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0:55Now PlayingKaren Bass sworn in as first Black female mayor of Los Angeles | USA TODAY
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0:55Now PlayingVice President Kamala Harris ceremonially swore in Karen Bass as Los Angeles' first elected female Black mayor.
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Karen Ruth Bass, a former physician assistant who shattered glass ceilings with her rise to a leadership post in the California legislature and later a prominent spot in Congress, took a ceremonial oath of office Sunday as mayor of Los Angeles.
A progressive Democrat, Bass becomes the first woman and second Black person to hold the city’s top job and will formally assume her duties Monday amid multiple crises in the nation’s second most populous city. She was sworn in ceremonially by Vice President Kamala Harris, a longtime friend, and former California attorney general. The formal oath was administered privately by the city clerk.
Bass will be tasked with easing rising crime rates, restoring trust in a City Hall shaken by racism and corruption scandals and addressing the issue of over 40,000 people living in trash-strewn encampments or rusty RVs that have spread into virtually every neighborhood.
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