Mayor Eric Garcetti was confronted by Black Lives Matter activists through the window of his SUV last week as he tried to leave his home. The protesters blocked him as he tried to get to the airport to catch a flight to Washington D.C. Demonstrators were upset to learn that Garcetti was leaving town the day before an important hearing on the officer-involved killing of Ezell Ford. The mayor said he needed to go to the capitol to meet with the Obama administration about police shootings and to get “$15 million for homelessness.” What he didn’t say was that he was also there to attend a fundraiser for his re-election. We hear from the reporter who discovered that.
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