While President Donald J. Trump decisively neutralized Iran’s most dangerous nuclear weapons facilities, officials in Los Angeles County seemed more preoccupied with defending the regime that built them.

Instead of addressing skyrocketing crime or securing their own neighborhoods, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department decided to publicly mourn Iranian nuclear personnel following U.S. military strikes ordered by President Trump.

In a now-deleted social media post, the department bizarrely stated it was increasing patrols around “places of worship and other sensitive locations throughout the county” — a thinly veiled reference to mosques — not because of domestic threats, but out of sympathy for “the victims and families impacted by the recent bombings in Iran.”

Yes, seriously.

“Our hearts go out to the victims and families impacted by the recent bombings in Iran,” the post read, as if the United States had just attacked a preschool and not nuclear weapons facilities used by a radical Islamic regime bent on erasing Israel from the map.

The reaction sparked immediate backlash. Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin shared screenshots of the original post and suggested that “someone went rogue here w/ an unapproved post.” But even that charitable take underestimates the deeper issue: this is what passes for normal inside woke Los Angeles government institutions.

Rather than stand firm on national defense or publicly support U.S. troops — especially those executing a precision strike on facilities that threaten global stability — the department’s first instinct was to comfort Iran.

The department eventually tried to walk it back.

“We are issuing this statement to formally apologize for an offensive and inappropriate social media post... regarding the ongoing conflict in Iran,” the Sheriff’s Department wrote in its retraction. “This post was unacceptable, made in error, and does not reflect the views of Sheriff Robert G. Luna or the Department.”

They offered the usual PR-speak about “taking quick corrective action” and “serving our diverse communities,” but notably absent was any explanation of how such a post got published in the first place — or who was responsible. No one was fired. No one was named. No one was held accountable.

Which tells you everything you need to know.

This wasn’t a “hack” or a rogue intern. If it had been, they'd have made that clear. What happened here is that someone — perhaps several someones — inside the department believed that the real tragedy wasn’t Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, but President Trump stopping them.

This is the moral confusion that dominates left-wing governance in deep blue enclaves like Los Angeles: when a theocratic dictatorship gets punched in the nose, the first instinct is to apologize to the dictator.

While Trump’s administration continues to demonstrate American strength on the global stage, local leaders in California remain paralyzed by identity politics, virtue-signaling, and an overwhelming fear of offending America’s enemies.