Posted on 10/06/2025 4:06:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A former senior member of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ staff was sentenced to a year probation and 50 hours of community service for calling in a fake bomb threat that he told a judge stemmed from “mental health issues.”
During his sentencing hearing Monday afternoon, Brian K. Williams, a longtime law enforcement oversight official who served as Bass’ deputy mayor of public safety, admitted that last October he falsely told police that he had received a call on his city-issued cellphone from an unknown man who said he had placed a bomb in City Hall. The threat was blamed on anti-Israel sentiment.
Williams told U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner that the 18 months prior to that call were “perhaps the most difficult time of my life.” That year, Williams’ mother and nephew died and his brother was diagnosed with cancer.
Williams’ lawyer Dmitry Gorin cited “undiagnosed mental health challenges,” for which he said his client has undergone ten months of treatment.
“This was a call to action for him to get the right mental health treatment,” Gorin said.
Williams agreed in May to plead guilty to a single count of threats regarding fire and explosives.
Prosecutors said in a pre-sentencing memo that Williams called in the threat, “after he became overwhelmed with stress and anxiety and desperate to get out of an ongoing meeting.”
“It was motivated not by a...”
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Leftists are sorry it was fake.
They told him “keep it real, ‘bro.”
Didn’t listen. Thank goodness.
btt
The LA deputy mayor for public safety calling in a fake bomb threat. Let that sink in for a moment.
Mental health issues. Yeah...he’s a Democrat.
“That’s not who I am!!”
I’ve had several deaths of family members in the recent past. Crime spree here I come!
Better think again, pal. Because…
“””I’ve had several deaths of family members in the recent past. Crime spree here I come!”””
One of my cats died last summer. I get a free pass for robbing a bank, right?
18 months? what, was he in the 23rd stage of grief? I wonder if he was getting reamed in that meeting.
(calling in a fake bomb threat that he told a judge stemmed from “mental health issues.”)
LIES
Calypso music 🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶?
I’ll go down fighting
A cat died? Maybe littering
“””A cat died? Maybe littering””
It was a cool cat. Sticking with bank robbery.
Judge musta been impressed when Brian did his calypso dance while testifying....../s.
Special cat huh?
I moved into a rental house decades ago that already had a cat (Tigs) that lived there. We became roommates. I had a back storage room that had a bad window. I almost never went in there. About 6 months after I moved in my neighbor asked me “Do you know that cat crawls in that window every day and lays in the sun on top of your ironing board?”. I did not know.
He was a mature, unneutered male. He was a warrior and would leave for days at a time, come back with various wounds, (head scratched, pieces of his ear chewed off) which I would mend. One time he laid under my coffee table for 3 days he was so badly beaten up. I had to bring him a slurry mixture of milk and cat food. He didn’t move. Finally, he got up and went outside just like nothing happened.
One night a tremendous storm hit, very bad. He was out at the time. He never came back.
Around the same time a friend of mine had a crow as a roommate who would fly in and out of his windows and doors at will. Crow also had a nest about 60 feet up in a tree in his yard. He would steal silverware, coins and keys and take them up to his nest. My friend would have to climb the tree to get his keys on occasion. He was almost too comfortable around humans in a cocky sort of way. His name was Joe Crow, of course.
“Oh, so a black man has to be perfect?”
While the Palisades were burning LA’s Deputy Mayor was calling in bomb threats.
Government at all levels has been hijacked by the Communist left..Some people just don’t get it.
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