Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been accused of gaslighting residents while “protecting” violent gangbangers — after the feds took down several members of the city’s largest gangin a daring, heavily-armed raid near MacArthur Park on Thursday.
The embattled leaderpreviously blasted a federal operation in July, which saw immigration agents descend on the troubled park to root out MS-13 gangbangers and open-air drug markets, calling it “outrageous” and “un-American.”
She also insisted at the time that MacArthur Park, which has long beenplagued by gang activity, homelessness and drug addicts overdosing on fentanyl, was a beloved children’s sanctuary.
“Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through,”Bass ranted on X, posting a time-lapse video of the agents marching across an empty soccer field inside the park.
The resurfaced comments irked many fed-up Angelenos — after the FBI helmed a multi-agency raid that nabbed 12 members and associates of the notorious18th Street gangon Thursday.
The gang is a major player in the drug epidemic gripping LA. It is a top trafficker of methamphetamine and fentanyl, with a special focus of their operations in MacArthur Park.
Gloria Romero, former State Senate Majority Leader and current candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, swiftly called out Bass.
“Didn’t @MayorOfLA claim they were just picnicking? Anyone with eyes could see the total destruction, corruption, trafficking that was going on there. Thanks to @billessayli maybe we might be able to picnic there one day,”she sniped on X.
“Why didn’t you take care of this problem, @MayorOfLA? Another failure,” Kent Moyer, the CEO of private security company The World Protection Group,also seethed.
“You publicly promoted MacArthur Park as a safe, family-friendly place for the community — yet gangs were controlling the area. Angelenos deserve leadership that confronts reality and protects our neighborhoods, not photo ops and empty assurances.”
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
