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Exclusive to Fox: The Los Angeles police union is urging an inquiry into City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson. Allegations have surfaced that he contacted a school board member to avoid a citation after being stopped for a traffic violation earlier this month in a school zone.
Harris-Dawson has suggested that the March 4 stop by an officer from the Los Angeles School Police may have involved racial profiling. At the time, he was en route to a committee meeting in an official government vehicle.
His infraction involved executing a U-turn within a school zone.
Marqueece Harris-Dawson, the Los Angeles City Council President, addressed the media during a press briefing at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center. He described the traffic stop on March 4 as a “traumatic” incident. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
According to an initial report by the California Post, Harris-Dawson received a $238 fine for the moving violation.
Citing news reports that Harris-Dawson called a Los Angeles Unified School District boss during the traffic stop, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) is asking City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto to look into whether he used his position to avoid accountability for the alleged moving violation near a high school during morning drop off time.
“If this is true, the public deserves to know which school board member Mr. Harris-Dawson called, what was said on this phone call and if the officers involved were contacted by the school board member,” the LAPPL, which represents rank and file officers within the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), wrote in separate letters obtained by Fox News Digital to Feldstein Soto and Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman.
“We urge your office to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation to determine whether or not Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson violated the law and the public trust with his action,” both letters said.
LAPPL President Ricky Mendoza said it would be “unethical and potentially illegal” for a city leader to use their position of power to attempt to “avoid accountability for their reckless driving in a school zone.”
An intensified police presence from the Los Angeles School Police keeps watch over a lunchtime crowd at Jefferson High School in response to recent racially motivated fighting that took place on the campus. (Getty Images)
“We urge the DA and City Attorney to hold this very powerful elected official accountable if in fact he violated the law,” he said.
During a recent council meeting, Harris-Dawson, who is Black, described the experience as traumatic “as it was when I was 16.”
“In Los Angeles, every single time data is collected on pretextual traffic stops, they are grossly racially biased,” he said.
He said that he’d been stopped four times while driving a government-issued vehicle.
“The first question was, roll down your windows. The second question was, how do you have this vehicle? The third question was, well, you work for the city. What job do you do for the city?” Harris-Dawson told his colleagues.
“In fact, I’m the president of the council,” he added. “I had to explain this on the corner of Main and 25th Street, while I was trying to get to the committee just two days ago.”
Rachel Brashier, left, aide to Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, right, listen to public comment at Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles in May 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Harris-Dawson’s office, as well as the offices of Feldstein Soto and the district attorney, but did not immediately receive a response Wednesday night.
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