ICE agents requested permission to use Dodger Stadium parking lots and were denied, team says

LOS ANGELES -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were seen staging adjacent Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium connected Thursday greeting amid reports of much raids being conducted passim Los Angeles County.

Dozens of national agents successful SUVs and cargo vans, astir wearing tactical cogwheel with their faces covered, gathered adjacent the Gate E entranceway successful Elysian Park earlier heading retired to assorted locations successful the area.

Local elected officials told ABC7 that Los Angeles City Council District 1 workers alerted the LAPD of the staging adjacent the stadium. The constabulary section past notified the Dodgers organization.

The Dodgers released a connection connected X, saying, "This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested support to entree the parking lots. They were denied introduction to the grounds by the organization. Tonight's crippled volition beryllium played arsenic scheduled."

A tiny radical of national agents were inactive astatine the determination soon aft 11 a.m. section time.

Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez arrived astatine the country soon aft 10 a.m. and expressed vexation that the agents had not departed.

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"We've been successful connection with the mayor's office, with the Dodgers, with Dodgers security, astir seeing if they tin get them moved disconnected their backstage property," she told our sister station, ABC7 Eyewitness News successful Los Angeles, successful an interview. "Public spot is different. Private spot -- businesses and corporations person the powerfulness to say, 'Not connected my property,' And truthful we're waiting to spot that question hap here."

The agents' beingness attracted respective twelve protesters, prompting Los Angeles Police Department officers to signifier a skirmish enactment that separated the activists from the country wherever the ICE unit had gathered. The gathering remained peaceful arsenic of noon.