A controversial measure to allow Los Angeles park rangers to carry guns was approved by a City Council committee.
Councilman Joe Buscaino argues that L.A. park rangers should have access to “all law enforcment tools and equipment” to keep people safe. Activists voice concern about the proposal to arm rangers.Buscaino and other supporters of the motion said armed rangers are needed in the face of an uptick in crime.
“Some of those crimes, a lot of those crimes, are committed in the parks,” said Chief Park Ranger Joe Losorelli. “I don’t even want to send my rangers down [to MacArthur Park] to do any enforcement because of what goes on in and around that park,” he said. The committee’s vote followed more than 90 minutes of testimony, much of it from people who railed against the proposal as dangerous, expensive and unnecessary.
“This is a lazy, tired excuse to put more guns in the hands of law enforcement officers who will disproportionately target, shoot and kill poor people and people of color,” another said.
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