Karen Bass just watched a worker from one of her taxpayer-funded nonprofits get busted with 142 grams of fentanyl.
It happened the same morning Spencer Pratt dropped a video telling Los Angeles exactly what Bass has been paying these organizations to do.
Now 1.6 million people have seen it – and Bass is out of road to run on.
Pratt's Video Hit on the Same Day as the Arrest Announcement
On May 21, Pratt posted a 32-second video from his desk – no studio, no teleprompter, just a candidate who lost his Palisades home to Bass's negligence and isn't done making her answer for it.
"Currently, Mayor Bass and Nithya Raman are increasing the rampant drug use by using your tax dollars to hand out fentanyl needles, tourniquets, and crack pipes to addicts throughout the city," Pratt said directly to camera.
"By doing this, they are killing six to seven people every day in the streets in full public view of you and your children – and they pretend they're the compassionate ones."
Hours after Pratt posted it, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced the federal criminal complaint against Christopher Barret Johnson, 42, of Culver City.
Johnson worked for People Assisting the Homeless – known as PATH – a taxpayer-funded nonprofit that, according to a federal complaint, distributed syringes to drug users in MacArthur Park and across Los Angeles.
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What Federal Agents Found in the PATH Worker's BMW
On May 5, LAPD officers patrolling MacArthur Park – a neighborhood federal prosecutors identify as a hub for open-air drug dealing – watched Johnson's white BMW make an abrupt U-turn in front of them.
When officers approached, methamphetamine was visible inside the car.
A search of Johnson's person turned up a second baggie of meth in his front trouser pocket.
Then came the fentanyl – at least 142 grams of it, enough to face federal distribution charges, not a possession charge.
Officers also recovered two knives, a digital scale, drug packaging materials, and a significant amount of cash.
Johnson was charged federally with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
After the announcement, PATH issued a statement saying it was "outraged and deeply disturbed" – then scrambled through two conflicting claims about whether it operated syringe services in MacArthur Park before finally confirming it holds a harm reduction contract in the area that includes clean syringes, Narcan, and fentanyl testing strips.
Los Angeles taxpayers funded that contract.
Bass Is Running Out of Time to Explain This
Pratt is now within eight points of Bass heading into a June 2 primary – Emerson College polling from May puts Bass at 30%, Pratt at 22%, with undecideds collapsing from 51% to 16% in two months.
He got there by showing up to the parks, the encampments, and the playgrounds Bass's policies created – and pointing a camera at them.
The PATH bust is the clearest possible proof of what Pratt has been saying all along.
Bass built a funding pipeline to organizations operating in the most drug-saturated neighborhoods in Los Angeles under the banner of "harm reduction."
One of those organizations had a worker allegedly running a fentanyl distribution operation out of the same ZIP code where the nonprofit was handing out syringes.
Pratt has been watching.
Bass is done pretending she didn't build this.
Sources:
- U.S. Department of Justice, "Culver City Man Who Works for Nonprofit that Distributes Syringes to Homeless Drug Users Arrested on Federal Fentanyl Charge," DOJ Central District of California, May 21, 2026.
- "Ex-employee of taxpayer-funded nonprofit caught selling fentanyl near LA park," Fox News Digital, May 21, 2026.
- "Former L.A. homeless outreach worker accused by feds of fentanyl trafficking," KTLA, May 21, 2026.
- "Bass holds lead in LA mayoral race as Pratt climbs to 2nd, new poll shows," Fox 11 Los Angeles, May 2026.
- Elizabeth Vargas and Ashley N. Soriano, "Reality TV star Spencer Pratt shakes up LA mayor's race with hard stance on homelessness," NewsNation, May 22, 2026.
