June 12, 2025 • 32 mins
LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton on protecting protesters and defending attacks from agitators. // LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton // MIchael Monks on Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles // Asian Needle ants, the stinging ant spotted in 17 states
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It is the Conway Show, and the circus continues.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Here in Los Angeles, we are the center of attention
for the entire world. They're all looking at us, and man,
do we put on a circus? We put on a circus.
Mine We're better than Circus Vargas or Wringling Brothers.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
When we entertain the world, we knock it out. One
of my oldest friends at LAPD is joining us. The
King of all Detectives, the Chief of all Detectives, Alan Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
How are you, sir? Yeah, here's that button right there.
I think it's on. How are you, bub I'm doing good.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
How are you to day? Man?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
You look great for a guy who's been through war.
H Well, I wouldn't quite call it war, but uh yeah,
how about that? Uh yeah, I mean it's it's been busy.
It's been busy these last few days unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
All right, So a chief of what's your exact title,
Chief of all detectives.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Yeah, so I'm the Chief of Detectives. I hit the
detective Bureau and we are responsible for investigation City White.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay, and how's it going downtown?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I heard from Jimmy Kimmel and Maxime Waters that there's
nothing to see, there's no violins, there's nothing going on. Yeah,
you seeing a different thing picture down They may have
missed a few of the things that are going on,
is that right.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Fortunately we have been able to keep a lot of
the activity contained to the downtown area.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Unfortunately, there's been a lot of damage down there, right,
and what is it? Mostly graffiti?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It's well, it's.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
A yeah, it's a combination between graffiti and broken windows.
And of course you know you as you well know,
some of those windows are extremely expensive for owner.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And then there's been some other damage.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
There has been some fire damage, unfortunately, fireworks damage. So
we're seeing some of that being repaired, replaced, painted over,
We're seeing some of that work being done. Unfortunately, a
lot of our business partners in the business districts have
chosen to cover up their glass windows with lumber and
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what have you, so that gives a different look to
the community. I would love to get back to the
point where that's not necessary because it's not fair for
our businesses I'm a big supporter of business in this city.
We need more revenue in this city clearly, and we
have to be good partners to the business community. So
I'm hoping that we'll be able to get back to
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a simbilance of control here and get those boards down,
get business going again in the downtown area, and support
our business partners.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
You know, I've seen I've never seen this before, where
people bring hammers with them and then they break up
the sidewalk and throw it at you guys.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, that's not actually really new.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
There are a lot of different ways to get projectiles
to for what law enforcement. We've seen a bunch of
different methods over the years being used. There's been stories
of people having you know, rocks and bricks and things delivered.
We know that people move that stuff around. I don't
know about the delivery part of it. They're probably not
calling to get it delivered.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Right, It's tough to get a load of bricks being
delivered into a riot zone.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, you'd be surprised him, is that right? Okay?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I mean, so don't forget there's always construction and other
things going on in the city. So if that those
materials are nearby. They're going to be co opted for
that purpose, unfortunately, and we would ask that the public
not take control of those those types of items and
use them against law enforcement, used them against buildings. Well,
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is the curfew helping out? The curfew is definitely helping out. Now,
keep in mind, and again i'm gonna say this, it's
a fairly restricted area of the city that is being
affected right now. But as you saw last night, we
had a group that was downtown. They were originally marching
around downtown. They were doing a little bit of graffiti
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and vandalism here and there, and then they left the
downtown area and they ended up over in the West
Lake district, and then they kept going and they ended
up in mid Wilshire. So, now, then, what do you
do with these groups that are now outside of the
curfew zone. And my response to that is any And
I'm going to be clear about this, it doesn't matter
whether you're outside of the curfew zone. If you're engaged
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in illegal activity. We tell you as a group that
you're in an lawful assembly, and you continue to violate
the law, you're going to be subject to arrest by
lap officers, period, full stop. That's all there is to it.
There have been enough warnings. I had a discussion with
the chief this morning. It was follow up to our
discussion a couple of days ago. We have extended a
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lot of grace, warnings and all the other stuff, and
I think we've run, to the end of the morning.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
A tremendous amount of patience for I mean, over and over,
hours after hours after days telling people to stop doing this.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
But yes, and again, there's no limit to First Amendment speech.
You can, you know, if you're doing it in the
correct time, place and matter. You can come out here
and we will actually facilitate your First Amendment right to
say what you want to say. Whether we agree with
it or not, that's inconsequential.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
What we will not tolerate any longer is the destruction
of this city.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Right.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
So we've offered a lot of warnings, we've given a
lot of grace, we've given a lot of breaks, and
that's coming to a close. We're we're at the point
now where, in order to take back control of especially
the downtown area, we're going to have to insist that
people follow the law. Are we going to take effective
immediate action?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Alan Hambleton's whether he's the chief of all detectives for LAPD.
It must be wearing on the men and women who
are on the street to be yelled at for twelve
hours Nazi, racist comments, baby killers, all that crap. That
they yell at him for twelve hours, and then they
got to go home and sort of decompress. It's got
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to after five, four or five six days. That Look,
if I came into work work every day for twelve
hours and somebody yelled at me for twelve hours every
single day, I wouldn't come back anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, I mean, so I'm thinking back in history.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
I don't think there were a lot of black Nazis,
So I'm really surprised when people accuse me of being
a Nazi and all these other things. What I remind
people of is we're the department for the city. We're
the police department for this city, and we reflect the
city the city that's very very very very closely.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I see a lot of Hispanic names on the sleeves
or on the on the shirts of these cops.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
And what I would tell the people that are calling
us Nazis and all the other names, is I would
remind them that a lot of us, very much like me,
grew up right.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Here in this city. Yeah, you grew up in central SOUTHID.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I was born in south central LA and grew up
in the city of LA. And I would remind people
that this is your LAPD. We're the same LAPD we
were last week, and the same LAPD we were last month.
And I would say this to the officers that are listening,
we support you, and we're doing everything we can from
the command staff level to support this department. The chief,
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you know, Chief McDonald has I don't think he's slept
in a week. We have discussed this, and I would
ask the public to do the following. When you see
law enforcement out here working to keep your community safe,
I would ask that you thank them directly, good for you,
to their face and tell them that you appreciate all.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The heartwork you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We need more of that.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
We certainly appreciate all the heart work that are off.
And it's not the people at our level.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
It is the.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Officers that are working at the speet level that matter,
and they're doing yeomen's work. We're still doing the fire stuff.
