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White House warns radicals now amassing in Boston, elsewhere in wake of LA riots: ‘Think twice’
The Trump administration’s enforcement of the law in Los Angeles not only enraged California Democrats but their fellow travelers further abroad as well — some of whom are now hitting the streets in cities across the country.
The White House has made clear that its zero-tolerance policy for violent radicalism in Los Angeles applies nationally.
When asked about radicals’ planned gatherings, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Blaze News, “Any individual who wants to mimic the violence, lawlessness, and rioting in California should think twice.”
“President Trump will always do what is needed to keep American citizens safe, especially when weak Democrat leaders fail to do so,” added Jackson.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents executed a number of lawful operations last week in California, including one that local Service Employees International Union President David Huerta allegedly tried to impede, resulting in his arrest on Friday.
Thugs in Los Angeles reacted to the ICE raids by attacking police and federal agents, blockading major thoroughfares, setting fires across the city, and looting downtown businesses.
President Donald Trump responded to the riots on Saturday by calling up the National Guard to protect federal personnel and property and emphasized the following day that the efforts by “violent, insurrectionist mobs” to prevent ICE agents from doing their jobs would “only strengthen our resolve.”
Amid the riots, Democratic leaders and politicians — including L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Massachusetts Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey — directed their ire at the lawful rather than at the lawless. California Gov. Gavin Newsom not only condemned the president but sided once again with foreign nationals.
RELATED: White House has clear message for Newsom after Democratic governor dares Homan to arrest him
Rioters in Los Angeles.
Democratic PACs and leftist groups have since attempted to pressure federal lawmakers to demand an end to workplace ICE raids. Meanwhile, SEIU and other labor groups summoned their members to join demonstrations Monday against the enforcement of federal immigration law and for the release of federal arrestees.
The Massachusetts chapter of the 50501 Movement, a leftist anti-Trump protest group, was among the outfits that heeded the call of the SEIU, both directing fellow travelers to take to the streets and claiming that the detentions of illegal aliens and the federally championed clampdown on rioters in L.A. was their “Reichstag Fire moment.”
‘The response by the Trump administration is tantamount to a declaration of war.’
Mass 50501 claimed in its Sunday call to action that its rally at Boston City Hall is:
not simply to protest the National Guard being called to L.A. This rally is to put pressure on our government in Massachusetts to take steps immediately to protect us from a similar fate, while we still have time to brace for the impact. This rally is to demand that Governor Healey use her executive order powers to stop the National Guard and other military forces from entering Massachusetts or being activated by the federal government here, as well as to call on the National Guard on Massachusetts’ behalf, to prevent Trump trying to call on it himself to suppress dissent in our state.
The protesters, apparently joined by representatives from the Massachusetts chapter of the ACLU, appear to be preaching to the choir granted Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has criticized the efforts of immigration enforcement officials and compared ICE agents last week to neo-Nazis.
RELATED: Lies, flags, and firebombs: Just another ‘mostly peaceful’ riot in LA
National Guard stands watching in front of the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles after the anti-ICE riots. Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
In addition to amassing demonstrators in Boston on Monday, the 50501 Movement is promoting a nationwide uprising on June 14 called “No Kings.”
The blurb for the event states, “They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far.”
Kylie Bemis, an organizer with 50501, framed the protests as a response to an “act of war.”
“This is an attack on American liberty,” Bemis said in a statement obtained by Boston.com. “The right to freedom of speech and due process of the law must be protected above all else, and the response by the Trump administration is tantamount to a declaration of war against the American people.”
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JD Vance sheds light on Trump-Musk feud in interview with Theo Von
Vice President JD Vance responded to the disagreement between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump as it broke out during his interview with comedian Theo Von last week.
Vance had hinted that he would talk about the Trump-Musk feud when he posted a joke about the podcast and a photo of himself with Von on Thursday.
‘I’m always gonna be loyal to the president, and I hope that eventually Elon comes back into the fold.’
“Slow news day, what are we even going to talk about?” Vance wrote on the X platform.
“We will think of somethin,” the comedian responded.
Von brought up Musk’s accusations against Trump during the interview, and Vance brushed them off and said there were hopes that Musk might come back to the Trump camp.
“First of all, absolutely not. Donald Trump didn’t do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein,” said Vance. “My loyalty is always going to be to the president, and I think that Elon is an incredible entrepreneur. I think DOGE was really good. This effort to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in our country was really good.”
He went on to say that Musk’s reaction might be due in part to the liberal attacks on his companies, both in the form of protests as well as vandalism and violence.
“I’m always gonna be loyal to the president, and I hope that eventually Elon comes back into the fold,” he added. “Maybe that’s not possible now because he’s gone so nuclear.”
Vance also defended Trump’s funding bill from complaints that mirrored those made by Musk.
RELATED: Russ Vought gives Glenn Beck hint about where things stand between Trump and Musk
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The disagreement between Musk and the president was costly for his company Tesla, which lost billions in market capitalization. However, much of the stock value recovered on Friday.
Elsewhere in the podcast interview, Vance rolled his eyes when he read a tweet approved by Musk saying he should replace Trump as president.
“Dude! That’s one vote!” Von joked.
“Oh my God,” Vance replied.
The entire podcast interview with Vance can be viewed on the YouTube channel for Theo Von’s podcast.
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Why did unhinged LA minivan driver do ‘street takeover’ donuts amid rioting and get pelted by protesters?
Among the many unsettling scenes from the anti-ICE riots Sunday in Los Angeles was a nighttime clip showing a minivan driver doing “street takeover” donuts at an intersection — and protesters pelting the vehicle.
Afterward, the driver bolted from the scene and went on a high-speed rampage.
One of the KTLA commentators reporting as part of the station’s live coverage guessed that the driver of the minivan may have stolen it and was going on a ‘joyride’ of sorts.
Blaze News has reported extensively on street takeovers — when lawless people gather at predetermined intersections and watch while participants perform dangerous donuts and hold up traffic in the process. Street takeovers seem to have been occurring around the country with greater frequency over the last several years.
The question is: What was up with the driver? Whose “side” was the motorist on?
Given all the calamity rioters were causing, viewers may have assumed — at first, at least — that the minivan motorist was with the rioters, just out for a bit of bravado as his comrades gathered ’round to watch.
But that didn’t seem to be the case.
If anything, the flag-waving folks near the donut driver didn’t appear to be on his side at all. In fact, a close-up video from @BGOnTheScene shows the crowd at Main and Alameda repeatedly pelting the minivan with what appeared to be pieces of brick or cinderblock — around 20 times in total — before the driver speeds away.
Many commenters under the KABC-TV video capturing the chaos believed the motorist and the protesters were on opposing sides — and that the driver had a right to be angry at them:
“The part the Communists won’t tell you here is the van driver was on his way home from work and was done with being blocked by terrorists waiving [sic] Mexican flags,” one commenter opined. “He probably honked at them and they pelted him with rocks. Frankly, I can’t blame him, and I hope he sues.””The rioters were throwing and vandalizing this person’s vehicle!” another user wrote. “So [the person] did what they needed to do to get them away from their vehicle!””I hope the driver is OK,” another commenter wrote. “I am sure it is terrifying being surrounded by gang members throwing bricks at you.””Looks like self defense to me,” another commenter said.
