NEW : `` We choose not to trivialize this travesty , '' They recounted the racial hysteria of the era . L.A. County supervisor says . NEW : ``The only way we can get the truth out is by going public with our story and exposing it for what it really was -- a cover-up of an abuse that went on in Los Angeles's jails President Franklin Roosevelt ordered 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps . Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors supported the order 70 years ago .
NEW : `` We choose not to trivialize this travesty , '' L.A. County supervisor says . NEW : ``The only way we can get the truth out is by going public with our story and exposing it for what it really was -- a cover-up of an abuse that went on in Los Angeles's jails President Franklin Roosevelt ordered 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps . Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors supported the order 70 years ago .