How we protect our country.

If you've never been to a fleet week before, what you will find is that there really is something for everyone.

You can come on the USS Iowa, but you can also see one of our visiting ships.

You can see a tall ship or you can see a modern ship, and you can go around the grounds and enjoy food, music, be able to interact with all kinds of folks who are involved.

And this is a great way to showcase our Los Angeles waterfront and have people really enjoy themselves in a unique way that they don't get to do anywhere else.

We're really grateful to all of the folks in the Sea Service, especially here in the harbor area because so much depends upon having a safe and free trade across the oceans.

And so we're grateful to the Marines and to the Navy and to the Coast Guard for making sure that they protect the quality of life that we enjoy.

The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force is a multi-agency law enforcement operation.

LA's police department share their success in holding internet predators to account and rescuing children from ongoing sexual abuse.

We have federal, state, and local agencies all who contribute personnel to this effort.

The work they do is incredible.

It's disgusting work that they have to go through these type of uh photos and videos day in and day out, but they do it despite the toll it takes on the individual to be able to hold people accountable for their actions, but as importantly to rescue the victims.

Today we're here to announce the results of Operation Spring Cleaning, a large-scale enforcement effort that took place between April 6th and April 19th of this year.

The goal was to identify and arrest predators who are using the internet to sexually exploit children and to rescue young victims from abuse.

Twenty-seven children were rescued from ongoing abuse.

265 suspects were identified and taken into custody.

These are not just numbers, these are lives saved, futures restored, and predators removed from our neighborhoods.

Every one of these children that are in these videos or these images are someone's son or daughter.

These are often children who are one, two, three years old, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years old.

Everyone who is watching this knows and can visualize someone who's at that age that we are supposed to protect.

So let today be a very loud warning call that if you are one of these sick and depraved people that produce, distribute, or possess this child sexual abuse material that we are coming after you.

The type of stuff that they see every day, you know, these victims are damaged for life in many cases, very, very sadly.

And so the more we can do this, and the more we can get the word out there to parents to protect your kids.

What you see is not what you get on the internet, and it could be very detrimental to your future.

From a neighborhood brick and mortar store to selling online is easier said than done.

Councilwoman Heather Hutt joined Operation Hope in Lamert Park, where around 50 storefront businesses are getting a hand to get e-commerce ready.

So we're on Dagnan in historical Lamer Park, right here in the 10th district, and we're talking about developing business into e-commerce.

So that these merchants in this community can take advantage of Shopify, which is an e-commerce business.

And that's really what it's all about.

Giving folks the opportunity to see what they have and giving folks the opportunity to sell outside of your little neighborhood.

We have a jewel of a community.

This is like the black business district.

And the only thing that's missing is that we don't have the PR, we don't have some of the know-how that's necessary, and more importantly, we don't have the funding.

And they have given us a grant for 1.2 million dollars.

And we have about 50 different businesses in the 10th district that we're gonna support with that grant and hopefully get even more.

We've just got a whole wealth of knowledge, you know, just letting us know about the resources that District 10 and Operation Hope have for the community.

With the help of city officials like Heather Hutt, she was able to go out there and use her relationships to bring something like that back into this community at the time that we need the most, right before we have all of these amazing sporting events, unquestionably the best thing that probably happened to this area in a long time.

Right before we have all of these amazing sporting events, unquestionably the best thing that probably happened to this area in a long time.

Just knowing that there's resources from the community to help strengthen the community and help us thrive.

It's more than my heart can take.

So I'm really grateful.

It's great to have the local businesses come in.

Even the merching association president was here in Lamert Park so that they can learn about what is available to them.

We're in a partnership.

And our job in government at CD10 is to make sure that all our businesses thrive.

LA City Council honored the contributions of Jewish Americans to LA and beyond as part of Jewish American Heritage Month.

This year honored composers who fled Nazi Germany and rebuilt their lives in the U.S., giving Hollywood and the world incredible music in the process.

So we're here today to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month, which celebrates the entire volume and diversity of the Jewish community and their contributions to America.

And particularly Jam Jewish America Heritage Los Angeles celebrates the contributions of Jewish Angelinos.

And that's why the theme this year was about composers who, in fleeing oppression in Europe under Nazi Germany, came to America and built a new life, and in building a new life, they actually built the most iconic songs in Hollywood.

One of the things that I want people to take away from the event is that our contributions are everywhere from law and medicine and culture and food and all sorts of different ways, you know.

And this is just one example of it through the music that's in musicals and film, but all the different ways that one can contribute to civil society.

Jews are there and participating and engaging and leading.

So I think that the standout points is something that was built into the mission of Los Angeles Jam, which was to be inclusive of everybody, not just to have Jewish community support ourselves.

And so I think seeing so many of the council members who are not members of the Jewish people standing up and saying we salute our Jewish brothers and sisters, and we see your resilience, and we know you're going through a hard time right now.

And to then to bring the joy into it.

For me, I actually I actually got a little emotional and teared up because of that because a lot of people in the Jewish community, like many other marginalized communities are really feeling a lot of hate right now.

And to see LA City come together, I just thought this is what Los Angeles is about.

This is what Jam LA is about.

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