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Brian K. Williams, former deputy mayor of public safety under Mayor Bass, was sentenced to probation for calling in a fake bomb threat. Williams said he was suffering mental health issues following family deaths when he told police someone threatened to bomb City Hall over Israel support. He actually made the threatening call himself using Google Voice to escape a stressful meeting at City Hall last October. 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 former Los Angeles deputy mayor pleaded guilty to reporting an anti-Israel bomb threat on city hall last year.Brian K. Williams, 61, who was employed as the deputy mayor of public safety in October 2024, was charged with one felony count of making an explosives threat. He was hand-picked for the role by woke Mayor Karen Bass in February 2023 and given significant public safety responsibility, including oversight of the city's fire and police departments. Williams sent a text message to Bass and other high-ranking city officials on October 3, 2024, that he just received a call from someone who...