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A Los Angeles newscaster has lost patience with his city’s response to the riots, exploding on Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom for allowing vandals to tear apart businesses and private property while officers stand by.

Elex Michaelson, a nighttime anchor for Fox L.A., couldn’t contain his anger after watching looters set fire to cars and hurl cinderblocks at officers during riots that have entered their fifth day. Michaelson has previously been close to Newsom, offering him exclusive interviews and favorable coverage about his ability to beat back a recall effort.

“This is outrageous. Thugs are currently setting fires & collecting rocks in Downtown L.A. as law enforcement stands by nearby,” the reporter wrote on X. “For the moment, they are letting this all happen.”

“How is it that I’m ticketed if I miss paying my parking meter by 2 minutes but this is allowed?” he added.

Viewers chimed in to share additional footage of the violence, including rioters unleashing massive fireworks on federal officers from a makeshift barricade.

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As anti-ICE riots began over the weekend in Los Angeles, involving people throwing objects at law enforcement officials, spray-painting and vandalizing vehicles, and looting businesses, protests have spread to Austin and Dallas, Texas, and San Francisco.

A protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with “dozens of people” started on “Dallas’ Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge” on Monday night, according to Fox4 News.

KXAN News reported that as of 10:08 p.m. (CDT), protesters in Austin had torn “down construction barriers, scooters and other equipment” and were “throwing it in the middle” of the street as they walked.

Prior to this, law enforcement officials in Austin had warned protesters to “get off the street” around 9:31 p.m., according to the outlet.

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Let’s skip past the part where Democrat leaders in the most perfunctory way “disavow” the violent and lawless rioting in Los Angeles, and their news media counterparts diligently repeat those disavowals for them. What we’re seeing in L.A. is what Democrats instigate and excuse when their policies are obstructed. They’re happy with it. This is how they govern, and to pretend otherwise is an insult to even below-average intelligence (looking at you, Jasmine Crockett).

Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said as much on Monday on CNN, after two days of foreign nationals hurling boulders at cop cars, setting private property on fire, and tossing explosives at federal government facilities. “I just have to say that if you dial back time and go [back] to Friday,” she said, “if immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on last night.”

The “immigration raids” Bass referred to were multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention operations throughout the city for the purpose of apprehending migrants residing in the U.S. illegally. That’s an ancient process in L.A. now formerly known as “upholding the law.” In effect, Bass was arguing that so long as illegal aliens were permitted to break the law, there would be no problems.

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Riot season has started with a bang in California. Actually, many bangs, hurled rocks, torched cars, and a lot a flag waving—but not the Toby Keith variety.

A man on a motorcycle waves a Mexican flag as smoke rises from a burning car on Atlantic Boulevard, during a standoff by protesters and law enforcement, following multiple detentions by ICE in the Los Angeles County city of Compton, California. Photo by @Photospice pic.twitter.com/wFfYFdIdTO

— corinne_perkins (@corinne_perkins) June 8, 2025

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FBI Director Kash Patel said the Bureau is investigating the source of funding that is fueling the riots in Los Angeles, California.

Sections of Los Angeles have seen rioters engaging in property damage, looting stores, clashing with law enforcement authorities, and vandalizing police vehicles. The riots are a response to a series of raids Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out in the area last week. However, many view the unrest as a statement against the Trump administration’s mass deportations of illegal immigrants.

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Democrat California Rep. Maxine Waters told the public on Tuesday that there is “no violence” happening at the wide-scale riots in Los Angeles, California, as rioters light the streets on fire.

Rioters have looted local businesses, burned cars and threw Molotov cocktails and fireworks on the streets of Los Angeles in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrest of illegal immigrants with heinous criminal backgrounds. Waters argued during a House Democrat presser that all the violence that Americans are watching with their own eyes is not actually real, and that these riots are peaceful.

