Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman visited East Los Angeles on Thursday for a Latino Community Town Hall, where he pledged to protect businesses from crime and assured that federal officials do not consult with the D.A.’s office on immigration raid locations.
A pledge to protect all victims — documented or not
Hochman told a crowd of about 60 attendees inside East Los Tacos that law enforcement officers in L.A. do not ask for immigration status. “We support victims, documented, undocumented. It doesn’t matter to us. If you are victimized in this county, we will go after the victimizer, the person who created the harm,” he said.
The town hall comes as immigration raids continue to sweep the L.A. region and amid community tensions after LAPD officers shot and killed 26-year-old Jeremy Flores in Boyle Heights earlier this summer.
Hochman addressed the recent protests against the ICE raids, saying his office will “protect those people’s rights to say what they want to say peacefully and in the appropriate time, place.”…