Who runs town — the mayor or the mob?
That’s a reputable query after rioters disrupted one more police fee listening to on Tuesday.
They shouted down LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell. And — as soon as once more — they attacked a journalist from The California Submit.
Sure, the police fee is supposed to be a verify on the ability of the police.
It exists to permit civilian oversight — and public remark.
However the violent extremists who present as much as police fee hearings silence their fellow residents and the press.
They declare that they’re exercising their First Modification rights — however different Angelenos have the identical rights. And press freedom is roofed beneath that sacred provision, too.
The final word irony is that most of the protesters put on masks to cover their faces, at the same time as they demand that ICE brokers be pressured to drop their masks.
The unruly listening to adopted riots final week, when anti-ICE protesters attacked regulation enforcement officers, federal buildings, and — once more — journalists.
Violent mobs seem to do what they like in LA. And the activists have develop into the very tyranny they are saying they oppose.
Mayor Karen Bass mentioned nothing concerning the violence within the streets or on the police fee, past urging individuals to protest “peacefully.”
It’s time for greater than phrases. We’d like regulation and order on the police fee. We can not lose democracy to the mob.
