June 7, 2025 • 32 mins
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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 (00:09):
Six. It's the label with mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
As we continue our coverage of what's happening downtown with
the protests and the wake of the immigration raids earlier today,
Michael Bunks is back with us as something seems to
be happening right now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Michael, what do you see.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I'm seeing another group of police officers that have lined
up and had made their way down Temple Street in
the direction away from City Hall towards Alameda Street. So
now we're kind of surrounded by police officers and I'm
seeing some movement here. They're saying to push back. They're
saying to push back, and so that there's basically we're
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in the middle of two lines of police officers. One
of these lines right now as we speak, has just
grouped up into a huddle. So what their next move is,
I'm not sure who they're targeting.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It might be the group that I'm kind of standing in. Kate,
can you back off police? Thank you, fan, I'm just
a fan.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We have.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Toys from the police that are saying you need to
get out of here, and folks have not heeded those words.
I just saw the leslethal ammo aimed again, not fired,
but aimed again in a threatening way that, like we
talked about moments ago, they meant what they said. We
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just haven't been clear on when they were going to
act on what they said, which was we're gonna get
you out of here, We're gonna take you to jail.
A little bit more screaming now from some of the
protesters who are in the middle of the police line
on Alameda Street, and a little more movement from the
police that group together, this new group of police officers
that were coming down Temple Street, and now it looks
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like they're spreading back out and I'm monitoring. I don't
know police tactics, well, I don't know what the plan
is here, but there is clearly some plan that is
taking shit. Okay, okay, we've got movement now here go
the original skirmish line in the middle of the intersection
of Alameda and Temple Street, and they are arresting folks
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in the middle. I'm seeing physical contact, pushing of protesters
now physically out of the street from the original line.
A little bit of shouting, a little bit of chirping
from the protest side. The police have now moved closer
to them. Now the skirmish line has stopped in the
middle of the intersection, and they are closer to the
protesters than they were before. Even after that push of
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at least one of them, and the new group of
police officers that were coming down Temple Street appear to
be back in their cruisers, so I'm watching them to
see what their move might be. Meanwhile, there's another line
of cops that's preventing any of us from crossing into
Alameda Street. Okay, now more movement from the skirmish line.
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They are pushing the protesters out of the intersection to
the other side of Alameda Street, closer to Union Station.
And right now it's just movement, police walking forward, protesters
walking backwards. No physical altercations yet, just a little bit
of jawing. Nothing too serious looking at this point, but
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as we know, the tensions are high in this city
tonight after the arrest of dozens of suspected illegal immigrants
across La.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Michael, I get the sense that, since I can identify
and hear individual voices, that they're more police officers than protesters.
In plain view, is that correct. It's pretty comparable. It's
pretty comparable.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Now these new cruisers that came down Temple Street where
I saw that group of police officers huddle then return
to their cruisers. They are now driving into the intersection.
They are turning right on Alameda towards Union Station. So
what their next move is I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
When you are.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
They have just all in a parade made a right
turn together.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Okay? Is there the police are moving forward? Are they
encountering any resistance at this point?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Only light resistance. There was a pretty strong push of
one guy in the early movement, and then after that
it was a light, delicate dance across the street. So
now this skirmish circle, if you will, across the intersection
is larger, as one group of protesters has been pushed
farther back down Temple Street on the other side of
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the stop lights where the Alameda Street sign hangs.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Do you know at this point whether there have been
any other announcements as far as on the public address system.
Of course they were giving out warnings, but are they
speaking to the protesters now As far as specific instructions.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I haven't heard any. In several minutes. The last were
repeated warnings that you've been worn, learn to leave, we
will arrest you all along those lines again, an unlawful
assembly has been declared. That does have you know, some
putative Okay, police running, police running, police are now running
up Temple Street. This must be the group that out
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of their cruisers. They've moved their cruisers out of the street,
and now they're returning up Temple Street again. I don't
know police tactics, but they have some plan here. This
is the new group that showed up moments ago. So
we still have the skirmish circle in circling the intersection
of Alameda and Temple Streets. And then this new group,
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just after driving past us in one direction, has run
past us in the opposite direction. They're heading up Temple
Street in the direction of City.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Hall right now.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Meanwhile, the skirmish circle remains still.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI SI.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
As I hear a hellic in the background, I hear
sirens in the background. You said there was a second
line of police, which I guess merged into the first line.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
If I understand you correctly, is are.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
There more officers overall coming to the scene.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's what I think we saw was a group of police,
if it's the same group, come in their cruisers, about
twelve different cruisers that pulled up on the skirmish circle
and they stopped in the middle of Temple Street. They
got out, they formed a line, then they formed a huddle,
then they got back in their cruisers. Then those cruisers
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were moved over to Alameda Street. And then from the
direction where those cars went, I just saw eight to
twelve officers jog passed us together. So they are now
headed back up Temple Street. And what their plan is
to deal with the crowd here that remains to be seen.
But you know they're not making it up as they
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go along.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
They have a plan.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I don't know what it is, but I have a
feeling I'm gonna watch it unfold.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Has there been any specific aggression that you've seen from protesters,
and again I revert back to what we saw with UCLA.
There were protesters throwing water bottles, they were throwing rocks,
They're throwing objects. Do you see any of this now
or is it just yelly at officers?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
It's mostly just jawing, chirping, not a lot of physical altercations,
you know, people walking in the wrong direction. A guy
right now just kind of being redirected. He's holding a
Mexican flag line. Just to show how many different issues
have merged here in today's protest. It looks like one
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of the protesters vehicles has been granted permission to leave
the scene, and that also is covered in Palestine messaging,
even though the protest was triggered by anti Ice sentiment.