“Even those who were out of step with what we were advocating, [which is] peaceful protest, did not create any violence,” Waters said. “Nobody was shot, nobody was killed. Get it through your head. And so, when martial law is called, what are you gonna say? I missed the point. Don’t miss the point, you all. Don’t think that because somehow because they called out the National Guard, there was violence. There was no violence. I was on the street, I know. And I went from downtown detention back outside into the community, talking to people what happened in Paramount, what happened in Compton, what happened in Englewood.”

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the Defense Department will send 700 Marines to Los Angeles to help law enforcement:

Due to increased threats to federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings, approximately 700 active-duty U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton are being deployed to Los Angeles to restore order.

We have an obligation to defend federal law enforcement officers – even if Gavin Newsom will not.

Due to increased threats to federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings, approximately 700 active-duty U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton are being deployed to Los Angeles to restore order.

We have an obligation to defend federal law enforcement officers – even if Gavin…

— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) June 9, 2025

California Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to dig his political grave by spouting off his mouth with a bunch of nonsense:

U.S. Marines have served honorably across multiple wars in defense of democracy. They are heroes.

They shouldn’t be deployed on American soil facing their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a dictatorial President.

This is un-American.

U.S. Marines have served honorably across multiple wars in defense of democracy. They are heroes.

They shouldn’t be deployed on American soil facing their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a dictatorial President.

This is un-American. pic.twitter.com/v5Va7hbgBb

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 9, 2025

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A professional operation began to permeate the Los Angeles riots on Monday, nearly stunning one set of broadcasters into silence after they watched a truckload of organizers hand out riot-style face shields while preparing to take on National Guard and Marine soldiers entering the city.

The moment of realization dawned on anchors and a correspondent with KTTV in L.A. while watching activists arrive in a pickup truck and unload boxes of what they originally suspected were groceries or other peaceful contributions to the fourth day of demonstrations. However, the mood quickly turned dark when the group of newscasters saw markings on the dozens of boxes being handed out into the crowd.

“Look at this, we have people right now dropping off food and water. Preparations are underway for what could be a long night right now,” correspondent Matthew Seedorff said from the field.

Fox L.A. anchor Christine Devine responded, saying the scene did not appear to indicate an “organized rally” was taking place, like earlier in the day, when riot gear and weapons were being handed out. But it wasn’t long before she and co-anchor Elex Michaelson realized that the same preparations for violence were occurring.

“What are those boxes?” Michaelson asked, to which Devine replied, “Are those masks?”

“That doesn’t look like food and water,” Michaelson responded.

“No, those are masks. So people are prepping for some sort of altercation with police as we speak,” said Seedorff.

Not far away, another Fox L.A. correspondent described a “festive atmosphere,” Michaelson went on, “including a lot of older folks who were there for the right reasons.”

“You probably don’t put on a mask unless you have a plan of not wanting somebody to see your face,” he added.

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As violent anti-ICE riots rage across Los Angeles, White House Border Czar Tom Homan joined Chris Cuomo on his show on NewsNation Monday night to set the record straight — and defend the Trump administration’s response to the escalating chaos. Homan, known for his no-nonsense approach to immigration enforcement, made it clear the riots aren’t about justice or civil rights. They’re about lawlessness, and President Trump is right to crack down.

Homan pushed back hard on media narratives suggesting the administration is threatening to arrest California Gov. Gavin Newsom. “No, this has been blown so far out of proportion,” Homan said. He explained the confusion began after an NBC reporter twisted his words. During a conversation about rioters interfering with ICE operations, Homan acknowledged that anyone who crosses the line into criminal conduct should be held accountable, including elected officials.

“There is no threat to arrest Governor Newsom,” Homan clarified, “but the statement was made just like anybody else — if he crosses that line of impeding ICE enforcement efforts… that’s a crime. We would ask the Attorney General to seek prosecution.”

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The woke children of a high-ranking Los Angeles official have been busted for reportedly attacking a police officer during the ongoing violent demonstrations in the city.

As The New York Post reported, Rick Cole, the chief deputy controller of LA, revealed that his twin 26-year-old daughters, Lucia Aguilar and Antonia, were taken into custody by enforcement Sunday night during a rally outside a hotel in Pasadena, where he once served as mayor.

