FBI Director Kash Patel warns mob after anti-ice protests against injured agents in Los Angeles
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FBI Director following violent anti-ice riots in Los Angeles on Saturday night Kash Patel “If you attack a law enforcement officer, you’re going to prison – period.”
“It doesn’t matter where you came from, how you came here, or what you claim to represent,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “If the local jurisdiction doesn’t stand behind the men and women wearing badges, the FBI will.”
president Donald Trump Immigration officials driving the area have signed a presidential memorandum of understanding deploying 2,000 national security guards in Paramount, California, after being scattered with rocks, stones and concrete.
US Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks shared a photo of the bloody hands of one border patrol injured by a rock flying through the windshield.
Border Patrol agents see a doctor after being injured in a flying rock. (For FOX only provided via federal sources)
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Federal sources said the agents could have been killed by flying shrapnel.
“It doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got here, what movements tell you. Local police The Force doesn’t back our men and women with thin blue lines, we’re @FBI,” Patel wrote to X.
The department has a dedicated unit for immigration and is most concentrated in Los Angeles.
The bank confirmed that several arrests have already been made for assaulting federal agents.
People are holding Mexican flags and gestures next to a flame car on Saturday in the Los Angeles County city of Paramount, California, following multiple detentions by ice. (Reuters/Barbara Davidson)
The Farry Paramount protest marked two consecutive days of substantial violent riots in Los Angeles.
More than 1,000 Los Angeles mob surrounded and assaulted federal law enforcement buildings on Friday night. Ice Agentslashing tires, dirty building.
A car is burning on Atlantic Avenue during a conflict between protesters and law enforcement after multiple ice detentions in the Los Angeles County city of Paramount, California on Saturday. (Reuters/Barbara Davidson)
DHS Secretary Kristi Calls Protesters warned the rioters, saying they would not slow the ice agents down.
“If you place your hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be charged to the fullest extent of the law,” Noem wrote in X-Post.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the agency is seeking information on the identities of people throwing rocks at vehicles carrying out critical law enforcement operations, and noted that “it’s only a matter of time.”
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“One of the assailants in this video is to wear a helmet. I’m going to use the investigation tool to find an individual,” Bongino wrote in the X-Post. “I highly recommend you submit yourself, it’s only a matter of time.”