Oh and we're still doing all the regular police stuff too.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Too, Oh my god, and.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Short staff and these men and women are doing a
phenomenal job with the resources that they have.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's right, Okay, we got tay break. Can you stay
with us?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Absolutely all right?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The chief of all detectives in the world, Alan ham
or LAPD. I guess Alan Hamilton is with us and
we will continue on. Ask when we come back. Is
the National Guard and the Marines? Is that gonna help
us or hurt us when they're all eventually deployed here
on the streets of la.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Alan Hambleton is with us, the chief of Detectives for LAPD.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
How many years you've been on already? Thirty five years?
Thirty five years? Oh man, oh man.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You must be one of the last members of your
class to be on the force.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I am yeah, so no, class of February of nineteen ninety.
There's there're a handful of us left, a few reserves,
and we've got a few full timers still around, okay,
and we're gonna be uh, we're gonna be calling it quits,
hanging up the belt here pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Are you in the drop program. I am in the
drop program five years and that's a wrap fire.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Well I'm two years into the fire, so three more
they've got you got me for three more years. Can
you stay after that only as a reserve?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, all right, all right, let's go through this here.
You think the National Guard and the and the I
believe they're gonna pull Navy ships into the downtown LA
or Marines.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Is that going to be good for LA or bad
for LA?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah? I mean, so they're coming.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
They're actually coming here to help with the federal government's role.
They're not going to really be working on anything with
municipal policing. So what we're going to see is we're
going to see the National Guard in the Marines working
closely with our federal partners, and they're going to be
working on federal issues. So there there's not going to
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be any military component with municipal policing in the City
of Los Angeles at all.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Right, Just to be clear, I've seen the other cities
that are experiencing some of this unresked and I can't
believe how patient you guys are compared to some of
these other cities. I mean, these other cities. I see clear,
you know, outside the law, the the you know, the
spectrum of what la PD is allowed to do to people.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Well, I will say that we have been very patient
up to this point. But I think we're kind of
coming down kind of to the end on that part.
There's no mystery as to what's going on now. I
think the mystery has been resolved. Some of the things
that are going on in other cities. That's not necessarily
the way we police here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I know there's been you must.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Raise your eyebrows when you see some of this stuff.
Oh well, we certainly raise our eyebrows. We look at
some of the things that we're like, yeah, we don't
do that. We haven't done that for decades. As a
matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Coming out of Oklahoma, Houston, well even.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Some of the larger cities New York, Chicago, Houston, they're
they're taking a different stance than we are here.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
New York is stepping to you real quick this time.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Yeah, So I think the pasture in New York is
going to be very much a posture of we are
going to facilitate. They're very good at facilitating First Amendment right.
Beach in New York very experienced with that with the
United Nations and everything else they have there. But I
think at the same time, most of these municipalities, especially
the large cities, are very worried about things getting out
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of hand quickly.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Absolutely, So you have to consider, you know, how much
damage are we willing to absorb in this city and
can we control it if he goes widespread.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I have a friend of my daughters is on the
mounted team.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Are you familiar with any of the mountains.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm very familiar with the mountain right the mounted unit officer, Daniel,
great guy, his wife is lapd as well. But man,
they took a direct hit with one of their horses,
and that could have been a really bad scene.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Yeah, so I just you know, those are my friends.
You cannot throw molotov cocktails at law enforcement officers purses,
you know. I think a lot of our officers saw
that that assault, and that was just to be clear,
that was a direct assault with a Molotov cocktail on
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our mounted officers. So just to be clear to the community,
we're not going to tolerate that. Ever, did they guy
did they get the guy that did it? So we
have a number of people in custy that were involved
in that. That is not going to work. Uh, those
are my friends. We are not going to tolerate that
type of activity. You saw instances where other people had
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industrial grade fireworks. So now I'm talking about the fireworks
that you shoot way up in the sky and they're
beautiful and they're they're they're great. So I can tell
you having worked to guard our headquarters for the last
few nights, they were literally finding those directly at us.
When I say directly, I mean they landed your feet
and then they explode. So that also does not work
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for us. You're going to injure a lot of people
when you fire those, and then you know, it's bad
enough for the officers. And we have all kinds of
gear on, we have helmets and all the other stuff.
Some of that stuff is city civilians that are uninvolved. Yeah,
and that's not gonna work for us. You're gonna you
can seriously injure and kill people with those fireworks.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
This Saturday looks to be a big day.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yes, we're anticipating that there are going to be a
number of activities around the city of Los Angeles, and
we will be.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Ready and it's Trump's birthday and people are going to
get out there.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I think there are a number of different activities planned
throughout the county. Certainly here within the city, we know
that there are a number of them, certainly of the
downtown area. And your Los Angeles Police Department has been
planning for this for the last couple of weeks and
we will be ready.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And it's also the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the US Army.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Of the US Army, that is correct, shout out to
third group, my son, is that right? Yeah, our youngest
is US Army man.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Look at you, your whole family constantly giving back, you know,
that is great. Imagine Also, there are a lot of
guys currently on LAPD who have experience in the armed services.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Yes, we value our link two veterans in the military
on this department. We are a very military friendly department.
And we we have people literally that have already been
called up for this call out that are LAPD officers
that have to fulfill their military obligation. So now they've
been called up and they're out doing that job. And
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you know, unfortunately those you know, a dozen or so
officers are not also not available to us.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You know, I was at when they dedicated the roll
call room and tapanga for Josh Collins. He was the
officer that was he was on the bomb squad and
he was killed over in Afghanistan and I met his
mom and dad, beautiful, beautiful people.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
It was an EOD tech out, you know, protecting and
serving for this country. Unfortunately lost his life. Yeah, yeah,
just like R. J. Cottle, another LAPD officer who was
serving lost his life serving for this country. We have
a long, storied history of working with the military very closely.
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We value them as partners. We're not involved and engaged
with them on this particular go round, but we value
that relationship and we hold it very dear and close
to our hearts.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Are you working the streets tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I work in the streets every night.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I'll be out there again at our police headquarters facility,
or I will be over at our Emergency Operations Center.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I'll be working that overnight.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Tonight six.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
I pretty much work twenty four. I was a day
with these things because we have meetings in the morning.
