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“Being able to afford housing. Raising my children in the district and school there, talking to their friends. And elections are about the future. They’re not really about the past,” Rahman added. Waters says her experience and the energy she brings to the job every day are why she’s running for re-election. “The Democratic Party is working as it normally does,” Waters said. “They will choose their candidates based on the relationships that they have, the work that they have done, the interests that they have shown – not about age.” Waters appeared at an anti-ICE protest in downtown Los Angeles in February, chanting “ICE out of L. A.” hours before the demonstration descended into violence and police made multiple arrests.

“What I see here at the detention center are people exercising their constitutional rights,” Waters said while standing in front of officers wearing riot gear, Fox News reported.

“And, of course, they’re now trying to tear gas everybody. It’s in the air, but people are not moving.” Later on Friday, Los Angeles police arrested multiple violent agitators after issuing dispersal orders as protests erupted near a federal detention center. Thousands of protesters gathered outside City Hall Friday afternoon before many marched to the detention facility, where a group of agitators pushed a large construction dumpster and blocked the entrance to the building’s loading dock, according to police. The LAPD shared video of the unrest on social media and said officers deployed pepper balls and tear gas to disperse the crowd.