Karen Bass in hot seat as Trump targets Los Angeles – but it’s not her first crisis

Mayor Karen Bass addresses the media in Los Angeles on 9 June about Donald Trump’s unasked-for deployment of the national guard. Photograph: Caroline Brehman/EPA

In the mid-1990s, Karen Bass was in the streets of Los Angeles, protesting alongside Latino activists against new laws that targeted undocumented immigrants and were expected to land more young men of color in prison.

These days, Bass is monitoring the status of protests against US immigration agents from a helicopter, as the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles.