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What the fuck are we doing here? Seriously. You have had months

to prepare for this

upcoming event.

I don't give a damn if this is out of standard decorum.

People are dying on our streets

every single day in this country

because we allow

this federal government to walk all over you. Look me in the eye.

Can any one of you go home to your children and tell them that you did

everything you could to protect their classmates?

To protect their grandparents? To protect them? I don't think you can.

With the exception of Park. Thank you.

This needs to have happened two months ago.

But you can still make it up and make

every single policy on this little sheet of paper here

happen right now. Happen before the Super Bowl.

Happen before potentially hundreds of masked men come into our

city and kill people.

I am disgusted by each and every one of you,

with the exception of Councilmember Park,

that you have not done something more. You need to affirm that no city resources

will go to ICE. That no cooperation will be given to them.

You need to affirm

to the country,

to the world, that you are not cowards.

Because as of right now, I stand in front of a council of cowards.

And if you do not act,

you're not just cowards. You are traitors.

Traitors to each and every individual you serve.

To each and every individual

that lives in this country, legal or not.

You need... You need to do something

about getting these policies into writing,

ensuring that your officers do not cooperate with ICE,

ensuring that they cannot use city resources,

that they cannot tap into city data, before more people die.

Yes, more people die.

I don't think I need to go into how many

people have been shot, how many people have been taken, how many children

have been abducted and used as bait. I don't need to tell you that.

You see it on the TV every single day. I don't want you to sit back and watch.

I want you to fucking do something.

Each and every one of these people who have came up has been very polite,

very earnest, very kind. Pleading you. Begging you to do something.

I'm not begging you. I'm fucking demanding that you act.

With some semblance of a fucking spine.

Do something! Thank you, Mr. Ortiz.