As protests and sporadic violence continued for a third day following a series of federal immigration raids, Mayor Karen Bass Sunday labeled Los Angeles a city in “chaos” — and blamed the Trump administration for a “chaotic escalation.”
“What we’re seeing in our city is chaos provoked by the Trump Administration,” the mayor said in newsletter that began with the salutation “Dear Angeleno” and was emailed under the banner of the city logo.
“When you raid Home Depots and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you cause fear and panic,” the letter went on. “And deployment of federalized troops on the heels of raids is a chaotic escalation.”
The five-paragraph missive — sent around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, following a third day of protests, and with armed National Guard troops deployed by Trump now on the ground in Los Angeles — also warned protesters to refrain from violence and not “fall into the Administration’s trap.”
“Angelenos have the right to make their voices heard through peaceful protest,” Bass’ statement said, adding, “Violence is unacceptable. No one should be put in danger — not law enforcement, not protesters. I urge everyone to be peaceful.
“The fear people are feeling in our city right now is very real — it’s felt in our communities and within our families.”
Bass also included video of part of her address Sunday to the people of Los Angeles, available at youtube.com/watch?v=2wnKo0mUbpo.
In the brief video clip, Bass said, “Our city has been through a lot since the beginning of the year, and now, thinking that there is a large percentage of our city that is terrified, that is not going to know if they go to sleep tonight and they go to work or they go to school, will that be the last day they do that, will that be the last day they see their family? We can’t have this in our city.
“Los Angeles is a city of immigrants, where 50% of the population is Latino, a percentage of the populations are from Asian countries and from all over the world — and we embrace all Angelenos. It doesn’t matter where you came from or when you got here.
“But the most important thing right now is that our city be peaceful, and so protests and expressing your … fears, your beliefs, is appropriate to do, but it is just not appropriate for there to be violence. And I don’t want people to fall into the chaos that I believe is being created by the administration, completely unnecessarily.”
Bass ended the written portion of her statement by again referencing a “chaos” theme — saying, “It is clear that the Administration is pushing an agenda — there is clearly no plan other than chaos.
“We will rise above it.”
You ( Karen Bass ) City Hall & All incompetent Law, Fire, Ambulance, Justice of America has Caused This.
@ $1500.00 Hour/$80.000 yr. Times 109 Cities + $500 Million OT…
01-12-2025 I’ve been in Bakersfield California for three days . Two nights ago I heard an accident on the freeway of a motorcycle being chased by a law enforcement that provoke the situation so bad that they had to Chop the Man’s legs off on the side of the freeway and he died on the way to the hospital . And I heard one person had shot the guy in the back which caused the man to crash his motorcycle & Crushed Both his leg so they had to amputate his legs there at the motorcycle on the side of the freeway so the man later died on the way to the hospital because of it. Loss of Blood. Then I wake up this morning at 7:00 am and I have this Erie feeling that some fucking stalker is watching my ass and I wake up to your fucking officer again this morning sitting over there and Allied property hanging out with his car facing at me staring down my fucking throat four
Two Lot’s away from were I’m sitting here at “Pioneer Paint”. Hell he pulls into the yard over there and the only observational way of seeing me wake up and move around over here. What has all your stalkers all done. I’ve explain this to you many of times you don’t have access to ( NO PUBLIC ACCESSIBLE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY THAT DOES BUSINESS WITH THE PUBLIC. ) But you’re idiots continue to drive around in vehicles with NO DRIVER’S LICENSE and NO FUCKING PERMIT FOR THEIR GUN! AS WELL AS NO ENDORSEMENT from the CALIFORNIA BAR ACADEMY to be law enforcement in the state of California. But how you continue to hire the garbage every DAY. I’d have to say the best thing that you need to do is you need to research around the State and find out how many companies and departments I’ve tried to put in fucking prison for your incompetence. Maybe you can find a better place to hang out in the fucking morning then SCARING at my DICK all the time.