The protests in Los Angeles began after American immigration and agents for customs enforcement (ICE) carried out highly profile immigration air raids throughout the city and arrested at least 118 unaccualized individuals, including some alleged criminal ties. Arrest – part of the national operation, which allegedly detained 2,000 people a day – characterized outrage in communities with large populations of immigrants.
Demonstrations first erupted on Friday (June 6), when the locations in the workplace followed visible arrests in a heavily Latin neighborhood, including Paramount and Compton.
How did the riots develop?
The protests escalated for two days when the demonstrators clashed with federal agents and local police. The crowds gathered outside the federal buildings in the center of LA and the federal staging mail in Paramount.
In one place the protesters threw rocks and broken cinder blocks on the vehicles of the outgoing border patrol vehicles, while the federal agents responded with grenades with lightning, tear gas and pepper balls.
A car was ignited in Compton. At least one protest in Paramount saw protesters trying to block immigration vans by shopping trolleys and fireworks. The authorities built a barbed wire and declared an illegal assembly.
How many people have been arrested?
While the federal authorities said that 118 undocumented individuals were arrested in the LA area, the local police carried out several arrests during the protests.
What did Trump said?
President Donald Trump prevented the raids on the ice and the subsequent deployment of the National Guard soldiers into LA. Published on Truth Social: “If Newsom and Bass do not do their job, the federal government will enter and solve the problem – the troughs and looters – the way it should be solved !!!”
On Sunday, Trump appreciated The reaction of the guard, which calls it “great work”, and announced the new rule: “From now on the masks will not be allowed to wear protests.”
This means a rare case where federal units are distributed against the wishes of the Governor of the State.
What did the local officials and others say
This step above the deployment of the National Guard was accompanied by a sharp rhetoric of federal officials who blamed the Californian leader of injustice support.
Tom Homan, Trump’s border of Czar, warned that even elected officials could face legal consequences:
“It is a crime that consciously hides and hides an illegal extraterrestrial. It is a crime that prevents the right to enforce the right to perform its work,” he said.
DHS: “Violence must end”
When the protests intensified in response to LED air raids, the Ministry of Internal Security accused democratic leaders of allowing riots.
DHS Tricia McLaughlin spokesman said: “The violent focus on Los Angeles’s rights without Lawless Rioters is contemptible and the mayor of Bass and the Governor of News must ask to end.”
The secretary of DHS Kristi Noem repeated this message and warned the demonstrators: “You will not stop us or slow us.”
Noem added that protesters attacking the coercive authorities “will be prosecuted”.
Newsom: “They want a spectacle”
California Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the federal commitment as an unnecessary provocation. It insisted that local resources were sufficient to handle any riots: “There is no lack of enforcement in Los Angeles. The federal government deploys units because they want a spectacle,” he wrote on X.
“Don’t give them one,” Newsom urged. “Never use violence. Speak peacefully.”
HegSeth threatens the deployment of marines
In the alarming sign of federal escalation, Minister of Defense Pete HegSeth threatened the use of active American marines if the protests became more violent:
“If violence continues, Marines will also be mobilized in the active service at Pendleton-Jsou on high readiness,” HegSeth said on X.
Mayor of Bass: Protests driven by fear
Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass has recognized public fear as a result of large federal raids: “Everyone has the right to protest, but let me be clear: violence and destruction are unacceptable,” she said at X.
“The tactics of the federal government sow terror in our communities.”
White House: “Invasion of criminals”
The White House doubled to his defense of ice operations and the presence of the National Guard. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stopped intervention as needed for national security: “The work that the immigration authorities did… It is necessary to stop and reverse the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States.”
She fired the California Democratic leader that “they have completely given up responsibility for the protection of their citizens.”
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Republican support of federal intervention
Republican leaders quickly approved the federal show of power. House Speaker Mike Johnson advocated President Trump’s action: “I’m not worried about it,” said Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson “this week” when he asked and added that the Newsom “showed the inability or unwillingness to do what is necessary there.”
Democrat warns against an authoritarian overlap
California Congressman Nanette Barragan rejected the claim of extensive violence and accused the administration of disagreement: “We agree that if you are violent, you should be arrested … But that is not happening,” said California Congressman Nanette Barragan on Sunday CNN.
“We have an administration that focuses on peace protests … The president sends the National Guard because he does not like scenes,” Democrat said.
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