Los Angeles City Council candidate Ysabel Jurado on Oct. 21 responded to criticism over a recent comment she made about the police while meeting with students at California State University, Los Angeles.
At a meeting on Oct. 17, a man who said he’s a resident of the 14th Council District—the district Jurado is seeking to represent—asked Jurado her thoughts on police spending.
Jurado, an attorney, responded with a lyric from a 1988 protest song by the Compton-based hip-hop group N.W.A.
“Yeah, what’s the rap verse, ‘[expletive] the police’? That’s how I see them,” she said, according to audio obtained by local news outlet Westside Current….