Nithya Ramans attack on LA police chief is idiotic and dangerous

Angelenos are on notice: If they elect Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) City Councilwoman Nithya Raman as mayor, they will put a radical supporter of the homeless-industrial complex, an opponent of public order and an enemy of private property rights into City Hall.They will also have chosen a blithering idiot. Raman recently posted a campaign video with the theme: “Only you can stop fascist liars.” The “fascist liars” in question appear to be Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief Jim McDonnell and incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. The video shows photos of McDonnell several times, with a red X plastering his face. McDonnell and Bass’ “fascist” crimes?  Bass appointed McDonnell to run the LAPD and McDonnell has declared that while the LAPD will not cooperate in enforcing immigration law, it will protect federal immigration agents when they seek to arrest a violent felon who is in the country illegally, and when there are threats to those agents’ safety.Raman, by contrast, will select a police chief who “can really respond to the needs that immigrant Angelenos have and that every resident of Los Angeles has,” she says in the recent campaign ad.In Raman’s mind, apparently, immigrant and native Angelenos need more sex traffickers, drug dealers and gun-toting gangbangers in their midst. Thus, according to Raman, the LAPD should never provide any backup support when ICE seeks to arrest such illegal alien criminals.

 It is bad enough that Raman wants to turn LA into the purest of sanctuary cities, where illegal felons need fear nothing from the authorities and where law-abiding citizens are on their own to protect themselves against immigrant thugs. To add insult to injury, in a Raman administration, those law-abiding citizens would be on the hook to pay even more than they already do of the legal defense bills for those criminals if, somehow, despite Raman’s best efforts, a criminal alien actually faces a deportation hearing. It is...