Brian K. Williams, former Deputy Mayor of Public Safety for Los Angeles under Mayor Karen Bass, has agreed to plead guilty to fabricating a bomb threat targeting City Hall in October 2024. Williams, 61, admitted to using a Google Voice account on his personal phone to call his city-issued cellphone during a virtual meeting, falsely claiming he received a threat from an individual upset over the city’s support for Israel. He then reported this fabricated threat to the Los Angeles Police Departmen