Cops threatening electeds is business as usual in Los Angeles and has been since forever.
Here's a timeline of LAPD spying since the 1920s, which has always included extortion files on city council members.
https://stoplapdspying.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Timeline-of-LAPD-Spying-Surveillance.....pdf
For instance in 1927: "LAPD officers, working in conjunction with mob boss Alfred Marco, pay the sister-in-law of an LAPD detective $2500 to seduce married City Council member Carl Jacobson in an effort to discredit him. Jacobson had been critical of the close connection between LAPD and criminals running gambling rings in the city."
And this has continued unabated although mostly less explicitly down to the present. Not always less explicitly, though. Sometimes even now they'll even publicly menace them, as in e.g. this incident from 2020 when what looks like hundreds of LAPD officers surrounded council member Monica Rodriguez in a parking structure and yelled at her about perceived cuts to their funding:
https://x.com/jasmineviel/status/1268961412241473539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1268961412241473539%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fgxebwb%2F%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse
