Los Angeles mayor announces he will not join the Biden administration

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“I let them know earlier this week that my city needs me now, I want to be here and I have to be here,” Garcetti, who served as Biden’s campaign co-chair and is on his inaugural committee, said Thursday. . .

The mayor added he went into quarantine after his nine-year-old daughter tested positive for the coronavirus, although he said he and his wife both tested negative.

“Our family is incredibly cautious and what’s happening at my home this week is playing out in Los Angeles and this country,” he said in a live speech Thursday, according to Deadline.

Garcetti was reportedly among the names proposed for Biden’s transportation secretary, a role for which he appointed former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg this week.

Black Lives Matter activists in the Los Angeles area have spoken out against the possibility of Garcetti joining the administration, citing his response to protests in the city this year.

It is more than disheartening that Biden ignores calls from black organizers who helped him elect him and appoint Garcetti to any post the next day. [Los Angele Police Department] The LAPD violently assaulted protesters outside the mayor’s mansion, ”BLM LA co-founder Melina Abdullah said earlier this month. “We hope this will be nothing more than a consolation prize and that Biden heeds the calls not to appoint one of the country’s most problematic mayors to his cabinet.”

Garcetti, who was re-elected in 2017, has a limited term and will step down in 2022.