[INAUDIBLE] >> Leave her alone.
Leave her alone.
Masks don't work.
[INAUDIBLE]
>> COVID cases are once again
rapidly spreading even here in LA.
Almost 3000 cases being reported in
just one day and as a result of it,
California and LA are reinstituting
some forms of mask mandates.
And as you'd expect,
that was met with some protests.
So we're going to show you some
footage of an anti-mask protest
that happened outside of the Cedar
Sinai Breast Health Services
Building in LA just yesterday.
Here's what happened.
>> [INAUDIBLE] Get the fuck away.
>> Why are you so violent?
>> Because I've just gone through
breast cancer and [INAUDIBLE].
>> You need to take it easy.
>> This has nothing to do with us.
We're trying to help.
>> You are protesting a breast
cancer center.
It has everything to do with me and
my community.
>> Do you know anything about
chemotherapy?
Do you know what happens
to the immune system?
>> Yeah.
[CROSSTALK] >> You guys got
a lot of anger you need to release.
It's a very dangerous emotion
>> People die for those rights now.
>> That was a woman who apparently
had breast cancer as she was trying
to inform them of some people who
have been through the experience or
currently undergoing it
have suppressed immune system.
So having a bunch of people
congregating right outside of
the building that they have to walk
into trying to be incredibly clear
about the fact that they don't take
any of this seriously is not great.
To add on to that, of course,
saying that she seems too mad.
Perhaps she should smile or
something, that was an added layer
of insult to the injury that she is
clearly still dealing with.
So it's in LA.
This is not just a Florida thing,
it's not just an Alabama thing.
We're getting COVID here and
the attempts to try to stop it from
spreading are going to face
some issues too.
We're rapidly running out of time
but Charles, give me your thoughts
on this, what's happening in LA.
>> I think again it goes back to
what we're talking about in terms
of how easily manipulated we are in
terms of misinformation.
It goes back to the politicized
nature of this virus,
which quite frankly on both sides
have left a lot of people
not knowing what to believe.
But of everything that I saw,
quite honestly, the thing that
bothered me the most of that last
clip was the anti-vaxxers,
anti-maskers invocation of civil
rights and the notion of
civil rights and civil freedoms and
liberties as part of
their meaning for their resistance.
You can argue a lot of things,
right, but
civil rights folks did not die for
you to walk around like a jack,
you know the rest of the word, and
argue about whether you should be
able to wear a mask in the middle
of a global pandemic.
And so, as a civil rights attorney,
even as I'm trying to comment from
a logical and objective place that
sort of just took me somewhere
else, because I just really
find that to be asinine.
>> Yeah, Kenya, what'd you think?
>> I will give you the professional
Kenya's response, immediately
saying that the reckless disregard
and abandon for
the reckless disregard for
human life is borderline criminal.
We have to have serious
conversations about the exposure,
the willful, negligent exposures to
a deadly virus of those who
are more vulnerable to serious
consequences if not death.
And essentially what those
protestors were doing was
assaulting a breast cancer survivor
by inundating her
with the potential
of exposure to a deadly virus.
We have to have those very serious
conversations about moving forward,
about what happens when,
as we see can happen,
those who either unknowingly or
deliberately pass those as carriers
on to those who are vulnerable.
But speaking from the position of
a daughter of a stage two triple
negative breast cancer survivor,
I wish a mother lover would.
[LAUGH] >> because it would not be
me and you should be charged for
assault those protesters you
should be charged for assault.
>> Yeah, yeah well thank you
for that.
And we partially play this video
just so people know this is not
just a thing that happens in crazy,
conservative parts of the country
now in the heart of LA you see this
all the time.