Los Angeles councilman and former police officer Joe Buscaino was giving an outdoor speech in his bid to be L.A.’s next mayor when a woman with a knife approached the stage. In a series of videos shot by reporter Kate Cagle, cops disarm the white hippy chick as Buscaino makes his escape in the background of the video. The woman insults the cops and refuses to drop the knife. A police officer was reportedly cut during the fracas.
In the first video, local resident Nico Ruderman claims he saw the woman pull out the large knife and heard her say, “I’m going to start killing people” (language warning).
In the second video below, the woman, wearing stylish red suspenders, is seen dropping the knife in the lower left-hand corner of the shot, picking it up, and stowing it in her overalls.
Private security said they noticed the woman drop the knife as @JoeBuscaino met with potential supporters. You can see the moment in the lower left corner of this video I recorded minutes before she was detained by LAPD. pic.twitter.com/Kdkj9HctCf
— Kate Cagle (@KateCagle) June 7, 2021
In this third video tweeted by Kate Cagle, cops wrestle the knife away from the woman as she berates them. A voice is heard telling her to “just quit fighting.”
Language warning.
In the background of this clip, you can see mayoral candidate @JoeBuscaino jump onto and then over the wall surrounding the Venice beach parking lot and then take off running while @LAPDHQ officers detain the woman holding the knife. pic.twitter.com/KIXg10exYu
— Kate Cagle (@KateCagle) June 7, 2021
Photojournalist Patrick T. Fallon snapped this pic of the large knife from the stage.
In the final video, which seems to keep disappearing from Twitter, we see what is allegedly the same woman, in the same OG Carly Simon hat, assaulting someone with a post in a concrete base. It is not known if she lives in a homeless camp.
Here is the content that they are trying to block from me and others. pic.twitter.com/dFmaULosa0
— PurpleLionLeo (@purplelionleo) June 7, 2021
The woman was arrested at the mayoral rally for assault with a deadly weapon.
Homelessness, a huge problem in Los Angeles and the rest of the West Coast, is an issue that Joe Buscaino often discusses in his campaign for mayor.
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