EXCLUSIVE: "City Council Aide Arrested for Assault w/a Deadly Weapon on Police Officer During Riots" by Daniel Guss
But, of course, there is always a little shell game going on.
Various law enforcement sources have told me that a staffer to rookie LA City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado was booked late Sunday night on a felony charge of 245(C)PC - ADW on a Police Officer (Assault with a Deadly Weapon) in connection with the weekend riots, and is being held on a $50,000 bail this morning.
The original tip came from Defend the LAPD on Instagram.
I cross-referenced information gathered from Jurado’s staff website, inmate booking records and LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia’s salary database, but the perp’s booking information dubiously left no space between the person’s two surnames, one of which is excluded from the other records. Accordingly, out of an abundance of caution, I am withholding the person’s name.
Jurado, who was notoriously recorded saying, “What's the rap verse? Fuck the police, that's how I see 'em,” while running for this Council office, has not yet responded to my early morning inquiry. That story was originally reported by the Westside Current.
My sources further report that rioters attempted to break into MDC, Metropolitan Detention Center, last night when the streets surrounding the jail were flooded with rioters who spray painted the cameras on the back doors where the officers enter.
The jail had to be closed overnight because the rioters were too close.
Reportedly, not a single rioter was booked at MDC because it was deemed too dangerous given the chaos in the streets surrounding it. The 77th Street jail was used instead, according to my sources.
(Daniel Guss, MBA, won the LA Press Club’s “Online Journalist of the Year” and “Best Activism Journalism” awards in June ‘23. In June ‘24, he won its “Best Commentary, Non-Political” award. He has contributed to the Daily Mail, CityWatchLA, KFI AM-640, iHeartMedia, 790-KABC, Cumulus Media, KCRW 89.9 FM, KRLA 870 AM, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Magazine, Movieline Magazine, Emmy Magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Pasadena Star-News, Los Angeles Downtown News and the Los Angeles Times in its sports, opinion, entertainment and Sunday Magazine sections among other publishers.)