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(NewsNation) — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass connected Tuesday volition beryllium providing an update connected the looting and vandalism that person occurred successful the metropolis arsenic anti-ICE protests continue.
"Let maine beryllium clear: ANYONE who vandalized Downtown oregon looted stores does not attraction astir our migrant communities," Bass said successful a post connected X. "You volition beryllium held accountable."
A California Highway Patrol serviceman acknowledged that looters are taking vantage of the city’s preoccupied police. Multiple arrests stemmed from a jewelry store break-in overnight.
The metropolis of Los Angeles has seen turmoil since the play aft ICE raided respective locations successful downtown LA and detained 44 radical portion encountering protesters. President Trump deployed 2,000 California National Guard troops connected Sunday implicit the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom aft hundreds of protesters and national migration authorities successful riot gear.
Crowds besides gathered again extracurricular national buildings downtown, including a detention center, wherever section constabulary declared an unlawful assembly and began to apprehension people.
Border czar Tom Homan sent a warning to California officials that they could look apprehension and prosecution if they “cross the line” pursuing Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops.
