{"id":439315,"date":"2025-12-11T04:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439315\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T04:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:38:11","slug":"compton-public-safety-chair-announces-resignation-run-for-mayor-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439315\/","title":{"rendered":"Compton public safety chair announces resignation, run for mayor \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compton\u2019s public safety chair announced Wednesday he would resign from his role but run for mayor a day after the city\u2019s current mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/compton-mayor-asks-for-public-safety-chairs-resignation-following-heated-video\/3813904\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked for his resignation<\/a> amid the circulation of a video showing him poking a local activist in the eye during a confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Chair Bishop L.J.\u00a0 Guillory\u00a0held a press conference in response to Mayor Emma Sharif\u2019s call for his resignation. In his speech, he shared publicly his intentions to run for office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayor Emma Sharif, I will accept your request for my resignation,\u201d Guillory\u00a0said. \u201cOn Monday of next week at our Public Safety Commission, I will ask for a reorganization and for another person to be nominated by our commission to serve as the chairman of the Public Safety Commission. But in regards to me resigning, I will run for mayor of the great city of Compton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Sharif called for Guillory\u2019s resignation after a video showed him poking the eye of activist Najee Ali during a press conference last week. Ali and other Compton residents held the news conference calling for Guillory\u2019s resignation after he made comments about bringing immigration enforcement to Compton.<\/p>\n<p>Guillory said those comments were taken out of context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will resign at your request to run for your seat. May the best person win,\u201d Guillory said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Compton\u2019s next mayoral race is scheduled to take place in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Compton\u2019s public safety chair announced Wednesday he would resign from his role but run for mayor a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,6081,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-439315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-compton","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115699089639503951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}