Karen Bass: ““It’s very hard to say that you want to be mayor of this city, and you’ve never heard of Rodney King.””

“As I was speaking, to see a group of young folks do this while I was speaking” – Bass shows a thumbs down – “cut particularly deep because there were young white folks who consider themselves very progressive.”

I have called councilmember Nithya Raman to congratulate her on her victory, and I have committed to ensuring a smooth and seamless transition.

“I am so profoundly sorry that I was not in my city when my city needed me.”

“By the way, from some of those white people, young white people, I’ve been shocked at the racial insensitivity, shall I say, shocked.” Bass said that there were “very specific examples”, and she offered one.