Karen Bass in hot seat as Trump targets Los Angeles – but it’s not her first crisis
by Lois Beckett in Los Angeles from US news | The Guardian on (#6Y3G4)
The mayor - a community organizer at the time of the 1992 LA uprising - has won praise for her response to Trump's immigration raids, the latest flashpoint in her term
In the mid-1990s, Karen Bass was in the streets of Los Angeles, protesting alongside Latino activists against new laws that targeted undocumented immigrants and were expected to land more young men of color in prison.
These days, Bass is monitoring the status of protests against US immigration agents from a helicopter, as the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles.
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