So I don't know if some people have agreed to
leave finally now that it looks really, really, really serious,
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uh huh. But one protesters vehicle that was pretty well
dressed up with Palestine paraphernalia and the watermelon symbol that
has become related to that movement, that has just been
given permission to leave the scene. It looks like so
that may be the last chance for folks.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
If I'm reading you right, There is a i'll say
e merging of issues where you have people who might
have been out there for other protests like the Palestine protests,
who are out there now, arguably with nothing to do
with the immigration portion of this.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I think, mo and maybe this is the cynic in
me that has grown as I've grown older.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Some people just.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Like to protest, and you're not wrong, regardless of what
the issue is. You know, here in LA there's been
a lot of things that people have been fired up
about that have had large, massive protests, and it's often
a lot of the same characters. Now, look, this may
be able to be boxed into a simple political ideology that, yeah,
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if you feel this way about that, you're gonna feel
the same way about this issue over here. And you
may be able, in some academic way explain the connection
of the plate of Palestinians and the plight of illegal
immigrants in Los Angeles, And I'm sure it would be
an interesting talk. But this protest started today because dozens
of people were arrested and suspected illegal immigration raids by
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a federal agency. This is not about Israel and Palestine.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Usually, when you go out to cover events like this,
law enforcement or the agency involved its fire department, they
will let you and other reporters know if there's going
to be a media gathering where they'll give you an
update on a situation. Has there been any type of
interaction with media by either federal agencies or local law.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Enforcement not at this point. And no gaggle or anything
like that. But that was also true at UCLA when
they had to disperse the crowd. It's not like they
offered any media availability. You know, you talk to your
sources as best you could to get an idea on
what was going to happen, but they are so into
the actual tactical nature of what they're going to do
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that they're not going to talk to us about it yet.
This isn't like a house fire, this isn't like a
crime scene. After the fact, we are in the middle
of something that is happening right now.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
So there really wouldn't be a place to do it
from what you can see how wide of a perimeter. Yes,
they've blocked off this particular intersection where you're at, but
I'm quite sure it extends out beyond.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Where you are.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
It is a pretty large intersection here Alameda and Temple
Street to major downtown streets, and right now it's it's
pretty well surrounded, so I would say about three hundred
feet in diameter. But again, it's just quiet except for that,
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you know that helicopter up above that's still shining its
lights down and maybe a little bit of chirping from
protesters and maybe a little bit from police, but otherwise
not a lot of activity. Again, this scene has looked
like it was going to end in some fashion for
a few hours actually, I mean, once all the violent
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stuff peaked, it looked like everyone was going to go home.
But that just hasn't been the case, and so now
we're all just kind of lingering here waiting for something
to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
From what you describe, it sounds like we're not in
a period at this moment, and that could change, obviously
with one rock throw, but there's no seeming movement towards
escalation by protesters. At least we know that law enforcement
LAPD is moving forward trying to make sure that people
who are on scene who may be protesters, they may
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be just instigators. But whoever's yeah out who's not supposed
to be there, they're going home. But this is not
an escalation at this point. Is that fair?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Not a lot of you know, serious antagonizing going on.
There's some obvious resentment here, but nothing like we saw earlier. Again,
to go back to the Palestine campus protests from last
year when that really hit the fan at UCLA, when
the encampment was encroached upon by the police when they
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finally decided they needed to go in there to bust
it up. It all happened very suddenly. It was a
long standoff like this, and then suddenly a little bit
of movement like we saw, you know, this group of
police that showed up here on Temple Street and then
went one way in their cars and came back another
way on foot. You know, you saw little things like
that happening on UCLA's campus last year, and then bang,
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the big event took place, and it was just a
hell for a couple of hours while that thing worked
itself out. I ask you this question, and this is
not as big. This is nowhere near as big as that.
It seems to be a relatively small crowd. They just
happen to be in a pretty significant intersection, and the
police need to finish it, or feel they need to
finish it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I asked you this question when I talk to you,
I don't know, maybe three seconds ago, so it may
run together, but I think the situation may have changed
since we're not in a period of escalation at this moment.
Is there a discernible difference in the posture of lapd
Yes they're moving forward, but does it seem like it's
more aggressive or more casual as they move forward and
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clear out that space.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
This group of officers seems to have the instructions at
this point to hold a line, and that's basically what
they're doing. So they're not letting anybody go past. They're
not letting anybody take a wrong turn. There are no
cars coming through, and no pedestrians can go to the
other side of the street, So wischhever side you're on.
That's where we're stuck right now. Some protesters are on
one side of Alameda, others are on the other side,
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and that's basically it. But it's not like a strong posture.
There's not a lot of pop's chest right now, but
they are holding those less lethal firearms and the folks
who have been protesting are at a relatively healthy distance
right now. But again, they've been ordered to go home
and they haven't. And that's what the police.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Are waiting for.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That's what we're waiting for. How does this end?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I ask you this because you have a very particular
vantage point, and I also gauge the perception of it
by amount of media there. Are you the only person
who's able to cover this just because of your proximity,
or have there been other news and radio outlets who've
managed to get there?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
How is it being covered.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I see a couple of our friends from TV, I
see their vans. I don't know where the reporters are
stationed or from where they're broadcasting. This is also the
type of event that brings out a lot of the
live streamers that you might run into or Twitter, So
you've got a lot of those live streams going Those
tend to be activist and biased in nature, maybe more
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so than any of in the media, but that's going on,
so there's a lot of live streams. In fact, I
was watching a live stream before I decided to come
down because I tried to get a feel for whether
we needed to be here, and it was just a
little unclear because, like I said, this thing looked like
it was going to be over, but these can turn
on a dime. I happen to live downtown, so it
was easy to get over here and park in the
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secret spot at City Hall and walk to the scene.
I got to tell you, there are fewer people here
now than there were when we started talking, though, so
I think this thing is definitely close to its conclusion.
It's just what will the nature of that conclusion be.
