The Vice Mayor of Cudahy, Cynthia Gonzalez, is reportedly being investigated by the FBI after she posted a video urging criminal organizations like the 18th Street and Florencia 13 gangs to protect their “turf” against ICE. The call for gang action is disgraceful, particularly as ICE reports a 500 percent increase in attacks on its officers. However, I do not believe that the comments can be the basis for a criminal charge and would be considered protected speech.
Gonzalez has now taken down the video below, but she earlier called for these gangs to move against ICE:
“Not for nothing, but I wanna know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles? Eighteenth street, Florencia, where’s the leadership at? Because you guys are all about territory, and this is 18th Street and this is Florencia, you guys tag everything up — claiming hood, and now that your hoods being invaded, by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you…It’s everyone else who’s not about the gang life that’s out there protesting and speaking up, we’re out there like fighting our turf, protecting our turf, protecting our people, and like where you at?”
This is not the first time that Democratic politicians have enlisted violent groups as political allies.
Some Democrats have played a dangerous game in supporting or excusing the work of Antifa. Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, once said Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump. This was after Antifa had been involved in numerous acts of violence, and its website was banned in Germany.
Ellison’s son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this summer. During a prior hearing, Democratic senators refused to clearly denounce Antifa and falsely suggested that the far right was the primary cause of recent violence.
The problem with being a free speech advocate is that you are often compelled to defend speech that you find grotesque and reprehensible. Gonzalez would shake the faith of any free speech champion. However, her speech would be considered protected under the First Amendment. First, it is sufficiently vague on what she is suggesting to counter a charge of a call for imminent violence. Second, the Supreme Court held that even violent speech is protected.
Indeed, in Brandenburg v. Ohio, a 1969 case involving “violent speech,” the court struck down an Ohio law prohibiting public speech that was deemed as promoting illegal conduct. It supported the right of the Ku Klux Klan to speak out, even though it is a hateful organization. Likewise, in RAV v. City of St. Paul in 2011, it struck down a ban on any symbol that “arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender.” In Snyder v. Phelps, also in 2011, the court said the hateful protests of Westboro Baptist Church were protected.
The video may not be criminal, but it is still an indictment of how some Democratic politicians continue to pander to violent groups for political purposes. It is a dangerous game. History has shown that those who fuel extreme groups often find themselves later targets as mob rule takes hold. Gonzalez may find that she is also unwelcomed on their “turf.”
If any gang members assault ICE, I believe her speech could easily be construed as aiding and abetting. Possibly incitement to riot.
People who have an unlawful presence should not enjoy the same rights and freedoms as people whose presence is lawful. What citizens want should not be in competition with what illegal aliens want.
Minor quibble: “People who have an unlawful presence should not enjoy the same rights and freedoms as people whose presence is lawful.” should be “People who have an unlawful presence do not enjoy the same rights and freedoms as people whose presence is lawful.”
Never cede an inch to these people.
When will the DNC liberals who are of Mexican heritage decide that California and the other 49 states belong to the U. S. A. and not a single part of the 50 states belong to Mexico. Get over it! Like many of the LA rioters who were rioting to take over Los Angeles while carrying a Mexican flag. GET OVER IT.
Where did this woman go to school?
Poor grammar.
“Where are you at?” should be “Where are you?” The ‘at’ is superfluous.
I suppose she is a teacher as well.
You are right.
It is “Scooby-Doo, where are you?”, not “Scooby-Doo, where you at?”
She was a teacher and now a school administrator full time……..quite possible her parent were undocumented.
OT, the government cover-up of the female-who-identified-as-a-male, who shot up a Nashville Christian School killing six, is over:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/19/fbi-settles-lawsuit-over-biden-era-cover-up-of-trans-killer-manifesto/
Oldman– I may be wrong but it seems a fair number of female to male transsexuals are going homicidal. Perhaps the female brain has unusual trouble handling potent doses of testosterone. Goodness knows teenage boys are crazy enough with it and they are designed for it. One must also wonder about roid rage
Next I wonder if she were on SSRIs. A lot of these cases, both male and female, involve folks on that medicine.
This simply was not a problem when I was growing up. Something different is in the mix.