This morning I was I had the pleasure and I
attended with the chief this morning's police orientation preparation program
graduation where we graduated fifty one people from the program.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
But it's time to graduate. Huh.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Well, it's a program where you can get your Associate
of Arts degree in criminal justice and go on to
a career either in law enforcement or the military or
or other things.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
So we had another graduation. That program is growing.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
It's linked to our Police Academy Magnet Schools, which maintains
a ninety nine percent graduation rate in the LA Unified.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
School Wow, outstanding future, outstanding future. We're the opposite in
our house. We had a one percent.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, well, someone's got to take care of that's right, Bunny.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I really appreciate coming in and stay safe out there,
and and I hope that everybody comes out, the protesters
and everybody and all the cops and everybody, uh unscathed.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But it's going to be a crazy quick shout out, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Really quick.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
This is going to be for the men and women
of the Los Angeles Police Department and all of our
allied agencies who on a phone call came to back
us up. I want to say this for the leadership
of this department. We value all the hard work that
you're doing, and we truly appreciate and we want to
extend our things to you for all the hard work
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that you've done over the last few days and that
you will do over the coming days to keep the
city of Los Angeles safe. Hey, we we truly appreciate
everything that our officers are doing. And I would ask
the community when they get the chance to specifically go
up to an all officer and thank them for all
the hard work that they're doing.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I've met a ton of police officers over my lifespan,
and every single man or woman I've met with that
uniform mom has been an outstanding person, every single one
of them.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But I appreciate coming by. We'll welcome anytime.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Thanks for having me to thank you, Sir Alan Hamilton,
the chief of all Detectives.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Right here, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty monks.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You got bunks, We got bunks. Hi you bub when
a start is always going to be with you.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Tim Michael Monks, the head reporter here, the senior reporter here,
managing editors, okay of KFI News. And I thought, okay,
there's no way that LA can get crazier and then
I was yuchered.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You know, sometimes in the news business we come at
this from a selfish perspective, like, uh, maybe it'll be
a little calmer today, and we can get caught up
on some stuff, and maybe the stories we're telling about
the protest won't be as absurd.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
The curfews appear to.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Have quelled a lot of the craziness that was taking place,
and then a day like today rolls around and you're
drinking out of the news fire hose again.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
So Alex Padilla, Senator Alex Padia, Yeah, what happened.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I'll just sell you.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
The Secretary Nome is in town, right, and she was
accompanying some of the federal immigration agents around for their
raids security personal security. Oh yeah, not just personal security,
we're talking secret Service. Oh really, okay, so they're not
messing around with cabinet secretaries. After some of the events
of this morning, she held a press conference where she
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talked about how bad LA is doing and all of
that sort of thing that you would expect from the
Trump administration at this point. But while we're listening to
the press conference, all of a sudden you hear a
ruckus in the background. Let me just tell you, as
a guy who covers these things, when federal officials come
into town, no Tom, Dick and Harry can just walk
in right right, I mean yeah, they want complete or
you have to be credentialed, and often for higher level
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people like this, you have to RSVP and be maybe
screened a little bit because they don't want this kind
of disruption. This was in a room in a federal building,
So who's wuckling the secretary? We hear this, this noise
taking place in the background. In fact, let's hear a
little bit of how it went down your city.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
So I want to say thank you to every single
person that has been able to do this. Also, I
want to talk specifically to the rioters and to the
politicians in Los Angeles on your.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I also want to talk Secretary Nome Soldiers on through
her marks. While this ruckus is taking place in the background,
and it was quickly learned that the ruckus was caused
by Democratic Senator from California, Alex Paedilla.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Wow, but you know what he was. He was not
dressed like a senator. He was dressed like he was
working there.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
It was it was like he one of those federal jackets,
you know, with the logo on it, like he could.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Have been security or something, or you know, or secret
service or something, and it was odd.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
And then so they take him out and they handcuff him.
They took him to the floor. We wrastled him to
the floor. Yeah, put them in cuffs. And he says
afterwards that he was already at that building for an
unrelated meeting, but found out Christy Nome was going to
be there and thought, I've got a couple of questions
for Christy Nome when on I slither into this press
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conference and try to ask them, but he disrupted the meeting.
Now you're hearing from both political aisles. Oh yeah, both
sides of the audience. I watched it today. I watched
it on Fox. I watched on MSNBC, And it's two
different events. It's too It's well, that's the world. We
live in, two different worlds. I love that.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I love the fact that it's two different events.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
So I want to play for you some general remarks
that Christi Noa made about the ice enforcement here, basically
that they're going to continue regardless of what local officials
are calling for. Then she'll react to Senator Padilla's action today,
and then you will hear from an emotional Alex Padia.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
At the end of this the Department of Homeland Security
and the officers and the agencies and the departments and
the military people that are working on this operation will
continue to sustain and increase our operations in this city.
We are not going away. It's not acceptable. If you
assault a law enforcement officer, we are going to come
after you, and we are going to arrest you, prosecute you,
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and put you away. I don't even know the senator.
He did not request a meeting with me or to
speak with me. So when I leave here, I'll have
a conversation with him and visit and find out really
what his concerns were. I think everybody in America would
agree that that wasn't appropriate.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
If this is how this administration responds to a senator
with a question, If this is how the Department of
Home od Security responds to a senator with a question,
you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers.
Oh my god, two daylabors out in the Los Angeles
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community and throughout California and throughout the country.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Wow, I didn't I saw that but I didn't, you know,
just listening to it, not watching it, I didn't realize
how emotional he got over this.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You know, he's just a kid from McComb whoo man. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
So apparently he and the secretary did have a chance
to talk for about ten to fifteen minutes, according to
our partners at ABC News, that they did talk. Now,
I don't know what the nature of that conversation was
or what the results of that was. I think the
key takeaway here, of course, that event became very talkable,
something that we can talk about and want to talk about,
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and it shows the heightened emotions in this debate. But
the key takeaway is what Christy Gnomes said at the
top of that sound bite, which is ICE enforcement efforts
are not just going to remain here, they will be
increasing here.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
And so for those of us who keep asking how
does this whole situation on the ground in La end.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Well, it can't end, not soon. And this weekend is
Donald Trump's birthday. On Saturday, people want to get out
and protest that it's the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the Army. There's me celebrations going on all over
the country and it's the first well not the first,
but it's the day off that people can get and
go down there without the curfew because the curfew expire
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is probably at six am. If they extend it to
tomorrow night, I think I think Saturday in downtown LA
is going to be huge.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I'll note this as someone who kind of follows what
the activists online have to say, regardless of what their
ideology is. The leftist type protesters, the really elite ones
that love to come down to these things and engage
with the police and maybe even engage violently with the police.
There is maybe no one they hate more than Democrats,
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and that's true, Like I mean, leftists and Democrats are
often conflated for pos reasons, but these types of activists
hate Democrats. They hate this No Kings protest that's coming
because that's more of your run of the mill liberal
a lot of white ladies with Starbucks hanging out to
talk about how much they don't like the president. That's
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not their style, right, and they're gonna f up the
they're violent, they exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
They're gonna take a little bit of attention away.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
So I wouldn't expect the No Kings people to engage
in any protests violence. But what happens later, I don't know.
