The Los Angeles riot continues as protesters clash with police via ice attacks
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The mob broke the window Los Angeles Police Station (LAPD) West 1ST Street headquarters faced tear gas that agitators had deployed downtown in conflict with city authorities.
Rioters targeting LAPD headquarters on Sunday night were seen targeting LAPD headquarters as violent demonstrations spread across the RA over the weekend in response to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attacks.
president Donald Trump On Friday, 2,000 National Guard personnel were sent to the area.
“California politicians must cancel riot mobs,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a Monday morning post along with video footage from the riots. “Federal law enforcement is working to protect and protect American citizens from illegal foreigners of crime. Why is the governor of California with foreign criminals?”
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On June 8, 2025, police officers are engulfed in clouds of smoke from tear gas and percussion hand rena bullets during a protest against a federal immigrant sweeps in downtown Los Angeles, California, USA. (Reuters/Omar Eunice)
LAPD declared “illegal rally” on Sunday night The protesters failed to disband Downtown area.
“The agitators are scattered around the downtown area (sic).” Central Divisio of LAPDn writes to X: “Residents, businesses and visitors must be wary of visitors to the downtown area and report criminal activity. Officers are responding to several different locations to disperse the crowd.”
Protesters will throw things at police vehicles on a highway near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Ethan Swarp)
Other video footage from the weekend shows protesters spitting out American flag and burn it While chanting “f Trump”; set the vehicle on fire. Throw things and fireworks at the police.
Anti-ice protesters in Los Angeles spit and burn American flags
Man spits out a burning American flag during an anti-ice protest in Los Angeles. (Oliya Scootercaster/FreedomNewstv)
The demonstration has elicited mixed responses from local and national politicians, with Democrats supporting American rights to protest, and Republicans seeking law and order.
For example, Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Trump crossed his boundaries when he deployed the National Guard to help with anti-ice riots, claiming that “local law enforcement doesn’t need help.”
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Law enforcement officials are working to launch a fire during a protest in Compton, California on Saturday, June 7, 2025, after federal immigration officials conducted the operation. (Ethan Swarp)
“Let’s straighten this: 1) local law enforcement agencies didn’t need help. 2) Trump sent the troops anyway to produce confusion and violence. 3) Trump was successful.
Newsom arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday evening to oversee his response to anti-ice riots and meet with state emergency officials.
Smoke rises from a burning car on Atlantic Boulevard during standoffs by protesters and law enforcement in the Los Angeles County city of Paramount, California, USA, on June 7, 2025. After multiple detentions by immigrants and customs enforcement agencies (ICE) in multiple detentions (ICE) by immigrants and customs enforcement agencies (ICE). (Reuters/Barbara Davidson)
“We’re here to maintain peace, rather than joining Trump’s political game,” Newsom wrote.
Democrat New Jersey Senator Corey Booker The riots hinted at “peace” on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. He accused Trump of cracking down on “chaos” nationwide in a nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration, calling the president’s move “hypocrisy at best” in order to relent the Capitol mob on January 6th.
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“The reality is that we see that peaceful protests have begun in Los Angeles,” the New Jersey Senator said. “Many of these peaceful protests are being created as the US president embraces chaos and confusion by arresting people appearing at immigration hearings.”
Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with “Fox News Live” on Sunday, calling for the move to send “common sense” and “basic law enforcement.”
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On June 8, 2025, demonstrators block the highway when law enforcement officials face them during a protest against a federal immigrant sweep in downtown Los Angeles, California. (Reuters/Mike Blake)
The administration “invites people to provide support so that they can fulfill their fundamental government duties: protecting its law enforcement and its people from these violent attacks,” Pompeo said.
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“We all remember the ’20 summers when this was out of hand and local law enforcement and government burned flames. This isn’t going to happen this time. And we see President Trump and his team take appropriate and necessary actions to protect people,” the former Secretary of State said.
Louis Casiano, Stephen Sorace and David Spector of Fox News contributed to this report.