Jonathan: Nothing to see here. Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez was perfectly in her rights of free expression to call for the “cholos” to be “protesting and speaking up” for the innocent immigrants who are being snatched off the streets of LA by masked ICE agents and put in detention centers. There were no calls by Gonzalez for violence. You admit as much. But then you deflect by trying to blame Antifa for all the violence in LA. No doubt you could not identify a single person arrested by LAPD as being an Antifa adherent. That’s the problem with your crazy theory.
There is no “mob rule” in LA. The streets are peaceful. The only “violent groups” in LA these days are the ICE and other government agents who are roaming the streets and brutalizing the residents. Take the case of Narisco Barranco. His encounter with ICE has gotten a lot of press coverage. Barranco is 48, a landscaper from Tustin who is undocumented. He is the father of 3 US marines. He was working at an IHop last Saturday when several masked men approached him. He ran because he didn’t know who they were and suspected they might be criminals. It turns out the masked men were CBP agents. They chased Barranco down, threw him to the ground and beat him severely. He was hit in the head 6 times, thrusting his face into the concrete, kneeling on his neck and dislocating his shoulder. Barranco was then pushed into an unmarked SUV.
Alejandro Barranco, who is Narisco’s oldest son and served tours in Afghanistan, says “I don’t really know what to say. I do believe my father was racially profiled–they didn’t ask him anything. They just started chasing him, and he ran because he was scared. He didn’t know who was after him.” Alejandro says his father was in the process of establishing US citizenship when he was grabbed by government agents. Alejandro also says his father was a peaceful man who always paid his taxes on time and was well liked by everyone in the community.
The case of Barranco is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to violence by the DHT regime. We have seen the violence that Senator Alex Padilla and Brad Lerner, NY City Controller have been subjected to in the course of their official duties. So now we have packs of masked and armed agents of the DJT regime roaming the streets of our cities picking of immigrants with no criminal records, detaining them and then sending them to third world gulags. This is what Hitler’s Gestapo did in getting rid of the “undesirables” in areas controlled by the Third Reich. It’s deja vu all over again but you think Antifa is the big problem. Really!?
It is unlawful to have an unlawful presence.
Unlawful means that some kind of wrong-doing is involved.
But aliens and their sympathizers turn a blind eye to this big ass elephant in the room.
You just keep lying dennis.
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Not so innocent (illegals) who are being snatched off the streets of LA by masked ICE agents
Proclamation 80—Calling Forth the Militia and Convening an Extra Session of Congress
“On April 15, 1861,…President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, in order to suppress the rebellion. He appealed ‘to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.’”
Proclamation 92—Warning to Rebel Sympathizers
“[On] July 17, 1862,…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.”
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Abraham Lincoln was a Great American President.
Now President Donald J. Trump MUST implement his rendition of “The Lincoln Era,” close the border, rescind rebel sanctuary cities, compassionately repatriate all illegal and unassimilable aliens, revoke birthright citizenship, make English the sole official language, commence a war to defeat the rebellion, impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, “smash” rebel printing presses, networks, podcasts, and social media platforms, and imprison political opponents and rebel judges, all in order to save, not the Union, but the Nation, eradicate the communist American welfare state, and place America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including absolute freedom, free enterprise, free industries, free markets, private property, and minimal taxation and regulation, alongside infinitesimal constitutional government.
Re: ICE being put in harms way…..
Plausable deniability never looked so elegant, so classy, so worthy of an Oscar Award. Bravo Pam Bondi!
Growing up I encountered many clubs, so I was curious why a group would call themselves a Gang? Looking for definition I received back from the net Wikipedia’s definition: “A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.” Then it became clear the Gangs are hegemonies with militarist dominance and as such the Vice Mayor should be charged for incitement and the gangs broken apart.
George W
Democrats Support THUGS. That’s who they are.
YEP
Thug unions’ only bargaining chip is violence – trespassing, threats, intimidation, harassment, bodily injury, property damage, etc.
Unions are illegal, unconstitutional, criminal organizations.
No contract with a union is legal as one party is a crime syndicate.
Unions are clearly protected under the 1A right to assembly. But MAGAs wipe their ass with the Constitution.
I told you before, just because you make something up that your drug-addled brain of yours, that doesn’t make it reality.
So this is a different deputy mayor than the one that called in fake bomb threats? You really can pick ’em California.
I suspect the cholos are smarter than this woman. Not likely to take advice from her.
OT
I said here before that Trump should decline the Nobel Peace Prize because it has been sullied, filthified, by previous recipients.
