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KFI AM six, It's mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And as we continue to watch and wait and see what happens, this is night two of what will be a curfew, a very limited curfew in downtown Los Angeles. And even though last night was relatively quiet, Yes, there were a number of arrests, but relatively speaking, it was quiet, no major incidents. We hope for the same tonight. I would say the biggest news of today had to
do with the press conference given by Nathan Hawkman. We also heard from LAPD chief Jim McDonald and also Elie County Sheriff Robert Luna before I play some of that audio, and I think it's important to hear that audio. We have another day of protests and the chirons in the lower third in TV talk, as they say, usually says something that protesters continue in their fight to end ICE raids. I think everyone is clear at this point what the
goal is for protesters. My question is why in the world is ICE or the federal government going to give you anything that you're asking for? Because you're continuing to walk in the middle of the street because that you are angry, because you are talking to the press and expressing your grievances. That does not in any way move the ball forward. Nothing has changed legally or societally in the past twenty four hours. Nothing will change after these
protests tonight. And I'm not trying to mock them. I am trying to give you some context and perspective as to why this tactic in and of itself is one hundred percent and ineffective.
There is no leverage here.
It's not like it's a corporation that you can shame and boycott. It's it's not like you can embarrass the federal government. You can shame them into doing something differently. In fact, ICE has stepped up their tactics. They are going to schools and churches, They're going to actually the farm in the fields, you know, taking migrant.
Workers from the fields.
At this point, they've expanded their operations in and around the United States. So if anything, this is increasing in its frequency and intensity.
It is not slowing down.
And largely I would say unimpacted by the protests. That's an unfortunate and uncomfortable reality for some, but it is accurate as far as where we are. There are now some charges which have been levied, and these are state charges. Hate to go all civics and everything, but Nathan Hockman is a representative of La County and so these are
local charges, not any federal charges. Some have been announced, but that's separate and distinct from what Nathan Hawkman and was announcing, and also LAPD Chief Jim McDonald and Sheriff Robert Luna were discussing.
Here is Nathan Hawkman.
If you did not hear some of this audio earlier today, so you can get a sense of his approach to this, and also actually he starts off with a little context about what we've been seeing in the media and how we should look upon it.
If you only saw the social media and the media reports of what's going on over the last five days, you would think that Los Angeles is on the verge of war, that we are truly being attacked repeatedly, over and over and over again. Because that has been the media's message to both people in Los Angeles, to people in the state of California, to people in this nation, to people throughout this entire world that somehow every second of every day, there's another exploding firework on our street.
A motorcycles are running into cops, that stores are being looted, that buildings are being vandalized and graffiti. But let me put this in perspective for you. There are eleven million people in this county, four million of which live in Los Angeles City. We estimate that there's probably thousands of people who've engaged in legitimate protests, let's say four thousand people. That means that ninety nine point nine percent of people who live in Los Angeles City or generally in Los
Angeles County have not engaged in any protest at all. Now, amongst the people who've engaged in protests, we estimate there are hundreds of people, let's say up to maybe four hundred to use rough percentages, who've engaged in this type of illegal activity. So what does that mean. That means that ninety nine point nine percent of people who live in Los Angeles City or live in Los Angeles County have not committed any illegal acts in connection with this
protest whatsoever. So let's put that as a context when we look at these images over and over again, that the media wants to put out there to try and scare us all, then understand what the resources that we can bring, that law enforcement can bring to this task. The Los Angeles Police Department has over eighty five hundred officers.
Sheriff Luna has ever nine thousand officers, the California Highway Patrol, the local law enforcement agencies that have all been enlisted and have been so generous in helping us out bring additional thousands of officers if needed for any level of civil unrest that might occur, and that civil unrest has been on a downward trend over the last several days. But these law enforcement officers are absolutely ready anything that comes their way. So let me describe these five cases.
The first case involves an individual has been charged.
His name is Juan Rodriguez. He's from Guardina.
He's been charged with one felony count of assault upon a peace officer, resisting arrests and advocating violence against an officer that has caused.
Injury in the At five PM on June.
