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In Photos: Anti-ICE Riots in Los Angeles
Protesters clashed with law enforcement following federal immigration enforcement operations.
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FBI Identifies Masked Man Accused of Assaulting Federal Officer in LA
The protester allegedly threw rocks at law enforcement vehicles on Alondra Boulevard, which injured one federal officer and damaged government cars.
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LAPD Declares Several Anti-ICE Protests ‘Unlawful Assemblies’ on Third Day of Protests
California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked for withdrawal of the national guardsmen and has called Trump’s deployment of the national guard inflammatory.
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MSNBC’s David Noriega Denies Violence from L.A.’s ‘Peaceful Protests’
MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime did a shoddy job of reporting the facts about the Los Angeles riots Sunday. Hoping to push the narrative that the events were nothing more than a peaceful protest, MSNBC national correspondent David Noriega outright denied the violence already known to have occurred over the weekend. Of course, that meant jumping through hoops to make sure not to misspeak and acknowledge the reality of the situation.
Noriega described the events around him as such:
Look, I think this ranges from everything from a sort of spontaneous, angry reaction to these large scale immigration enforcement operations in L.A. in a not necessarily fully or clearly articulated way to much clearer demands being made by some of the more organized elements in these protests.
This wasn’t a riot, according to Noriega, it was just people acting spontaneously and angrily without an expressed purpose or any sort of organization. Usually a protest requires something being protested, but for MSNBC’s purposes, that can just be ignored for the sake of their story.
There were people present at these protests who were non-violent, who truly were just there to express their opinion on ICE deportations. However, that did not remain the case for long, and it would be a blatant lie to act like the protests did not escalate to violence. But that’s exactly what Noriega did:
You have the police really deploying fairly aggressive crowd control tactics. And the crowd, the protesters themselves are also quite fired up, quite agitated. I’ve seen, you know, a handful of people throwing water bottles and things like that at the police lines. That’s pretty much the extent of the, I don’t know, what you might describe as something other than peaceful action that I’ve seen, but you’re definitely seeing people angry at not just the federal government, not just at Trump, not just at the National Guard, but also at the LAPD and at the local law enforcement as well.
In Noriega’s version of the story, it was the police who aggressed; the worst any protesters did was throw some water bottles. That doesn’t seem to explain the 29 rioters arrested for vandalism and various violent crimes the night before. Still, MSNBC clung to the notion that these were just citizens expressing their anger over law enforcement in the United States.
Noriega claimed “this is not a protest that I would describe as a riot.” How he did describe it, however, didn’t help his case:
It’s also not a sort of peaceful, slowly walking down the street with a permit, you know, chanting organized slogans, kind of march. It’s more confrontational than that. It’s more disorganized than that. It is not seeking approval, you know, from the authorities of the city, either formally or in spirit. I would describe it as a very confrontational, very high tension, but nevertheless peaceful protest.
Once again, Noriega was describing a riot with everything but the word. Confrontational and disorganized, not even seeking recognition for its cause, what happened in L.A. was nothing more than people taking to the streets for the sake of violence, for the sake of rioting.
Noriega held to his narrative of a peaceful protest even as host Ayman Mohyeldin told him to make sure he and the crew stayed safe as the segment came to a close.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read.
MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime
June 8, 2025
6:05 p.m. EST
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AYMAN MOHYELDIN: Over the course of those hours and the course of the last couple of days, have you gotten a sense of whether the protesters had any specific demands? Why were they concentrated around that specific building? Were they just expressing anger, or was there another objective from those that were there on the front line?
DAVID NORIEGA: Look, I think this ranges from everything from a sort of spontaneous, angry reaction to these large scale immigration enforcement operations in L.A. in a not necessarily fully or clearly articulated way to much clearer demands being made by some of the more organized elements in these protests.
[ON SCREEN HEADLINE: Newsom Urges Calm: “Don’t Give Trump What He Wants”]
Look, the core message here that you see in signs, that you hear people chant, that you hear all the time is “ICE out of L.A.” There are – this is a profoundly immigrant community. The number in the percentage of undocumented people and their loved ones in the city is enormous. And this is something that, honestly, has been in the works for a long time. People in the city have been organizing for and preparing for a large-scale immigration enforcement action by the Trump administration. There are rapid response networks that have been organizing from the ground up in this city for months, preparing for this moment. So when it happened, when it came, it’s no surprise that there was a strong and organized response to it, just in terms of people filling the streets.