Whatever the driver’s motive in the intersection, his high-speed rampage that followed was much more of a head-scratcher.
KTLA-TV reported that the driver — dressed in a pair of shorts and shoes — drove “erratically throughout downtown, taking corners at high speeds, running at least one red light and nearly hitting pedestrians.”
One of the KTLA commentators reporting as part of the station’s live coverage guessed that the driver of the minivan may have stolen it and was going on a “joyride” of sorts. The motorist next appeared to drive toward a group of protesters, stopped short of them, and then drove backward down a street. He soon encountered more protesters, who threw more objects at him. One of the commentators believed the driver might be intoxicated and appeared to be set on continually going after protesters and “looking for a target.”
RELATED: Lies, flags, and firebombs: Just another ‘mostly peaceful’ riot in LA
The KTLA helicopter continued to follow the speeding minivan motorist before he parked it, exited, appeared to shake out broken glass from a shirt or jacket, and then walked over to another vehicle — to which he appeared to have the keys, as lights went on as he approached the second vehicle — and opened two of its doors and threw in his shirt or jacket.
Soon, members of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department drove up and arrested the driver, KTLA reported.
LAPD’s Central Division noted that the driver “is now in custody. Multiple charges to follow.”
Police on Monday afternoon didn’t immediately reply to Blaze News’ questions regarding what charges the motorist is facing or what may have been his motive.
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Florida middle school teacher sent nude photo, engaged in ‘lewd conduct’ with 14-year-old student: Police
A Florida teacher is accused of sending an explicit photo to a middle school student as well as engaging in lewd conduct with the boy, according to police.
The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office claimed that Oliver Fell — a 28-year-old teacher at Carlos E. Haile Middle School in Bradenton — had an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old student.
‘Officers reportedly discovered that Fell had contacted the student several times on social media.’
According to a press release from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office obtained by Blaze News, a 14-year-old male student on March 3 informed a school resource deputy from the sheriff’s office that one of his teachers had been communicating with him since December 2024. The male student claimed that the teacher sent him an explicit photo on the Snapchat app on Jan. 2.
Detectives with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Crimes Against Children Unit launched an investigation into the child sex abuse allegations.
According to the sheriff’s office, “The investigation confirmed that the explicit photo of a nude breast belonged to the teacher, Oliver Fell.”
Capt. Mark Morie with the Child Protection Division of the sheriff’s office said officials “were able to match” the “evidence against her in that photo” with “the background in her house,” according to WWSB-TV.
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Officers obtained a search warrant to access data from Fell’s cell phone and social media accounts, which enabled detectives to discover “evidence indicating that the communications led to lewd conduct involving the victim.”
Officers reportedly discovered that Fell had contacted the student several times on social media.
Sheriff’s office detectives uncovered additional evidence from Snapchat that allegedly strengthened the child sex abuse case against Fell, after which an arrest warrant was issued, and Fell turned herself in to authorities on June 2.
The middle school teacher was charged with lewd contact with a student by an authority figure — a second-degree felony — and transmission of harmful material to a minor — a third-degree felony.
Fell was booked at the Manatee County Jail and ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim, as well as all minors.
The case is still under investigation.
Michael Barber, communications director for Manatee County schools, told WWSB that Fell was immediately reassigned to a position off campus where she would have no contact with students.
WWSB reported that the school’s principal, Irene Nikitopoulos, told parents in a letter that it took police “several weeks of investigation to confirm the allegations of the illegal communications.”
Nikitopoulos added that the school district will “continue to fully cooperate with the ongoing investigation.”
Anyone with information about this case is urged to contact the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office at 941-747-3011.
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Republicans clash with Democratic lawmakers defending violent anti-ICE rioters
Violent riots broke out in Los Angeles over the weekend as Immigration and Customs Enforcement began cracking down on deportations, with footage of masked protestors waving foreign flags, burning vehicles, and throwing rocks at law enforcement. In spite of all the chaos, Democrats were quick to defend the rioters.
Several high-profile California Democrats, like Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sen. Adam Schiff, attempted to downplay the violence and encourage peaceful protesting, recognizing the less-than-flattering optics of the situation. Others, like Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California, flat-out glossed over the violence and even likened it to protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
‘Gavin Newsom can [no] longer hide his failures and incompetence.’
RELATED: Fiery footage shows radicals in LA savagely attack law enforcement on second night of violent riots
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“My message to Donald Trump is you are a cruel human being and that you’re using the poorest people in the land, the most vulnerable people in the land, to promote your politics,” Waters said. “You are wrong. We know what this is all about.”
“All of the elected officials in this city should be on the street,” Waters added. “I want them to know what happened during the Civil Rights Movement, where we got out onto the street, where we marched, where we fought, and we made the government change.”
Similarly, Democratic Rep. Nanette Barragan of California inaccurately claimed that President Donald Trump’s administration is going after peaceful protesters. During an interview with CNN on Sunday, Barragan reiterated her point without realizing that the outlet was simultaneously airing footage of protesters rioting in a less-than-peaceful way.
“The president is sending the National Guard because he doesn’t like the scenes,” Barragan said. “He doesn’t like the scenes of people peacefully protesting, and we know that California law enforcement, local law enforcement, they’re there to protect the public. They’re there to protect and have public safety, and that’s what they’re there to do.”
‘Stay peaceful? It never was peaceful.’
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One of the most high-profile defenses of the protests over the weekend came from former Vice President Kamala Harris. The failed presidential candidate said the ICE raids were part of Trump’s “cruel, calculated agenda to spread division” and claimed that the protests have been “overwhelmingly peaceful.”
Republicans refuted the mainstream Democratic narrative that the protests were both peaceful and justified. Republican Rep. Vince Fong of California condemned the riots and blamed Newsom’s “failures and incompetence” for the escalation.
“Rioters blocking freeways, setting fires, and clashing with federal, state and local law enforcement,” Fong said. “Gavin Newsom can [no] longer hide his failures and incompetence. Los Angeles deserves better.”
Republicans outside of California, like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Andy Biggs of Arizona, had similar reactions.
“Democrats are waging an insurrection and using Antifa, Cartels, and criminal illegals to, as the media says, ‘peacefully protest’ ICE deporting illegal rapists, child/human traffickers, and drug dealers,” Greene said. “The left is inciting a war on US soil and is siding with terrorists.”
“Stay peaceful? It never was peaceful,” Biggs said. “What a disgusting joke. Democrats will never take responsibility for their failed policies.”
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USA Today obliterated online over bizarre claim about transgender athletes
An opinion column in USA today has led to every reaction between bewilderment and abject ridicule for its inane attempt to reframe the debate about trans-identifying athletes.
The opinion column by Nancy Armour praised Olympic champion Simone Biles for her hysterical attacks on former swimming star Riley Gaines, who was defending female athletes from unfair competition from biological males identifying as females.
‘How foolish. This is what LGBTQ brainwashing does. It turns brains to mush.’