That's the question. Attendons. We're so high today people are
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rightfully concerned about how this plays out.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Am I right to as we keep making these comparison
comparisons to the pro Palestine protests on the various campuses
USC UCLA, Am I right to make the assumption that
at the minimum, there have been fewer outside agitators who
have come into this situation, at least as of yet.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Oh yeah, now, there did appear to be some lookie
lowse that showed up to see what was going on.
But I think when it looked like the police were
going to be making their move moments ago, they left,
you know, because you can get caught up in these things.
And I'll tell you on the campus protest last year,
even as a media member holding you know, my device,
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my microphone, my media badge and my Kfi jacket, they
weren't making any exceptions for us. You need to get
out of the way, and so the flash bangs were
very close, the riot shields were very close, and you know,
I was in the way as much as any of
those protesters at that point. So I think these were
curious people who at least had enough wisdom to know
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that it was probably time to go lest they'd be
caught up in something much worse.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, I was going to ask you about your physical safety,
but you addressed that in that answer right there. I
am glad that you're safe, and I'm glad that you
were able to be there and give us a first
hand account of what is happening as it happens. Michael Monks,
thank you for all that you're doing, and hopefully this
will be the end of the story, at least for
the rest of the night, so you can get some
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sort of rest.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What kind of workers comp do we have if I
get hit with a rubber bullet?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Uh? None, So don't even don't even okay, try to
avoid getting shut I'm not going to try to pull that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Actually, you need.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
To talk to Mark Ronner, who was shot with the
rubber bullet so multiple times they smart.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I can tell you that, you know, was that a
domestic dispute or was that out on the scene or something.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I think that was during the wto Riot's quite a
number of years ago, and I can still feel it. Yeah,
the momigos are saying that monks should get a good
lawyer just in case it gets hit. Yeah, don't get shot,
Mark Mike. I'll do my best. That's my goal every
day in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Actually be safe out there, my friend.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
All right, But you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I am sixty Mo Kelly here as we continue to
follow the events of what happened earlier today in downtown
Los Angeles with the ICE immigration raids. We reported earlier
that some forty four forty five people were arrested, and
I want to always remind people when I say arrested,
their levels of detainment, which are not made clear. Whether
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they were arrested for immigration violations where they have arrested
for obstruction, were they more arrested administratively detained and later
released that information. We don't know the specifics of who
was arrested for what reasons or why. Will probably know
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that in the coming days, but also something else will
know in the coming days, whether this was a single
day event or whether it will be throughout the whole weekend.
You may have heard I started off the show tonight
talking about my final thought from last night where I
was indicating that these ICE raids specifically were coming, because
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it was explained in an intra office email that the
expectation was that I arrests were to increase this weekend. Specifically,
that information had been reported publicly, and I passed it
on to you and talked about what was going to
be the result of that in the coming days and weeks.
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And now it has officially begun in LA, at least
in downtown LA. We don't know whether it's going to
continue tomorrow. I suspect it will because the email from
ICE internal communications suggested that this was going to be
all weekend long. It doesn't mean it's always I should
say it's only going to be in LA, but it's
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going to be different parts of the country, inclusive of LA,
and it will probably be all over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
When I was speaking to Michael Monks, who did a
fantastic job of reporting unseeen downtown, I was asking him
whether there should have been some thought and I know
he couldn't give me his opinion, but I was musing
out loud whether there should have been some consideration as
to not doing this on a Friday, if only because
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we know that this was going to lead to some
sort of community response. And when do you have a
community response, be it in the form of protests or
just expressions of frustration and anger toward law enforcement or
whoever happens to be downtown, you probably would want to
avoid doing it these types of raids on Friday if
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you're worried about protests, if only because you have people
who most likely do not have to go to work
the next day, who have a little bit more free time.
It's a Friday night, so you have people who also
may even be under the influence. It depends on how
they learned about the information, when they learned about the information,
whether it impacts them personally, if there was someone that
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they know personally who was detained or arrested. All those
factors oftentimes shape the response that we're seeing right now.
The good news is it has not escalated to the
point where there have been a number of violent clashes
in between protesters and police. When we last spoke to
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Michael Monks a few moments ago, he was giving us
the impression that it was de escalating, although law enforcement
LAPD specifically was moving forward and following through on their
threats of dispersing people.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
There was an order, dispersal order which was given.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I want to say maybe in the seven o'clock hour
if I'm not mistaken. But since then it is not
markedly escalated. That's the good news, and hopefully it will
stay that way the rest of the evening. Now, if
we use the pass as some sort of guide or
comparison point, when we talked about the various Palestinian pro
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Palestinian protests, those ebbed and flowed from day to day.
Friday might have been one thing, but Saturday the next
day might have been another thing. In other words, the
question is whether what we saw today will continue into
the weekend, whether it will continue Saturday night, or whether
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the initial anger will subside if there are no more
immigration raids tomorrow, and I think that is going to
be the key indicator. If we see more raids, I'm
only talking about Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
If we see.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
More raids tomorrow, then we can reasonably assume we will
see more protests tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
The response will be the same.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
If we don't see immigration raids tomorrow, or if we
don't see them in Los Angeles, maybe they're in another city,
then the response may be different, but I think it's
fair to assume, and this is an assumption, if there
are more raids tomorrow, then we will probably see some
sort of response from citizenry tomorrow. Now, how that will
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actually present itself, there's no way to know. But since
we are on a weekend, you're more likely to have
people who will be out there because they have more
time available to participate in situations like these. And so
this is why we always ask you to just keep
it here on CAFI, because we will have the CAFI
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twenty four hour news from continue to follow this, even
though it may not be a specific wall to wall
covers like we have right now. But of course you'll
have Mark Ronner, you'll have other news voices throughout the weekend.
We still have Michael Monks, who is on site on scene.
If in the event, it should turn in the other
direction and it seems like it's going to escalate once again,
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not that anyone wants that, but we know that it's
a possibility. It could be the actions of a singular individual.
