‘Cover Them Up Like James Brown’: What Can Mayor Bass – and the Rest of Us – Do About the ICE Raids?

There’s an image from the “ICE Siege of LA”—as Memo Torres calls it on his essential Daily Memo reports—that’s been burned into my brain this past month.

And no—it’s not the one from MacArthur Park, with the Humvees and the National Guard looking like they were prepping for war against tamal vendors.

I grew up in Southeast L.A. in the ’90s. Violence—especially government-sponsored violence—isn’t new to me. I’ve seen it before. We’ve all seen it before.