After gushing over Biles’ attacks on Gaines, Armour made the bizarre claim that there was no scientific evidence of a gender disparity in sports.
“There is no scientific evidence that transgender women athletes have a physical advantage over cisgender women athletes, but that hasn’t stopped Gaines from claiming they do,” wrote Armour, who linked to another column she wrote about the controversy.
In that piece, she argued that there’s no scientific evidence to support the claim that males identifying as females have an advantage over biological females because there just aren’t enough athletes to complete a scientific study on their differences.
The nonsensical claim was immediately mocked on social media.
“Leftism is like an ouroboros: if you wait long enough, it will eat itself. The first-wave feminism of the early 20th century has morphed into this, where female ‘greatness’ is now defined as saying men must be included in women’s spaces,” responded writer Kimberly Ross.
“This is a religious profession of faith at this point,” said Washington Free Beacon editor Peter Hasson.
“What an absolutely pathetic headline by misogynistic USA Today,” said author Robert Gagnon.
“Is Biles fine with males competing with her in floor tumbling and vault? Had enough males done so, she might not even have made the Olympic team, ever, let alone medal,” Gagnon continued. “How foolish. This is what LGBTQ brainwashing does. It turns brains to mush.”
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Others pointed out the incongruity of Armour protecting her X account from her critics.
“Protects her tweets but doesn’t think women should be protected from physically competing against men,” said writer Anna James Zeigler.
USA Today was similarly excoriated recently when a news article appeared to sympathize with the family of the suspect in the horrific terror attack on pro-Israel demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado. The White House said the suspect’s wife and five children were illegally present in the U.S. and could be fast-tracked for deportation after the terror incident.
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‘She’s never had to compete against a man’: Female athletes respond to Simone Biles’ pro-trans rant
Simone Biles likely thought everyone would agree with her opinion that transgender athletes should compete in women’s sports, a national gymnastics champion says.
Jennifer Sey, a seven-time U.S. women’s national artistic gymnastics athlete, called out gold medal winner Simone Biles after the Olympian described activist and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines as “truly sick” for campaigning against men in women’s sports. Biles said on X that Gaines should be “uplifting the trans community” and finding ways to make sports more “inclusive.”
‘She didn’t go to college. She probably hasn’t read much.’
Sey told Blaze News that Biles’ ego is likely to blame, an attitude stemming from being the best in the world while surrounded by handlers and “yes-men.”
“She’s definitely an icon and definitely thinks she can do no wrong,” Sey continued.
Gymnasts grow up in an environment that “demands obedience,” Sey explained, which she says makes it difficult to become a person who thinks for herself and does what is right.
“You just do what your coaches tell you to do, every day, for more than a decade. Add to all of that, Biles probably barely attended school. She didn’t go to college. She probably hasn’t read much. She probably doesn’t know much about the world. She’s a gymnast. She knows how to do that,” Sey added.
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Simone Biles attends the 2025 Met Gala on May 05, 2025, in New York City. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Now, as a celebrity, Biles likely did not predict such a negative response, Sey continued.
“I think she did it impetuously. Didn’t think it through. Didn’t expect that kind of response. She lives in a bubble, and she thought everyone would agree and cheer her on.”
Biles was hit with backlash from female athletes across the board, from swimming to skateboarding, and in her own sport from Sey as well.
“She’s never had to compete against a man in her sport,” former NCAA swimmer Kaitlynn Wheeler told Blaze News. Wheeler swam alongside Gaines at the University of Kentucky and was forced to share a change room with male swimmer Lia (William) Thomas.
Wheeler added, “Simone Biles has never watched a male gymnast take her place on the podium. To be honest, if a male gymnast walked into her division and dominated, Simone wouldn’t be clapping. She’d be calling foul — and rightly so.”
Skateboarder Taylor Silverman, who spoke out after losing to a male in a women’s competition, also responded to Biles; she asked the Olympian a shocking but relevant question.
“If Larry Nassar came out as ‘trans’ would you want him moved to a women’s prison?”
Nassar was convicted of sexual abuse of his patients as team doctor for USA Gymnastics, a story that Sey helped uncover in a 2020 documentary.
Jennifer Sey. Photo by Christian Alminana/Getty Images
Biles has not publicly commented since her criticisms of Gaines, nor did her team respond to Blaze News’ request for comment. She has recently used her X page to promote pages like “@lesbiasnism” and other gay pride messaging, but on top of resharing her post about Gaines, she referred to the swimmer as a “bully.”
Biles told Gaines to “bully” someone her own size, whom she said “would ironically be a male,” seemingly unaware that Gaines was listed as just 5’7″ by the NCAA.
By comparison, Gaines could be considered very tall if next to Biles, who is 4’8″ and could qualify as having dwarfism.
Gaines, on the other hand, responded to Biles and explained that it is not her job “or the job of any woman to figure out how to include men” in women’s spaces.
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Officer slams door in Rep. Maxine Waters’ face when she tries to check in on union president arrested in ICE rioting
Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters of California angrily denounced the Trump administration after she was denied entry into a detention center while the Los Angeles ICE riots raged on.
Waters tried to cite her congressional authority of oversight when she approached the door of the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A., but a law enforcement officer rebuffed the 86-year-old and slammed the door shut as she grabbed at it.
‘I pled with the National Guard, which was heavily armed, not to use their weapons against peaceful demonstrators who were simply exercising their rights to freedom of speech and protest.’
“Hello, hello, hello!” she said to a California National Guard officer at the door, which was secured with plywood. “I just came to use my congressional authority to check on [SEIU union President] David Huerta.”
“Ma’am, our lobby is secure right now to all visitors,” the officer said to her before closing the door on her.
Video of the interaction went viral on social media. A separate video shows her also addressing some of the Guard troops providing security outside.
“This is Trump and his outrageous attempt to not only target our sanctuary city, but to frighten us and intimidate us. This is wrong, and I hope that none of you will use those guns to shoot anybody,” she told them, “and allow them to make your service a service when you’re killing people.”
Huerta was arrested just as the rioting began on Friday evening during a protest against ICE deportations. His union immediately claimed that he was merely expressing his First Amendment right to “observe and document” law enforcement activity.
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Waters released a statement about the incident at the detention center soon afterward.
“Today, I came to the Metropolitan Detention Center to exercise my constitutional rights as a Member of Congress to check on the safety and conditions of SEIU California President David Huerta, who was arrested by ICE,” she wrote.
“I pled with the National Guard, which was heavily armed, not to use their weapons against peaceful demonstrators who were simply exercising their rights to freedom of speech and protest,” she added. “All people deserve to be treated with dignity and due process under the law. Peaceful, nonviolent demonstrations are critical to protecting our constitutional rights!”
Huerta was also reportedly injured when he was arrested. On Monday, prosecutors said he was going to be charged with conspiracy to impede an officer.
Photo by Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The riots raged on throughout the weekend, with violent protesters attacking federal agents, as well as the Los Angeles Police Department officers who eventually came to their aid. Several cars were lit on fire, including some Waymo autonomous cabs.
Some in the mainstream media have been lambasted on social media for trying to downplay the rioting after President Donald Trump said he would activate the National Guard.
