Podcast: L.A.’s election of rage

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva at an April 26 information convention. He disputed allegations that he orchestrated a coverup of an incident by which a deputy knelt on a handcuffed inmate’s head and indicated that a Occasions reporter was beneath prison investigation for writing about it.

(Damian Dovarganes / Related Press)

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On June 7, voters in Los Angeles will elect their most popular candidates within the major. A few races — the mayor’s seat, L.A. County Sheriff, a attainable recall of Dist. Atty. George Gascón — are incomes nationwide consideration towards a backdrop of voters offended with what they suppose is out-of-control crime and homelessness.

Immediately, we air a stay panel on all this and extra, initially held in the course of the Los Angeles Occasions Pageant of Books. Learn the total transcript right here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Friends: L.A. Occasions columnist Erika D. Smith, L.A. Occasions mayor’s race reporter Julia Wick, and L.A. Occasions sheriff’s division reporter Alene Tchekmedyian.

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