The far left loons running it would award it to Trump only to steal a bit of his glory in an attempt to polish their trinket. It has no prestige. No honor.
Now others are seeing the same.
“5 Reasons Trump Should Reject a Nobel Peace Prize”
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/06/25/at-least-5-reasons-why-trump-should-reject-a-nobel-peace-prize
I seem to recall Trump telling the Proud Boys GANG to “stand by” a few days before the 2020 election.
Basically the same situation.
A politician asking a GANG to do something.
Why doesn’t Turley mention this ??????
The quote was “stand back and stand by.” That doesn’t mean to engage in violence. He later said “stand down,” which is the opposite of encouraging someone to engage in violence.
“Stand back” is obvious. “Stand by” generally means “wait,” as in: “Please stand by.”
A bystander means someone who is not involved in the action. “Those standing by” means spectators or people who overhear something.
Was that in the same speech when (only in your demented mind) President Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people”?
A lot of what you think is true isn’t so, and Prof. Turley isn’t obligated to answer to your hallucinations.
LOL The moron lies again.
You probably don’t know this [because you are FAITHfully and wholly-duped by mainstream media, and by, what Biden’s PR team called themselves, the Politburo, in pushing this lie], but this story is peddled, maliciously, out of its context to further incite the mindless hate you spread, daily.
An
Because it’s a lie and you know it
LIAR
He misspoke. Shhhh. It happens.
I seem to recall Trump telling the Proud Boys GANG to “stand by” a few days before the 2020 election… Why doesn’t Turley mention this ??????
I recall you gloated and cheered when VP DEI Hire told the Democrats street gangs in Black Liars & Marxists and Pantifa who were fighting pitched battles with Secret Service and Capitol Police to get into the White House and at Trump: “They will not stop their assault, nor should they”
Why didn’t you mention VP DEI Hire doing that – rather than whining about what Professor Turley didn’t give you?
I live in CA, Cudahy? never heard of it!!
South Gate; Bell Gardens. You don’t live in California. Kirk is an American name.
NORTHERN CA. ! LESS KOOKS THAN SOUTHERN CA!!! I have heard of first 2. DUH!
NAME EVERY city in CA. right now ANON! ha ha
The video is titled “FBI investigating LA County Vice Mayor for urging gang members to protect their ‘turf’ from ICE”
The LA is for Los Angeles – regarding this article, who didn’t know that?
Why are you running your wild mouth about Los Angeles if you’re from the land of the fruits and nuts?
https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Member-Engagement/Professional-Departments/City-Attorneys/Legal-Advocacy-Program/List-of-All-Cities-by-Division_2018.aspx
San Diego CA… PB
What about inciting violence?
@Clever
That would be tough to prove. She likely knows it. It is what it is. I’ll take my free speech, thanks.
Scotus has held that the First Amendment does “not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447 (1969)
Under that ruling, the prosecution would have to show that the video was either intended to produce “imminent lawlessness” or it was “likely to” produce lawlessness. There would have to be some evidence besides the video to prove it, since I don’t think the video in and of itself proves that. But such additional evidence might exist in this case, who knows?
How does one engage in “protecting our turf and protecting our people,” if not through robust and violent activity?
“And, like, where you at” is nothing other than a direct call to present for action.
It may be that the “imminent” qualifier is where prosecutions can get hung up. That may be seen as being limiting allowable prosecutions situations where the speaker incites violence “right now” as opposed to at some speculative future time. I haven’t really handled a case on exactly this topic, I’m just going by what Scotus said.
I read it as, “Please show up at the very next action.” That seems to be sufficiently imminent. That cannot be reasonably perceived any other way.
Maybe the DA will agree with you. It would be a decent argument to make and see what the court says.
“It’s everyone else who’s not about the gang life that’s out there protesting and speaking up. We’re out there… protecting our turf and protecting our people. And, like, where you at?”
– Vice Mayor of Cudahy, Cynthia Gonzalez
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Cynthia Gonzalez must be arrested and prosecuted for obstruction of justice and incitement of violence against a federal department and its officers.
Cynthia Gonzalez must be arrested and prosecuted for criminal conspiracy and complicity.
Cynthia Gonzalez must be arrested for fomenting insurrection and rebellion against the government of the United States.
Proclamation 80—Calling Forth the Militia and Convening an Extra Session of Congress
“On April 15, 1861,…President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, in order to suppress the rebellion. He appealed ‘to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.’”
Proclamation 92—Warning to Rebel Sympathizers
“[On] July 17, 1862,…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.”
_______________________________________________________________________________
Abraham Lincoln was a Great American President.
Now President Donald J. Trump MUST implement his rendition of “The Lincoln Era,” close the border, rescind rebel sanctuary cities, compassionately repatriate all illegal and unassimilable aliens, revoke birthright citizenship, make English the sole official language, commence a war to defeat the rebellion, impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, “smash” rebel printing presses, networks, podcasts, and social media platforms, and imprison political opponents and rebel judges, all in order to save, not the Union, but the Nation, eradicate the communist American welfare state, and place America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including absolute freedom, free enterprise, free industries, free markets, private property, and minimal taxation and regulation, alongside infinitesimal constitutional government.
Now President Donald J. Trump MUST implement his rendition of “The Lincoln Era,”
Chief Justice William Rehnquist spent 300 pages dealing with Confederate Commie George’s fantasies – long before George was born and started getting off sniffing his mommy’s panties instead of getting himself off by posting here
Given that George has proved his reading comprehension has never gotten beyond what he developed in kindergarten, Justice Rehnquist’s work and explanations may as well be laying on the surface of the moon as far as George is concerned. For everybody else:
ALL THE LAWS BUT ONE: CIVIL LIBERTIES IN WARTIME
https://www.amazon.com/All-Laws-but-One-Liberties/dp/0679446613
Here comes the “Airborne Octogenarian Coward Corp.”
MOS and AWARDS please, COWARD.
And the Supreme Court of 1869 held that because secession is not prohibited, secession is prohibited.
Sounds like some communist idiocy you would come forward with, comrade snoopy doggie.
She qualifies to be Governor of California!!
California qualifies to be returned to the literal “manifest tenor” of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Folks,
Haven’t folks on the Left been saying, for a while now, that words are equivalent to violence?
Didn’t those same people try to have Trump imprisoned for, allegedly, telling the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6th to do just that?
Wasn’t that case dismissed, without prejudice? If I’m not mistaken, doesn’t that mean it can be revived once he leavs office?
If so, than what goes around comes around. Sure, her speech is protected, but aught there not be some sort of consequences? Not sure what those consequences should look like, but unless, or until there is something, this is just gonna repeat, over and over again. Eventually, lots of innocent people are gonna get hurt, or worse.
We’ve got a “people problem” in this country. Until we deal with that, we’re gonna keep sliding further towards the abyss.
@Ron
Sticks and stones. The consequences come through marginalization. I really do believe that the solution to bad speech is more speech, and the actions that result. No: she should be allowed to show precisely how awful and corrupt she is. That gives the rest of us the opportunity to respond in kind. One has to know that madness exists in the first place to repel the madness; that is why speech controls are so important to the modern left. They know no sane and free person is on board with what they are proposing, and this is how they deal with that fact. It’s tyranny, plain and simple. We do not have to go along with tyranny in this country.
Calling for an attack on Federal agents is tantamount to insurrection. A word that liberals like to throw around quite a bit.
James,
I don’t disagree with you, but not so sure I see a whole lot of marginalizing going on out there.
I used to listen to Rush, I listen to Mark Levin and Joe Pags, but I feel, more often than not, all these guys are preaching to the choir.
Not suggesting she shouldn’t be allowed to speak, but unless she’s de-platformed, loses her job because of what she said, etc, there’s nothing to act as a disincentive to say such things publicly in the future.
All I know for sure is we can’t keep going down this road as it won’t end well for any of us.
Didn’t those same people try to have Trump imprisoned for, allegedly, telling the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6th to do just that?
Yes – WHILE DENYING THAT Trump SPECIFICALLY TOLD THE ASSEMBLED CROWD – NOT “THE MOB” TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST. Which is the complete opposite of what this Democrat skank asked murderous street thugs to do.
I’m in the camp that says she hasn’t gone far enough to be charged, (which could be changed if those criminal gangs DO obstruct law enforcement).
But attempting to make what they claim Trump said with what she actually did so is beyond disingenuous to the point of being deceitful.
Anonymous,
Maybe I’m misinterpreting what you said, but I wasn’t intending to be deceitful. Simply pointing out the double-standard.
If words are violence, as those on the Left would have us believe, then this vice-mayor has a bit of splaining to do. If I got you wrong, I apologize. 🙂