The ‘mostly peaceful’ anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles have already put city taxpayers on the hook for upwards of $32 million, according to City Controller Kenneth Mejia.
This news comes as the city is struggling to rebuild large swaths of various neighborhoods that were destroyed by wildfires earlier this year. Imagine if the leftists tearing the city apart had put that kind of energy into helping to rebuild.
FOX News reports:
Los Angeles taxpayers to foot millions for ‘peaceful’ anti-ICE protestsThe violent and destructive Los Angeles anti-ICE protests cost taxpayers $32 million, according to a report by the city budget chief.Controller Kenneth Mejia posted the figures on X, detailing what the money from local taxpayers will be funding. City taxpayers are on the hook for emergency services, cleanup and public property damage, all stemming from the protests that turned into riots, according to Mejia’s post.More than $29 million, or 92% of the cost, is for the Los Angeles Police Department’s response. Part of these funds will also cover the cost of the citywide tactical alerts.A little more than $1 million will go to the city’s efforts to clean up the city and repair damage to public property, according to Mejia’s post.The rest of the money will be distributed to various departments, such as the Los Angeles Fire Department, the city’s street services, general services, tourism and others.Mejia noted the funding did not factor in potential lawsuits that could arise from the unrest.The protests, described as “peaceful” by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and the liberal media, saw demonstrators violently clash with the LAPD over multiple days, prompting President Donald Trump to deploy both the National Guard and active-duty military personnel.
All of this destruction, and for what? Did it stop ICE?
How is the rebuilding going after the wildfires? Not great.
The Daily Caller reports:
California’s ‘Lightning Speed’ LA Fires Rebuild Moving At Snail’s PaceFive months after fires ravaged Los Angeles, Democratic leaders’ promise of “lightning speed” rebuilding has yielded only sluggish progress with few permits issued.The January blaze destroyed over 16,000 structures across Los Angeles County and the cities of Los Angeles, Pasadena and Malibu. Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom promised swift recovery, but bureaucratic delays are hindering the process, with only 3.7% of permit applications submitted to Los Angeles County being approved to date.“It’s just a culture of bureaucracy,” Steven Greenhut, the director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Free Cities Center, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Doing anything in this state is just so difficult that you can’t just wave the magic wand and have that whole process go away.”
What has been done to California is absolutely criminal. Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass seem to spend more time on Twitter than they do dealing with actual government business.
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