[ON SCREEN HEADLINE: Trump Deploys National Guard in L.A. Against Wishes of State’s Leaders]
In terms of concrete demands, you know, the Metropolitan Detention Center that I’m standing in front of, this federal facility where ICE detainees are housed before they’re transferred to bigger facilities, I’m told that both members of Congress, sitting members of Congress, who have the legal authority to enter this building for oversight purposes, as well as lawyers, pro bono legal service providers who have – who are trying to give the detainees, allow the detainees to avail themselves of the right to counsel that they have, according to U.S. law, have been denied access to that building.
[ON SCREEN HEADLINE: L.A. Mayor: Peaceful Protest Will Always Be Protected]
So we have members of Congress, civil society in Los Angeles demanding access to the building that they say they are lawfully allowed access to.
[ON SCREEN HEADLINE: All Democratic Governors Sign Letter Accusing Trump of “Alarming Abuse of Power”]
So far, we have not actually seen them be able to get access. Instead, really, what you have is a showdown between protesters. It feels very tense, you know, like I said, I’m in between these two lines, police lines pushing protesters that way and that way. It feels at this moment like a powder keg. You have the police really deploying fairly aggressive crowd control tactics. And the crowd, the protesters themselves are also quite fired up, quite agitated.
I’ve seen, you know, a handful of people throwing water bottles and things like that at the police lines. That’s pretty much the extent of the, I don’t know, what you might describe as something other than peaceful action that I’ve seen, but you’re definitely seeing people angry at not just the federal government, not just at Trump, not just at the National Guard, but also at the LAPD and at the local law enforcement as well.
[ON SCREEN HEADLINE: Trump Deploys Natl. Guard to L.A. On Third Day of Immigration Protests]
CATHERINE RAMPELL David, so last night, the LAPD released a statement referring to these as peaceful protests. Donald Trump has since referred to them as riots. Could you give us your view from on the ground about what it’s actually like there? How – is there a lot of chaos? Is riot really a word we would use to describe the conditions on the ground where you are?
NORIEGA: No, I wouldn’t describe this as a riot.
[ON SCREEN HEADLINE: Newsom Urges Calm: “Don’t Give Trump What He Wants”]
And I’ve covered protests, many protests, large protests over the years, and not just the United States, in other countries. I’ve been to protests that I would describe as riots. This is not a protest that I would describe as a riot.
[ON SCREEN HEADLINE: L.A. Mayor: Peaceful Protest Will Always Be Protected]
It’s also not a sort of peaceful, slowly walking down the street with a permit, you know, chanting organized slogans, kind of march. It’s more confrontational than that. It’s more disorganized than that. It is not seeking approval, you know, from the authorities of the city, either formally or in spirit. I would describe it as a very confrontational, very high tension, but nevertheless peaceful protest.
MOHYELDIN: All right, David Noriega, live for us there in Los Angeles. David, thank you so much. We’re going to check in with you over the course of the evening. Please stay safe, take any measures that you need to protect yourself and the crew.
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Networks Double Down on Illegals, Bash Trump ‘Creating the Conditions’ for LA Riots
On Monday, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC took to their flagship evening newscasts to provide further air cover for the pro-illegal immigrant rioters in Los Angeles, bemoaning the raids on “unauthorized immigrants” last week as having created another chapter in the “contentious and polarizing debate over immigration policy.”
The unrest was framed as Trump’s immigration policy – which arguably helped elect him more than any other issue – to blame for the “boiling point…after days of simmering tension” and “creat[ed] the conditions for this chaos” and “protesters waving Mexican flags, a symbol of resistance against [Immigration Customs and Enforcement].”
The ever-pompous CBS Evening News had extensive coverage and co-anchor Maurice DuBois onsite. He greased the skids with soundbites from the Los Angeles County sheriff and a middle-aged white liberal demanding an end to ICE:
DuBois further smeared the argument in favor of, well, a country having immigration laws by making that view seem menacing:
Tossing back to his arrogant co-anchor John Dickerson, DuBois implied some in law enforcement hated being there and agree with the rioters:
Dickerson went next to senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe, who had the gall to cite the far-left Brennan Center as “nonpartisan” when, because it’s a Republican taking an expansive view of executive power, an outrage:
Dickerson had even more partisan haranguing on CBS Evening News Plus (which even concluded with a commentary about meanness and McCarthyism).