Eighth, mister Rodriguez allegedly passed out commercial grade fireworks to a group of protesters who lit them and through these commercial grade fireworks at police officers at the intersection of First Street and Los Angeles Street. He's also accused of throwing the fireworks himself at the officers, and one of these fireworks exploded and injured in an officer from the exploding sparks. If convicted as charge, mister Rodriguez will be
facing six years and four months in state prison. Second case, it involves Randy Paul Ruiz and Georgina Ravalero. Both have been charged with two felony counts of assault upon a police peace officer. On June eighth, at approximately three p forty pm, police were holding a skirmish line at the corner of Temple and Alameda Streets, where mister Ruiz allegedly drove his motorcycle into a line of officers. Minutes later, Miss Ravalero is accused of driving another motorcycle into the officers,
injuring one and knocking down several others. If convicted as charge, Ruiz and Ravaliro each face up to six years and four months in state prison.
Third case, Timmy paulk and Raven Mitchell.
This case involves both of these individuals being charged with one felony count of second degree commercial burglary and grand theft. On June eighth, at about ten point fifteen pm, Mitchell was double park near a Nike store in the six hundred block of South Broadway.
There was allegedly being looted by a group of people.
Paulk is accused of stealing multiple items from that store and getting into the car driven by Mitchell. They fled, but they were arrested a short time later. If convicted is charged, they each face up to three years in state prison. The next two cases are Los Angeles Sheri's Department cases. Sheriff Luna will provide additional facts about these cases, but let me just give a quick overview of each one.
Ulysses Sanchez Ulysses Sanchez has been charged with one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon, and one misdemeanor count each of reckless driving and possession of a smoking device.
On June eight, nine five pm.
Mister Sanchez engaged in reckless driving it is minivan in downtown Los Angeles. Many of you saw the video footage of this where he was driving in doughnuts and injuring individuals. Mister Sanchez is a third striker. If convicted as charge, Sanchez faces up to twenty five years to life in state prison. The fifth case is Christopher Gonzalez and Joselyn Johnson. In this case, they had both been charged with one felony count of conspiracy to commit vandalism and two felony accounts of.
Vandalism as well.
On June ninth, at six thirty pm, mister Gonzalez is accused of vandalizing an apartment complex down here on the five hundred block of South Broadway, and mister Gonzalez allegedly painted graffiti right here on the Hall of Justice. They each face three year in eight months and stay prison. I'm going to turn the microphone over to Sheriff Luna
to go into greater detail. But again I cannot commend enough the tireless work that law enforcement has brought to this task to try and keep us safe and still ensure that people who want to legitimately protest get that opportunity.
That is La County DA Nathan Hoffman from earlier today in the press conference, and as he said in that audio, he turned the mic over to Eli County Sheriff's Robert Luna, will hear from him and also LAPD Chief Jim McDonald on the other side of this break.
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IF I AM six forty, I'm Mo Kelly. I'll be with you until ten o'clock. We're live everywhere on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app, and we were listening to some of the press conference today was very important after the first night of the KURF you the very limited curfew, I would say, one square mile downtown. We got a sense of how that translated to actions by law enforcement, not the National Guard, not ICE agents, but law enforcement talking about La County Sheriff's Department, LA PD and other
associated agencies who are also lending their help. Last segment, we listened to a good portion of La County DA Nathan Hoffman and his assessment of the media portrayal of what has been happening in the city and also some arrests and charges which have been levied against a number
of individuals. He was getting ready to hand the baton off to Ellie County Sheriff Robert Luna and his remarks so much longer, but I'm just going to play just a little bit of it so you get a sense of the bigger picture of how local law enforcement is managing these protests and also criminal behavior.
I do want to start off not only by thanking all of you for being here, but I do want to take just a quick second to thank the district attorney. The day after the protests started, he called me. He told me he was assigning a special prosecutor to deal with violence against our deputy sheriffs or any other related
police officers. And I really appreciate that because just for a quick second, if you could think of the mindset of our employees having to leave their families and coming to work, to know that they're going to be in the middle of some of that isolated chaos that you've seen, it is good to know that when they are being violently attacked, whether it's with rocks, bottles, molotov cocktails, pyro technics,
pepper spray. I could go on and on that they know that the individuals that we're going to focus on them, and we have a district attorney who's going to bring forward charges. And just really quick I received the same call from the US attorney here in Los Angeles, and I think all of you saw something earlier today where he is doing the same thing with federal charges. So I just say that, and mister Hackman said it perfectly
and articulated it very well. There's a big distinction between individuals that protest and demonstrate to violent, destructive basically anarchists,
I mean, just creating that chaos. What we're talking about are the individuals who don't care about the issue at hand, because we will facilitate all peaceful First Amendment activity, But when you have people that are out here to commit acts of violence against our deputy sheriffs or police officers or just they're destroying our city, we're gonna stop it.
