Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is “too late” in calling for law and order on day five of riots over President Donald Trump’s immigration raids and is “now trying to play catch up,” said Moses Castillo, who was on the police force during the 1992 Rodney King riots, to Fox News.
“I think if she would have been very more forceful in the beginning that we’re not gonna tolerate these crimes and allow police officers to do their job and arrest people on site, I’d think it would have been different. Instead, she’s now saying that these crimes would not be tolerated, looting would not tolerated. But it’s a little bit too late,” he added.
Bass imposed a curfew Tuesday after protests turned violent in the city. Tensions escalated when Trump dispatched National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles over the objections of California’s governor.
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