It could be an agitator who has nothing to do
with any of this, not connected to any of this,
who feels the need he or she to involve themselves
in this, and it could turn everything in a completely
different direction. I'm quite sure there will be statements by
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city officials and state officials who will be weighing in
on this, and that will probably give us some sort
of sense of how the City of Los Angeles is
going to respond, if at all, or the state of California.
I assume Governor Newsom will have something to say. We
know that Mayor Bass had released a statement. We know
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that I'm LAPD Chief Jim McDonald had released a statement basically,
and I'm paraphrasing that LA is a sanctuary city and
LAPD since nineteen seventy nine has not directly involved itself
in the issues of federal law or immigration enforcement, somewhat
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similar to that you had LA Sheriff's Department. Sheriff Robert
Luna say that the Sheriff's Department will take a similar
stance and not directly involve itself in the enforcement of immigration.
In other words, they're not going to be stopping people
with the express intent of determining someone's immigration status, but
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they will be very much directly involved in keeping people
in southern California safe and not have you have protests
like these escalate to a point where it endangers the
general public.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
We'll have more in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty It.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Smoke Kelly as we continue our live coverage of the
events downtown as protests have take it over or a
certain area of downtown in response to the immigration raids
which took place earlier today, and we've been following them
mostly with the help of Michael Monks, who's been on
scene and he's going to join us one more time.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Do you give us the latest?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Michael, tell us, as I've asked you before, what you
see and what you hear?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Well, the scene where I was at the Okay, we've
got absolute movement right now. But every time I see
this movement, and by movement I mean police officers running,
it turns out not to be a whole lot. I
have moved a block closer towards Union Station. I'm now
at First and Alameda Streets outside of the Little Tokyo
Arts District metro station. That's one of the new metro stations,
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and that's where all of the police have relocated. The
original spot where I was, seems to have cleared up,
but now the police are standing here in a skirmer's circle,
definitely standing at the ready in case stuff goes down.
I've seen a little chippiness, I've seen a little jawing,
but nothing like the violence we saw earlier today. In fact,
I don't even know what these police are watching right now.
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It's hard to get a good vantage point on where
the folks are. So that's a nice comment, thanks man.
You know there's still some of us media guys. The
police guys have us all surrounded. I still don't know
if I'm going to get a rubber bullet to the
butt at some point, But this thing looks over to me,
and yet it's not so who they're waiting on. What
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they're waiting on. It's really unclear. The last of the
protesters that I could see kind of got into it
with the police about ten minutes ago, and now I
can't see where they've run off to. But the LAPD
helicopter is still hovering above, shining its light down, and
the police are still standing here in a skirmish circle.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Michael, let me ask you.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
You said there was some violence that you saw earlier today,
if you could tell what time was that roughly that
you talking about this violence.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It was during the commute home. Really, so after five
o'clock is when some of these protesters descended on a
federal building in downtown Los Angeles got into a violent
skirmish with police. Okay, wait a second. The police are
now moving towards They're telling us to stay back. But
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the police are moving towards the arts district, and I
am trying. I'm gonna follow the media here, travel on
a pack, see what happens. They don't yellous. Okay, police
are moving. They've let us go past. So I'm kind
of following a TV camera. Let me go past here.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Track shot about.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I know, I don't want it. I don't want it, man.
So I'm at the top part of the metro station here,
and it does look like there are a few protesters left.
Police have but again I don't I don't know what
they're doing. I'm not a police tactician, so it's hard
to know why. There's this this quick bolt of action
from the cops and then nothing. So I and really, again,
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the crowd is nothing like it was earlier. It's barely
two dozen people from this vantage point. I don't know
what I'm missing.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Mo I don't think you're missing anything.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
We just want to make sure that we're covering it
in the event that something happened as opposed to what
happened five hours ago.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Exactly that's exactly right. And you know, if these are
just antagonizers who are just looking to get into a
little jawing match, then you know, this seems to be
quite a large production to respond to that. You know this,
this looks small enough to be wrapped up fairly easily,
especially with a number of police that are still here.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And how about this, Michael Monks, you get yourself out
of harm's way, because we don't want you mistaken as
a protester.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You know, we don't.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
It's not going to happen. Not with my blue glasses
and my KFI hoodie. They're going to know I'm a nark.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You know, you can end up like Mark Runner, and
we do. I want that to happen.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I don't want to wound that got I carry with
me well into adulthood.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Well, I'll let you go, Michael, just so be safe
the rest of the evening. It seems like everything is
under control at this point, and I can say, have
a safe end to your evening tonight.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Hey, you do the same mode thing for the chat.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Sure, and before we get out of here, we'll read
you a statement from Mayor Karen Bass and some other
political officials from earlier today. Mayor Karen Bass posted a
statement saying, quote, this morning, we receive reports of federal
immigration enforcement actions in multiple locations in Los Angeles. As
mayor of a proud city of immigrants who contribute to
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our city in so many ways, I'm deeply angered by
what has taken place. These tactics so terror in our
communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.
My office is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organizations.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
We will not stand for this.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
And also California Senator Adam Schiff had this to say.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
He called the raids quote.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Unconscionable, and he went on today's detention of an injury
to David huerta president of SCIU SSW and a US
citizen while acting as a community observer during an immigration
raid in LA is another terrible example. This is part
of a larger campaign of intimidation by the White House,
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and it must end. Close quote La County Supervisor Hilde
Solise also said that the raids were quote unquote deeply disturbing,
and saying that ICE agents targeted some of the most
vulnerable residents of La She went on, the individuals detained
are hardworking Angelinos who contribute to our local economy and
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labor force every day. Los Angeles County remains committed to
standing with our immigrant communities, providing port through our Office
of Immigrant Affairs and our network of nonprofit partners. And
that's just a brief survey of somehow some of our
elected officials, both city and county are monitoring and responding
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to this. I'm quite sure there'll be more Tomorrow, we'll
find out more about the raids themselves and also what
is going to be the city and county response. I'm
o Kelly. This is KFI AM six forty. We're live
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
As we continue our coverage of what's happening downtown with
the protests and the wake of the immigration raids earlier today,
Michael Bunks is back with us as something seems to
be happening right now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Michael, what do you see.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I'm seeing another group of police officers that have lined
up and had made their way down Temple Street in
the direction away from City Hall towards Alameda Street. So
now we're kind of surrounded by police officers and I'm
seeing some movement here. They're saying to push back. They're
saying to push back, and so that there's basically we're
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in the middle of two lines of police officers. One
of these lines right now as we speak, has just
grouped up into a huddle. So what their next move is,
I'm not sure who they're targeting.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It might be the group that I'm kind of standing in. Kate,
can you back off police? Thank you, fan, I'm just
a fan.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We have.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Toys from the police that are saying you need to
get out of here, and folks have not heeded those words.
