What a shock! Riots break out in Los Angeles.
Of course, it’s mostly peaceful and it’s all Trump’s fault!
Here We Go Again!
Protests erupted across Los Angeles following surprise Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that resulted in 44 administrative arrests at multiple locations, including the Fashion District and a Home Depot in the Westlake District, as reported by ABC News and the Los Angeles Times.
Some things about the riot:
- Millions of damage was done including to police and federal law enforcement vehicles, damaged property, burning of civilian and commercial vehicles.
- Multiple fires have been started, mostly vehicles.
- Police and Sheriff were ordered to stand down and only use non-lethal force, tear gas, and flash bangs when riot became violent.
- The rioters shutdown the 101 Freeway for several hours.
- The rioters set fire to four Waymo cars (a cost of $300K each).
- Four police cars were pelted with rocks on the 101 Freeway, destroying the cars.
- Businesses were looted.
- Rioters are using commercial grade fireworks to attack police officers.
- The rioting started in a relatively small area as of Sunday morning, but began to spread
- Donald Trump ordered 2000 national guard to Los Angeles. They showed up on Sunday and only protected the federal buildings.
- The Department of Defense was preparing to deploy 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton.
- Both Gavin Newsom (Governor) and Karen Bass (Mayor) have both blamed Trump and demanded military stay out of Los Angeles.
- Kamala Harris released a statement
The Response
Karen Bass said on CNN:
Kamala Harris wrote in a statement on X:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/posse-comitatus-act-center-trump-newsom-national-guard-dispute-la
The Media
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6374024102112