The mayor said today that this curfew could be extended
for a few more days.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And by the way, if the Kings keep playing the
La Kings keep playing the way they played against Edmonton
for the last four years, I'm going down to the
No Kings protest.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, what a billboard.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That's exactly right, buddy, appreciate comingways and pleasure. Michael Monks
Saturday night seven to nine pm right here on KFI.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I think Saturday night's gonna be hot. It's gonna be hot,
so hot. They're bringing me back in for Sunday afternoon also,
so I'll be on at least from two to four.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Okay, I think I'm doing noon to two on Saturday.
I think I'm on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Is that school? Well, we're negotiating, negotiating.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
All right, Saturday is going to be a huge day
in downtown Los Angeles. We have the Not a King
protest going on. There's a couple of different titles for that.
Then we also have Saturday is the day off for
a lot of people. You can slide down and enjoy
yourself at downtown LA. It's the two undred and fifty
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two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Army, so there's
gonna be celebrations all over the place, and then we
have the mayhem, the craziness. It's gonna go on in
downtown Los Angeles the way it's been going on for
seven days now. Well, tomorrow, I guess will be the
official seventh day. Tomorrow will be one week.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
One week.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Who we've been doing this and it doesn't look like
it's getting any better. It looks like the curfew is
working at night, but and it looks like there's not
as much mayhem. But I see a lot of anger
out there and just tooling around, you know, just buzzing
around the city and talking to people. There is a
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lot of anger out there. And it's not the typical anger,
you know, it's sort of the next level, and you
can see it in people's faces. You can feel it
on the streets and on the highways, on the freeways.
There's a vibe out there of people don't know what
to do. People are scared, people are thinking moving out
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at LA and then we've got the World Cup coming in,
We've got the Olympics coming in. I imagine that the
Olympics is sniffing around other cities, and I bet the
World Cup is as well, because we just were not
ready for it as a city. We can't get along
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as a city, and so.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
It goes.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And this Saturday is going to be a big day.
I think I'm coming in noon to two on Saturday,
Croach Day.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Were you working on Saturday? You're coming in Sunday, Sunday,
Sunday noon to six? Wow? What about you stuff? Was
you coming in on a Sunday or Saturday?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
As far as I know, yeah, you are? You are
now a belly how about you? Laughing time? What time
are you coming in? Yeah, you're coming in Angel. Are
you working on Saturday or Sunday?
Speaker 9 (27:39):
This Saturday?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
No, No, like in nineteen saturdays from now. Yeah, I
am in an arbitrary Saturday like in November, but not
this Saturday.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Nineteen Saturdays.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
There is some other news going on though around the world,
and we'd like to certainly cover it for you, because
it's not all about the craziness in downtown Lane. There
are some other things to worry about, Other things to
worry about, like this one. Another thing that can wipe
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you out. They're called needle ants. Have you heard about
these little suckers?
Speaker 11 (28:18):
Use sightings of a potentially deadly invasive species as the
Asian needle ant spreads across the US. The stinging ant
has been spotted in at least seventeen states.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Here we go, Here we go, another thing that can
wipe you out.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
The insects now creeping their way into Texas for the
first time ever. Wildlife officials are warning of an increase
in allergic reaction to the ants. They're painful sting, which
can pierce through clothing, contains venom that can trigger anaphylaxis,
a life threatening reaction that causes swelling of the tongue
and throat, difficulty breathing, and weak or rapid heart rate.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
At least three people.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
You know what if this, let me back up here,
trigger anaphylaxis, a life threatening reaction that causes swelling of
the tongue and throat.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Okay, it caused swelling of what tongue, throat the tongue
in throat, Okay. But if these Asian needle ants were
causing the inflammation or the swelling of lips. They'd be
standing room ontely in Hollywood. Hey, you got some of
those Asian needle ants? Yeah, and put them on my lips.
(29:18):
See if I can get those uh cranked up a
little bit here.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Tongue in throat, but it's just tongue.
Speaker 9 (29:23):
Someone will probably, you know, gather a bunch of these
needle ants and make some kind of a lipstick or
something that has their venom in it, just like plump
everything out.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh, angel, I wish you didn't say it on the air.
That's a great idea. We could have made some money.
Oh man, I made some cash. Ah Bob, that's gonna happen.
That's definitely gonna happen. Difficulty breathing and weak or rapid
heart rate.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
At least three people in Georgia wound up in the
hospital last year after getting stung by needle ants. It
comes as drauro spiders have become an unexpected part of
life in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
What it comes as drauro spiders A jauro spider.
Speaker 11 (29:58):
Draorro spiders have become an unexpected part of life in Georgia.
Native to East Asia, the colorful orachnids the size of
a human hand first showed up in the state.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
About it.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
How about that you have a spider inside their house
the size.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Of a hand. It's they look like a nightmare. It
just looked it up fuel.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
Native to East Asia, the colorful orachnids the size of
a human hand, first showed up in the state about
a decade ago and have since spread rapidly across the southeast.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Great trick and Ophilla Galvada. They'll be here. What color
are they?
Speaker 12 (30:30):
Purple black and they got yellow stripes, look like a
bumblebee on top because they're behind quarters yellow and black striped.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And then they got a red underbelly, and they got
like daddy long legs. But they're yeah, it looks.
Speaker 12 (30:40):
Like daddy long legs. But the size of your hand,
you like a tarantula. No, real thin legs, like a
daddy long leg Yeah, he's right.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
It looks like the middle part looks like a bee.
And then they have really big long legs. Yeah, the
body looks like a bumblebee. It's the end of society.
It is kill scared with the with the ants, the
killer bee, the killer spiders.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
And crazies, whiers when they get scared, they freeze and
they don't do anything. I don't know what you would
have to do to get bitten by a chore with spider,
but it's very, very unlikely, and even if it happens,
it's not going to be dangerous.
Speaker 11 (31:15):
The Asian needle ant is not the first invasive insects,
sparking concern over its deadly sting.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You know, my my wife got stung by a black
widow while she was pregnant. We're talking in the kitchen.
She felt something on her arm and then a spider
fell down. It was a black widow and she got
bit by a black widow, and you gotta take me
the hospital. He got very hospital, said sweetie. I said,
nobody's ever died from a black widow's thing. Relax, and
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she goaus, that's not true. People die all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I said, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Truth is I was actually watching a game on TV. Yeah,
I think it was horse racing. But no, people don't
die from black widows. It's unlikely.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That's a myth. Yeah, but it's unlikely. Brown reckluse that'll
kill you before you hit the ground. Need to watch
for that right going up your arm. And get to
the hospital. Say right, Belly, I don't know I had
you know that. That's uh, it scares me, so I've
never forgot that. Okay, all right, we'll keep an eye
in downtown LA.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
It looks like everything's calm for now, but the curfew
starts in three hours and one minute.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
It is the Conway Show, and the circus continues.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Here in Los Angeles, we are the center of attention
for the entire world. They're all looking at us, and man,
do we put on a circus? We put on a circus.