I just saw the leslethal ammo aimed again, not fired,
but aimed again in a threatening way that, like we
talked about moments ago, they meant what they said. We
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just haven't been clear on when they were going to
act on what they said, which was we're gonna get
you out of here, We're gonna take you to jail.
A little bit more screaming now from some of the
protesters who are in the middle of the police line
on Alameda Street, and a little more movement from the
police that group together, this new group of police officers
that were coming down Temple Street, and now it looks
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like they're spreading back out and I'm monitoring. I don't
know police tactics, well, I don't know what the plan
is here, but there is clearly some plan that is
taking shit. Okay, okay, we've got movement now here go
the original skirmish line in the middle of the intersection
of Alameda and Temple Street, and they are arresting folks
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in the middle. I'm seeing physical contact, pushing of protesters
now physically out of the street from the original line.
A little bit of shouting, a little bit of chirping
from the protest side. The police have now moved closer
to them. Now the skirmish line has stopped in the
middle of the intersection, and they are closer to the
protesters than they were before. Even after that push of
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at least one of them, and the new group of
police officers that were coming down Temple Street appear to
be back in their cruisers, so I'm watching them to
see what their move might be. Meanwhile, there's another line
of cops that's preventing any of us from crossing into
Alameda Street. Okay, now more movement from the skirmish line.
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They are pushing the protesters out of the intersection to
the other side of Alameda Street, closer to Union Station.
And right now it's just movement, police walking forward, protesters
walking backwards. No physical altercations yet, just a little bit
of jawing. Nothing too serious looking at this point, but
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as we know, the tensions are high in this city
tonight after the arrest of dozens of suspected illegal immigrants
across La.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Michael, I get the sense that, since I can identify
and hear individual voices, that they're more police officers than protesters.
In plain view, is that correct. It's pretty comparable. It's
pretty comparable.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Now these new cruisers that came down Temple Street where
I saw that group of police officers huddle then return
to their cruisers. They are now driving into the intersection.
They are turning right on Alameda towards Union Station. So
what their next move is I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
When you are.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
They have just all in a parade made a right
turn together.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Okay? Is there the police are moving forward? Are they
encountering any resistance at this point?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Only light resistance. There was a pretty strong push of
one guy in the early movement, and then after that
it was a light, delicate dance across the street. So
now this skirmish circle, if you will, across the intersection
is larger, as one group of protesters has been pushed
farther back down Temple Street on the other side of
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the stop lights where the Alameda Street sign hangs.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Do you know at this point whether there have been
any other announcements as far as on the public address system.
Of course they were giving out warnings, but are they
speaking to the protesters now As far as specific instructions.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I haven't heard any. In several minutes. The last were
repeated warnings that you've been worn, learn to leave, we
will arrest you all along those lines again, an unlawful
assembly has been declared. That does have you know, some
putative Okay, police running, police running, police are now running
up Temple Street. This must be the group that out
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of their cruisers. They've moved their cruisers out of the street,
and now they're returning up Temple Street again. I don't
know police tactics, but they have some plan here. This
is the new group that showed up moments ago. So
we still have the skirmish circle in circling the intersection
of Alameda and Temple Streets. And then this new group,
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just after driving past us in one direction, has run
past us in the opposite direction. They're heading up Temple
Street in the direction of City.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Hall right now.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Meanwhile, the skirmish circle remains still.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
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Speaker 3 (05:58):
As I hear a hellic in the background, I hear
sirens in the background. You said there was a second
line of police, which I guess merged into the first line.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
If I understand you correctly, is are.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
There more officers overall coming to the scene.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's what I think we saw was a group of police,
if it's the same group, come in their cruisers, about
twelve different cruisers that pulled up on the skirmish circle
and they stopped in the middle of Temple Street. They
got out, they formed a line, then they formed a huddle,
then they got back in their cruisers. Then those cruisers
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were moved over to Alameda Street. And then from the
direction where those cars went, I just saw eight to
twelve officers jog passed us together. So they are now
headed back up Temple Street. And what their plan is
to deal with the crowd here that remains to be seen.
But you know they're not making it up as they
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go along.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
They have a plan.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I don't know what it is, but I have a
feeling I'm gonna watch it unfold.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Has there been any specific aggression that you've seen from protesters,
and again I revert back to what we saw with UCLA.
There were protesters throwing water bottles, they were throwing rocks,
They're throwing objects. Do you see any of this now
or is it just yelly at officers?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
It's mostly just jawing, chirping, not a lot of physical altercations,
you know, people walking in the wrong direction. A guy
right now just kind of being redirected. He's holding a
Mexican flag line. Just to show how many different issues
have merged here in today's protest. It looks like one
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of the protesters vehicles has been granted permission to leave
the scene, and that also is covered in Palestine messaging,
even though the protest was triggered by anti Ice sentiment.