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Supreme Court victory: DEI is dead
The left has claimed that it’s impossible to be racist against any majority group for years, and unfortunately, as DEI has gone mainstream, those in power have seemed to agree.
That is, they’ve agreed until now.
Last week, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a straight woman who had twice lost positions to gay employees. The New York Times reports that the woman claimed “an appeals court had been wrong to require her to meet a heightened burden in seeking to prove workplace discrimination because she was a member of a majority group.”
“Who you have sex with, you can’t discriminate based on that, you can’t discriminate based on the color of your skin,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales explains. “I wish that they would add political party to that, because we all know there’s nothing worse than a Democrat who is discriminating against conservatives.”
“They do it all the time,” she adds.
BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden points out that being racist toward majority groups is still worded as “reverse discrimination.”
“I know, and that’s the irony of it all. Just discrimination. There’s no reverse racism,” Gonzales agrees.
“It was always dumb,” BlazeTV contributor Eric July chimes in. “Discrimination is discrimination, racism is racism or what have you now. My argument on this is that there shouldn’t even be any laws that are against any of that stuff.”
“Let people do with their private property whatever the hell they want. If that means discriminating against me because I’m black, put a sign out there, I don’t give a s**t. I know not to give you any money,” he adds.
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Trump stops to answer question about arresting Newsom — and his answer will enrage humorless liberals: ‘I would do it’
The violent riots in Los Angeles that broke out in response to immigration enforcement this past weekend have resulted in an apparent game of chicken between border czar Tom Homan, who has threatened to arrest elected officials who interfere with federal immigration operations, and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has dared Homan to follow through with that threat.
On Monday, President Donald Trump weighed in on escalating tensions between Homan and Newson, seemingly giving Homan the green light to hold Newsom accountable.
“I would do it if I were Tom. I think it’s great,” Trump began in response to a question about a possible arrest.
“Gavin likes the publicity, but I think it would be a great thing,” Trump continued.
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As he spoke, Trump seemed to have a slight smile on the corner of his mouth and a faint twinkle in his eye, indicating that his words should not be taken too literally. In fact, Trump added that he “like[s]” Newsom, calling him a “nice guy.”
Nevertheless, Trump still thinks Newsom is “grossly incompetent” and has “done a terrible job.”
Trump also took the opportunity to contrast his track record with Newsom’s. “All you have to do is look at the little railroad he’s building,” Trump said, referring to the California light-rail “boondoggle” that has cost $7 billion thus far, even before a single track has been laid.
“It’s about a hundred times over budget,” Trump crowed.
“We’re putting a flagpole over there,” Trump said, pointing to a spot near the White House where Trump intends to erect a 100-foot flagpole, reportedly paid for out of his own pocket.
“Under budget,” Trump reiterated. “I always do under budget.”
As might be expected, Newsom failed to see any humor in Trump’s remarks and took to social media to wail that the administration was barreling toward “authoritarianism.”
“The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism,” he scolded.
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Murderers, rapists, gang members: ICE busts 12 of LA’s ‘worst’ illegal alien criminals amid riots
As violent anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots continue in Los Angeles, the Department of Homeland Security released details about the illegal immigrants rounded up in the city over the past week. The department classified the detainments as ICE taking the “worst of the worst” off the streets.
A DHS press release further slammed California politicians and rioters for “defending heinous illegal alien criminals at the expense of Americans [sic] safety.”
‘This cold-blooded killer is who the rioters are trying to protect over US citizens.’
The now-detained illegal immigrants included murderers, sex offenders, and those convicted of other violent offenses, the DHS reported.
Despite battling resistance from more than 1,000 Los Angeles rioters, ICE claimed to have detained 118 illegal aliens last week, including five gang members.
12 illegal aliens ICE arrested:
1. Cuong Chanh Phan
Cuong Chanh Phan. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
On Saturday, ICE’s Los Angeles operation nabbed Cuong Chanh Phan, a 49-year-old Vietnam national previously convicted of second-degree murder.
A 1994 report from the Los Angeles Times revealed that Phan, then 18 years old, was a member of a “multiethnic Vietnamese gang.”
Phan and his fellow gang member associates were reportedly angered after they were asked to leave a high school graduation party in San Marino. They left and returned later with firearms and began shooting into the crowd, ultimately resulting in the deaths of Dennis Buan, 18, and David Hang, 15. Seven others were wounded.
Phan was sentenced to 15 years to life.
2. Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez
Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
This week, ICE arrested Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, a 55-year-old Filipino national.
The illegal alien had a criminal history in California, including a four-year sentence for burglary and 37 years for sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape.
3. Lionel Sanchez-Laguna
Lionel Sanchez-Laguna. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE captured Lionel Sanchez-Laguna, a 55-year-old illegal Mexican national with a lengthy, violent rap sheet.
Sanchez-Laguna was previously convicted of numerous criminal offenses in California, including discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling and vehicle, battery on spouse or cohabitant, willful cruelty to a child, driving under the influence, assault with semi-automatic firearm, and personal use of a firearm.
4. Armando Ordaz
Armando Ordaz. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE’s Los Angeles operation apprehended Armando Ordaz, a 44-year-old Mexican national.
The illegal alien previously spent time in California’s jail system for sexual battery, receiving known or stolen property, and petty theft.
5. Francisco Sanchez-Arguello
Francisco Sanchez-Arguello. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
Federal immigration agents detained Francisco Sanchez-Arguello, a 38-year-old Mexican national, in the U.S. illegally.
Sanchez-Arguello was previously arrested for grand theft larceny and possession of a prohibited weapon.
6. Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz
Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz, a 42-year-old from Ecuador, was picked up by ICE agents this week.
The illegal alien was previously convicted in Tampa, Florida, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more cocaine while on board a vessel.
7. Victor Mendoza-Aguilar
Victor Mendoza-Aguilar. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE nabbed Victor Mendoza-Aguilar, a 32-year-old illegal alien from Mexico with several prior criminal convictions.
Mendoza-Aguilar served time in the California jail system for possessing unlawful paraphernalia, possessing controlled substances, obstructing a public officer, and assault with a deadly weapon that was not a firearm.
8. Delfino Aguilar-Martinez
Delfino Aguilar-Martinez. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
Delfino Aguilar-Martinez, a 51-year-old Mexican national illegally in the U.S., was picked up by federal immigration agents this week.
He was previously sentenced to a year in jail in Los Angeles after he was convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury.
9. Jose Cristobal Hernandez-Buitron
Jose Cristobal Hernandez-Buitron. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE apprehended Jose Cristobal Hernandez-Buitron, a 43-year-old illegal alien from Peru.
He spent a decade in prison for robbery.
10. Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel
Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE officers captured Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel, a 32-year-old Honduran national.
The illegal alien had a criminal history, including distribution of heroin and cocaine and domestic violence.
11. Jesus Alan Hernandez-Morales
Jesus Alan Hernandez-Morales. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
Jesus Alan Hernandez-Morales, a 26-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was also picked up by ICE agents this week.
He was previously sentenced to 239 days in jail for a conspiracy to transport an illegal alien in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
12. Chrissahdah Tooy
Chrissahdah Tooy. Image Source: Department of Homeland Security
DHS announced the arrest of Chrissahdah Tooy, a 48-year-old Indonesian national.
He was previously convicted of several criminal offenses, including narcotics, driving under the influence, and illegal entry.
Anything else?
The DHS noted that Phan, Veneracion-Enriquez, Sanchez-Arguello, Hernandez-Buitron, Meza-Esquibel, and Tooy were all “administratively arrested” by ICE, meaning they were placed in custody for civil immigration violations and not criminal offenses.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated, “It is sickening that Governor [Gavin] Newsom and Mayor [Karen] Bass continue to protect violent criminal illegal aliens at the expense of the safety of American citizens and communities. This cold-blooded killer is who the rioters are trying to protect over U.S. citizens.”
She added, “The brave men and women of ICE put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent criminals like this and protect the lives of American citizens.”
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Lies, flags, and firebombs: Just another ‘mostly peaceful’ riot in LA
I sat in front of the television this weekend, watching the glittering spectacle of corporate media do what it does best: tell me not to believe my lying eyes.
According to the polished news anchors, what I was witnessing in Los Angeles was “mostly peaceful protests.” They said it with all the earnest gravitas of someone reading a bedtime story, while behind them the streets looked like a deleted scene from “Mad Max.” Federal agents dodged concrete slabs as if it were an Olympic sport. A man in a Che Guevara crop top tried to set a police car on fire. Dumpster fires lit the night sky like some sort of postapocalyptic luau.
If you suggest that violent criminals should be deported or imprisoned, you’re painted as the extremist.
But sure, it was peaceful. Tear gas clouds and Molotov cocktails are apparently the incense and candles of this new civic religion.
The media expects us to play along — to nod solemnly while cities burn and to call it “activism.”
Let’s call this what it is: delusion.
Another ‘peaceful’ riot
If the Titanic “mostly floated” and the Hindenburg “mostly flew,” then yes, the latest L.A. riots are “mostly peaceful.” But history tends to care about those tiny details at the end — like icebergs and explosions.
The coverage was full of phrases like “spontaneous,” “grassroots,” and “organic,” as if these protests materialized from thin air. But many of the signs and banners looked like they’d been run off at ComradesKinkos.com — crisp print jobs with slogans promoting socialism, communism, and various anti-American regimes. Palestinian flags waved beside banners from Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, and El Salvador. It was like someone looted a United Nations souvenir shop and turned it into a revolution starter pack.
And guess who funded it? You did.
According to at least one report, much of this so-called spontaneous rage fest was paid for with your tax dollars. Tens of millions of dollars from the Biden administration ensured your paycheck funded Trotsky cosplayers chucking firebombs at local coffee shops.
The same aging radicals from the 1970s — now armed with tenure, pensions, and book deals — are cheering from the sidelines, waxing poetic about how burning a squad car is “liberation.” These are the same folks who once wore tie-dye and flew to help guerrilla fighters and now applaud chaos under the banner of “progress.”
This is not progress. It is not protest. It’s certainly not justice or peace.
It’s an attempt to dismantle the American system — and if you dare say that out loud, you’re labeled a bigot, a fascist, or, worst of all, someone who notices reality.
And what sparked this taxpayer-funded riot? Enforcement against illegal immigrants — many of whom, according to official arrest records, are repeat violent offenders. These are not the “dreamers” or the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. These are criminals with long, violent rap sheets — allowed to remain free by a broken system that prioritizes ideology over public safety.
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This is what people are rioting over — not the mistreatment of the innocent, but the arrest of the guilty. And in California, that’s apparently a cause for outrage.
The average American, according to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, is supposed to worry they’ll be next. But unless you’re in the habit of assaulting people, smuggling, or firing guns into people’s homes, you probably don’t have much to fear.
Still, if you suggest that violent criminals should be deported or imprisoned, you’re painted as the extremist.
The left has lost it
This is what happens when a culture loses its grip on reality. We begin to call arson “art,” lawlessness “liberation,” and criminals “community members.” We burn the good and excuse the evil — all while the media insists it’s just “vibes.”
But it’s not just vibes. It’s violence, paid for by you, endorsed by your elected officials, and whitewashed by newsrooms with more concern for hair and lighting than for truth.
This isn’t activism. This is anarchism. And Democratic politicians are fueling the flame.
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Patel’s ‘breakthrough’ in COVID origins probe spells trouble for Fauci — especially if his pardon is voided
FBI Director Kash Patel revealed to the eponymous host of “The Joe Rogan Experience” in the episode published Friday that the bureau “just had a great breakthrough” regarding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a matter into which the FBI apparently has multiple ongoing investigations.
The FBI director noted that this “breakthrough” specifically has to do with Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases whom the White House has accused of helping cover up the likely lab origins of COVID-19 and whose name Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and congressional investigators recently batted around when discussing lies about gain-of-function research.
Patel noted that the FBI long sought the phones and devices Fauci used while he was serving in the first Trump administration during the pandemic, “and nobody had found it — till two days ago.”
While the director cautioned Rogan and his audience from jumping “to the conclusion [that] everything’s in there,” he said the bureau will “look at it, we’ll pull it — we’ll rip it, as we say.”
Patel intimated that where potentially incriminating material is concerned, “maybe it’s deleted, maybe it’s not, but at least we found it.”
When asked about the potential significance of the discovery of such devices and what investigators should look for, molecular biologist Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University, a leading critic of Fauci’s flirtations with gain-of-function research, told Blaze News, “Fauci violated federal policies on gain-of-function and enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research, committed conspiracy to defraud and perjury, used federal funds to commit crimes, and caused and covered up the cause of a pandemic that killed 20 million and cost $25 trillion.”
The World Health Organization claims that there have been cumulatively over 7 million reported COVID-19 deaths. However, the Economist’s machine-learning model estimated that the total number of excess deaths globally is two to four times higher than the reported number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths, which could the put deaths far in excess of 20 million souls.
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Ebright was among the prominent scientists who last year sought accountability over efforts to cure the origin narrative and demanded the retraction of “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” published by Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020 — a consequential paper that Fauci not only allegedly commissioned and approved but used on multiple occasions to push the zoonotic origin theory.
“If files relevant to Fauci’s roles in causing COVID and covering up the cause of COVID are recoverable from Fauci’s phones or devices, those files could be of value in documenting the cause and the cover-up and in prosecuting persons culpable for the cause and the cover-up,” Ebright told Blaze News. “Examples of relevant files would include files documenting Fauci’s correspondence with scientists whose research caused COVID, correspondence with scientists, science administrators, and other federal agency officials who helped Fauci cover up the cause of COVID, and correspondence documenting Fauci’s use of non-government email accounts and phone lines for government business.”
Blaze News reached out to the FBI for comment and clarification but did not receive a response before publication.
‘Clearly he was being deceptive.’
Rogan asked Patel whether the pardons doled out in former President Joe Biden’s name would spare Fauci from accountability over his misleading claim to Congress that “the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
There is, after all, a great deal of interest in Congress in holding Fauci accountable over his apparent lie to Congress in 2021 that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research.
