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00:00A fourth day of chaotic protests against these immigration raids.
00:05Are things showing any signs of dying down there?
00:10First of all, thank you for the invitation and good morning from Los Angeles.
00:14No, I would not say that there's any signs of this dying down.
00:18I believe tensions are escalating and we are seeing more military personnel and more federal agents being deployed into Los Angeles,
00:26which is only creating more tensions with the community.
00:30And I want to make sure we are clear there was no need for escalation and extra military personnel to come into Los Angeles.
00:39The Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department are all well equipped to keep the calm and the peace in Los Angeles County.
00:49OK, so you'd concur with what the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, just said there.
00:54And, you know, as we've been saying, local law enforcement officials saying the majority of the protests are peaceful.
01:02There are some isolated acts of violence.
01:05And yet Washington says there's citywide civil unrest.
01:09So just for the record, which one is it?
01:13Well, you have to understand the demographics of Los Angeles.
01:16It's a widely immigrant community and it's a melting pot of so many nations.
01:21Los Angeles County has 10 million people.
01:24And when you see vast protests that are majorly peaceful and then you have one or two agitators,
01:32the media is only going to focus on the few agitators who are throwing rocks and bricks.
01:36But that does not compare to the equipment that the military is using to hold back these agitators.
01:44So it does not is not a comparison if we could isolate these incidents that we're seeing on the media, the rocks being thrown or anything that's being launched at military personnel.
01:57It is within one or two blocks, while these protests that we're seeing are a majority peaceful with tens of hundreds,
02:07if not thousands of people who are out there peacefully protesting and in opposition to these raids that are happening currently.