“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs. So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out,” Cole told agitators.

“This (ICE raid) is personal for me and for my family,” Cole added. “It’s also personal for the Mayor (Victor Gordo). When he was growing up, he had a coffee can on the kitchen table with money—in case his dad did not come home from work.

“So, this is personal for Pasadena, because these are our neighbors. This is our family. These are the workers. These are Pasadenans. And we’re going to protect them.”

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A prominent sheriff in California has accused the state’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom of playing a role in the violent riots that erupted across Los Angeles over the weekend.

As unrest exploded again in Los Angeles over the weekend in response to ICE enforcement operations, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released detailed information on more than a dozen violent illegal aliens apprehended in the city.

Those captured were criminals who federal officers say pose a direct threat to public safety.

According to DHS, ICE officers arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants, including many with serious felony convictions ranging from rape and second-degree murder to robbery, narcotics smuggling, and child trafficking.

The agency singled out 19 individuals arrested on June 7, underscoring the dangerous nature of those being shielded by local sanctuary city policies.

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Unforgettable images from a Los Angeles riot hit us again last weekend. In 1992, it was “rooftop Koreans.” During the George Floyd riots of 2020, we saw high-end shops bracing for the worst — and then getting it. This weekend, we witnessed a masked rioter standing atop a burning Waymo automated taxi and waving the Mexican flag in defiance of… everything — decency, the law, even the nation he’d presumably entered illegally.

Authorities say that at least five Waymos were vandalized and set on fire, forcing the Alphabet-owned company to temporarily suspend ride-hailing service in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Waymo says there’s no evidence their cars were specifically targeted, but being able to summon one by app just to burn it? That’s not a bug, that’s a feature, at least to your average street radical.

Believe it or not, this is good news.

Lenin quipped that “the capitalists will sell us the rope we’ll hang them with.” When that didn’t work out as planned, Communist China figured that the smart move was to manufacture the rope themselves, undercut our rope producers, and hang us at their convenience.

In Los Angeles, a few lefties figured that automation would provide them with cars to set ablaze — and they were right.

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Who could have seen this coming? The ICE protests are spreading. It’s almost like this isn’t a grassroots effort and is really funded by Leftist organizations. President Donald Trump sent in the troops and Governor Gavin Newsom is upset, but Trump is allowed to do this because it’s an insurrection. Let us tell you why. Finally, Gavin Newsom is a piece of sh*t. You’ve known that for years. Today, we prove it.

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What triggered the American Civil War were state officials who refused to honor federal law and instead boasted of their open defiance of Washington.

That precedent appears to be the incendiary model for the increasingly erratic behavior of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

Has Newsom accepted the polls and decided to end his political career in a blaze of ideological glory?

He now backs the often-violent protesters in Los Angeles resisting federal enforcement of immigration laws. Newsom labeled President Trump’s use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain those here illegally “reckless,” “chaotic,” and “eroding trust.”

Does he imagine that this rhetoric is calming the situation or building public trust? Or is he consciously following the model of Confederate President Jefferson Davis?

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Border czar Tom Homan denied threatening to arrest Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) amid the Los Angeles riots, but stressed that “no one’s above the law” in preventing the deportation of illegal immigrants.

Newsom and President Donald Trump have been feuding online over the decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles, where Homan said things were “out of control” and the governor and Mayor Karen Bass did “nothing.” Newsom has since encouraged Homan to arrest him after the border czar warned that obstructing immigration enforcement would lead to an arrest of “anybody,” after which Trump revealed he would arrest the governor if he were Homan.

Following up on Newsom’s taunt, Homan said that protesters have “the right to protest,” but cannot impede law enforcement efforts and harbor illegal immigrants from deportation.

