion
of the city in Atlanta, or you know, or one
area of Dallas, or there are multiple areas. But now
we are getting reports that there are similar anti ICE
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protests in all these cities. Now all those cities are
obviously later in the evening that here, with the exception
of San Francisco in the same time zone tomorrow will
give us a better sense of whether these protests are
just more numerous in cities or whether they're actually growing
in each of the cities. And also more cities are
(13:53):
coming to these protests or this sentiment. These are the
things that we've been looking out for and watching and
don't know what's going to happen in each city. Each
city is very different. If you know anything about Atlanta,
it's a different social ethic than Los Angeles, if you
know anything about Washington, DC. Very different, And we don't
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know how what happens in one city will either inspire
other cities to alter protests. We don't know whether ICE
will intensify its efforts because of the protest. You know,
is at the actions of ICE which are spurring on
the protest or the protests at this point are they
(14:37):
spurring on ICE? Because we do know that if violence
should break out, that is a favorable optic for the
Trump administration to do more of what they want to
do and have planned to do.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
But that right there, the points you just made, are
you protesting ICE as a government body and just an
organization in general in the other states and other cities,
because ICE has as of yet not to send it
anywhere else but Los Angeles. So if you are in Chicago,
(15:10):
if you're in Watchet, if you're in any oh there
are protests going on in Omaha, Nebraska, Okay, got you.
But but but is ICE there actually rounding people up
and arresting them. And that's something that I'm like, I
don't know if you're calling ICE to yours area and
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calling attention to yourselves.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Or what right? Because if it's the goal of the
Trump administration, I say if, because I don't I can't
get my mind into the Trump administration. But if it's
the goal of the Trump administration to escalate these protests
or foment violence, then if I'm the Trump administration and
I see a large protest and let's say Atlanta or
(15:53):
New Orleans, then I'm going to send ICE to those
cities to further strow up some stuff, and if there's violence,
then I'll send in a National Guard, and then I'll
send in the Marines and so forth. It's kind of
like rent and repeat for the cities. And we know
that what was happening and has been happening in LA
is a testing ground for other cities, not only for
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the Trump administration, but also for mayors. Don't think for
a moment that all these mayors and governors of these
different cities and states where there are protests, they're not
looking at Los Angeles. They're not in direct contact with
mayor baths as far as what should we be on
the lookout for, what type of tactics are being employed?
(16:37):
You know, are they going to churches? Are are they
going to schools? What type of tactics are they using
to get into these semi public spaces. Because we had
talked about ICE agents do not need a warrant to
arrest people or detain people in public spaces. And a
school is considered a public space, a church in the
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like the communal areas of a church is considered a
public space. Obviously, a home depot, parking lot is considered
a public space. That's why I'm quite sure Council of Mayors.
All these mayors are in contact with each other, even
though Mayor Bass hasn't said it. Look, if you're worried
about ICE coming to your city, who's the first person
you want to call? Mayor Bass? You're gonna call her
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office and see what they are seeing, what they are experiencing.
Like for example, we know that ICE is going to
elementary schools. Elementary schools, yep. That would be important for
another city to know, in the event that they should
show up where Miami, in the event that they should
show up where Detroit arib American population, in the event
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that they should show up in any community where there
is a high influx of foreign individuals. I can't even
say justice Spanix. I mean it's more than that. You know,
we could have a situation where they go back to
Ohio and you know, they target the Haitian population. We
talked about that during the presidential election. So this is
now just coming into focus. As far as the national
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implications of what has been happening here in Los Angeles,
this story is now just getting sted. It started beyond
what you and I are seeing in our city right here.
This is going to play out all around the country
and it's already started.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
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Speaker 2 (18:27):
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Try a little experiment. I want you to imagine for
a moment that you did not turn on the TV
for the past four days. How aware of this unrest
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and protest would you be? How aware? I remember during
the nineteen ninety two Roddy King riots. You could see
the flames, you could see it light up the sky.
You could see well put its way. I lived in
the LA area, all right, so I'm a little closer
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than most, but you could see law enforcement and the
National Guard all up and down the LA Corridor. You
didn't need TV, okay, because people were on their roofs
trying to protect their houses and businesses, and you could
see the businesses light up the sky when they're being
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burned down. There was no question about what was going
on if you weren't watching the TV in LA for
the past four or five days, unless you actually happened
upon you know, downtown, or you were on the one
oh one when they were disrupting and blocking the freeway.
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I don't know how many people would even know what
was going on. I mean that sincerely, because you had
last night the La Sparks game downtown Crypto dot Com
walking distance from the protest, and they were protests. There
was no real you know, rioting air quotes last night.
(20:18):
Was there looting? Was their lawlessness? Yes, but that's not
the same thing. There was the Bet Awards downtown at
the Convention Center, walking distance from everything that was going on.
It was last night, the first night you had a
soccer match at Bemo Stadium five miles from downtown. You
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had the Pride Parade a couple of miles from downtown.
