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L.A. Democrat's shocking solution to spike in crimes revealed
A viral video has resurfaced revealing LA council member Nithya Raman blaming Toyota for the increasing catalytic-converter theft ravaging the city.
A Los Angeles council member has been filmed blaming Toyota for the increasing catalytic-converter theft ravaging the city - while opposing a motion to hold criminals accountable.
Nithya Raman, who has been a member of the City Council since 2020, blamed Toyota, accusing the company of making their cars so 'easy to steal'.
The video, which was filmed in 2023, has attracted widespread criticism as residents accuse LA Democrats of neglecting to target thieves as car theft continues to surge.
The video comes as actor and General Hospital star, Johnny Wactor, was shot and killed on Saturday when he interrupted thieves breaking into his car attempting to steal a catalytic converter. He was only 37.
In 2023, nearly 8,000 catalytic converter components stolen in a single year, a staggering 728 percent increase from 2018.
In an attempt to crackdown on theft LA City Council passed a 8-4 motion vote that made it illegal to possess a detached catalytic converter unless you had valid documentation.
But Raman opposed the motion and placed the blame on the car company, Toyota, claiming they should not make their cars so 'easy to steal.'
Fellow Democrat, Eunises Hernandez, agreed and said the ban on possessing a catalytic was 'racist'.
'Criminalizing the mere possession of a catalytic converter, I think is the wrong way to go, because we know which communities are gonna be the ones most criminalized because of this,' Hernandez said.
'This makes it a misdemeanor, it creates a fine of $1000, you can go to jail for six months.' 'Even a short incarceration of a couple of days can destabilize someone's life forever, and leads to collateral consequences that they have to carry until they can get an expungement, if they can get that … I'm not in agreement with creating more opportunities to criminalize our communities,' Hernandez continued.
In the not so distant past, comments like this would have been ridiculed and the people making them mocked and ran out of office.
Catalytic converters are wacist?......Damn, who knew? The only solution I see is to ban catalytic converters on all vehicles.
Make a law where owners can legally remove them and the attendant pollution control devices to save "people of color" from a life of crime.
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