He opened with partisan immigration CBS reporter Camila Montoya-Galvez decrying the “contentious and polarizing debate” about deporting those who’ve broken the law and thus gave life to “some…peaceful” protests while “others…turned violent”:
Montoya-Galvez even tried to somehow insist there was serious immigration enforcement under the Biden regime:
Dickerson interviewed Trump administration Border Czar Tom Homan for both shows. Plus was more extensive and the former’s questions can be found below (click “expand”):
Was it really necessary to call out the National Guard?
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When people see ICE agents at a garment factory, for example, it’s a little confusing because not everybody who’s getting arrested is a hardened criminal. Help people understand the disconnect there.
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But if somebody is going for a court appointed check in or a ICE meeting and then they’re arrested, that seems to be different than the original way it was sold, which is that you were going to go after the hardened criminals. Those people seem to be basically abiding by the law.
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What is your message to a business owner who might have undocumented migrant labor who’s not doing it — they’re not criminals. They’re just undocumented migrants. What would your message be to those — to those companies?
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The President said it would be fine if you arrested Gavin Newsom. On what grounds would you arrest Gavin Newsom?
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So, this whole thing is just a bunch of noise, basically, because you’re not claiming that Gavin Newsom has done anything to — to get to impede ICE officers?
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But you don’t have any more evidence that [Newsom] crossed the line than that I did.
NBC Nightly News was also all aboard the criminal illegal immigrant train. Anchor Tom Llamas’s tease framed it as Trump’s fault:
Tonight, breaking news, the Trump administration ordering hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles. The rare move to send the military into an American city as new rallies take to the streets. It comes after a weekend of protests opposing immigration raids that turned violent in some places. Waymo cars set ablaze, National Guard deploying crowd control techniques, using less lethal bullets. Now, California suing over president trump federalizing the National Guard, as the President floats having Governor Gavin Newsom arrested. Our team takes you on the ground as the community pushes back over raids.
Llamas’s opening riff after the teases was a doubling down (though less heated than, say, Lester Holt or Brian Williams would have delivered):
Correspondent Liz Kreutz was back on the streets of Los Angeles, but at least mentioned some of those arrested in raids had serious criminal records:
Notice that she couldn’t bring herself to use the word “riot” or “rioters.” Instead, she said “the city of angels [is] on edge after violent clashes over the weekend, police in riot gear against protesters who oppose immigration enforcement operations carried out by ICE agents.
And, though it was to celebrate it, she at least brought up the foreign flags dominating the crowd:
Illegal immigration advocate Jacob Soboroff – who masquerades as a journalist for NBC and MSNBC – had a report of his own:
ABC’s World News Tonight featured sensationalist anchor David Muir bemoaning the “clashes between police and anti-ICE protestors” in a tease and then framing the chaos as caused by “sweeping immigration raids” and not the lawlessness:
Chief national correspondent Matt Gutman opened his report from the thuggery by also avoiding the r-word, citing the Marines set to join the National Guard in working “to tamp down violent clashes with protesters angry over the Trump administration’s immigration policies and arrests.”
He then blamed Trump directly for the riots, framing as fact that Trump “creat[ed] the conditions for this chaos”:
“Spontaneous clashes began Friday after operations were conducted in and around Los Angeles. By Saturday, protests, mostly peaceful, grew larger when agents were seen staging in Paramount, California, and by Sunday, a convoy of heavily armed and camouflaged troops arrived,” he added.
He made sure to have the pro-illegal immigration voice represented with one woman telling him: “A lot of us are American citizens. So, then what are we working for? What is the American Dream? It doesn’t even exist when you’re picking people out of the street.”
Taxpayer-Funded Riots: Here’s What We Found When We Followed the Money in Los Angeles…
CHIRLA and their friends at the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) are well-funded, and well-connected, and have been astroturfing protests against Donald Trump and his belief in upholding our country’s immigration laws for a decade now.
For her part, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has defiantly opposed federal immigration enforcement in the city, stating on social media Friday, “We will not stand for this” and “No vamos a permitir estas acciones,” (“We are not going to permit these actions”).
Newsom Formally Requests Removal of National Guard Troops, Dares Homan to Arrest Him
The National Guard was deployed on Sunday amid days of riots and demonstrations over immigration enforcement measures.
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