The union for LA’s police officers wants a local vice mayor to resign after she called on street gangs to oppose federal immigration enforcement raids there.

“Not for nothing, but I want to know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles? 18^th Street, Florencia, where’s the leadership at?” Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez said in a video posted on social media.

“It’s everyone else who’s not about the gang life that’s out there protesting and speaking up. We’re out there fighting our turf, protecting our turf, protecting our people and, like, where you at?”

Gonzalez continued: “Dude, they’re running amok on your streets and in your city. And peep, when the big gang’s guns come in, nothing but quiet and we’re out here, the regular ones that have never been jumped in, trying to organize people, trying to do the thing. So don’t be out here trying to claim no block, no nothing if you’re not showing up right now trying to help out and organize. I don’t want to hear a peep out of you once they’re gone, trying to claim that this is my block. This is not your block. You weren’t even here helping out.”

The comments made by the Vice Mayor of Cudahy, CA, Cynthia Gonzalez, are despicable. She calls for criminal gangs – including the vicious 18th street gang—to commit violence against our brave ICE law enforcement.

This kind of garbage has led to a more than 500 percent increase… pic.twitter.com/c7yX0xB5o7

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 25, 2025

Union Calls for Gonzalez’s Resignation, Prosecution

The Los Angeles Police Protective League represents nearly 9,000 police officers. On Wednesday, KTLA reported the union issued this statement:

“What Ms. Gonzalez urged and taunted these specific gangs to do in her social media post puts police officers and other law enforcement professionals at greater risk. Her actions are deplorable and potentially illegal.  She should resign and she should be prosecuted if what she called for broke the law.”

LAPPL also said that the “18th Street and Florencia street gangs are notoriously dangerous Los Angeles-based criminal enterprises. They rule their ‘turfs’ through intimidation, violence, and murder, and finance their operations through the sale of narcotics and illegal firearms, prostitution, and protection rackets.”

Gonzalez Has Doctorate in Education

The biography for Gonzalez on the city’s website says she is the daughter of immigrants “who taught her the value of hard work.”

She received a bachelors’ degree from the UC Santa Barbara and two master’s degrees in education from UCLA. She also has an Educational Leadership Doctorate from UCLA.