“And the question was, ‘Well, how about Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom, what if they cross the line?’ I said they’ll be prosecuted, too,” Homan said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. “Haven’t they said for the last four years no one’s above the law? They cross the line, we’ll seek prosecution. You and I would be held accountable. They prosecuted President Trump. No one’s above the law, that’s what they said, even Governor Newsom. If he crosses that line, we’ll ask the attorney general to seek prosecution. It wasn’t a threat. Nobody threatened to arrest him, but if he crosses that line and commits a crime, he’s no better than anybody else. We’ll seek prosecution.”

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“You can run, you can’t hide. We are coming after you federally. If you assault a police officer, if you rob a store, if you loot, if you spit on police officers, we’re coming after you.”

Federal authorities have identified a suspect in the violent anti-ICE protests in Southern California, where a federal officer was injured after rocks were hurled at law enforcement vehicles.

Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed the news during a Monday night appearance on Fox News’ Hannity, announcing that Elpidio Reyna has been named as the individual seen on video allegedly assaulting federal officers in Paramount, California. The incident occurred on Saturday around 3:30 pm on Alondra Boulevard, when rocks were thrown at law enforcement vehicles who were driving by, injuring at least one federal officer and damaging government property.

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The FBI has launched a manhunt for a man authorities believe threw rocks at federal officers in Paramount, California, on Saturday, injuring one federal officer.

Riots broke out as agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement worked to detain illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area. The unrest resulted in Marines being sent to LA to protect ICE agents and restore order.

“The FBI has identified the man #wanted for assaulting a federal officer this weekend as Elpidio Reyna, 40, of Compton, CA,” U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli posted on X Monday along with a mug shot of Reyna.

“He is considered a fugitive and we continue to seek his location. A #reward of up to $50K is being offered for information leading to his arrest/conviction,” he wrote.

The FBI has identified the man #wanted for assaulting a federal officer this weekend as Elpidio Reyna, 40, of Compton, CA. He is considered a fugitive and we continue to seek his location. A #reward of up to $50K is being offered for information leading to his arrest/conviction. pic.twitter.com/WPEE6SIjZp

— FBI Los Angeles (@FBILosAngeles) June 10, 2025

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A battalion of 700 active-duty U.S. Marines are being deployed to Los Angeles, the US military confirmed on Monday, to protect federal property and federal immigration agents from violent and organized anti-ICE agitators.

“Due to increased threats to federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings, approximately 700 active-duty U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton are being deployed to Los Angeles to restore order,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media at 5:24 p.m. “We have an obligation to defend federal law enforcement officers – even if Gavin Newsom will not.”

Hundreds of anti-ICE agitators have taken to the streets in the past several days, where they have assaulted immigration officers, slashed tires, torched vehicles and and defaced public buildings. President Trump called in around 2,000 National Guard troops to LA on Sunday to quell the violence.

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In the midst of the Los Angeles riots, Congressman Tony Gonzales (R-TX) proposes legislation to increase the criminal penalties associated with assaulting and interfering with the duties of law enforcement officers, including ICE agents or CBP officials. Gonzales announced the proposed legislation in a Sunday press release.

According to Gonzales, if enacted, the Curbing Offenses on Policing Services (COPS Act) would increase jail time and civil fines for assaulting a law enforcement officer or interfering with their official duties. The legislation also defines “explosive materials”, like fireworks or other combustible projectiles, as deadly weapons when deployed against law enforcement officers.

Gonzales intends the legislation to send a message to those who engage in assaulting or impeding ICE and CBP agents, as has been witnessed in Los Angeles over the weekend, saying, “The chaos unleashed by rioters in Los Angeles this weekend is anything but peaceful protest- it’s anarchy. Radical activists damaged Border Patrol and ICE vehicles while these agents were on duty, and as a result, injuries were reported.”

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“The police closed both sides of the street and arrested everyone still present.”

For the fourth consecutive day, protests against federal immigration enforcement have gripped Los Angeles, drawing thousands of rioters into the streets of downtown LA and Santa Ana. Demonstrations quickly descended into chaos Monday evening and police zip-tied rioters and carted them away on LAPD buses.

Rioters were given the option to disperse or face arrest after police declared an unlawful assembly. Those who did not leave were arrested. Riots and protests have been ongoing since Friday and 56 people were arrested over the weekend.

