In a protest against the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza over the weekend, members of the mayor of Los Angeles and president Joe Biden called for more police patrols, which turned into brawl and one incarceration.
Police were called in to break it up outside the Adas Torah church in the intensely Israeli Pico-Robertson area on Sunday when pro-Palestine protesters and counterprotesters tussled.
In a post on social media site X, Biden wrote,” I’m horrified by the views outside the Adas Torah church in Los Angeles.” ” Intimidating Israeli congregants is risky, inexcusable, islamophobic, and un- American”.
In a speech, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said the crime was “abhorrent” and that blocking access to a place of worship was intolerable.
Bass claimed she requested further guards be conducted throughout the city for Pico-Robertson and other places of worship.
The assault was described as racist by councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky, who represents the area, and that it occurred “in front of a temple in the center of LA’s Israeli community.”
” Everyone has the right to protest, and everyone also has the right to be safe from anxiety and crime”, Yaroslavsky said in a statement.
In response to the attack by Hamas-led militants on October 7 that resulted in the captive of 1,200 people and the captive of 250 in southern Israel, a conflict erupted. The conflict has killed more than 37, 000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas- ruled place. It has sparked a humanitarian crises and displaced most of the state’s 2.3 million people.