For instance, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told Matt Kibbe, the host of BlazeTV’s docuseries “The Coverup,” that he had referred Fauci to the Department of Justice for prosecution three times over his statements.
“We’ve detailed his lies to Congress, which are a felony. I’ve sort of tragically and jokingly said, ‘If he were a member of the Trump administration, he would have been arrested long ago.’ Because I think we have two standards of justice,” Paul told Kibbe. “He certainly seems to be protected.”
“Clearly he was being deceptive,” Rogan said to Patel. “Are they pardoned for that as well? ‘Cause it was like this crazy blanket pardon from 2014 forward, which I didn’t even know you could do.”
On Jan. 20, Fauci received a “full and unconditional” pre-emptive pardon for possible federal crimes going back to Jan. 1, 2014 — around the time the Obama administration supposedly halted funding for dangerous gain-of-function research.
“So I’m the investigator. So that would be a decision for the Department of Justice,” said Patel. “We’ll work it up and we’ll say, ‘This is what we found,’ and then legal minds will have to come in and chop on, ‘Does this pardon apply or not?'”
While Fauci may presently enjoy an immunity shield from prosecution on account of his last-minute pardon, that pardon now faces a great deal of scrutiny.
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President Donald Trump declared in March that the pardons were “VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT.”
DOJ pardon attorney Ed Martin announced last month that he is reviewing the questionable “autopen” pardons issued in the final days of the Biden White House, noting that they “need some scrutiny.” The House Oversight Committee is also investigating autopen use in the Biden White House.
Even if Fauci’s pardon holds up, information gleaned by the FBI from the alleged devices could possibly be used in legal actions taken at the state level.
In February, over 16 state attorneys general launched an investigation into Fauci’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic response, “demanding accountability for alleged mismanagement, misleading statements, and suppression of scientific debate.”
The state AGs underscored in their letter to Congress that the “pardon by former President Biden does not extend to preclude state-level investigations or legal proceedings.”
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Stephen A. Smith FLIRTS with Republican presidential bid
Stephen A. Smith has been making headlines lately, and it’s not for his reporting on ESPN. Rather, the sports commentator has been making the podcast rounds and teasing the idea of running for the presidency in 2028.
And on a recent episode of the “PBD Podcast” with Patrick Bet-David, Smith appeared to suggest that he wouldn’t be opposed to running as a Republican.
“100% that in 2028, if you run, you will run as a Democrat,” PBD said, addressing Smith.
“The only reason I say that, is because I don’t think that I’d have a snowball’s chance in hell of running as a Republican. I think JD Vance, the Marco Rubios of the world, even the Ron DeSantises of the world have that on lock, number one,” Smith replied.
“Number two, the party is not as in disarray as the Democratic Party. Number three, even though I’m a centrist, and I’m a registered independent,” he continued, “I would have voted for Nikki Haley if Ron DeSantis hadn’t pissed me off with the whole slavery, ‘there’s good parts about slavery’ comment.”
“I might have voted for him. That was my issue with him. Trump, obviously, it’s behavior more so than anything else, but I had no problem with Nikki Haley. I’m friends with Governor Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey,” he added, before explaining that “if a third party had a chance of winning an election,” that would be how he’d run.
“I don’t like leaning far right or left, and I think both sides pull you dramatically in their direction,” he concluded.
BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock doesn’t like where he sees this going.
“That’s fascinating. Now, he’s just thrown in a new angle here, in my opinion, running as a third candidate,” Whitlock says, speculating, “so maybe his play is, and their play is, if we can get him out there as a centrist and pull enough men away from the Republican Party, it may open a door for the Democrats.”
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Illegal alien resists arrest, punches ICE agent in NYC melee, according to DHS
As violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers erupts in Los Angeles, federal immigration agents in New York City are facing similar hostility.
Protests broke out in lower Manhattan following ICE arrests at a federal courthouse.
‘Outside a federal law enforcement building in New York City, more than 150 rioters erupted to interfere with ICE’s immigration enforcement operations.’
On Friday, a video circulated on social media, showing a hectic scuffle involving plainclothes ICE agents arresting Joaquin Rosario Espinal, a Dominican Republic national residing illegally in the U.S.
The video captured officers wrestling Espinal to the ground in the courthouse’s narrow halls, crowded with activists and members of the media.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Blaze News that ICE was attempting to arrest Espinal immediately after his immigration proceedings were dismissed. The officers allegedly faced resistance from him, activists, and even reporters.
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McLaughlin claimed that Espinal “resisted arrest and punched an officer.”
“A woman was also arrested for assaulting an officer. Despite interference by the media and members of the public, the officers ultimately detained this illegal alien and placed him under arrest,” she told Blaze News.
“Our officers are doing their jobs by removing public safety threats and enforcing our nation’s immigration laws. Assaulting, resisting, impeding, or harassing ICE officers is against the law,” she added. “The violence against ICE must end.”
Since President Donald Trump began his second term, assaults against ICE officers have increased 413%, according to the DHS.
Over the weekend, following Espinal’s arrest, anti-ICE protests took over Manhattan.
WABC-TV reported that the protest turned into a demonstration against the New York Police Department, with more than 20 activists taken into custody.
NYPD officials told Fox News Digital that officers arrived at the scene around noon on Saturday after authorities received a call about a disorderly group.
“The demonstrators were instructed verbally numerous times to vacate the roadway and did not comply,” the NYPD stated.
According to NY1, protesters attempted to block vehicles exiting the courthouse that they believed were carrying detained immigrants.
RELATED: Fiery footage shows radicals in LA savagely attack law enforcement on second night of violent riots
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The DHS referred to the anti-police demonstration as a riot.
“Outside a federal law enforcement building in New York City, more than 150 rioters erupted to interfere with ICE’s immigration enforcement operations,” the DHS wrote in a Saturday post on X.
“Thankfully, unlike in Los Angeles, the local police department quickly responded to the riots,” the statement continued. “Secretary [Kristi] Noem’s message to rioters is clear: you will not stop us or slow us down. ICE will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
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LA news anchor pummeled for outlandish take on riots that may eclipse media’s infamous ‘mostly peaceful’ spin
As anti-ICE rioting continued Sunday in Los Angeles, KABC-TV’s live video coverage caught a scene showing what the station said was a handful of self-driving Waymo vehicles on fire.
As the simultaneous infernos shot thick clouds of black smoke into the sky, an anchor offered commentary that appeared to downplay the violence.
‘We will not be serving any rides in the protest area until it is deemed safe.’
“Things do look relatively peaceful at this hour,” one anchor said, adding that “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.”
Then as the anchor warned authorities about the tense situation on the ground, he offered a chef’s kiss of sorts that may have eclipsed the media’s infamous “mostly peaceful” spin from years past.
He said the scene “could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators.”
Yup. “A bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.”
You can check out the observation in context in the video below:
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Stunned reactions on X were plentiful. The following are some highlights:
Libs of TikTok remarked, “I cannot believe this is real.”Defiant L’s reacted with, “You don’t hate the media enough.”An incredulous Joel Berry — managing editor of the Babylon Bee — may have said it best: “They’re trying to put us at The Babylon Bee out of business.”
