(DECEMBER 22, 2016) Mayor Eric Garcetti’s LAPD Commission is no friend of law and order.
Law enforcement support President-elect Donald Trump because they feel like he has their back.
Unfortunately, cops don’t feel the same way about the LAPD Commission, Mayor Garcetti, or the way both have recently embraced the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement.
LAPD proudly posed with Donald Trump during the campaign
Coincidentally, the Commission became more BLM-friendly after activists ended a 54-day City Hall encampment in September. You may recall, one of the “Occupy LA City Hall” demands was for Garcetti to “appoint real community advocates to the LA Police Commission.”
Garcetti did as he was demanded to do, placing not one, but two new Black Lives Matter-friendly commissioners on that board.
Then the activists backed off the mayor. Just in time for his campaign for re-election.
Garcetti, who lost the African-American vote to Wendy Greuel in 2013, is putting his political aspirations before public safety. Who cares about the integrity of his police force when there is an election to win next May?
His first new addition to the Commission was attorney Cynthia McClain-Hill, who immediately changed the tone by pacifying Black Lives Matter. The neophyte temporarily became a nemesis of Commissioner Soboroff, constantly stepping on his toes. At the time, Soboroff seemed to be one of the good guys. But he soon folded, issuing a public apology to McClain-Hill, Black Lives Matter, their allies, and more. I wonder who told him to do that?
Soon after, Garcetti placed Shane Murphy Goldsmith on the board. Goldsmith runs a foundation that funds some of the most anti-cop groups in California, including several nonprofits affiliated with Black Lives Matter which have disrupted LAPD Commission meetings for years. In fact, one group funded by Goldsmith’s foundation recently filed a federal lawsuit against LAPD.
LAPD Commissioner Steve Soboroff poses with Black Lives Matter donor Jay Z courtside at an LA Clippers game earlier this month. Photo: Steve Soboroff/twitter
Meanwhile, star-struck Commissioner Soboroff seems oblivious to the fact that gushing over rapper Jay Z, who donated $1.5 million to the Black Lives Matter movement, is a slap in the face to the men and women officers in the street. Black Lives Matter seeks to abolish the police, and uniformed LAPD are often targets of the group’s anti-cop rhetoric and antics.
It appears that the only Garcetti appointee that has not been co-opted is Commission President Matt Johnson. He is the noble patsy, who Garcetti has placed in an impossible situation, partly based on the color of his skin.
Still, Black Lives Matter-LA leader Melina Abdullah often insults Johnson by calling him the “House Negro.”
Soboroff used to have his back, but Johnson is on his own now.
Look for Black Lives Matter to go hard at Johnson in 2017.
(OCTOBER 9, 2016) On Friday, the union representing LAPD sent a letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council President Herb Wesson condemning the recent Police Commission appointment of Cynthia McClain-Hill.
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The letter was written by the Los Angeles Police Protective League Board of Directors and was signed by LAPPL President Craig Lally.
“We write to express our deep concern and considerable disappointment in your recent appointee to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, Cynthia McClain-Hill,” the letter begins.
Ever since joining the board, McClain-Hill has gone out of her way to distance herself from Matthew Johnson, Steve Soboroff and the rest of her peers. Apparently, it happened again last week.
“Commissioner Matthew Johnson had to adjourn the October 4 public meeting of the Police Commission due to the highly disruptive behavior of the professional agitators who show up each Tuesday,” Lally wrote.
“Rather than joining her fellow Commissioners after the public adjournment, Ms. McClain-Hill stayed with the group responsible for shutting down the public meeting, and encouraged their anti-democratic behavior.”
That wasn’t the first time McClain-Hill went out of her way to align herself with anti-police activists. She has even empowered them to bully other meeting attendees who aren’t affiliated with their movement. She’s rudely stepped on Commissioner Soboroff’s toes more than once, sending a signal to the weekly troublemakers that she’s on their side.
After “protestors” shut down last week’s meeting, they shouted “Whose house? Our house!” Then, even worse, McClain-Hill told them “it’s not your fault” the meeting was shut down! (see video below)
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Just when you thought Garcetti couldn’t have made things worse, he did exactly that.
It’s worse!
At this point, it seems like Commissioner Johnson is our only hope to possibly contain the suspected Trojan horse known as Cynthia McClain-Hill. Hopefully, Soboroff will step up so Johnson’s not a sitting duck.
Would it be pessimistic to predict that it won’t get any better as long as McClain-Hill sits on the Commission?
Garcetti should nip this in the bud now before McClain-Hill causes more cops in the street to lose even more confidence in both him and the Board of Police Commissioners. But since Mayor Garcetti, and his pajama boys, are terrified of black people don’t hold your breath waiting on this to happen.
(SEPTEMBER 28, 2016) Commissioner Steve Soboroff has apologized to neophyte police commish Cynthia McClain-Hill, a cadre of activists who call him a white supremacist every week, and several others for blowing his top during last week’s LAPD Commission meeting.
“Last Tuesday I lost my temper,” Soboroff said at the beginning of yesterday’s meeting.
Some in the audience reacted by laughing in his face.
After Commissioner Matthew Johnson called for order, Soboroff continued.
“I want to apologize to a number of people. First of all, to Commissioner McClain-Hill. Second of all, to the other commissioners. Third of all, to the police officers that were in this room, because I think that losing my temper escalated things that put you guys in a difficult position, and I apologize for that. And last but not least, I want to apologize to everyone that was here.”
