The mayor denounced the forcible removal of Sen. Alex Padilla from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference earlier in the day.

We will not stand for this,” Bass said in a statement released after federal immigration authorities arrested 44 people in raids across Los Angeles.

With migrant communities already living in fear amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, ICE raids in downtown Los Angeles sparked days of protests.

For Bass, a high-profile Democrat who has avoided public conflicts with other elected officials, the days of tiptoeing around Trump are over. The tumultuous events of the past week have also given her an opportunity for a reset after the Palisades fire.

There was a protest that got a little unruly late at night. It was 100 people, 27 people were arrested. There wasn’t a reason for this,” Bass said of the National Guard being

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — accused of being out of touch and slow to action during the recent fires — took the gloves off today in response to the assault on California U.S. Senator Alex Padilla by members of Trump Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s security detail earlier in the day.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Wednesday stood alongside several other Southern California mayors to call for the end to ICE raids across Southern Ca

A former Los Angeles Police Department detective who was on the force during the 1992 Rodney King riots said that Democrat Mayor Karen Bass was too late in calling for law and order to be restored