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