Mayor Bass cuts Washington D.C. trip short due to violence at UCLA

Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass attends an event with bipartisan mayors attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting, in the East Room of the White House January 19, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass attends an event with bipartisan mayors attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting, in the East Room of the White House January 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. Photo credit Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is cutting her trip to Washington D.C. short due to the ongoing violence at UCLA.

On X, Bass called the violence at UCLA “absolutely abhorrent and inexcusable.”

Bass also spoke with Chancellor Gene D. Block and LAPD Chief Dominic Choi about the ongoing violence.

She was supposed to spend the week in D.C. as the leader of the United States Conference of Mayors’ task force on homelessness.

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