After a staffer for Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez called the LAPD to watch over his broken-down Lexus, Soto-Martinez was ridiculed as a hypocrite.
Hugo Soto-Martinez was in the middle of a Los Angeles City Council meeting last Friday when a friend texted a link to an Instagram post.
“I was a union organizer for 16 years,” he continued. “Our members make mistakes. And so I believe that when people make a mistake — as this [call] was a mistake for many reasons — that [Mai] should be accountable for that,” declining to discuss what disciplinary actions his staffer faced.into who leaked the photo of the police log, which came from the city’s computer assisted dispatching system. Dispatches are usually confidential because of the detailed personal information they can contain.
Sandoz didn’t return a call for comment. A spokesperson for the Police Protective League, Tom Saggau, said, “It was pretty natural what our reaction was going to be. ... If [Mai’s] reaction is to pick up the phone and call the police, it flies in the face of what [Soto-Martinez] says about unarmed responses and not send police anymore.”
“I don’t take things personally,” Soto-Martinez said when I asked whether the Protective League’s attacks bothered him. “It was more like, ‘This is kind of unnecessary, you know?’ But, it’s like, ‘OK, I get how you feel about me.’” “When we talk about the police and the role that they play in our city with 40% of the budget … it is squandered. It is misallocated, it is ineffective and it doesn’t work,” Soto-Martinez said.
“He said, ‘Find ways to take my guys off of things that they shouldn’t be doing,” like taking calls for mental health crises or dealing with homelessness, Soto-Martinez recalled. “Did we agree on everything? No. Were there things that we agreed on? Yes.”
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