Mine We're better than Circus Vargas or Wringling Brothers.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
When we entertain the world, we knock it out. One
of my oldest friends at LAPD is joining us. The
King of all Detectives, the Chief of all Detectives, Alan Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
How are you, sir? Yeah, here's that button right there.
I think it's on. How are you, bub I'm doing good.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
How are you to day? Man?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
You look great for a guy who's been through war.
H Well, I wouldn't quite call it war, but uh yeah,
how about that? Uh yeah, I mean it's it's been busy.
It's been busy these last few days unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
All right, So a chief of what's your exact title,
Chief of all detectives.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Yeah, so I'm the Chief of Detectives. I hit the
detective Bureau and we are responsible for investigation City White.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay, and how's it going downtown?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I heard from Jimmy Kimmel and Maxime Waters that there's
nothing to see, there's no violins, there's nothing going on. Yeah,
you seeing a different thing picture down They may have
missed a few of the things that are going on,
is that right.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Fortunately we have been able to keep a lot of
the activity contained to the downtown area.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Unfortunately, there's been a lot of damage down there, right,
and what is it? Mostly graffiti?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It's well, it's.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
A yeah, it's a combination between graffiti and broken windows.
And of course you know you as you well know,
some of those windows are extremely expensive for owner.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And then there's been some other damage.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
There has been some fire damage, unfortunately, fireworks damage. So
we're seeing some of that being repaired, replaced, painted over,
We're seeing some of that work being done. Unfortunately, a
lot of our business partners in the business districts have
chosen to cover up their glass windows with lumber and
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what have you, so that gives a different look to
the community. I would love to get back to the
point where that's not necessary because it's not fair for
our businesses I'm a big supporter of business in this city.
We need more revenue in this city clearly, and we
have to be good partners to the business community. So
I'm hoping that we'll be able to get back to
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a simbilance of control here and get those boards down,
get business going again in the downtown area, and support
our business partners.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
You know, I've seen I've never seen this before, where
people bring hammers with them and then they break up
the sidewalk and throw it at you guys.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, that's not actually really new.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
There are a lot of different ways to get projectiles
to for what law enforcement. We've seen a bunch of
different methods over the years being used. There's been stories
of people having you know, rocks and bricks and things delivered.
We know that people move that stuff around. I don't
know about the delivery part of it. They're probably not
calling to get it delivered.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Right, It's tough to get a load of bricks being
delivered into a riot zone.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, you'd be surprised him, is that right? Okay?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I mean, so don't forget there's always construction and other
things going on in the city. So if that those
materials are nearby. They're going to be co opted for
that purpose, unfortunately, and we would ask that the public
not take control of those those types of items and
use them against law enforcement, used them against buildings. Well,
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is the curfew helping out? The curfew is definitely helping out. Now,
keep in mind, and again i'm gonna say this, it's
a fairly restricted area of the city that is being
affected right now. But as you saw last night, we
had a group that was downtown. They were originally marching
around downtown. They were doing a little bit of graffiti
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and vandalism here and there, and then they left the
downtown area and they ended up over in the West
Lake district, and then they kept going and they ended
up in mid Wilshire. So, now, then, what do you
do with these groups that are now outside of the
curfew zone. And my response to that is any And
I'm going to be clear about this, it doesn't matter
whether you're outside of the curfew zone. If you're engaged
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in illegal activity. We tell you as a group that
you're in an lawful assembly, and you continue to violate
the law, you're going to be subject to arrest by
lap officers, period, full stop. That's all there is to it.
There have been enough warnings. I had a discussion with
the chief this morning. It was follow up to our
discussion a couple of days ago. We have extended a
(04:48):
lot of grace, warnings and all the other stuff, and
I think we've run, to the end of the morning.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
A tremendous amount of patience for I mean, over and over,
hours after hours after days telling people to stop doing this.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
But yes, and again, there's no limit to First Amendment speech.
You can, you know, if you're doing it in the
correct time, place and matter. You can come out here
and we will actually facilitate your First Amendment right to
say what you want to say. Whether we agree with
it or not, that's inconsequential.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
What we will not tolerate any longer is the destruction
of this city.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Right.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
So we've offered a lot of warnings, we've given a
lot of grace, we've given a lot of breaks, and
that's coming to a close. We're we're at the point
now where, in order to take back control of especially
the downtown area, we're going to have to insist that
people follow the law. Are we going to take effective
immediate action?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Alan Hambleton's whether he's the chief of all detectives for LAPD.
It must be wearing on the men and women who
are on the street to be yelled at for twelve
hours Nazi, racist comments, baby killers, all that crap. That
they yell at him for twelve hours, and then they
got to go home and sort of decompress. It's got
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to after five, four or five six days. That Look,
if I came into work work every day for twelve
hours and somebody yelled at me for twelve hours every
single day, I wouldn't come back anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, I mean, so I'm thinking back in history.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
I don't think there were a lot of black Nazis,
So I'm really surprised when people accuse me of being
a Nazi and all these other things. What I remind
people of is we're the department for the city. We're
the police department for this city, and we reflect the
city the city that's very very very very closely.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I see a lot of Hispanic names on the sleeves
or on the on the shirts of these cops.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
And what I would tell the people that are calling
us Nazis and all the other names, is I would
remind them that a lot of us, very much like me,
grew up right.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Here in this city. Yeah, you grew up in central SOUTHID.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I was born in south central LA and grew up
in the city of LA. And I would remind people
that this is your LAPD. We're the same LAPD we
were last week, and the same LAPD we were last month.
And I would say this to the officers that are listening,
we support you, and we're doing everything we can from
the command staff level to support this department. The chief,
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you know, Chief McDonald has I don't think he's slept
in a week. We have discussed this, and I would
ask the public to do the following. When you see
law enforcement out here working to keep your community safe,
I would ask that you thank them directly, good for you,
to their face and tell them that you appreciate all.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The heartwork you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We need more of that.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
We certainly appreciate all the heart work that are off.
And it's not the people at our level.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
It is the.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Officers that are working at the speet level that matter,
and they're doing yeomen's work. We're still doing the fire stuff.
Oh and we're still doing all the regular police stuff too.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Too, Oh my god, and.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Short staff and these men and women are doing a
phenomenal job with the resources that they have.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's right, Okay, we got tay break. Can you stay
with us?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Absolutely all right?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The chief of all detectives in the world, Alan ham
or LAPD. I guess Alan Hamilton is with us and
we will continue on. Ask when we come back. Is
the National Guard and the Marines? Is that gonna help
us or hurt us when they're all eventually deployed here
on the streets of la.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Alan Hambleton is with us, the chief of Detectives for LAPD.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
How many years you've been on already? Thirty five years?
