L.A. County Board of Supervisors: ‘Increased Presence’ of Law Enforcement Around Federal Building Is Escalating the Situation

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HORVATH: “Our city, county and state partnership is working as it‘s intended to. What‘s escalating this problem, and you can see that this escalated activity is happening around the federal building, I was at the Hall of Administration, which is a county seat in Los Angeles, today. There was a peaceful protest in Grand Park, Gloria Molina Park, and then everybody dispersed. We saw that David Huerta was released, thankfully. He has been protesting. He‘s one of our beloved union leaders who was detained by ICE. But we saw that protest happen peacefully and people moved on. That is what is happening. What is escalating this situation is the increased presence, and it‘s happening around the federal building. It‘s intended to intimidate. It‘s intended to be a scare tactic, and it‘s intended to escalate instead of calm down what‘s happening on our streets."