LA County Cut Fire Relief in Half

All right.

First story of the night.

This is the big story.

L.A., is doing shady things with wildfire relief.

I know you're very shocked.

I know you're very shocked to hear that L.A. and L.A. County are doing very shady things with your tax dollars and wildfire relief.

So let's watch this video right now.

And we're going to comment.

We're going to break this all down, what happened and where all this money is going, because we've got the receipts for you.

This is where nearly $14 million of the state's relief money for the victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires was spent.

Overtime for CHP officers sent to demonstrations in downtown LA where protesters marched against immigration enforcement operations.

According to this memo, The Department of Finance in June 2025 used some of the fire money for law enforcement unrelated to the fires, but diverting the relief money for crowd control was pre-authorized by state lawmakers.

I definitely would not want funds directed to anywhere but in the hands of the survivors who've lost everything.

Zaire Calvin has been working to help the victims of the Eaton fire that claimed the life of his sister and destroyed his family's homes.

You're looking at my lot, plural, which we had five homes on, lost so much.

I've been an advocate since the fires, fighting for my community, rebuild everything, Altadena.

I had no idea $2.5 billion was designated for fire victims.

Governor Newsom announced the relief fund near the Eaton Fire burn zone in the days after the fires and fire victims.

So I just want to point out there that right at the beginning, they're talking about how some of the money did not go to wildfire victims.

Instead, where it went was it actually went to law enforcement for the L.A. protests, the L.A. riots.

Remember those last year? Because everyone was up in arms about ICE and all of that stuff.

So we had the L.A. riots and protests.

So it didn't actually go to wildfire victims.

So wildfire money was not designated for wildfire victims.

I think it should be pretty plain that if you have a catastrophe like you did in LA County and in Los Angeles, that if you're going to actually pass something that says this money is for wildfire victims, if you're going to slap a title on it and say this is wildfire relief, somehow it shouldn't end up pain for the law enforcement that had to try and keep the city from burning down during the la protest last year