Thirty five years? Oh man, oh man.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You must be one of the last members of your
class to be on the force.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I am yeah, so no, class of February of nineteen ninety.
There's there're a handful of us left, a few reserves,
and we've got a few full timers still around, okay,
and we're gonna be uh, we're gonna be calling it quits,
hanging up the belt here pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Are you in the drop program. I am in the
drop program five years and that's a wrap fire.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Well I'm two years into the fire, so three more
they've got you got me for three more years. Can
you stay after that only as a reserve?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, all right, all right, let's go through this here.
You think the National Guard and the and the I
believe they're gonna pull Navy ships into the downtown LA
or Marines.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Is that going to be good for LA or bad
for LA?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah? I mean, so they're coming.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
They're actually coming here to help with the federal government's role.
They're not going to really be working on anything with
municipal policing. So what we're going to see is we're
going to see the National Guard in the Marines working
closely with our federal partners, and they're going to be
working on federal issues. So there there's not going to
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be any military component with municipal policing in the City
of Los Angeles at all.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Right, Just to be clear, I've seen the other cities
that are experiencing some of this unresked and I can't
believe how patient you guys are compared to some of
these other cities. I mean, these other cities. I see clear,
you know, outside the law, the the you know, the
spectrum of what la PD is allowed to do to people.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Well, I will say that we have been very patient
up to this point. But I think we're kind of
coming down kind of to the end on that part.
There's no mystery as to what's going on now. I
think the mystery has been resolved. Some of the things
that are going on in other cities. That's not necessarily
the way we police here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I know there's been you must.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Raise your eyebrows when you see some of this stuff.
Oh well, we certainly raise our eyebrows. We look at
some of the things that we're like, yeah, we don't
do that. We haven't done that for decades. As a
matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Coming out of Oklahoma, Houston, well even.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Some of the larger cities New York, Chicago, Houston, they're
they're taking a different stance than we are here.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
New York is stepping to you real quick this time.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Yeah, So I think the pasture in New York is
going to be very much a posture of we are
going to facilitate. They're very good at facilitating First Amendment right.
Beach in New York very experienced with that with the
United Nations and everything else they have there. But I
think at the same time, most of these municipalities, especially
the large cities, are very worried about things getting out
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of hand quickly.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Absolutely, So you have to consider, you know, how much
damage are we willing to absorb in this city and
can we control it if he goes widespread.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I have a friend of my daughters is on the
mounted team.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Are you familiar with any of the mountains.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm very familiar with the mountain right the mounted unit officer, Daniel,
great guy, his wife is lapd as well. But man,
they took a direct hit with one of their horses,
and that could have been a really bad scene.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Yeah, so I just you know, those are my friends.
You cannot throw molotov cocktails at law enforcement officers purses,
you know. I think a lot of our officers saw
that that assault, and that was just to be clear,
that was a direct assault with a Molotov cocktail on
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our mounted officers. So just to be clear to the community,
we're not going to tolerate that. Ever, did they guy
did they get the guy that did it? So we
have a number of people in custy that were involved
in that. That is not going to work. Uh, those
are my friends. We are not going to tolerate that
type of activity. You saw instances where other people had
(12:23):
industrial grade fireworks. So now I'm talking about the fireworks
that you shoot way up in the sky and they're
beautiful and they're they're they're great. So I can tell
you having worked to guard our headquarters for the last
few nights, they were literally finding those directly at us.
When I say directly, I mean they landed your feet
and then they explode. So that also does not work
(12:46):
for us. You're going to injure a lot of people
when you fire those, and then you know, it's bad
enough for the officers. And we have all kinds of
gear on, we have helmets and all the other stuff.
Some of that stuff is city civilians that are uninvolved. Yeah,
and that's not gonna work for us. You're gonna you
can seriously injure and kill people with those fireworks.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
This Saturday looks to be a big day.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yes, we're anticipating that there are going to be a
number of activities around the city of Los Angeles, and
we will be.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Ready and it's Trump's birthday and people are going to
get out there.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I think there are a number of different activities planned
throughout the county. Certainly here within the city, we know
that there are a number of them, certainly of the
downtown area. And your Los Angeles Police Department has been
planning for this for the last couple of weeks and
we will be ready.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And it's also the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the US Army.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Of the US Army, that is correct, shout out to
third group, my son, is that right? Yeah, our youngest
is US Army man.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Look at you, your whole family constantly giving back, you know,
that is great. Imagine Also, there are a lot of
guys currently on LAPD who have experience in the armed services.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Yes, we value our link two veterans in the military
on this department. We are a very military friendly department.
And we we have people literally that have already been
called up for this call out that are LAPD officers
that have to fulfill their military obligation. So now they've
been called up and they're out doing that job. And
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you know, unfortunately those you know, a dozen or so
officers are not also not available to us.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You know, I was at when they dedicated the roll
call room and tapanga for Josh Collins. He was the
officer that was he was on the bomb squad and
he was killed over in Afghanistan and I met his
mom and dad, beautiful, beautiful people.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
It was an EOD tech out, you know, protecting and
serving for this country. Unfortunately lost his life. Yeah, yeah,
just like R. J. Cottle, another LAPD officer who was
serving lost his life serving for this country. We have
a long, storied history of working with the military very closely.
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We value them as partners. We're not involved and engaged
with them on this particular go round, but we value
that relationship and we hold it very dear and close
to our hearts.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Are you working the streets tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I work in the streets every night.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I'll be out there again at our police headquarters facility,
or I will be over at our Emergency Operations Center.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I'll be working that overnight.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Tonight six.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
I pretty much work twenty four. I was a day
with these things because we have meetings in the morning.
