Mayor Karen Bass Calls L.A. Riots ‘a Protest that Got a Little Unruly’

BLITZER: “Mayor Bass it’s Wolf Blitzer here in the ‘Situation Room’ as well. The state of California, as you well know, is expected to file a formal lawsuit over President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, perhaps as early as today. Your own police chief says the level of violence he’s seeing in Los Angeles is, quote, ‘disgusting.’ So why not welcome more boots on the ground?”
BASS: “Well, no, I think the issue here is state power and state sovereignty. And so we do not believe, and what the governor is doing is separate from what’s happening in the city. But what was the reason that the president had to take the power from the governor and federalize the National Guard? The night before this action was taken, there was a protest that got a little unruly late at night. It was a hundred people. 20-seven people were arrested. There wasn’t a reason for this. That is the concern. And if there was, the way it happens traditionally is, is that requests are made on the local level of the governor to send National Guard troops. No requests came from the city of Los Angeles. What has happened now is an entirely different situation.”