Did you by any chance think that, after Los Angeles voters rid themselves of District Attorney George Gascón, replacing him with Nathan Hochman, things would get any better there?
If so, think again. Because Hochman, like Mayor Karen Bass and, apparently, most other elected officials there, is doing exactly nothing to protect legal residents from illegals and street people, who are continuing to take over the city.
Want specifics? Read Jennifer Oliver O’Connell’s article at redstate.com, titled “While Los Angeles Roils and Burns in ICE Protests, LA DA Nathan Hochman Is Literally Out to Lunch”, and learn just how far gone things are there.
A few excerpts:
As my colleague Nick Arama faithfully covered on Saturday night, Los Angeles is in a state of utter chaos due to the violent protests being waged against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who are simply doing the job they are tasked to do: remove criminal illegal immigrants and anyone else who is not here legally, and schedule them for deportation.
We know that thanks to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and the Sister Squad of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, local law enforcement is essentially useless in this fight.
There were high hope that with the results of the November 2024 election, some semblance of law and order would be restored to the state. The passage of Prop 36 was a huge victory in restoring felony penalties for theft and violent assaults, particularly by minors. The ouster of woke Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon and the election of Nathan Hochman to the role was also seen as a sign that Los Angeles was making a return to sanity. So, it is curious that Los Angeles’ top cop, L.A. DA Hochman has done little to weigh in on all the unrest in the city he has been elected to protect.
On Saturday he broke the silence, issuing this X post about… sandwiches.
The city of Los Angeles is literally melting down. The President of the United States has deployed the National Guard to quell the violence, and arrest and detain the unruly and criminal, in order to protect federal and local law enforcement, as well as the people of the city. But Hochman did not issue any statement concerning this news on Saturday. Instead, he prattles about the return of a sandwich that had been removed while the prior D.A. was in office.
Lovely. Just lovely.
I offer my sympathies to the minority of Los Angeles residents who voted for alternatives to the pathetic crowd that is overseeing their city’s utter destruction.
As for the rest? You voted for this. And you got what you voted for.
To quote H. L. Mencken’s classic definition of democracy, you are now living “the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard” in real time. I hope you’re enjoying every second of it.