You see it.
It's frustrating. And as the days go have on on, arrest are climbing and now the prosecutions are taking place. And just this warning because if you didn't get caught the last couple of nights, there's a lot of evidence out there and you're probably going to get detectives or others knocking on your door and arresting you and bringing you in for either committing all these acts that we've talked about. So just a little bit on some of
the cases. On Saturday, during civil arrest in Paramount, a local gas station was burglarized looted on a laundri boulevard. After the unlawful assembly concluded, Compton deputies responded to the gas station to secure the location and take the reports of the burglaries that had occurred. While at the location, an individual shouted at them and through two full cans of beer in their direction. And I don't think it was to say thank you, It was for the opposite reason.
The deputies ordered him to leave, However, he refused and through a a third full can of beer at our deputies. Based on the suspects assaultive actions, deputies used less lethal force, specifically a forty millimeter baton launcher, striking the suspect. The deputies were able to immediately handcuff the suspect without any further incident. The suspect, twenty year old Eduadlo Servantes, a resident of Lynnwood, was arrested for assault with a deadly
weapon on a police officer. He was released on his own recognissance yesterday at the Compton Court. Separately, two suspects arrested for failiny vandalism here at the Hall of Justice on Monday, deputies were driving in the two thousand or two hundred block of Temple Street near the Hall of Justice when they observed en act of vandalism and progress. They witnessed a twenty year old Christopher Gonzalez Reese defacing the south wall of the Hall of Justice building. Not
with a spray can. He was literally standing there with a paint roller a very long stay and writing graffiti over an area measuring about eighteen feet by twelve The suspect was using page paint, and the content of the graffiti included profanity directed at a federal agency. The same suspect was previously identified as the same individual who was observed committing a similar act of vandalism on the south wall of building located in the five hundred block in North Broadway.
Okay, that's a little bit snippet of Robert Luna.
You get the sense of the types of crimes that they're charging these individuals with. These are state level crimes, not to be confused with the federal level crimes which are coming down, but those are connected to ice and what have you. So when we come back, we're definitely going to have some more audio from LAPD Chief excuse me, LAPD Chief Jim McDonald and also wanted to start giving some context. We have a second night of curfew, which
will be starting in half an hour. I'm curious to see if they the first night had any impact on the second night, meaning if they arrested some four hundred people. I think DA Nathan Hoffman said whether those arrests filtered down to the behavior tonight. Does that work as a deterrent or something else. Will we see fewer people out on the streets after the curfew or will we see more.
I think it's going to have a deterrent effect. I think it's going to be fewer people out there tonight, but it doesn't take a lot of idiots to change that calculus. So hopefully we won't see any real incidents. And I have not seen any involvement.
Mark. You let me know if I'm wrong.
As far as the presence of the National Guard and Marines in a more aggressive posture, I know they've been kind of staked out in front of Federal building, but I haven't seen them being employed or deployed any particular location.
It's my impression from the things that I'm obsessively combing over on every platform possible.
Things are slowing down tonight.
Okay, all right, then, well let's keep it moving in that direction. When we come back, we'll have more and have some Dodger thoughts, yes, as in the La Dodgers, and how this might impact that franchise and organization.
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We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio appened giving you just a little bit more this evening about what is going on in the city of La, the curfew, specifically about one square mile downtown LA. And I was just thinking just kind of in my head today and it came to me how this might have sports implications. This is not necessarily going beyond the box score, but this is something we would discuss if we had Jackie Ray, we went
beyond the box score. We know that the Dodgers, the LA Dodge most recently visited to White House as a celebratory lap victory lap as most winners do, for winning the World Series in twenty twenty four, and there was conversation, there was criticism as to the Dodgers going or not going, Mookie Bets and also the manager Dave Roberts had express I would say, misgivings in previous years about going to the White House to shake hands with President Trump.
