LAPD stopped mid-meeting from sharing immigration enforcement data

The LAPD’s first public presentation of its recent interactions with federal agents enforcing immigration law was interrupted Tuesday, when a deputy chief providing details of such incidents was apparently instructed to stop sharing specifics.

“They want us to hold off on some of this information,” Deputy Chief German A. Hurtado told the Board of Police Commissioners, after a uniformed officer whispered something to the LAPD’s constitutional policing director seated to his right, who in turn whispered to Hurtado mid-presentation.

“Roger that,” Hurtado was heard saying following the whispered instruction, and then cut-off his own description of a January 27, 2026 immigration incident he had been providing to the commissioners…

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