Cudahy Vice Mayor Criticized — and Under Investigation — for Suggesting Gangs Should Combat ICE
- Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez posted a deleted video urging gangs to resist ICE, prompting an FBI investigation within days.
- Weeks of federal immigration raids in Los Angeles County prompted Gonzalez’s social media post decrying gang inaction against ICE enforcement.
- DHS linked her call to a 500% rise in assaults on ICE officers, highlighting the gangs’ notorious violence.
- Following the backlash, the LAPPL demanded Gonzalez’s resignation, and the FBI launched an investigation after agents visited her home.
- With her term ending in December 2026, Secretary Noem warns Gonzalez could face prosecution for inciting gang violence against ICE officers.
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Vice mayor who called on ‘cholos’ to confront ICE oversees gang-infested sanctuary city
Cynthia Gonzalez, the Los Angeles-area vice mayor under fire for calling on “cholos” to defend their “turf” against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, governs a sanctuary city ravaged by gangs. Gonzalez’s city of Cudahy, about 10 miles southeast of downtown Los…
Backpedaling on a Call for Gangs to take on ICE - Philip Teresi
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Cynthia González, deputy mayor of Cudahy, a small town in southwestern Los Angeles, faces a strong controversy following the broadcasting of a video on social networks, now eliminated, in which she apparently urged local gangs, such as the notorious 18th Street and Florence 13, to “protect their territory” from the raids of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE). Read more]]>
Vice mayor who urged gangs to confront ICE should resign, police union says
Attorney for under-fire Cynthia Gonzalez insists she ‘in no way encouraged anyone to engage in violence’ in call for notorious criminal gangs to join resistance to roundup of undocumented migrants
Vice Mayor in LA County Under Investigation After Telling Gangs to Defend Their 'Hood' from ICE: Report
The vice mayor of a county in Los Angeles put out a bizarre video that she later deleted calling on gang members to step up against ICE agents, and she […] The post Vice Mayor in LA County Under Investigation After Telling Gangs to Defend Their 'Hood' from ICE: Report appeared first on The Western Journal.
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