As Blaze News reported earlier Monday, driverless car company Waymo responded after Los Angeles rioters allegedly called several of its vehicles for the sole purpose of destroying them.
“We will not be serving any rides in the protest area until it is deemed safe,” a Waymo spokesperson told NBC News.
Blaze News reached out to Waymo regarding the cost of the cars and asked if law enforcement had contacted the company in regard to who requested the vehicles.
A Waymo spokesman replied to Blaze News that “a number of” the company’s vehicles were “in the vicinity of active protests taking place in Downtown Los Angeles.”
“We are in touch with law enforcement,” the spokesman added, without replying to the other questions.
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Anti-ICE rioters destroy fleet of autonomous cars during Los Angeles riot
A driverless car company has responded after several of its vehicles were allegedly called by rioters in Los Angeles for the sole purpose of destroying them.
Waymo is an autonomous car service owned by Google parent company Alphabet and has over 1,500 vehicles on the streets. According to Yahoo, it is the only company currently operating driverless cars in the United States.
On Sunday, as the streets of Los Angeles were flooded with radicals in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entering the area to conduct deportation raids, multiple reporters posted videos of Waymo cars on fire, alleging rioters had called the cars just to set them ablaze.
‘They are calling Waymos just to burn them.’
One video showed at least four Waymo cars in a row, with all of them vandalized and two of them set on fire. Another video showed a masked protester waving a Mexican flag in front of one of the vehicles, with the rear end of the car engulfed in flames.
“They are calling Waymos just to burn them. … We don’t have to live like this,” one reporter wrote with an attached video of a man destroying one of the cars with a rock.
As a result of the damage, Waymo was forced to respond to the chaos.
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“We will not be serving any rides in the protest area until it is deemed safe,” a Waymo spokesperson told NBC News.
Blaze News reached out to Waymo regarding the cost of the cars and asked if they had been contacted by law enforcement over who requested the vehicles.
A Waymo spokesman simply stated that “a number of” their vehicles were “in the vicinity of active protests taking place in Downtown Los Angeles.”
“We are in touch with law enforcement,” the spokesman added, without answering the other queries.
However, according to a New York Times report, the autonomous vehicles can cost upwards of $100,000 each, which would put the price tag of the riots around at least $400,000 for the company.
The Los Angeles Police Department put out a warning over the destruction of the cars, too, advising that the area would be closed indefinitely due to “demonstrators igniting multiple autonomous vehicles on fire.”
More disturbing footage showed an American flag on fire and placed inside one of the wrecked vehicles. Multiple obese men were seen standing on top of one of the cars; one wearing a mask and suit while speaking into a microphone and a second — who appeared to be a photographer — struggled to climb the car before pouring water on top of it, which garnered applause for some reason.
Protestors stand atop a vandalized Waymo car during immigration raid protests on June 8, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Image.
In response to the damage, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell asked local residents to trust his department but said his force could not stop ICE from conducting raids.
“Federal authorities have the right to be able to do what they’re doing,” McDonnell said per NBC News. “We don’t engage in that activity,” he added.
According to Los Angeles Magazine, the police chief also said the riots had “gotten out of control” and claimed “somebody could easily be killed” as a result of the agitators who, in addition to the street damage, have attacked law enforcement.
Rioters have been seen throwing rocks at different law enforcement agents at multiple locations.
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White House has clear message for Newsom after Democratic governor dares Homan to arrest him
President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan was asked in an NBC News interview on Saturday whether Democratic officials in California, namely Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom, could be arrested if they interfered with the lawful execution of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
Homan, speaking as National Guard troops were preparing for deployment to riot-ravaged L.A., underscored that the same laws apply to anyone who “cross[es] that line,” stating, “It’s a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien. It’s a felony to impede law enforcement from doing their job.”
“Governor Newsom is an embarrassment for this state,” continued the border czar. “He supports sanctuary cities. He supports sanctuary laws. If he cared about public safety in the state of California, he would not have a sanctuary for criminals — where criminals get released to the streets of this state every day because of his policies.”
Newsom responded Sunday to Homan’s comments with a dare: “Come and get me, tough guy.”
Newsom went on MSNBC hours after Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell admitted that police were “overwhelmed” and shortly after rioters pelted California Highway Patrol officers with rocks near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles.
‘He is putting fuel on this fire.’
Rather than castigate the foreign flag-waving radicals impeding ICE and attacking law enforcement in his crime-ridden sanctuary state — footage of which could be seen playing on the television screen behind him — Newsom spent the majority of his airtime framing the disorder as the work of Trump and his administration.
“Donald Trump has created the conditions that you see on your TV tonight,” said Newsom, who Trump said on Sunday should “apologize to the people of Los Angeles.” “He’s exacerbated the conditions. He’s, you know, lit the proverbial match. He is putting fuel on this fire every since he announced he was taking over the National Guard.”
RELATED: Fiery footage shows radicals in LA savagely attack law enforcement on second night of violent riots
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The Democratic governor suggested that Trump’s use of the National Guard to restore order in L.A. — an action similarly taken by former President George H.W. Bush in 1992 in the interest of peace and safety — was an “immoral act” and “an unconstitutional act” and said he would sue the administration on Monday.
When asked about Homan’s comments regarding possible arrests for those impeding law enforcement operations, Newsom said, “He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me.”
‘Newsom should be embarrassed.’
After characterizing those illegal aliens whom the Trump administration is attempting to remove from the U.S. as “poor people who’re just trying to … live their lives, man,” Newsom said, “[Who] the hell is this guy? Come after me. Arrest me. Let’s just get it over with, tough guy. You know? I don’t give a damn.”
RELATED: Why Trump had to do what Gavin Newsom refused to do
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The White House made clear after the Democratic governor spent his evening attacking Trump and in the wake of his apparent admission of guilt — Homan indicated, after all, that arrests were warranted only if officials crossed the line — that Newsom should adjust his focus with a mind to improving his state.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Blaze News, “Governor Newsom should focus on stopping the violent riots and attacks on law enforcement that are consuming Los Angeles instead of political posturing for the TV cameras.”
“The entire country can see the chaos and lawlessness. Newsom should be embarrassed,” added Jackson.
President Trump minced no words Sunday, telling reporters that “if officials stand in the way of law and order, yeah, they will face charges.”
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Fact-check: President Trump authorized 20,000 National Guard troops for duty on Jan. 6, 2021
The former Democrat co-chairman of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 continues to lie about President Donald J. Trump’s authorization of the D.C. National Guard on Jan. 6.
Amid the backdrop of the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) took to social media on June 8 and claimed, “Trump refused to call the National Guard during the Jan 6th insurrection.”
‘Pelosi will never go for it.’
The truth is that several days ahead of time, President Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops for duty on Jan. 6. Under the law, those troops would need to be requested by a governor or, in the case of the District of Columbia, the mayor.
Democrat politicians refused Guard help
Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser rejected the offer of National Guard troops in a Jan. 5 letter to the Department of Defense.