So I don't know if some people have agreed to
leave finally now that it looks really, really, really serious,
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uh huh. But one protesters vehicle that was pretty well
dressed up with Palestine paraphernalia and the watermelon symbol that
has become related to that movement, that has just been
given permission to leave the scene. It looks like so
that may be the last chance for folks.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
If I'm reading you right, There is a i'll say
e merging of issues where you have people who might
have been out there for other protests like the Palestine protests,
who are out there now, arguably with nothing to do
with the immigration portion of this.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I think, mo and maybe this is the cynic in
me that has grown as I've grown older.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Some people just.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Like to protest, and you're not wrong, regardless of what
the issue is. You know, here in LA there's been
a lot of things that people have been fired up
about that have had large, massive protests, and it's often
a lot of the same characters. Now, look, this may
be able to be boxed into a simple political ideology that, yeah,
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if you feel this way about that, you're gonna feel
the same way about this issue over here. And you
may be able, in some academic way explain the connection
of the plate of Palestinians and the plight of illegal
immigrants in Los Angeles, And I'm sure it would be
an interesting talk. But this protest started today because dozens
of people were arrested and suspected illegal immigration raids by
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a federal agency. This is not about Israel and Palestine.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Usually, when you go out to cover events like this,
law enforcement or the agency involved its fire department, they
will let you and other reporters know if there's going
to be a media gathering where they'll give you an
update on a situation. Has there been any type of
interaction with media by either federal agencies or local law.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Enforcement not at this point. And no gaggle or anything
like that. But that was also true at UCLA when
they had to disperse the crowd. It's not like they
offered any media availability. You know, you talk to your
sources as best you could to get an idea on
what was going to happen, but they are so into
the actual tactical nature of what they're going to do
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that they're not going to talk to us about it yet.
This isn't like a house fire, this isn't like a
crime scene. After the fact, we are in the middle
of something that is happening right now.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
So there really wouldn't be a place to do it
from what you can see how wide of a perimeter. Yes,
they've blocked off this particular intersection where you're at, but
I'm quite sure it extends out beyond.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Where you are.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
It is a pretty large intersection here Alameda and Temple
Street to major downtown streets, and right now it's it's
pretty well surrounded, so I would say about three hundred
feet in diameter. But again, it's just quiet except for that,
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you know that helicopter up above that's still shining its
lights down and maybe a little bit of chirping from
protesters and maybe a little bit from police, but otherwise
not a lot of activity. Again, this scene has looked
like it was going to end in some fashion for
a few hours actually, I mean, once all the violent
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stuff peaked, it looked like everyone was going to go home.
But that just hasn't been the case, and so now
we're all just kind of lingering here waiting for something
to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
From what you describe, it sounds like we're not in
a period at this moment, and that could change, obviously
with one rock throw, but there's no seeming movement towards
escalation by protesters. At least we know that law enforcement
LAPD is moving forward trying to make sure that people
who are on scene who may be protesters, they may
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be just instigators. But whoever's yeah out who's not supposed
to be there, they're going home. But this is not
an escalation at this point. Is that fair?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Not a lot of you know, serious antagonizing going on.
There's some obvious resentment here, but nothing like we saw earlier. Again,
to go back to the Palestine campus protests from last
year when that really hit the fan at UCLA, when
the encampment was encroached upon by the police when they
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finally decided they needed to go in there to bust
it up. It all happened very suddenly. It was a
long standoff like this, and then suddenly a little bit
of movement like we saw, you know, this group of
police that showed up here on Temple Street and then
went one way in their cars and came back another
way on foot. You know, you saw little things like
that happening on UCLA's campus last year, and then bang,
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the big event took place, and it was just a
hell for a couple of hours while that thing worked
itself out. I ask you this question, and this is
not as big. This is nowhere near as big as that.
It seems to be a relatively small crowd. They just
happen to be in a pretty significant intersection, and the
police need to finish it, or feel they need to
finish it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I asked you this question when I talk to you,
I don't know, maybe three seconds ago, so it may
run together, but I think the situation may have changed
since we're not in a period of escalation at this moment.
Is there a discernible difference in the posture of lapd
Yes they're moving forward, but does it seem like it's
more aggressive or more casual as they move forward and
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clear out that space.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
This group of officers seems to have the instructions at
this point to hold a line, and that's basically what
they're doing. So they're not letting anybody go past. They're
not letting anybody take a wrong turn. There are no
cars coming through, and no pedestrians can go to the
other side of the street, So wischhever side you're on.
That's where we're stuck right now. Some protesters are on
one side of Alameda, others are on the other side,
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and that's basically it. But it's not like a strong posture.
There's not a lot of pop's chest right now, but
they are holding those less lethal firearms and the folks
who have been protesting are at a relatively healthy distance
right now. But again, they've been ordered to go home
and they haven't. And that's what the police.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Are waiting for.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That's what we're waiting for. How does this end?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I ask you this because you have a very particular
vantage point, and I also gauge the perception of it
by amount of media there. Are you the only person
who's able to cover this just because of your proximity,
or have there been other news and radio outlets who've
managed to get there?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
How is it being covered.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I see a couple of our friends from TV, I
see their vans. I don't know where the reporters are
stationed or from where they're broadcasting. This is also the
type of event that brings out a lot of the
live streamers that you might run into or Twitter, So
you've got a lot of those live streams going Those
tend to be activist and biased in nature, maybe more
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so than any of in the media, but that's going on,
so there's a lot of live streams. In fact, I
was watching a live stream before I decided to come
down because I tried to get a feel for whether
we needed to be here, and it was just a
little unclear because, like I said, this thing looked like
it was going to be over, but these can turn
on a dime. I happen to live downtown, so it
was easy to get over here and park in the
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secret spot at City Hall and walk to the scene.
I got to tell you, there are fewer people here
now than there were when we started talking, though, so
I think this thing is definitely close to its conclusion.
It's just what will the nature of that conclusion be.
That's the question. Attendons. We're so high today people are
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rightfully concerned about how this plays out.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Am I right to as we keep making these comparison
comparisons to the pro Palestine protests on the various campuses
USC UCLA, Am I right to make the assumption that
at the minimum, there have been fewer outside agitators who
have come into this situation, at least as of yet.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Oh yeah, now, there did appear to be some lookie
lowse that showed up to see what was going on.
