Sources told the Times that the Los Angeles Police Department stopped protecting former Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday as they criticized officials for withdrawing from the criminal crackdown in their ranks.
LAPD Metropolitan Division officials have been assisting the California Highway Patrol to protect Harris until Saturday morning outside his home in Brentwood.
Two California police agencies scrambled to protect Harris this week, revoking Harris’ Secret Service Reserve last Thursday on her rival Trump, who was in the November election. Six months after President Biden left the office, he expanded Harris’ protection, traditionally a vice president.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass directed LAPD to help the security team in the short term. The subway officials must be drawn to crime suppression efforts in the San Fernando Valley this week, according to sources.
The department “assisted the California Highway Patrol to provide protection services to former Vice President Kamala Harris until an alternative plan was developed.” “This temporary coordination effort is to ensure safety is free of errors.”
The Centre has not pointed out how the LAPD move will change the arrangements with the former vice president, or how long it will last.
More than a dozen or more LAPD officials have begun working to protect Harris as of Monday after Trump revoked her Secret Service reserve. Sources not authorized to discuss details of the plan said the city will fund security, but the arrangement is expected to be brief, with Harris hiring his own security in the near future.
When the station broke the story of using LA police earlier this week, the Fox 11 helicopter captured security details outside Harris’ Brentwood home.
The Los Angeles Police Protection Alliance, a union representing LAPD officials, criticized the move.
“Please police from protecting the everyday Angelenos to protect the failed presidential candidates, who also happen to be multimillionaires … They can easily pay for their own safety, and it’s nuts,” its board said.
“Mayor Karen Bass should tell Governor Newsom that if he wants to court Ms. Harris and her donors, he should open his wallet because Los Angeles taxpayers should not pay for such a ridiculous bill,” the statement continued.
Newsom was asked to sign CHP protection, but the arrangements of the Newsom spokesperson have not been confirmed, but the Newsom spokesperson added: “The security of our public officials should never be subject to unstable, barbaric political impulses.”
Buss commented in a statement last week that Trump reported on Harris’ security details, saying: “This is another act of retaliation, in the form of a long list of political retaliation in the form of dismissal, the form of revoking security permits, and more so.
The deployment of LAPD officials to protect Harris over the past few years has been the source of internal disputes in the department.
While Harris was a U.S. Senator during his tenure as a U.S. Senator, plainclothes officers served as security and traveled with her from January 2017 to July 2018.
Baker’s successor Michel Moore ended the protection in July 2018, saying the new assessment is no longer needed. The decision was a lawsuit seeking record from then-Eric Garcetti in the case of a lawsuit filed by The Times, detailing the safety costs associated with his own extensive travel. Garsetti said he was unaware of police protection until Moore ended.
The former vice president usually receives special service protection within six months after leaving the office, while the former president is protected by his life. But before the term ended, then-President Biden signed an order to extend Harris’ protection to July 2026. Without it, her security details will end last month, sources said.
Limit Secret Service Protection When Harris Will Be Starting a Book Journey Next Month Her Memoirstitled “107 Days”. The tour has 15 stops, including visits to London and Toronto. The book’s title mentions the short term of her presidential campaign.
Harris, the first black woman to serve as vice president, was the subject of rising threat levels, especially when she became a Democratic presidential contender last year. However, the Associated Press reported that Secret Services such as Harris recently conducted a threat intelligence assessment and found no red flags or reliable evidence of threats to the former vice president.
