Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell has slammed the mob liable for hijacking Tuesday’s Police Fee for poisoning the method that’s meant to carry his personal division accountable to the general public.
A gaggle of roughly 40 anti-police agitators led by Jason Reedy stormed Tuesday’s fee assembly, screaming obscenities, hurling slurs, and turning their fury on a California Submit reporter.
McDonnell fired again Thursday, calling the conduct “vile,” intimidating, and corrosive to public oversight.
“Very irritating,” McDonnell mentioned when The Submit requested for his response to the chaos throughout a press convention Thursday on metropolis crime statistics.
“It has a chilling impact on individuals from the group who need to come and be heard.
‘They’re afraid to come back. They’re intimidated by among the agitators who present up each week.”
That intimidation was on full show Tuesday.
The agitators carrying medical masks and keffiyeh scarves chanted “F–ok the police,” known as officers “pigs,” and accused the division of homicide, forcing the assembly to cease and resulting in the commissioners being escorted out.
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McDonnell mentioned what makes the state of affairs worse is police powerless to intervene.
“We’re advised by authorized counsel that they’re protected by the First Modification,” he mentioned.
“They’re exploiting that — however on the expense of the residents of Los Angeles and the method that was designed to offer civilian oversight.”
The California Submit has contacted the Los Angeles Metropolis Legal professional’s Workplace searching for clarification as to why their arms are tied — and whether or not their conduct crosses authorized or procedural strains. They’re but to reply.
“If individuals from the group are terrified of coming ahead due to the habits at these conferences, we’re defeating our goal.”
Metropolis Corridor has skilled the identical breakdown.
Councilmember John Lee, chair of the Metropolis Council’s Public Security Committee, mentioned disruptive activists routinely derail council conferences utilizing profanity, racial slurs, and intimidation — till the conferences are shut down.
“When disruptors create a scene so extreme now we have to shut conferences,” he mentioned, “enterprise doesn’t get achieved.”
“They’re there to disrupt,” Lee mentioned. “Even when they’ve a message, the language they use causes it to get misplaced. And it intimidates individuals who truly need to be a part of the democratic course of.”
Lee mentioned supporting legislation enforcement should stay a core duty of metropolis leaders, significantly as officers face mounting hostility at public conferences.
“In case your primary precedence isn’t the well being and security of your constituents, I actually don’t know what’s,” Lee mentioned, including that he’ll “all the time be a supporter” of the women and men who placed on the uniform.
The remarks got here throughout a press convention highlighting a starkly completely different actuality for Los Angeles: violent crime is now at historic lows.
LAPD information launched on Thursday exhibits town recorded 230 homicides in 2025, the fewest since 1966 and a 19% drop from 2024.
The murder price fell to five.9 per 100,000 residents, the bottom per capita price since 1959.
However McDonnell made clear that regardless of the excellent news, oversight and transparency don’t survive when public boards devolve into mob rule.
“These conferences are alleged to let the group be heard,” he mentioned. “When that doesn’t occur, everybody loses.”