Mookie Bets when he was a member of the Red Sox.
I think it was twenty eighteen, and also Dave Roberts is manager of the Dodgers.
In twenty twenty.
Fast forward to twenty twenty five, they went to the White House. It was pretty much uneventful from what I could tell. There were some overtly political remarks given by President Trump in relation to politicians in this state that he didn't like or care for, like Senator Adam Schiff. And I had long made the argument that we need to end the tradition because now it's just overtly political. There's really no upside to it.
There is no.
Sense of camaraderie or well being which comes out of it. It's always a question for players like.
Why are you going? Are you going?
And then there's pushback in and I'll say backlash from whatever decision is made if you go or you don't go. Well, the Dodgers did choose to go. Here's where I'm going with this. May twentieth, less than a month ago, was Mexican Heritage Night. The Dodgers commonly have themed nights. They have Black Heritage Night, they have Pride Night, which is coming up I think next week if I'm not mistaken.
Or later this week, but very soon because it's Pride Month.
The Dodgers obviously have a very strong tie to the Hispanic community, to the Latino community, very strong tie. It is a big part of their fan demographic. And if you don't know, the city of Los Angeles is about sixty nine percent Latino. If I'm not mistaken, okay, if their fan base is definitely connected to that demographic shift
of Los Angeles. I wonder in the wake of visiting the Trump White House and not really having anything to say, because if you remember, they went to the White House right around the time of Jackie Robinson Day, and it was all sorts of pushbackers like how can you do that in the face of Jackie Robinson Day and the
perception of President Trump. Now you have Mexican Heritage Night two weeks ago, and now you have these ice raids, and I would say a mostly Hispanic team mostly in a mostly Hispanic city, and I would be willing to wager that just about every Hispanic member of that team definitely feels some kind of way, has some feeling about these ice raids, and quite possibly knows someone who was directly impacted, maybe one of the player's family members. We
that's distinctly possible. Okay, that's a distinct possibility. The point of me bringing this up is there's going to come a point in which the Dodgers are going to have to go on record one way or the other. They're going to have to say something. And I can tell you right now, whatever they say, it's not going to be quote unquote the right thing. It's not going to be universally received. But the Dodgers are a business. They are a business which has great tradition here in the city.
It has great Hispanic and Latino tradition here in the city. And no business such as the Dodgers is independent of what happens in the city. It's not like the Dodgers exist independently and they can ignore a large section of its fan base. It may not, or maybe I'm just the one who's kicking off the conversation, but the Dodgers
are going to have to say something. They're not going to be able to navigate this and act as if this doesn't apply to them, because historically the Dodgers have had something to say about everything.
You can't have a Mexican Heritage Night.
And ignore what is happening in the city right now from top to bottom. Yes it's happening in Los Angeles proper, but it's more happening in Los Angeles County, in different parts of Los Angeles County and also Orange County.
That's something that I know is bubbling under.
And at a certain point, the Dodgers are going to have to answer to their own fan base because this is going to go on how long? Probably most of the summer? What is baseball season? All summer? As this goes on with every single day in which I'll say, the ice raids either.
Evolve or grow, and more and more.
People are getting scooped up, the larger the possibility and likelihood that it's going to directly touch the Dodgers' organization, and they have to make and look, I'm not smarter than the organization. I know they've already had these conversations internally. What are we going to do? How are we going to approach this. When do we say something publicly? Maybe not even if, but when, because I don't know if they'll be able to avoid this enough. And here's something else.
There may come a point in time depending on the city. It's not just in La. Remember it started in Miami. You have the Texas National Guard. I don't know the Dodgers' schedule. I don't have it right in front of me, but they will be playing in a number of cities where at some point they may be directly confronted with either the protests or the news of the protests, or something which may impact.
Again.
Now, the organization, I would say, got lucky my word, because they've been on the road, they've been out of town when all this is happening, so they haven't had to directly deal with it. They didn't have to cancel or postpone any games. They don't have players who are in press conferences after games here who would be asked a question by media and then have to respond accordingly.