You know, this is a very specific area, or has
been heretofore, has been a very very specific area within downtown.
And if you are just watching it on TV, it's
like most of the city. You think it's like, oh
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my gosh, it's you know, it's taking the LA's and
chaos and Vernie. No, it is that. I am seven
miles from downtown. I promise you they're days and I
drive through downtown every single day. In fact, Twala, you
were nice stuff to let me know, Hey, don't get
on the one on one.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
But it's not don't come in, it's just go around
ta take the other way around.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That was not the case in ninety two. That was
it was a city wide curfew.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
You know, it's different, especially because now you have social
media fanning these unnecessary flames. I remember being in Pasadena
when the Rodney King verdict riots hit and it was
within I believe within a day that it spread all
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the way to Pasadena with the curfew alone, it was.
It was massive. It was city wide, and it's spread
like wildfire. There were out to Dinas year as there's
LAPD go home, go home curfew. We had cop cars
going down street. There is a curfew in effect, go home.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Beyond the borders of Las Angles, yond on the borders
of Los Angeles. Yes, it's interesting because you know, I
love to trade with people on social media. Some are
good natured, some are in good faith, and a lot
of people are just trolls, and a lot of people
are in bad faith. But when I had someone today
who was trying to argue with me about the state
of la from fricking Arizona, It's like, get the hell
(22:35):
out my face. I could open my door and the
moment I step outside, I'm in the city of la
I can get in my car and drive about maybe
ten minutes with no traffic to downtown via surface streets
and drive right through everything which is going on. It's
weird how people who were not in any way connected
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to this. That's why I said, like, imagine, you know,
turning off your TV, how basically everyone has gone about
their lives. You know, there hadn't been the types of
disruptions the Dodger celebration after the winning the World Series
in both twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, or the
(23:18):
Lakers when they won the championship in twenty twenty those
were more violent comparatively speaking. Comparatively speaking, I mean, if
you want to look it up for yourself, the facts
are what the facts are. And you know, we didn't
bring in the National Guard for the Lakers or the Dodgers.
We didn't what happened in Philadelphia after the Super Bowl,
(23:41):
didn't bring in the national Guard. So we can have
a conversation, or we can have an honest conversation, you know,
but not everyone is interested in an honest conversation. And
also twelve, let me say thank you for getting the
heads up that the one oh one was being shut
down because I was thinking about taking the one on
one because it was so bad on the one ten
and on the five when I didn't know that, people
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were trying to get to the five because they didn't
want to be on the one on one. Oh yeah,
because forgot about that detour. Yeah yeah, people were getting
on the two freeway if you know how it's all
laid out, you know, going from just between the one
oh one and the five. So it kind of messed
up everything. It was a kind of a cascading effect.
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But I made it here. But for the most part,
and I say that to say, for the most part,
our lives have not been disrupted as Angelino's. And I'm
speaking as an Angelino and with the exception of maybe
FOURK reporter, I think we're maybe equidistant from downtown. We're
very close, without giving that word exactly where he lives.
We're about equidistant from downtown. There's no one, akfi who's
(24:46):
closer to this than me. There's no one. I live this.
I live in the city of la I deal with this.
I was here for nineteen ninety two, I was here
for twenty twenty. You know, I have a point of
reference is as much as people want to deny what
my actual reality is. Has there been violenced, absolutely or
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some waymos set on fire? Absolutely? Has there been alluding? Yes?
Are we talking about twenty twenty? Heck no? Are we
talking about nineteen ninety two? F No. And there is
a portion of society today who is wish casting who
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wants this to be nineteen ninety two. I'm sorry, I
lived through it. It's not. It honestly is not. And
people want to point to, well, we got the National Guard,
we got marines here. This ain't nineteen ninety two. This,
you know, LAPD to their credit, CHP to their credit,
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La County Sheriff's Department to their credit, which again, which
is not La City. They have done a superb job,
a spectacular job with the management of this. And I
don't care who gets the credit. I don't get in
all that. All I'm saying is they've done a wonderful
job managing this, having a plan enacting it. We talked
(26:18):
with Michael Monks last night and we wanted to like, well,
maybe we should have a curfew to deter people coming
down early enough. Then they brought it the next night.
You know, we didn't have any real issues last night.
We didn't have any real issues tonight. It's a wind
as far as I'm concerned. Unless you're wish casting hoping
for something else, and there are those who are hoping
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for something else that's just not me.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
KFI AM sixty Mo Kelly here. We're still live on
the iHeartRadio app. We're still live on YouTube. Thank you
for all those momigos who are in the Motown Chat.
We appreciate you. It was a very robust discussion tonight,
got a little heated and emotional at times, but these
are the times that we're living in now. Emotions are
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running high. And I was having before we close out
to night. I was having a conversation with Tawala off
air before the show, and we were kind of bouncing around,
not to predict, but to look at the landscape and
how news cycles work, how long this round of protests
would go or at least the ice raids. And I
(27:35):
was of the opinion and Mark, I would love to
get your insider input as best you can as a newsperson,
But I was of the opinion that these ice raids
are not going to go much longer in this week. Now.
