ALT She says, “On the ground, at the community level, people like myself, people like Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, Kenneth Mejia, Hugo Soto Martinez — have done for years the labor of building bridges between our communities, to uplift the communities that are most disproportionately impacted by the systemic failures of our city. And for them to do this erases a lot of that work. And it takes us back decades, that now we have to again … try to fix the errors of the generations before us.”

ALT Can anything positive come out of the release of the tape? Hernandez says yes. “I come from the Latino community. I’ve seen the anti-Blackness, the racism in my community, and it's taken me years to move people into a better direction. And so I believe that it's possible, but it requires patience. It requires love, it requires political education.”