I'm telling you, I don't know when it's going to happen, but it's definitely going to happen where Dodger fans are going to look at the organization and say where do you stand? Do you stand at all. It's one thing to have a Mexican Heritage Night. It's another thing if you can have a Black Heritage Night, which they do, It's another thing. You're going to have a pride night. But if you're not going to address the communities who are directly impacted, that's going to leave their fans feeling
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we have the Momigos in Motown chatting it up. And last secondhen I was talking about the Dodgers and how I think they will have to address this directly at some point, if only because of the nature of the demographics of the Dodgers' fan base, also the history of the organization and franchise, as far as Jackie Robinson and breaking the color barrier, Fernando Valezuela and Fernando Mania, which
kicked off the Latino Revolution. As far as Dodgers fandom, the embrace of the organization of Hispanics and Latinos, I don't know if they can avoid this.
And here's something else to remember.
If ICE is going to churches, schools, home depots, in other words, anywhere where they expect to find Latinos, you're telling me they wouldn't show up the parking lot of a Dodger game. I'm going to assume that that is in play, no pun intended. I'm going to assume when you have literally thousands of people high percentage hispanic who may be citizens, who may be undocumented, becau it's a baseball game, why would ICE not show up there at a given point. And if you think that, I'm out
of my mind for thinking that. No, there are other organizations which are concerned about it as well. Because of the protests here, Mexico's national soccer team is switching its hotels due to security concerns ahead of a Gold Cup. Okay, they have changed their hotel accommodations here in Los Angeles, one because they're concerned about the protests. But when you say protest, that means proximity to Ice, as well, because as far as anyone is concerned, doesn't matter that they
on the national soccer team. They're not American citizens, and no one wants to get caught up in that Mexico is gonna kick off play in the Gold Cup facing the Dominican Republic on Saturday. Oh my goodness, Mexico Dominican Republic, LA. Are you saying that they would not be concerned that Ice would just show up in the parking lot to see who they might wrangle when you have thousands and
thousands of Latino and Hispanic people. Okay, you have Mexico versus Dominican Republic, you have Psurinam versus Mexico, and then on Sunday the twenty second, you have Mexico versus Costa Rica, all in different locations. But my point is these locations would be targets. And we have a message from the YouTube chat and let me back up a bit. Mark Island Music says, Hey, bo Kelly, I sincerely would like to hear your thoughts on the Dodgers motive for accepting
the White House invitation if time permits. Thank you for your response, respect your point of view. Mark Island Music, thanks so much for being part of the YouTube Momigo's motown chat.
This is my.
I don't know specifically, but if I were to get in the minds of people who care about the Dodgers organization, the Dodgers weren't trying to pick a fight at that time, and I believe they made a conscious decision, at least in their minds, the path of least resistance was to just go. They probably had a team meeting and got a consensus of who was willing to go, and what you could tell I would say ninety nine percent of the team whip except for the be Freddie Freeman, and
they would know that in advance. They didn't have to worry about whether only half the team would show up. And since they knew that most of the team would show up, the decision was made to go. Now, if the Dodger players, if a high percentage of them said hell, no, we won't go, then no, they probably would.
Not have gone.
But since the overwhelming majority were fine with the idea of going to the White House, the organization made a decision. And what I think they did was they ate the criticism they dealt with. It is like maybe a week of bad press in the media and then they knew it.
Would eventually blow over.
This is something that's different, and it's not going to be a one off where you're going to the White House for an afternoon and shaking hands with the president. These protests are going to be going on all summer. The Dodgers are be playing baseball all summer. And just like I told you about the Mexico national soccer team where they had to take into account where they were relative to protests and maybe ICE activity, the Dodgers are
going to have to do the same thing. If they're not going to ignore Dodger Stadium parking lot, they're not. And they don't even have to necessarily even go into the parking lot of Dodger Stadium. They can just get you an Elysium MARKT drive, you know, they get you at stadium way. They can get you on the way to the stadium, or wait till the game's over and get you on the way out like a Sunday afternoon game.
If you and remember I said ICE was trying to get their numbers up as far as arrest this weekend or in more generally, this next thirty day period, why would you not go to a location where you might encounter I don't know ten thousand Latino people.
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