But I think when it looked like the police were
going to be making their move moments ago, they left,
you know, because you can get caught up in these things.
And I'll tell you on the campus protest last year,
even as a media member holding you know, my device,
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my microphone, my media badge and my Kfi jacket, they
weren't making any exceptions for us. You need to get
out of the way, and so the flash bangs were
very close, the riot shields were very close, and you know,
I was in the way as much as any of
those protesters at that point. So I think these were
curious people who at least had enough wisdom to know
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that it was probably time to go lest they'd be
caught up in something much worse.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, I was going to ask you about your physical safety,
but you addressed that in that answer right there. I
am glad that you're safe, and I'm glad that you
were able to be there and give us a first
hand account of what is happening as it happens. Michael Monks,
thank you for all that you're doing, and hopefully this
will be the end of the story, at least for
the rest of the night, so you can get some
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sort of rest.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What kind of workers comp do we have if I
get hit with a rubber bullet?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Uh? None, So don't even don't even okay, try to
avoid getting shut I'm not going to try to pull that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Actually, you need.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
To talk to Mark Ronner, who was shot with the
rubber bullet so multiple times they smart.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I can tell you that, you know, was that a
domestic dispute or was that out on the scene or something.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I think that was during the wto Riot's quite a
number of years ago, and I can still feel it. Yeah,
the momigos are saying that monks should get a good
lawyer just in case it gets hit. Yeah, don't get shot,
Mark Mike. I'll do my best. That's my goal every
day in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Actually be safe out there, my friend.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
All right, But you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I am sixty Mo Kelly here as we continue to
follow the events of what happened earlier today in downtown
Los Angeles with the ICE immigration raids. We reported earlier
that some forty four forty five people were arrested, and
I want to always remind people when I say arrested,
their levels of detainment, which are not made clear. Whether
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they were arrested for immigration violations where they have arrested
for obstruction, were they more arrested administratively detained and later
released that information. We don't know the specifics of who
was arrested for what reasons or why. Will probably know
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that in the coming days, but also something else will
know in the coming days, whether this was a single
day event or whether it will be throughout the whole weekend.
You may have heard I started off the show tonight
talking about my final thought from last night where I
was indicating that these ICE raids specifically were coming, because
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it was explained in an intra office email that the
expectation was that I arrests were to increase this weekend. Specifically,
that information had been reported publicly, and I passed it
on to you and talked about what was going to
be the result of that in the coming days and weeks.
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And now it has officially begun in LA, at least
in downtown LA. We don't know whether it's going to
continue tomorrow. I suspect it will because the email from
ICE internal communications suggested that this was going to be
all weekend long. It doesn't mean it's always I should
say it's only going to be in LA, but it's
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going to be different parts of the country, inclusive of LA,
and it will probably be all over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
When I was speaking to Michael Monks, who did a
fantastic job of reporting unseeen downtown, I was asking him
whether there should have been some thought and I know
he couldn't give me his opinion, but I was musing
out loud whether there should have been some consideration as
to not doing this on a Friday, if only because
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we know that this was going to lead to some
sort of community response. And when do you have a
community response, be it in the form of protests or
just expressions of frustration and anger toward law enforcement or
whoever happens to be downtown, you probably would want to
avoid doing it these types of raids on Friday if
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you're worried about protests, if only because you have people
who most likely do not have to go to work
the next day, who have a little bit more free time.
It's a Friday night, so you have people who also
may even be under the influence. It depends on how
they learned about the information, when they learned about the information,
whether it impacts them personally, if there was someone that
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they know personally who was detained or arrested. All those
factors oftentimes shape the response that we're seeing right now.
The good news is it has not escalated to the
point where there have been a number of violent clashes
in between protesters and police. When we last spoke to
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Michael Monks a few moments ago, he was giving us
the impression that it was de escalating, although law enforcement
LAPD specifically was moving forward and following through on their
threats of dispersing people.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
There was an order, dispersal order which was given.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I want to say maybe in the seven o'clock hour
if I'm not mistaken. But since then it is not
markedly escalated. That's the good news, and hopefully it will
stay that way the rest of the evening. Now, if
we use the pass as some sort of guide or
comparison point, when we talked about the various Palestinian pro
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Palestinian protests, those ebbed and flowed from day to day.
Friday might have been one thing, but Saturday the next
day might have been another thing. In other words, the
question is whether what we saw today will continue into
the weekend, whether it will continue Saturday night, or whether
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the initial anger will subside if there are no more
immigration raids tomorrow, and I think that is going to
be the key indicator. If we see more raids, I'm
only talking about Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
If we see.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
More raids tomorrow, then we can reasonably assume we will
see more protests tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
The response will be the same.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
If we don't see immigration raids tomorrow, or if we
don't see them in Los Angeles, maybe they're in another city,
then the response may be different, but I think it's
fair to assume, and this is an assumption, if there
are more raids tomorrow, then we will probably see some
sort of response from citizenry tomorrow. Now, how that will
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actually present itself, there's no way to know. But since
we are on a weekend, you're more likely to have
people who will be out there because they have more
time available to participate in situations like these. And so
this is why we always ask you to just keep
it here on CAFI, because we will have the CAFI
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twenty four hour news from continue to follow this, even
though it may not be a specific wall to wall
covers like we have right now. But of course you'll
have Mark Ronner, you'll have other news voices throughout the weekend.
We still have Michael Monks, who is on site on scene.
If in the event, it should turn in the other
direction and it seems like it's going to escalate once again,
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not that anyone wants that, but we know that it's
a possibility. It could be the actions of a singular individual.