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California sued the Trump administration on Monday over its decision to send in National Guard troops in response to protests over immigration enforcement, calling it an unconstitutional use of executive power that usurped the state’s authority.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco asks the judge to set aside President Trump’s order calling in the National Guard without authorization from the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.

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On Sunday during live coverage of the Los Angeles riots, local ABC affiliate KABC ran footage that did not match what the anchors were describing. Jory Rand went as far as to say the protestors were “having fun watching cars burn,” but would he feel that way if that was his car? Would this have been just another example of the liberal media distracting from the obvious facts?

Los Angeles took a beating earlier this year with the historic wildfires in January but has taken another pounding with the city’s breakout over ICE arrests and deportations. Again, the city and nation turn heads due to the lack of leadership and command to simply protect the people of Los Angeles, ranging from California Governor Gavin Newsom, down to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

In a clip that will live infamy alongside this and this, from the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, Rand described the footage this way:

I don’t know if there’s any police activity pushing these folks this way, or perhaps just the smoke. It’s getting too hard to breathe. More explosions here from those cars. But we do have a decent sized crowd watching these cars continue to burn. Otherwise, as Tim said, things do look relatively peaceful at this hour. We saw the folks at Aliso and Alameda sitting down on the ground. We saw the folks at Temple and Alameda just kind of waiting it out. It’s broken down to just a couple dozen people at that location, and so things seem pretty-It’s hard to say that with three cars burning, but things do seem relatively calm minus these cars that have been set on fire.

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As is the case with most pro-illegal immigration demonstrations, there are a lack of American flags flown. Odd, because you would think someone here illegally wouldn’t fly the flag of the country they are seeking “asylum” from, yet at the anti-ICE riots taking place in Los Angeles, that was the case. At least, until a handful of future Democrat staffers realized the optics problem and handed out American flags because they thought they could con people into thinking they were patriotic.

The goal is to avoid any more in-kind Republican campaign ads like this one.

This may surprise you, but the left aren’t sending their best and brightest. In Los Angeles, the worst and dimmest run rampant.

A handful of organizers, or at least one of the progressive NGOs funded by progressive billionaires, attempted to do something about it, as captured on the ground by Aldo Buttazzoni. They are giving out American flags. I think the goal is that when people see photos of them flying American flags, it will mask how much they hate America IRL.

They would have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for one thing that was overlooked…

They never told people that flying the American flag upside down was a bad thing.

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The latest L.A. riots came after ICE began enforcing immigration law and rounding up illegals in downtown Los Angeles, and the New York Times is desperately trying to downplay the radical and violent nature of the so-called protests by calling them “largely peaceful” (i.e., somewhat violent, as a trove of photos from Los Angeles prove).

A representative piece is “What to Know About the Immigration Protests in Los Angeles,” with this subhead attached: “Demonstrations against the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration have been largely peaceful, but tensions flared after President Trump ordered National Guard troops to deploy to the city.”

The story is wrong right from the subhead. Riots were already ongoing, with stones hurled at cop cars, while the National Guard troops were sent to protect the Los Angeles Federal Building, which came under siege Friday by protesters.

The byline was shared by breaking news reporters Yan Zhuang, Anushka Patil, and Remy Tumin, who used that ridiculous phrase “largely peaceful” three more times in their actual report (was “mostly peaceful” still taken by CNN, after the last round of national rioting five years ago?).

That defensive description held even as the story documented many violent acts:

The protests have been largely peaceful but have flared up in pockets of downtown Los Angeles and in nearby suburbs, as well as in San Francisco.

Demonstrations on Sunday afternoon near a downtown detention center were largely peaceful, but some protesters fired fireworks at police officers under a bridge on the nearby U.S. 101 freeway. Several driverless Waymo cars were set on fire in downtown Los Angeles.

Mr. Trump described the largely peaceful demonstrators as “insurrectionist mobs” on social media on Sunday, and said Los Angeles had been “invaded and occupied.”