Bass and Raman trade accusations over ICE and former LAPD chief Daryl Gates

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Set us as preferred Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has launched a new line of attack against City Councilmember Nithya Raman, accusing her opponent of romanticizing the era of former police chief Daryl F.Gates.Bass, surrounded by about two dozen Black community leaders at her campaign headquarters Thursday, said Raman’s mention of Gates during their televised debate this week showed a lack of knowledge about the city’s history of police abuse and the suffering of Black and Latino residents during the former chief’s tenure, including the 1991 videotaped police beating of Rodney King.

Raman brought up Gates briefly while criticizing the mayor over the Los Angeles Police Department’s handling of federal immigration enforcement during Tuesday night’s debate.She said the LAPD under Bass’ watch shared information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, undermining the trust of the city’s immigrant communities.“This city used to be the gold standard in terms of noncooperation with immigration enforcement years ago, under the era of Daryl Gates,” Raman said.Bass denounced Raman’s remarks, saying it was “a lie” to portray Gates, who held his post from 1978 to 1992, as the gold standard for the city’s Latino residents.

She called on Raman to retract her remarks and issue an apology, saying Gates “inflicted serious harm to the African American community.” “My opponent is not really familiar with L.A., especially the Black community,” Bass said.“She doesn’t know us.”While Bass was holding her news conference, Raman posted a response video on YouTube saying the mayor “owes Angelenos answers about LAPD’s cooperation with ICE.” She called Gates “an abhorrent and racist police chief” and accused Bass of deliberately distorting her statement at the debate, calling such behavior “completel...