Less than 24 hours after the LAPD broke up a peaceful Black Lives Matters protest and arrested an activist outside Eric Garcetti’s official residence, Joe Biden has named the LA Mayor as one of the co-chairs of his inaugural committee.

It’s an announcement that has been met with both derision and concern by BLM LA and could bode badly for the President-elect with one of he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ core constituencies.

“It’s beyond disheartening that Biden would ignore the calls of Black organizers who helped elect him and appoint Garcetti to any position the very day after LAPD violently assailed protestors in front of the mayor’s mansion,” BLM LA co-founder Dr. Melina Abdullah told Deadline on Monday. “We hope that this will be no more than a consolation prize and that Biden will heed the calls not to appoint one of the most problematic mayors in the nation to his cabinet.”

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