This morning I was I had the pleasure and I
attended with the chief this morning's police orientation preparation program
graduation where we graduated fifty one people from the program.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
But it's time to graduate. Huh.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Well, it's a program where you can get your Associate
of Arts degree in criminal justice and go on to
a career either in law enforcement or the military or
or other things.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
So we had another graduation. That program is growing.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
It's linked to our Police Academy Magnet Schools, which maintains
a ninety nine percent graduation rate in the LA Unified.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
School Wow, outstanding future, outstanding future. We're the opposite in
our house. We had a one percent.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, well, someone's got to take care of that's right, Bunny.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I really appreciate coming in and stay safe out there,
and and I hope that everybody comes out, the protesters
and everybody and all the cops and everybody, uh unscathed.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But it's going to be a crazy quick shout out, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Really quick.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
This is going to be for the men and women
of the Los Angeles Police Department and all of our
allied agencies who on a phone call came to back
us up. I want to say this for the leadership
of this department. We value all the hard work that
you're doing, and we truly appreciate and we want to
extend our things to you for all the hard work
(16:46):
that you've done over the last few days and that
you will do over the coming days to keep the
city of Los Angeles safe. Hey, we we truly appreciate
everything that our officers are doing. And I would ask
the community when they get the chance to specifically go
up to an all officer and thank them for all
the hard work that they're doing.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I've met a ton of police officers over my lifespan,
and every single man or woman I've met with that
uniform mom has been an outstanding person, every single one
of them.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But I appreciate coming by. We'll welcome anytime.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Thanks for having me to thank you, Sir Alan Hamilton,
the chief of all Detectives.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Right here, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty monks.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You got bunks, We got bunks. Hi you bub when
a start is always going to be with you.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Tim Michael Monks, the head reporter here, the senior reporter here,
managing editors, okay of KFI News. And I thought, okay,
there's no way that LA can get crazier and then
I was yuchered.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You know, sometimes in the news business we come at
this from a selfish perspective, like, uh, maybe it'll be
a little calmer today, and we can get caught up
on some stuff, and maybe the stories we're telling about
the protest won't be as absurd.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
The curfews appear to.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Have quelled a lot of the craziness that was taking place,
and then a day like today rolls around and you're
drinking out of the news fire hose again.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
So Alex Padilla, Senator Alex Padia, Yeah, what happened.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I'll just sell you.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
The Secretary Nome is in town, right, and she was
accompanying some of the federal immigration agents around for their
raids security personal security. Oh yeah, not just personal security,
we're talking secret Service. Oh really, okay, so they're not
messing around with cabinet secretaries. After some of the events
of this morning, she held a press conference where she
(18:41):
talked about how bad LA is doing and all of
that sort of thing that you would expect from the
Trump administration at this point. But while we're listening to
the press conference, all of a sudden you hear a
ruckus in the background. Let me just tell you, as
a guy who covers these things, when federal officials come
into town, no Tom, Dick and Harry can just walk
in right right, I mean yeah, they want complete or
you have to be credentialed, and often for higher level
(19:03):
people like this, you have to RSVP and be maybe
screened a little bit because they don't want this kind
of disruption. This was in a room in a federal building,
So who's wuckling the secretary? We hear this, this noise
taking place in the background. In fact, let's hear a
little bit of how it went down your city.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
So I want to say thank you to every single
person that has been able to do this. Also, I
want to talk specifically to the rioters and to the
politicians in Los Angeles on your.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I also want to talk Secretary Nome Soldiers on through
her marks. While this ruckus is taking place in the background,
and it was quickly learned that the ruckus was caused
by Democratic Senator from California, Alex Paedilla.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Wow, but you know what he was. He was not
dressed like a senator. He was dressed like he was
working there.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
It was it was like he one of those federal jackets,
you know, with the logo on it, like he could.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Have been security or something, or you know, or secret
service or something, and it was odd.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
And then so they take him out and they handcuff him.
They took him to the floor. We wrastled him to
the floor. Yeah, put them in cuffs. And he says
afterwards that he was already at that building for an
unrelated meeting, but found out Christy Nome was going to
be there and thought, I've got a couple of questions
for Christy Nome when on I slither into this press
(20:32):
conference and try to ask them, but he disrupted the meeting.
Now you're hearing from both political aisles. Oh yeah, both
sides of the audience. I watched it today. I watched
it on Fox. I watched on MSNBC, And it's two
different events. It's too It's well, that's the world. We
live in, two different worlds. I love that.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I love the fact that it's two different events.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
So I want to play for you some general remarks
that Christi Noa made about the ice enforcement here, basically
that they're going to continue regardless of what local officials
are calling for. Then she'll react to Senator Padilla's action today,
and then you will hear from an emotional Alex Padia.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
At the end of this the Department of Homeland Security
and the officers and the agencies and the departments and
the military people that are working on this operation will
continue to sustain and increase our operations in this city.
We are not going away. It's not acceptable. If you
assault a law enforcement officer, we are going to come
after you, and we are going to arrest you, prosecute you,
(21:26):
and put you away. I don't even know the senator.
He did not request a meeting with me or to
speak with me. So when I leave here, I'll have
a conversation with him and visit and find out really
what his concerns were. I think everybody in America would
agree that that wasn't appropriate.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
If this is how this administration responds to a senator
with a question, If this is how the Department of
Home od Security responds to a senator with a question,
you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers.
Oh my god, two daylabors out in the Los Angeles
(22:04):
community and throughout California and throughout the country.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Wow, I didn't I saw that but I didn't, you know,
just listening to it, not watching it, I didn't realize
how emotional he got over this.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You know, he's just a kid from McComb whoo man. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
So apparently he and the secretary did have a chance
to talk for about ten to fifteen minutes, according to
our partners at ABC News, that they did talk. Now,
I don't know what the nature of that conversation was
or what the results of that was. I think the
key takeaway here, of course, that event became very talkable,
something that we can talk about and want to talk about,
(22:41):
and it shows the heightened emotions in this debate. But
the key takeaway is what Christy Gnomes said at the
top of that sound bite, which is ICE enforcement efforts
are not just going to remain here, they will be
increasing here.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
And so for those of us who keep asking how
does this whole situation on the ground in La end.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Well, it can't end, not soon. And this weekend is
Donald Trump's birthday. On Saturday, people want to get out
and protest that it's the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the Army. There's me celebrations going on all over
the country and it's the first well not the first,
but it's the day off that people can get and
go down there without the curfew because the curfew expire
(23:22):
is probably at six am. If they extend it to
tomorrow night, I think I think Saturday in downtown LA
is going to be huge.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I'll note this as someone who kind of follows what
the activists online have to say, regardless of what their
ideology is. The leftist type protesters, the really elite ones
that love to come down to these things and engage
with the police and maybe even engage violently with the police.
There is maybe no one they hate more than Democrats,
(23:51):
and that's true, Like I mean, leftists and Democrats are
often conflated for pos reasons, but these types of activists
hate Democrats. They hate this No Kings protest that's coming
because that's more of your run of the mill liberal
a lot of white ladies with Starbucks hanging out to
talk about how much they don't like the president. That's
(24:11):
not their style, right, and they're gonna f up the
they're violent, they exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
They're gonna take a little bit of attention away.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
So I wouldn't expect the No Kings people to engage
in any protests violence. But what happens later, I don't know.
