Why LAs ICE riots reveal decades of Californias political decay

Los Angeles has been overrun with lawless insanity, and that’s just the elected officials.Mayor Karen Bass has spent a week blaming President Trump for disrupting her city, where she insists “everything was fine” until the federal government decided to enforce the law.That’s consistent with how California’s public officials have dealt with crime in general.In November, state voters were so fed up that they passed a get-tougher-on-crime initiative, Proposition 36, by a margin of 68% to 32% despite the furious opposition of Gov.Gavin Newsom.

His own plan to deal with crime is to close state prisons to save money.Now, Newsom is suing the Trump administration over the deployment of National Guard troops to protect federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings that were threatened by the violent protests.Newsom says the president’s actions were both unnecessary and illegal.

He asked a federal court in San Francisco to issue an emergency temporary restraining orderThe court denied his request and gave the president’s lawyers the opportunity to respond.Their 32-page filing begins by calling Newsom’s lawsuit “a crass political stunt.”It documents that the protesters were throwing rocks, bottles, chunks of concrete, and exploding mortar-style fireworks at law-enforcement officers, as well as setting cars on fire, tossing Molotov Cocktails, shutting down the 101 Freeway, and ramming dumpsters into the walls of buildings.Most members of the Los Angeles City Council issued a joint statement.

“We condemn this in no uncertain terms,” they wrote.But they were referring to the federal law enforcement operations, not the riots.“To every immigrant living in our city: we see you, we stand with you, and we will fight for you,” they added.Some City Council members went further.

Eunisses Hernandez told the crowd at a rally, “Community defense works” against law enforcement.She warned, “If they’re escalating their tactics, then so are we.�...