It’s unknown if this admission of guilt was ordered by Mayor Eric Garcetti, or if Soboroff swallowed his pride on his own accord. Regardless, don’t expect the apology to result in Black Lives Matter-LA treating Soboroff with more respect. Quite the opposite.
“I want to thank Commissioner Soboroff for doing what is difficult, and that is saying in public that he made a mistake in losing his temper.” McClain-Hill said. “Apologies aren’t easy. Grace demands that when they are sincerely given, that we try to accept them.”
During last week’s meeting, Soboroff snapped at McClain-Hill while being taunted by activists affiliated with Black Lives Matter. As Soboroff left the meeting, he was accused of flipping off protesters.
(SEPTEMBER 17, 2016) For more than two years, Black Lives Matter-LA and its allies have disrupted “business as usual” at the LA Police Commission meetings. The nonstop annoyances are part of a long-term strategy designed to dismantle the LAPD. Amazingly, some commissioners haven’t figured that out yet.
No matter how many times BLM admits it, most people don’t want to believe that the group seeks police abolition. That means they don’t want to be pals with the law enforcement. Or the police commission.
Still, some commissioners foolishly extend olive branches, which only empower the anti-police activists to create more chaos.
Have you ever seen parents that can’t control their children?
That’s a good way to view the relationship between the police commission and the agitators affiliated with Black Lives Matter.
The uncontrollables keep misbehaving under the guise of free speech/political protest, but they are really trying to turn the meetings into an inefficient waste of time. It’s about tearing down the LAPD bureaucracy in pursuit of revolution. Eventually, BLM wants to replace the police force with community based public safety teams.
Below are a few observations from Tuesday’s rumpus, which was actually rather tame. In short, the entire situation is out of control. See videos below.
EXHIBIT A
This is the first meeting I’ve watched since Commissioner Cynthia McClain-Hill joined the board. Don’t give her a pass because she’s new. It seems she’s entered her new role with an open mind and still has to figure out who the troublemakers are. Hopefully, she’s a fast learner.
Commission President Matthew Johnson did his best to keep things orderly, but since Mayor Eric Garcetti walks on eggshells, there’s only so much Johnson can do. Especially with audience members like Dr. Melina Abdullah, a BLM-LA leader, taunting him almost every week.
EXHIBIT B
Later in the meeting, Commissioner Steve Soboroff tried to hold court, but he was basically reduced to a dartboard. Non-stop disrespect, including BLM-LA activist Jasmine Abdullah (a.k.a. Jasmine Richards) instructing the commish to “shut up”. Thrice. She was ejected, along with a comrade who yelled, “Fuck you Steve” while vacating. This is nothing new. It’s normal. It’s routine.
Regardless, a delusional Soboroff tries to organize picnics where LAPD breaks bread with BLM revolutionaries.
Bless his heart. .
EXHIBIT C
During public comment, there is no order.
The irony.
LAPD looks so weak.
You’d think by now Soboroff would learn how to say, “cut her mic.”
But they’re allowed to drone on and on and on.
And Soboroff sits there looking like a whipped puppy.
Even worse, a placating McClain-Hill asks aloud, “Is it possible that we could figure out how to move forward with the meeting?”
What a novel idea!
This foul-mouthed crew in the video below represents “Stop LAPD Spying Coalition”. They have officially partnered with Black Lives Matter-LA.
EXHIBIT D
Just when you thought it was about to end, anti-LAPD activists disrupted the meeting for an umpteenth time. They held up a banner and chanted for two minutes as uniformed cops just sat there.
Soboroff threatened to end the meeting, totally clueless that the people causing the scene actually want the meeting to end. Then, McClain-Hill rudely stepped on Soboroff’s toes, as if she’s the savior sent here to fix everything.
“Business as usual” is, once again, successfully disrupted.
Mission accomplished!
Soboroff goes on to confuse agenda items, among other things.
(JULY 11, 2016) On Sunday, Black Lives Matter-LA held a "general meeting" to protest police brutality, then shut down the 405 freeway.
Several people gathered at Chuco’s Justice Center in Inglewood, where BLM organizer Jasmine Abdullah (a.k.a. Jasmine Richards) moved the crowd. In the aftermath of last week’s five murdered police officers in Dallas, she led chants from Marxist cop killer Assata Shakur.
LA ain’t havin it. We will fight for each other. We will fight for justice. It is our duty. #BlackLivesMatter @blmla pic.twitter.com/OMbJk63pQl
— #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA)
July 11, 2016
I’m sure most of those pale faces in the crowd had no idea, but when self-proclaimed “intersectional feminist”/lily-white actor Matt McGorry is actively promoting BLM-LA, their new recruits are bound to be less militant.
Regardless, BLM-LA garnered enough numbers to shut down the 405, once again.
BLM-LA prohibited the media and politicians from attending its rally, which might have resembled the “can you dig it” scene from the 1979 classic, “The Warriors”, if only the attendees were as hardcore as the extras in the movie.
(”The Warriors”, 1979)
Last week, BLM-LA leader Melina Abdullah (a.k.a. Grandmaster Melly Mel) criticized rappers Snoop Dogg and the Game for participating in photo ops with Mayor Eric Garcetti. She shot down their message of unity with the LAPD, a group Black Lives Matter has vowed to dismantle. BLM-LA has called for “all out action” at Tuesday’s LAPD Commission meeting.