The mayor said today that this curfew could be extended
for a few more days.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And by the way, if the Kings keep playing the
La Kings keep playing the way they played against Edmonton
for the last four years, I'm going down to the
No Kings protest.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, what a billboard.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That's exactly right, buddy, appreciate comingways and pleasure. Michael Monks
Saturday night seven to nine pm right here on KFI.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I think Saturday night's gonna be hot. It's gonna be hot,
so hot. They're bringing me back in for Sunday afternoon also,
so I'll be on at least from two to four.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Okay, I think I'm doing noon to two on Saturday.
I think I'm on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Is that school? Well, we're negotiating, negotiating.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
All right, Saturday is going to be a huge day
in downtown Los Angeles. We have the Not a King
protest going on. There's a couple of different titles for that.
Then we also have Saturday is the day off for
a lot of people. You can slide down and enjoy
yourself at downtown LA. It's the two undred and fifty
(25:34):
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Army, so there's
gonna be celebrations all over the place, and then we
have the mayhem, the craziness. It's gonna go on in
downtown Los Angeles the way it's been going on for
seven days now. Well, tomorrow, I guess will be the
official seventh day. Tomorrow will be one week.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
One week.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Who we've been doing this and it doesn't look like
it's getting any better. It looks like the curfew is
working at night, but and it looks like there's not
as much mayhem. But I see a lot of anger
out there and just tooling around, you know, just buzzing
around the city and talking to people. There is a
(26:22):
lot of anger out there. And it's not the typical anger,
you know, it's sort of the next level, and you
can see it in people's faces. You can feel it
on the streets and on the highways, on the freeways.
There's a vibe out there of people don't know what
to do. People are scared, people are thinking moving out
(26:44):
at LA and then we've got the World Cup coming in,
We've got the Olympics coming in. I imagine that the
Olympics is sniffing around other cities, and I bet the
World Cup is as well, because we just were not
ready for it as a city. We can't get along
(27:06):
as a city, and so.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
It goes.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And this Saturday is going to be a big day.
I think I'm coming in noon to two on Saturday,
Croach Day.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Were you working on Saturday? You're coming in Sunday, Sunday,
Sunday noon to six? Wow? What about you stuff? Was
you coming in on a Sunday or Saturday?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
As far as I know, yeah, you are? You are
now a belly how about you? Laughing time? What time
are you coming in? Yeah, you're coming in Angel. Are
you working on Saturday or Sunday?
Speaker 9 (27:39):
This Saturday?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
No, No, like in nineteen saturdays from now. Yeah, I
am in an arbitrary Saturday like in November, but not
this Saturday.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Nineteen Saturdays.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
There is some other news going on though around the world,
and we'd like to certainly cover it for you, because
it's not all about the craziness in downtown Lane. There
are some other things to worry about, Other things to
worry about, like this one. Another thing that can wipe
(28:14):
you out. They're called needle ants. Have you heard about
these little suckers?
Speaker 11 (28:18):
Use sightings of a potentially deadly invasive species as the
Asian needle ant spreads across the US. The stinging ant
has been spotted in at least seventeen states.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Here we go, Here we go, another thing that can
wipe you out.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
The insects now creeping their way into Texas for the
first time ever. Wildlife officials are warning of an increase
in allergic reaction to the ants. They're painful sting, which
can pierce through clothing, contains venom that can trigger anaphylaxis,
a life threatening reaction that causes swelling of the tongue
and throat, difficulty breathing, and weak or rapid heart rate.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
At least three people.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
You know what if this, let me back up here,
trigger anaphylaxis, a life threatening reaction that causes swelling of
the tongue and throat.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Okay, it caused swelling of what tongue, throat the tongue
in throat, Okay. But if these Asian needle ants were
causing the inflammation or the swelling of lips. They'd be
standing room ontely in Hollywood. Hey, you got some of
those Asian needle ants? Yeah, and put them on my lips.
(29:18):
See if I can get those uh cranked up a
little bit here.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Tongue in throat, but it's just tongue.
Speaker 9 (29:23):
Someone will probably, you know, gather a bunch of these
needle ants and make some kind of a lipstick or
something that has their venom in it, just like plump
everything out.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh, angel, I wish you didn't say it on the air.
That's a great idea. We could have made some money.
Oh man, I made some cash. Ah Bob, that's gonna happen.
That's definitely gonna happen. Difficulty breathing and weak or rapid
heart rate.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
At least three people in Georgia wound up in the
hospital last year after getting stung by needle ants. It
comes as drauro spiders have become an unexpected part of
life in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
What it comes as drauro spiders A jauro spider.
Speaker 11 (29:58):
Draorro spiders have become an unexpected part of life in Georgia.
Native to East Asia, the colorful orachnids the size of
a human hand first showed up in the state.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
About it.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
How about that you have a spider inside their house
the size.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Of a hand. It's they look like a nightmare. It
just looked it up fuel.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
Native to East Asia, the colorful orachnids the size of
a human hand, first showed up in the state about
a decade ago and have since spread rapidly across the southeast.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Great trick and Ophilla Galvada. They'll be here. What color
are they?
Speaker 12 (30:30):
Purple black and they got yellow stripes, look like a
bumblebee on top because they're behind quarters yellow and black striped.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And then they got a red underbelly, and they got
like daddy long legs. But they're yeah, it looks.
Speaker 12 (30:40):
Like daddy long legs. But the size of your hand,
you like a tarantula. No, real thin legs, like a
daddy long leg Yeah, he's right.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
It looks like the middle part looks like a bee.
And then they have really big long legs. Yeah, the
body looks like a bumblebee. It's the end of society.
It is kill scared with the with the ants, the
killer bee, the killer spiders.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
And crazies, whiers when they get scared, they freeze and
they don't do anything. I don't know what you would
have to do to get bitten by a chore with spider,
but it's very, very unlikely, and even if it happens,
it's not going to be dangerous.
Speaker 11 (31:15):
The Asian needle ant is not the first invasive insects,
sparking concern over its deadly sting.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You know, my my wife got stung by a black
widow while she was pregnant. We're talking in the kitchen.
She felt something on her arm and then a spider
fell down. It was a black widow and she got
bit by a black widow, and you gotta take me
the hospital. He got very hospital, said sweetie. I said,
nobody's ever died from a black widow's thing. Relax, and
(31:40):
she goaus, that's not true. People die all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I said, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Truth is I was actually watching a game on TV. Yeah,
I think it was horse racing. But no, people don't
die from black widows. It's unlikely.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That's a myth. Yeah, but it's unlikely. Brown reckluse that'll
kill you before you hit the ground. Need to watch
for that right going up your arm. And get to
the hospital. Say right, Belly, I don't know I had
you know that. That's uh, it scares me, so I've
never forgot that. Okay, all right, we'll keep an eye
in downtown LA.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
It looks like everything's calm for now, but the curfew
starts in three hours and one minute.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
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