Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez has released a statement via her attorney in response to the backlash she received from a viral video in which she apparently called on "cholos" to defend their streets from ICE.

Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez is breaking her silence after facing backlash for a social media post calling on local gang members to act as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.

After Cynthia Gonzalez, vice mayor of the small city of Cudahy, received nationwide attention and criticism for her now-deleted social media video, in which she appears to call for street gangs to intervene immigration raids,