Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing an angry mob of citizens who are demanding to know why she cut more than $17 million from the fire department’s budget. They also want to know why she flew to Africa to attend the inauguration of Ghana’s president.
Bass, a Democrat, has prioritized diversity, equity and inclusion over competence — leading many to wonder if her own incompetence played a role in the deadly fires that have destroyed entire communities in Los Angeles.
A Sky News reporter caught up with Bass on an airport jetway and asked her some very direct questions. Bass refused to respond. She also refused to apologize to the citizens of Los Angeles. Watch the encounter below.
WATCH MORE STUNNING FOOTAGE FROM THE LOS ANGELES FIRES
REPORTER: Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor? Have you nothing to say today that you have yet? Absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? Elon Musk says that you’re utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position? Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today here dealing with this disaster? No apology for them. Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?
REPORTER: Do I have The right to know, Madam Mayor? Let me ask you just again. Have you anything to say to the citizens today as you return?
REPORTER: Madam Mayor, just a few words for the citizens today as you return to deal with the catastrophe it.
ANCHOR: David, as you say, she wasn’t very keen to answer any of your questions there. And fire chiefs are also admitting that they just don’t have enough personnel to take out the fires.
REPORTER: Yeah, they’re fighting all sorts of challenges. They’re talking about a water shortage. There are reports of fire hydrant failures. They’ve been on able to use firefighting aircraft for much of the day due to the smoke that is billowing ominously from the hills where the wildfires are raging. And I suppose despite that political storm, this is, of course, at its heart a human story, because with 90,000 people evacuated, tens of thousands of others are on stand by to be evacuated. Two lives have been lost in the heat and fire, which is what’s causing the consequence. Behind us, the city’s iconic landscape almost shrouded completely by the smoke. And they’re really just taking it one step at a time, hoping at some stage the wind’s going to change direction, are today dying and that they’re going to be able to get this fire under control.
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