In the eccentric political world of southeastern Los Angeles County, scandals appear to bloom every year with Jacaranda regularity, but there was no confusion Pendeho This week, she was upset by Deputy Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez.

How else would you explain the selected official leaders who communicate to gang leaders in a video posted on social media to “get F-members in order”?

Gonzalez’s rant caused a national storm at the worst possible time. The conservative media portrays her as a politician – Latino, of course – publishing green light to gangsters Lamigra. On social media, the Department of Homeland Security shared her video, which was called “despicable” and claimed that “this kind of garbage” had facilitated “attacks” against agents.

Gonzalez later asked a friend on Facebook to help him find an attorney from “The FBI just came to my house.” For my colleague Reuben Vives, the agency did not confirm or deny Gonzalez’s claims.

Members of the First Council are worthy of all responsibilities. Above all, I’m so tired of the video that caused this pathetic episode.

“I’d like to know where all the Choros in Los Angeles are, Florencia, where is your leadership?” Gonzalez said at the beginning of the day. Her video was deleted soon. “You guys tag everything that claims ‘food’. And now, your hood is invaded by the biggest gangsters out there, so there’s no peep from you! ”

Gonzalez went on to argue that one of Southern California’s biggest and most notorious gangs, 18th Avenue and Florencia 13, “we shouldn’t “seek the block, or we shouldn’t argue that nothing is.”

The Cudahy Council deputy commander apparently recorded the clip at the party, deciding that the club’s music was smashed into the background with her black halter top, bright red lipstick, fresh hairstyle and flashy earrings. She looked and resonated like an older cousin who grew up in the Barrio. He now lives in Downey and tries hard to hear in front of his confused relatives.

The Trump administration is looking for reasons to send more National Guard and Marines to suppress what it characterized as a rebellion. Inviting a gang to help a gang, let alone the infamous two gangsters like 18th Avenue and Florencia, is something I don’t know if Trump doesn’t sound like he’s claiming he’s saying.

Perhaps at its worst, Gonzalez once again brought political ignorance to southeastern La County, known as Serra. Despite Gonzalez’s generation vows not to repeat past sins, its small, supermajor Latino cities have long been synonymous with political corruption, and do not seem to get a lucky break from their leaders.

“In her post, Dr. Gonzalez issued a challenge to the Latino community. In response to ongoing enforcement measures, she joined thousands of Angelenos who are already peacefully organized,” her lawyer, Damien J. Martinez, said in writing. “Importantly, Dr. Gonzalez encouraged no one to engage in violence.

For them, Cudahy officials said Gonzalez’s thoughts “reflect her personal views and do not represent the views or official positions of the city of Cadahi.”

Gonzalez, who grew up in Huntington Park and graduated from Bell High, spent 22 years as a teacher, principal and administrator for the Los Angeles Unified School District. In 2023, after Cudahy, a suburb of about 22,000 residents, 98% of Latinos, it became the first city in Southern California to approve a ceasefire resolution in Gaza.

A few weeks ago, Gonzalez appeared alongside Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and elected leaders in Los Angeles and Ventura counties to condemn the merely intensifying immigrant raids.

“I want to talk to Americans, especially those who have allowed our community to become scapegoats for this administration, which has made us feel like no American dreams happen for us,” Gonzalez said.

Last week she announced she was running for the Los Angeles Community College District Council for a third time, urging her Facebook followers to donate to the campaign in support of organizations that support immigration. “Our priorities must reflect the urgency of the times,” she wrote.

In these settings, Gonzalez appears just another Ukosa Politician. But the federal government now sees her as a big partner.

Trying to gather gangs to defend immigrants disappears as both laughs and attacks. And describing 18th Avenue and Florencia as “Latin communities” is like describing the Manson family as “fun and loving hippies.” Gang members traced immigrant entrepreneurs and terrifying immigrant communities back to the times of “Gangs in New York.” Their tricks – expanding the grass, profits and power through fear and bloodshed – will peg Latinos forever as they are prone to violence in the minds of too many Americans. Cross-border gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13 are the ostensible reasons for Trump’s deportation. Closer?

Still, I sympathize and even agree with what Gonzalez actually got. Homeland security claims that she was attacking gangs to “commit violence against our brave ice law enforcement” are ineligible in the historical context.

For decades, Latino activists have been nervous to encourage gang members to join El Movimiento – Not as a stormtrooper, but as a whimsical young man Veteronus Who can leave? La Vida Loca If they are enlightened, then behind. El Plan Espiritual de Aztran, a manifesto published in 1969 at the height of the Chicano movement, imagined a world where “there are revolutionary acts, not acts of juvenile delinquency.” The sister’s document, El Plan de Santa Barbara, warned the activists “from middle-class assimilators that they must have a connection to every segment of the Barrio. Vatos Locos. ”

From the industry in their hometown to universities that allow prison prisoners to earn their degrees, people still believe in the power of forgiveness and strive to reconstruct gang members into society as productive people. They are relatives, friends and community members.

Gonzalez’s video comes from that do-gooder vein. A closer listen shows that she has not lionized 18th Avenue or Florencia 13. She shows that she is really making them tough by practicing citizens rather than crime.

“It’s not about the lives of the gangsters who are protesting and speaking out,” the vice mayor said with a heavy voice in the East Side accent. “We are fighting for the grass, protecting the grass, protecting our people, where are we? you in? Bien Calladitos, Bien Calladitos li’l Korithos. ”

Good, quiet, a little Korithostranslated as “baby gangster,” but it is much lighter in Spanish.

Her delivery was awful, but the message really exists for gang members and for others who have not yet appeared for immigrants. Otherwise, who?

If Gonzalez’s political career recovers, it becomes a miracle. However, future chroniclers in LA should treat her kindly. It’s easy to call out Choros because it’s Choros. Don’t challenge them to make themselves better at key moments in history.