It could be an agitator who has nothing to do
with any of this, not connected to any of this,
who feels the need he or she to involve themselves
in this, and it could turn everything in a completely
different direction. I'm quite sure there will be statements by
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city officials and state officials who will be weighing in
on this, and that will probably give us some sort
of sense of how the City of Los Angeles is
going to respond, if at all, or the state of California.
I assume Governor Newsom will have something to say. We
know that Mayor Bass had released a statement. We know
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that I'm LAPD Chief Jim McDonald had released a statement basically,
and I'm paraphrasing that LA is a sanctuary city and
LAPD since nineteen seventy nine has not directly involved itself
in the issues of federal law or immigration enforcement, somewhat
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similar to that you had LA Sheriff's Department. Sheriff Robert
Luna say that the Sheriff's Department will take a similar
stance and not directly involve itself in the enforcement of immigration.
In other words, they're not going to be stopping people
with the express intent of determining someone's immigration status, but
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they will be very much directly involved in keeping people
in southern California safe and not have you have protests
like these escalate to a point where it endangers the
general public.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
We'll have more in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty It.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Smoke Kelly as we continue our live coverage of the
events downtown as protests have take it over or a
certain area of downtown in response to the immigration raids
which took place earlier today, and we've been following them
mostly with the help of Michael Monks, who's been on
scene and he's going to join us one more time.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Do you give us the latest?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Michael, tell us, as I've asked you before, what you
see and what you hear?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Well, the scene where I was at the Okay, we've
got absolute movement right now. But every time I see
this movement, and by movement I mean police officers running,
it turns out not to be a whole lot. I
have moved a block closer towards Union Station. I'm now
at First and Alameda Streets outside of the Little Tokyo
Arts District metro station. That's one of the new metro stations,
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and that's where all of the police have relocated. The
original spot where I was, seems to have cleared up,
but now the police are standing here in a skirmer's circle,
definitely standing at the ready in case stuff goes down.
I've seen a little chippiness, I've seen a little jawing,
but nothing like the violence we saw earlier today. In fact,
I don't even know what these police are watching right now.
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It's hard to get a good vantage point on where
the folks are. So that's a nice comment, thanks man.
You know there's still some of us media guys. The
police guys have us all surrounded. I still don't know
if I'm going to get a rubber bullet to the
butt at some point, But this thing looks over to me,
and yet it's not so who they're waiting on. What
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they're waiting on. It's really unclear. The last of the
protesters that I could see kind of got into it
with the police about ten minutes ago, and now I
can't see where they've run off to. But the LAPD
helicopter is still hovering above, shining its light down, and
the police are still standing here in a skirmish circle.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Michael, let me ask you.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
You said there was some violence that you saw earlier today,
if you could tell what time was that roughly that
you talking about this violence.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It was during the commute home. Really, so after five
o'clock is when some of these protesters descended on a
federal building in downtown Los Angeles got into a violent
skirmish with police. Okay, wait a second. The police are
now moving towards They're telling us to stay back. But
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the police are moving towards the arts district, and I
am trying. I'm gonna follow the media here, travel on
a pack, see what happens. They don't yellous. Okay, police
are moving. They've let us go past. So I'm kind
of following a TV camera. Let me go past here.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Track shot about.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I know, I don't want it. I don't want it, man.
So I'm at the top part of the metro station here,
and it does look like there are a few protesters left.
Police have but again I don't I don't know what
they're doing. I'm not a police tactician, so it's hard
to know why. There's this this quick bolt of action
from the cops and then nothing. So I and really, again,
(29:01):
the crowd is nothing like it was earlier. It's barely
two dozen people from this vantage point. I don't know
what I'm missing.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Mo I don't think you're missing anything.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
We just want to make sure that we're covering it
in the event that something happened as opposed to what
happened five hours ago.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Exactly that's exactly right. And you know, if these are
just antagonizers who are just looking to get into a
little jawing match, then you know, this seems to be
quite a large production to respond to that. You know this,
this looks small enough to be wrapped up fairly easily,
especially with a number of police that are still here.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And how about this, Michael Monks, you get yourself out
of harm's way, because we don't want you mistaken as
a protester.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You know, we don't.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
It's not going to happen. Not with my blue glasses
and my KFI hoodie. They're going to know I'm a nark.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You know, you can end up like Mark Runner, and
we do. I want that to happen.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I don't want to wound that got I carry with
me well into adulthood.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Well, I'll let you go, Michael, just so be safe
the rest of the evening. It seems like everything is
under control at this point, and I can say, have
a safe end to your evening tonight.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Hey, you do the same mode thing for the chat.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Sure, and before we get out of here, we'll read
you a statement from Mayor Karen Bass and some other
political officials from earlier today. Mayor Karen Bass posted a
statement saying, quote, this morning, we receive reports of federal
immigration enforcement actions in multiple locations in Los Angeles. As
mayor of a proud city of immigrants who contribute to
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our city in so many ways, I'm deeply angered by
what has taken place. These tactics so terror in our
communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.
My office is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organizations.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
We will not stand for this.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
And also California Senator Adam Schiff had this to say.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
He called the raids quote.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Unconscionable, and he went on today's detention of an injury
to David huerta president of SCIU SSW and a US
citizen while acting as a community observer during an immigration
raid in LA is another terrible example. This is part
of a larger campaign of intimidation by the White House,
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and it must end. Close quote La County Supervisor Hilde
Solise also said that the raids were quote unquote deeply disturbing,
and saying that ICE agents targeted some of the most
vulnerable residents of La She went on, the individuals detained
are hardworking Angelinos who contribute to our local economy and
(31:53):
labor force every day. Los Angeles County remains committed to
standing with our immigrant communities, providing port through our Office
of Immigrant Affairs and our network of nonprofit partners. And
that's just a brief survey of somehow some of our
elected officials, both city and county are monitoring and responding
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to this. I'm quite sure there'll be more Tomorrow, we'll
find out more about the raids themselves and also what
is going to be the city and county response. I'm
o Kelly. This is KFI AM six forty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio.
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