The vice mayor of a small town in California has gone farther than any far-left Democrat in promoting rebellion and insurrection against the government.
While mayors such as Mike Johnston of Denver and Michelle Wu of Boston have vowed to fight ICE deportations, Cynthia Gonzalez of Cudahy in Los Angeles County wants Hispanic gangs to attack ICE agents.
The FBI, Fox News’s Bill Melugin reported today, is investigating a now-deleted video that Gonzales unwisely posted to social media.
What possessed Gonzalez to post such a video other than mental illness or simply rash judgement is unclear.
But very clear is what Gonzalez said, and that the FBI, Melugin revealed on X, has visited the anti-American vice mayor.
Citing federal sources, Melugin reported that the FBI is investigating Gonzalez “after she allegedly posted a video to social media in which she appears to call for 18th Street & Florencia 13 gang members in LA to defend their territory from ICE, even urging gang leadership to ‘get your f**king members in order.’”
“I’m told Cynthia Gonzalez posted the video late last week, then deleted it, and that the FBI later visited her home & she is under active federal investigation,” Melugin continued:
Gonzalez posted on her social media that the FBI came to her house, and she needs a lawyer.
FBI LA tells FOX they cannot confirm or deny an investigation, but that they condemn any call for gang violence.
We’ve reached out to Gonzalez via phone and email & are awaiting a response.
In the video, which Melugin reposted, Gonzalez sounds as if she were attempting to adopt the patois of the barrio:
Not for nothing, but I want to know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles? 18th street, Florencia, where’s the leadership at? Because, you guys are all about territory. And this is 18th Street, and this is Florencia. You guys tag everything up, claiming hood, and now that your hood’s being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you. It’s everyone else who’s not about the gang life that’s out there protesting and speaking up. We’re out there, like, fighting for our turf, protecting our turf, protecting our people, and like, where you at?…
Dude, they’re running amok all up in your, on your streets, on your streets and in your city, and peep. When the big gang’s guns come in, nothing but, like, quiet, and we’re out here, the regular ones that have never been jumped in, out here calling things out, trying to organize people, trying to do the thing. So don’t be trying to claim no block, no nothing, if you’re not showing up right now, trying to, like, help out and organize. I don’t want to hear a peep out of you once they’re gone, trying to claim that this is my block. This was not your block. You weren’t even here helping out. So whoever’s the leadership over there, just f**king get your members in order.
Some of Gonzalez’s SOS to the gangs was in Spanish. Cholo is slang for an Hispanic gang member. The vice mayor’s biography at the city website claims “she is the daughter of immigrant parents who taught her the value of hard work.”
They apparently didn’t teach her not to ask gangs to wage war against federal agents, but anyway, the gangs to whom she appealed are two of the most dangerous in the country.
The 18th Street Gang is one of the two most murderous gangs in the world. It counts from 30,000 to 50,000 members in Mexico, the United States, and Central America. The Mexican Mafia, “the deadliest and most powerful gang” in California’s prison system, controls Florencia 13.
Despite her “educational leadership doctorate,” whatever that is, Gonzalez likely doesn’t know why gangs wouldn’t challenge ICE agents in the streets to stop deportations. Answer: Because it would invite a full-scale federal crackdown that would interrupt drug dealing and other illegal activities.
Gonzalez’s Facebook page shows that she is a radical revanchist. “California Will Always Be Brown,” she wrote over an image of the state. In another, she warned followers that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the area.
A response to that second unlawful post urges followers “to get a pit bull, so if ICE comes, they first have to resolve that issue.”
Whether federal prosecutors will charge Gonzalez for the gang post or obstruction is unclear. But she is part of a far-left nationwide conspiracy of local officials who are attempting either to block deportations or even incite violence.
The latest on that count came from the mayor of Nashville, Freddie O’Connell.
He doxed ICE agents on the blue city’s website, which invited a threat of prosecution from the Department of Homeland Security.
Other mayors, such as Devner’s Johnston, have threatened rebellion and insurrection. Boston’s Wu compared ICE agents to neo-Nazis. So did Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Far-left federal Democrat elected officials are taking matters into their own hands. U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver faces three counts of felony assault for her part in a fracas outside an illegal-alien detention center.
U.S. Senator Alex Padilla of California interrupted a presser by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. FBI and Secret Service agents, who thought he was about to attack Noem, dragged him from the room and handcuffed him.