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund requested Guard troops days in advance during meetings with the House and Senate sergeants at arms. At the time, the House sergeant at arms, Paul Irving, reported to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The late Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger reported to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Sund was later told by Stenger that the National Guard request would not have flown because, as Irving put it, “Pelosi will never go for it.”
The sergeants at arms are two of the three voting members of the Capitol Police Board, which is responsible for security at the Capitol. The board refused Chief Sund’s requests for the National Guard until mid-afternoon on Jan. 6, after the Capitol had been breached and the grounds overrun with tens of thousands of protesters.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense inspector general’s report regarding the events of Jan. 6, 2021, the use of National Guard troops was discussed during a White House meeting on Jan. 3, 2021.
In attendance were acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, presidential Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Sec. Miller’s chief of staff, Kash Patel.
“The president told Mr. Miller that there would be a large number of protesters on January 6, 2021, and Mr. Miller should ensure sufficient National Guard or soldiers would be there to make sure it was a safe event,” Milley said.
Patel, who is now FBI director, said Trump did all he was constitutionally allowed to do.
“He said, ‘If you need up to 20,000 National Guardsmen and women, not just in Washington, D.C., but anywhere in the country, you have my authorization,’” Patel recalled.
Miller recalled the discussions this way: “The president said while we’re leaving, ‘Hey, one more thing,’ and we all sat back down and discussed what was going on on Jan. 6,” Miller said.
‘I am stunned by the repeated statements by Pelosi.’
“The president was doing just what I expect the commander in chief to do, any commander in chief to do. He was looking at the broad threats against the United States, and he brought this up on his own. We did not bring it up.”
During a series of conference calls on Jan. 6, the Pentagon balked at the “optics” of having National Guard troops at the Capitol. Thus began a critical three-hour, 19-minute delay in putting boots on the ground at the Capitol.
The career officers at the Pentagon were more concerned with politics than with ensuring that the National Guard made it to the Capitol, said Casey Wardynski, former assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and Reserve affairs and a 30-year U.S. Army veteran who served former President Donald Trump at the Pentagon from 2019 to 2021.
“Instead of looking after what’s best for the country, they were looking to cover their asses and do what was best for their careers and for the perception of their favorite institution, the Army,” Wardynski told Blaze News.
New Jersey police arrived before National Guard
U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, said information uncovered by his investigators was ignored by the now-defunct Jan. 6 Select Committee and left out of the Pentagon inspector general report issued in November 2021.
“It took too long for the D.C. National Guard to arrive at the Capitol. The 113th Wing Capital Guardians have a proud history protecting our nation’s capital and serving our nation’s leadership. Nevertheless, the New Jersey State Police from nearly 150 miles away responded to the Capitol before the D.C. National Guard.”
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In Jan. 6 HBO documentary footage obtained by Loudermilk’s subcommittee, Pelosi expressed exasperation that the Guard was not at the Capitol, at nearly the same hour that her House sergeant at arms was refusing Sund’s desperate pleas for National Guard help.
Sund told Blaze News in 2024 that if Pelosi had simply granted his Jan. 3 request for the National Guard, “I don’t think we would be here discussing this today.”
“I am stunned by the repeated statements by Pelosi about there not being any National Guard deployed to the Capitol in advance of the attack on January 6,” Sund said, “when it was her sergeant at arms for the House of Representatives who denied my request for support on January 3, and then again repeatedly for 71 minutes while we were under attack on January 6.”
Sund said the response to his urgent request for help was “absolutely abysmal,” noting that by the time Guard members arrived at the staging location near the Capitol, they were no longer needed.
“They could have not shown up and it wouldn’t have changed a thing,” Sund told Blaze News.
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Why Trump had to do what Gavin Newsom refused to do
When local leaders won’t act against a growing national crisis, the president must. That’s what leadership requires, plain and simple.
Since retaking office in January, President Trump has made real progress in the fight against illegal immigration. Federal officers have arrested thousands of individuals who pose a threat to public safety. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped up enforcement, and law enforcement agencies across the country are finally empowered to act. Momentum is building.
Rather than call in help, Newsom let the protests spiral. Rather than support enforcement, he played to his base. So Trump stepped in.
But even as law enforcement cracks down on criminal networks, a wave of resistance has emerged. Some people are so determined to shield illegal immigrants from accountability that they’re willing to risk arrest themselves. This isn’t civil disobedience — it’s delusion.
Now Los Angeles has joined the act. Protests against ICE raids over the weekend overwhelmed police, and Trump believed he had no choice but to respond. He deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard to restore order, assist law enforcement, and help track down additional criminal suspects shielded by sanctuary activists.
Trump’s response wasn’t arbitrary — it was necessary. The local police needed backup. The goal: support enforcement efforts and remove dangerous individuals from our communities.
Yet the protesters insist they’re the ones defending freedom. They march in the streets, chant slogans, and claim the government threatens their civil liberties. In truth, they’re protecting people who broke the law — many of whom have criminal records or known ties to gangs and trafficking rings.
This isn’t about rounding up innocent neighbors. It’s a concentrated operation, led by ICE and overseen by border czar Tom Homan, to target known offenders and restore public safety. Trump’s opponents may not like the optics, but the mission remains clear: remove dangerous individuals who never should have been here in the first place.
California officials aren’t helping. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called the troop deployment “purposefully inflammatory” and accused the administration of escalating tensions. The League of United Latin American Citizens quickly condemned the move, describing it as a “deeply troubling escalation” and criticizing the use of “military-style tactics.”
What exactly would they have us do?
Under President Biden, federal authorities responded to the border crisis like an inconvenience rather than an invasion. Cartels, traffickers, and criminal networks exploited weak enforcement to gain a foothold in American cities. That lax approach put law-abiding citizens in danger. Now Trump is reversing course — and the left wants him to stop?
Let’s be honest: Violent actors don’t care about humanitarian gestures. They care about power and control. They harm people to maintain it. They don’t want leniency — they want impunity. When you reward lawbreaking with amnesty, you don’t get peace. You get more lawbreaking.
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The Los Angeles Police Department has been walking a fine line. LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell on Friday said the department would not aid ICE with its deportation efforts. L.A. remains a “sanctuary city,” after all.
But on Saturday, the department released a measured statement in response to the arrival of the National Guard: “We will maintain a heightened readiness posture and remain ready to ensure the continued safety of our communities.” That might be the best we can expect in this fraught political environment.
The LAPD didn’t complain — at least not publicly. It didn’t politicize the moment. The department chose duty over posturing. I commend the LAPD for that.
But I worry this situation could escalate — not because of Trump’s actions, but because of Newsom’s vanity. Rather than call in help, he let the protests spiral. Rather than support enforcement, he played to his base. So Trump stepped in to do the job Newsom wouldn’t.
This decision wasn’t made out of spite. It wasn’t political theater. It was about restoring order and ensuring the law applies equally. The people ICE is arresting are criminals. The objective is clear: locate them, arrest them, and remove them from American streets.
I support President Trump. I support the National Guard. I support the LAPD.
The time for softness is over. The border crisis created this problem. Now it falls to this administration to fix it.
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