Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) claimed that the White House was trying to intimidate elected officials at a Thursday press conference as federal agents turned up at the media event and arrested at least one individual.

“The White House just sent federal agents to try to intimidate elected officials at a press conference. The problem for them is, Los Angeles doesn’t get scared and Los Angeles doesn’t back down. We never have and we never will,” Bass said in a Thursday post on the social platform X.

Bass, who has been critical of the administration’s immigration raids, argued the deployment of U.S. Border Patrol in downtown Los Angeles, near where California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) held a

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