They may resume next week, but they're not going to
go too far into this week. And here is my thinking.
We know that they have the two hundred and fiftieth
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birthday of the Army Parade, which also coincides with the
birthday of the President this Saturday. I don't think there's
any way in the world that the president would risk
having any other news step on that parade, even protests
violent are otherwise. I'm pretty sure he would want all
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the focus as far as news focus on him on
the parade. Now, would do you want the protests as
a lead in? Absolutely, one hundred percent, because you know
this kind of sets the stage for that. But if
there were major protests or violence breaking out from coast
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to coast over the weekend, and the idiots, you're more
prone to have violence over the weekend because, like I said,
over the weekend, you know, that's when people have the
most idle time. They're not going to work for the
most part. You're going to see stuff more likely jump
off on a Friday night or Saturday night as opposed
to a Monday or Tuesday night. As we've seen here,
(29:02):
you know, the lesson's been going on on this Monday
and Tuesday as opposed to the Friday, Saturday Sunday. I
suspect that given this parade and celebration of the army
and also the President's birthday, that will probably see fewer
ice raids before the end of the week as to
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not step on the parade.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
What say you, Twala, I wholeheartedly agree with that. His
ego cannot allow for something to step on this moment.
He's probably already informed all the other world leaders. Hey,
I want you to tune in on Saturday and see
my parade. Oh sure, see what I have lined up.
You guys may have your marches and your parades and
(29:45):
all of that, but you haven't seen anything until you've
seen what I've got going up.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
If you have kl KTLA and KNBC and KCBS, KCP
and Fox eleven all covering let's say, an LA protest
and in the cable channels covering a major protest and
not the parade, oh no, no, no no, that would
not be the goal. That would not be the licus.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
They said, no, no, no, no, He's not looking forward
to that. He is looking forward to all eyes being
on his celebration, and as you said, he is in
all likelihood using this moment to amp up and lead
towards his grand speech or whatever it is he has
to say. I told you what I was going to
(30:29):
do America, and I did it.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I'm rounding them up, I'm getting them out.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
He's got to be a party who wants to phrases
that's what he's going to do.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Mark Ronner, how would you contextualize this moment?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Well, we know there's going to be protests all over
the country for the weekend, especially protests in addition to
the ice raids. The protest because sorry, the parade, because
it's important to point out that we haven't seen a
parade like that in the United States. If you look
at a map of protest points that we know about,
(31:01):
the map is covered, I mean there's no empty space
and in course of DC. So yeah, then we also
know that Trump said he's gonna come down hard on
people who do protest that parade, So anything could happen.
I mean, I think we should be prepared to get
called into work.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Oh man, you mean I'm not gonna get Saturday off? Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
We have perfectly capable people here at KFI over the weekend,
but we should be ready for anything to happen because
protests are guaranteed. We know how Trump treats protesters as
of now right here in LA and so we should
we should not be surprised if things turn pear shaped.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
It's not abstract to your point, Mark. We know what
the President has said very recently. He said something to
affect paraphrasing that if the protests will be treated with strongly,
they'll be met with force. I would look at us
a point of instigation and a dare. But the protests
have already started. They've already started in Washington, DC. So yeah,
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would they protest the parade? Yeah? How close in proximity?
I don't know. And I don't like making predictions big picture,
but I think this is one that I feel comfortable
in making that if there's any type of worry about
the news cycle. This is very important to the president.
He's made that very clear, and since his first administration
(32:30):
is first term, that he wanted this parade. This is
a big fricking deal to him. Yeah, the last thing
he wants is for it not to be the center
of attention. That's just not what he would want and
what could be the center of attention these other protests
if they get out of hand or they get so
(32:51):
numerous that media is pulled in all sorts of directions
and they don't focus in on the parade and his birthday.
And again, I don't know what happens, but I do
know how media works generally, and media is more apt
to go to where the action is. A parade is
(33:12):
not action. No, it's hot, It's not. Parade is not hot.
It's not something that if you're a network, that you're
going to spend let's say, an hour on when there's protests, unrest,
what have you going on all around the country. Possibly
presumably you're not Look I love the Hollywood Christmas Parade,
(33:33):
not spending an hour watching it. I love to thank
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I'm not watching it for an hour.
I love the Rose Parade. I'm not watching that for
an hour, especially if there's other stuff more pressing going on,
you know, the news of the moment the parade. I
can watch that on YouTube. I'm I'm just being honest,
(33:54):
you know. Yea, And ratings are very important to the president.
This is this is a big It's a seventy ninth
birthday and a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Army.
Big deal. You don't want anyone to step on his moment.
We'll see what happens, as he says, k if I
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