CW: Sexual assault, harassment Journalist Yashar Ali accuses Garcetti advisor Rick Jacobs of sexual misconductFreelance journalist Yashar Ali alleged in a first-person article published Monday night that Garcetti advisor Rick Jacobs forcibly kissed him on the lips and hugged him over the course of a decade.
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“Jacobs would grab my face and kiss me on the lips — always twice — and he would turn to other people who witnessed it and say, ‘He has the softest lips,’” Ali wrote. He also said that he had “seen Jacobs at fundraisers over the years subjecting others to forcible kissing, grabbing and sexually explicit comments.”
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Ali’s allegations, published on the forum Substack, follow a lawsuit filed against the city in July by Los Angeles Police Officer Matthew Garza, who worked on the mayor’s security detail.
Garza alleged that Jacobs made crude sexual comments and touched him inappropriately over several years.
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The lawsuit also alleges that “Garcetti was present on approximately half of the occasions when Jacobs behaved in this way, and witnessed Jacobs’ conduct, but he took no action to correct Jacobs’ obviously harassing behavior.”
“On some occasions, the mayor would laugh at Jacobs’ crude comments,” the lawsuit said.
Link to the original Yashar piece, which leaves the impression that there are more shoes to drop.
