Thanks to LA Radio's best reporter Steve Gregory, Mayor Yoga Pants actually said that he held his breath while taking dopey pictures with Magic Johnson.
“I’ll take personal responsibility,” said Garcetti in answer to a reporter’s question about the photos, “and if it makes you and everyone else happy — or even the photographs with people where literally I’m holding my breath for two seconds — I won’t even do that.”
On Monday, a Garcetti spokesman told ABC7, “He was wearing a mask at the game and removed it for a brief moment to take a few photos.”
Even so, Garcetti defended L.A.’s mask mandate because, he pointed out, the region is still experiencing a high rate of transmission.
Listen to Steve talk to John & Ken about today's bizarre press conference that focused on Super Bowl "public safety".