To the editor: I wonder if columnist Lorraine Ali thinks The Times is making up stories about the recent murder on the Los Angeles subway, along with other stabbings and attacks. (“Go ahead, MAGA influencers: Trash LA for likes. We'll always beat you at the fame game,” column, June 19)
The people in my neighborhood, Koreatown, are terrified and tired of being robbed and attacked. To buy toothpaste or anything else at CVS, I have to ask an employee to open the merchandise, because certain offenders don't get locked up.
Tamara Blustein, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Thanks to Ali for giving us the facts about Los Angeles.
Fox News describing this area as extremely dangerous only serves one purpose: misinformation. The sad thing is that there are people who now believe that Los Angeles, Southern California and San Francisco are some kind of hell because of these hateful lies.
I've been to so-called conservative states and felt more vulnerable to violence there than anywhere else in California.
Fortunately we live in a state built on diversity and acceptance. Please keep telling the truth: California is beautiful and we have our problems, but so does everyone else.
Hector Hernandez, San Clemente
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To the editor: Ali's column about conservative commentator Tomi Lahren and his loud rants about the ills of Los Angeles and California only further elevated to greater prominence an individual who has fed off the murky valley of Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga. ), Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and their ilk.
Certainly, Ali and The Times can find better things and people to write about.
Bill Waxman, Simi Valley
