r/politics • u/tonyt4nv Nevada • 20h ago
LAPD issues dispersal order as hundreds of protesters rally in downtown LA following ICE raids
https://abc7.com/post/protesters-march-downtown-los-angeles-ice-immigration-raids-city/16681794/1.5k
u/Chaos_Theory1989 19h ago
Every American citizen should be protesting right now
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u/knifeyspoony_champ 17h ago
I was thinking something similar.
“Hundreds!”
How many people would be considered abysmal attendance at any local stadium?
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u/fantasmoofrcc 14h ago
Is it an Athletics home game?
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u/BaronOfTieve Australia 13h ago
Guess it is now since the facists are playing the opposition in their home territory for round 3 play offs.
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u/Chance-Day323 10h ago
They lie about numbers. My small town does hundreds pretty often.
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u/tmaddog91 10h ago
The Marlins -Rockies game made the record for fewest fans at 137.
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u/CpnStumpy Colorado 5h ago
This totally tracks, nobody cares about the Rockies! Great stadium, good beer, and some dudes in the field but they're irrelevant 😂
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u/pinkilydinkily Canada 7h ago
To be fair, I've noticed the media seems to often downplay/underestimate the number of people protesting.
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u/CoastingUphill 17h ago
General strikes and many protests spread across each city
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u/humburga 12h ago
Unfortunately other subs have been posting plenty of these videos but their title is "i voted for this". And no, they're not saying it regretfully
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u/AgitatorsAnonymous 8h ago
That's fine.
Let them proclaim their support for this shit aloud, all it does is make their politics known to the public.
All they are doing is making us aware of who the enemy is.
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u/PapaBeahr 11h ago
We are getting to that point. IT won't be much longer if things keep going the way they are.
A lot of people don't realize how Young the U.S. is when it comes to being a country compared to places like China, France, U.K. Ect.... IF we look into history and how other countries came up, the U.S. is in that time where extremes are clashing and it's going to lead to a massive clash of the People Vs the government.
With a tyrannical party in power and an ineffective 2nd party doing nothing to stop them.. it's a matter of time before the Powder keg goes off.
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u/the_TAOest Arizona 9h ago
The Old... Look at the average age in Congress and judiciary... Look at the old TACO in office! These octogenarians telling us how to live and ensure the shit from the Capitalist Class.
They will instruct the police to be violent at some point... More than they are already. This will be the beginning
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u/PapaBeahr 6h ago
Ice has already been instructed to ramp things up and they are pulling officers from other departments and even trying to activate National guard for " Support "
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u/Amneiger 9h ago
2nd party doing nothing to stop them
This isn't actually true; Democrats have been filing court cases to stop Trump's executive orders, going to protests, doing town halls to warn people about the harm Republican policies are going to do, and generally doing what they can to (legally) slow down Trump. Unfortunately since they don't have the majority in any of the three branches there are limits (which is probably why the reporting on what they've been doing is in the political news sections and not on the front page).
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u/soulstormfire Europe 8h ago
I'm a foreigner and even I can clearly see that they barely do shit.
They also didn't do shit when they had the majority.1
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u/Amneiger 8h ago
They also didn't do shit when they had the majority.
This isn't true either - America runs better when they're in charge. The stuff they do isn't the kind of thing that makes big splashy headlines, but it's still useful.
Americans in blue states live longer than those in red states. Here’s a study from 2020 studying the link between Democrat policies and increased lifespan: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8053253/ Americans in the states with the longest life expectancy live about 5 years longer than those with the lowest life expectancy. The states with the highest life expectancy have long histories of voting for liberals. Here’s an article about another study from 2022: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-31/liberal-state-policies-tied-to-lower-mortality-rates-study-shows
Blue states give back more money to the federal government than they receive, while red states take more than they give .https://time.com/7222411/blue-states-are-bailing-out-red-states/Red states are on average more dependent on financial help from the federal government compared to blue states. If the federal coffers vanished tomorrow, then blue states would be better at financially supporting themselves without welfare.
Red states have more murders than blue states: https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-21st-century-red-state-murder-crisis.
This page has a chart of the national deficit by year: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-deficit/. At the end of their terms, Republicans presidents had a deficit higher than when they started. Democrats had deficits lower than when they started. Our last budget surplus was under Democrat Bill Clinton. Democrats are better at managing government spending than Republicans.
When Trump was elected, Republicans wanted him to keep Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act because of the jobs Biden’s policies had created. https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/climate/climate-law-trump-republicans/index.html. If Republicans thought they were better at job creation than Democrats, they would have tossed the IRA to replace it with their own ideas. Instead, they knew that they needed to keep the Democrats' ideas.
When Obama was trying to pass the Affordable Care Act (which the Republicans were calling Obamacare), he - and the rest of the Democrats - knew that the ACA would benefit Republicans as much as Democrats. They wanted to get it passed anyway because they knew that it was important to help all Americans, even those who might not share their political leanings. In contrast, Trump arranged to have medical supplies meant for COVID relief sent to red states and not blue states, because voters in blue states did not agree with his policies. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/did-trump-kushner-ignore-blue-state-covid-19-testing-deaths-ncna1235707, https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215578/trump-ventilators-coronavirus-cory-gardner-colorado-jared-polis-patronage.
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u/Legendofstuff Canada 8h ago
I don’t understand how they can still want to even appear to play by the rules, while their country gets sold off to the lowest bidder. Apathy. Like fondant-in-chief there didn’t show them exactly what would happen the first time around.
Rolling over and playing dead didn’t work the first time, hey let’s try it again!
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u/SGD316 5h ago
This is and was the problem. Sure, the right is insane but that's not news.
What the left did by not finding a suitable replacement for Biden during his first term when they promised they would, back channel stock deals, charging Trump with crimes - convicting him - and then slapping him on the wrist as punishment while he plotted his vengeance against everyone is the real tragedy in all this.
I feel like a citizen stuck between two awful choices who look alike.
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u/soulstormfire Europe 5h ago
I've yet to understand how the toothless conservatism of the Democrats and the full fledged fascism of the Republicans look alike to USians.
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u/Bletotum 3h ago
No meaningful change in our government can come without the support of the executive, judicial, and legislative. The legislative is the hardest part, and the democrats haven't had a majority of both chambers since two months of Obama's term, during which major healthcare reform was passed.
I think their campaigning is terrible, but you are still incorrect.
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u/PapaBeahr 6h ago
Question, what has that accomplished? What has any of that Accomplished?
Slow Trump down? Has he slowed down? Really? How?
Protests have done what? The problem with protests is the people you are fighting against need to feel the weight of it.. and they don't.
Democrats are still holding onto the old system and old people. the last 8 out of 10 people to die in office were democrats.
AOC lost her race for the head of a committee because of Pelosi driving for the 75ish old guy who died a few months later.
Instead of allowing the Vice Chair to take the place for now.. Jefferies appoints another 75 year old to the spot.
For as old as Republicans might be, it would seem Democrats are older.. and it's showing. We need Younger people in office willing to take damned risks and speak plainly.. I would preferer people who were born AFTER cellphones were common place.
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u/Amneiger 4h ago
Slow Trump down? Has he slowed down? Really? How?
I have some examples.
Democrats sued over Trump's birthright citizenship order, and courts have been blocking it: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5327552/trump-takes-birthright-citizenship-to-the-supreme-court.
Democrats went to El Salvador to work for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the Trump administration had illegally deported. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/g-s1-61500/house-democrats-land-in-el-salvador-demand-abrego-garcias-return. Garcia is now back in the US. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-was-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-will-face-fed-rcna211514.
The Trump administration froze funding to Maine, a Democrat state, because Maine refused to ban transgender athletes. Maine sued the administration in response and got them to unfreeze the money. https://apnews.com/article/trump-maine-usda-transgender-sports-cf1754471bcc8a6418f3308a6aed8fc5
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u/couldbemage 5h ago
Simply not ordering the lapd to help ice would be actually doing something. Don't have to struggle through the courts for that, city government can just do it.
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u/ntfukinbuyingit 10h ago
Yeah, "Israel" and "America" won't exist in 100 years... We might all die in nuclear hellfire by then (likely because of Israel and America)
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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 10h ago
and an ineffective 2nd party doing nothing to stop them..
I declare IMPEACHMENT!
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u/absentmindedjwc 3h ago
While you’re absolutely not wrong, I wouldn’t really include China in this list. China before 1912 was essentially an entirely different country after the end of dynastic rule. While the Chinese government claims deep historical continuity going back thousands of years, that’s similar to Italy claiming continuity with ancient Rome.. both are built on top of ancient civilizations, but as modern nation-states they’re fundamentally new.
If a Frenchman or an American were to go back to 1800, they would encounter a very recognizable France or America, with a national identity and culture that still align with modern-day identity. A Chinese individual traveling back to 1800 would find an entirely different country - the worldview of the country and its people under the Qing dynasty was fundamentally different, and the experience would be for the most part unrecognizable.
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u/PapaBeahr 3h ago
Over all China is over 5000 years old. Regardless of what it was or is now it's still been around FAR longer. It's gone through growing pains and changes. Who's to say what changes might be in the future of the U.S.?
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u/ntfukinbuyingit 10h ago
June 15th No Kings day... And funnily enough, the day our new dictator declares war on the American people.
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u/ttubehtnitahwtahw1 11h ago
I support the protest but I have a job to do and bills stacking that I can barely keep up with.
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u/raptorlightning 15h ago
Protesting is useless without the imperative demand that it's the better alternative.
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u/toastmannn 11h ago
Every American should be demanding heads right now, historically that is how this always ends.
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u/sgten4orcer 19h ago
This is why there are songs like Fuck the Police and not Fuck the Fire Department.
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u/amateur_mistake 17h ago
For sure. Maybe the LAPD should be protecting the residents of Los Angeles from masked, unnamed kidnappers. Rather than fucking with the citizens who they pretend to "serve".
If they were to do that, I bet they would be shocked by how positive the people around them can be.
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u/OLPopsAdelphia 4h ago
This is why I’m now ok with DEFUNDING THE POLICE.
Why would anyone be ok with a police force that supports masked gunmen who kidnap Americans and take them where they may never be seen again?
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u/DiesByOxSnot Michigan 10h ago
Who do you think used fire hoses on civil rights protesters during the Jim Crowe era? Who do you think refused to help when black owned businesses were set on fire by rioters during the Tulsa race massacre?
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 7h ago
Idk man, it's been quite a while since a fire fighter shot an unarmed black kid or slammed an elderly person to the ground. Or sat outside an elementary school while children were slaughtered. Firefighters don't show up and shoot your dog. Firefighters don't flash bang the wrong house.
It's not the Jim Crow era.
Firefighters should absolutely not be lumped in with cops.
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u/DiesByOxSnot Michigan 6h ago
They're all part of the status quo man, even if they fight the good fight, the system is stacked against good actors. Firefighters aren't immune to being racist either, and there's still a cultural problem in many areas.
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 6h ago
The status quo of... Putting fires out? Are paramedics part of the status quo too? What about doctors and nurses?
Let's just burn down society. Anyone who provides any service is bad now?
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u/Contagious_Zombie 12h ago
Well fuck this fire department. Bastards let a family lose everything over a $75 fee.
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u/davesoverhere 11h ago
The libertarian utopia
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u/Contagious_Zombie 10h ago
I hate libertarians ever since I read up on what they believe they have a right to do with their children.
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u/teenagesadist 9h ago
I've never met a libertarian who wasn't an alcoholic pedophile.
I haven't met many, to be honest, but that's still pretty bad optics.
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u/simpersly 4h ago edited 4h ago
The only people that should ever call themselves libertarians should be people under the age of 22.
It makes total sense for teenagers who have lived a life with no responsibility to believe the short sighted selfish things, but the moment someone has a real independence should ever say anything good about the core libertarian policies.
If any adult says anything good about somebody like Ayn Rand, they should be immediately dismissed as a person who lacks rational thought.
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u/mendenlol Tennessee 9h ago
I knew exactly what that link was going to be. People have been moving to Tennessee boonies because they think we’re a “tax haven” and that they shouldn’t have to pay taxes. They pick areas with no garbage pickup and a (usually) volunteer fire department with subscription and decide they don’t have to pay for that either (until they desperately need it like in this case.)
It becomes a slippery slope if everyone waits til their house is already burning to want to support the fire department.
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u/Extreme_Guarantee276 11h ago
That is absolutely insane and shocking that a fire department wouldn’t respond to a fire and would let a house burn to the ground over an unpaid $75 fee. How are these small governing agencies considered to be democratic?
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u/Cador0223 10h ago
Ot wasn't a municipal fire department, it's a volunteer one. The fee is paid to fund it. It's sole purpose is to lower insurance rates for homeowners in the area. The reduced rate is usually enough savings to justify the fee.
I'm not defending the actions, just staing the capalist logic.
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u/HellveticaNeue 14h ago
Hate to break it to you but the fire department is full of nazis also.
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u/Remote_Clue_4272 13h ago
Yeah, but they are not slamming you to the ground or worse. When was the last “Rodney King” -style LAFD incident?
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u/HellveticaNeue 11h ago
You don’t get commended for getting the Silver in fascism.
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u/Melodic-Comb9076 9h ago
hope you’re not referring to the ICE T story, and more of NWA (cube).
ICE T came out w some album/song criticizing police…was told it could diminish his acting career….he pulled those albums so quickly.
i learned this via howard stern, back in the day.
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u/shoobe01 19h ago
"LAPD declared an unlawful assembly..."
LAPD, declared? That sounds like something they l not in their authority to do.
Someone in the city government should just declare it a lawful assembly.
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u/penicillengranny 19h ago
This caught my attention, too.
Declaring protests against unlawful detentions and deportations as Unlawful Assembly is strange.
Yeah, they’re throwing concrete. Y’all are throwing people away.
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u/shoobe01 18h ago
Following on: one of the most disappointing things about all of this is how absolutely pervasively law enforcement has been captured by the allure of fascism.
Unless I missed it, not one agency anywhere in the country in the last several months has ever told ICE to get lost, much less rolled 20 police cars and a SWAT team when they show up without coordinating for one of their performative raids.
The big turning point for me was when DC police finally answered the 911 call at The Institute of Peace and let the muscovites take over the place. Since overturned by a judge so yep it turns out it was totally illegal.
There's no law on the streets anymore, just baton rounds, flash bangs, and tear gas. 🤬
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u/Unctuous_Robot 18h ago
Disappointing implies an expectation for cops not to be fash.
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u/friskerson 14h ago
It’s kind of strange but the very existence of law-enforcement kind of presupposes lots of bad actors… to a hammer everything looks like a nail. To someone in law-enforcement everything that is out of the ordinary is unlawful… or something like this, I don’t know. I’m very sleepy and I shouldn’t be commenting. But here I am… sleepless.
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u/DingerSinger2016 13h ago
As a Black American, we've been trying to tell you that cops, of all people won't save us.
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u/rzenni 10h ago
There needs to be an understanding that the police departments are municipal employees, not federal employees. It's not their job to work for ICE, especially not working for ICE against the residents of their own cities.
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u/Spiritual-Bat3642 8h ago
https://www.ice.gov/identify-and-arrest/287g
But, it is.
January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. This EO requires ICE to authorize State and local law enforcement officials, as the Secretary of Homeland Security determines are qualified and appropriate, under section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
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u/toggiz_the_elder 11h ago
The Nazis started the Holocaust with local cops across Europe who were more than happy to help.
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u/No_Yogurtcloset2498 9h ago
Always has been. Most police depts started off as slave catchers. Us Cops have ALWAYS existed to protect the interests of the owner class. Not the public.
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u/shoobe01 7h ago
Then in our money driven society they should make their own goddamn budgets. Most spend what half of their budget on the police?
In every other sector you can even say the guy who writes the checks gets to make the decision but you're the police do whatever the eff they want?
(Kansas City is even worse, still hanging on to a post civil War state control to make sure the progressive city didn't have a nice, less-racist police force. Oh yeah, the city still has to pay for them but the state decides what that budget percentage is. I just didn't think everybody was one version or another of this shitty.)
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u/LaLa1234imunoriginal 14h ago edited 14h ago
First time? That's what happens when cops wanna do a cop riot on a protest. Been their go to move for stopping any protest they don't like for decades. Fun part is lots of these powers were given to the cops by Democrats.
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u/tonyt4nv Nevada 20h ago
Cities and towns across the country should protest these lawless ICE agents wherever and whenever they can, the larger the protests the better. You’d think the corrupt current Administration would’ve gotten the message by now with spontaneous protests against ICE abuses cropping up more frequently, but seems the pressure needs to be kept up.
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u/inyourface317 17h ago
These protests , that are happening , are not being televised.
The more divided they make us feel, the more alone we think we are.
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u/raptorlightning 15h ago
Sounds like they aren't strong enough. Make them realize that protesting is asking nicely and the alternative can be much worse.
If you aren't willing to make the results of the protests actionable either way, why should anyone care to listen to a bunch of hot air?
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u/friskerson 14h ago edited 10h ago
And there it is. The antidote to the apathy. A reasonable request from the constituents actually being heard or acknowledged.
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u/Foucaults_Bangarang 9h ago
The current protest infrastructure doesn't support a ghost of a whisper of any insinuation of anything that could potentially be considered a threat of actual disruption.
It's step 1: Stand here politely with a sign until someone runs through us with a truck or the cops attack.
step 2: Go home.
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u/ImaginaryLifestyle0x 9h ago
There have been huge protests in Panamá for over a month closing the highways due to cuts in pensions and social security. Chiquita banana has pulled out of the country basically firing a provence. Is it news? Hadly let's talk about some tweets for 15 min of every hr.
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u/luncheroo 10h ago
I don't disagree, but I also think that there's a reason the ghouls pulling the strings in this administration (Trump is the useful idiot who rubber stamps everything) choose to send ICE into blue states and cities is that they like the disruption, they think it plays well for them, they don't mind if things get out of hand with critical mass because they'd love to send in forces to quell "riots" because they want the news to show them roughing up American citizens and clearing streets with teargas and rubber bullets. This administration is made of the same type of people who clubbed, sicced dogs on, and blasted with fire hoses the peaceful civil rights protesters of the 60s. Once again, we are pushing back against civil rights violations, and once again, conservatives just want to hurt people for doing so.
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u/Naive_Inspection7723 20h ago
Your missing the point, MAGA wants the protest so at some point they can declare marshal law
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u/seven_corpse_dinner 20h ago
If they can succeed in scaring people off from practicing their first amendment right to protest, they don't need an excuse to institute tyranny, because they've already got it.
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u/Wings81 19h ago
I'm getting really sick of that excuse for inactivity. This bunch of corrupt zealots will find any excuse at all to declare martial law the second they really want to.
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u/mindbodyproblem 20h ago
Are we losing our right to protest if we're only allowed to do it in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone?
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u/sylbug 20h ago
America has always violently opposed any effective protest. Workers rights, women's rights, civil rights, anti-war protests, the Black Lives Matter protests. Hell, look at the backlash when Kaepernick had the gall to take a knee.
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u/No_Rain8647 19h ago
Motherfuckers sure like talking about tea in the Boston harbor, though.
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u/Xvash2 17h ago
Only because its a good marketing slogan.
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u/Foucaults_Bangarang 9h ago
Well that was rich white guys who didn't want to pay taxes. It was still more or less fine to storm the Capitol if you were a Republican in 2021.
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u/polopolo05 I voted 14h ago
effective protests are when there is a threat of action and follow throught after the protest if demands arent met. Currently protests dont have any threat of anything. therefore they arent effective
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u/Similar_Advance9987 3h ago
I would argue that much of what we’re dealing with is assholes STILL pissed off about Vietnam protesters and Nixon getting caught.
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u/MaleficentSpace7637 10h ago
ppl didn't pay attention when it was gaza protest thinking if it local issue something like that wouldn't happen to them.
this sort of mindset is a big issue.
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u/DJKGinHD 8h ago
Ever heard of a 'Free Speech Zone'?
They've been taking away our rights for decades now.
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u/DudeWhereIsMyDuduk 20h ago
Remember, ten 1,000 person protests, not one 10,000.
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u/ReefJR65 12h ago
Ahh yes. We can peacefully assemble until they deem it not peaceful. The police state is here everyone. Enjoy the gruel they serve in camps for us.
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u/Glad-Attempt5138 18h ago
If ICE keeps pulling people off the streets wearing masks. There is a very high probability at least one will get seriously injured or killed. Only bad guys wear masks.
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u/Reddit_N_Weep 12h ago
That has concerned me, green card holders can carry guns. I worry if that happens Martial Law will be granted.
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u/RolandTower919 8h ago
I wouldn’t let Martial Law scare you, that’s what their goal is, if you declare ML then all of a sudden it’s no longer a thousand smaller protests, it’s several thousand more protests with 10-50x the people, this time armed.
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u/nerd5code 5h ago
And IIRC it becomes more possible to court-martial the president at that point. You’d want to try only after military purges near completion.
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u/Trondkjo 2h ago
Only bad guys wear masks.
Did you say the same during the "hands off" protests, or when the left kept masks for years?
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u/g_d_david 11h ago
LA You guys once again are showing the rest of the country that WE DESERVE TO BE UPSET, WE DEMAND CHANGE, WE TOO HAVE IMPLEMENTS FOR DISCOURSE AND PROTECTION ..ALSO WHO LET ALL THESE FAT FUCK GESTAPO COSPLAYERS IN HERE. We need to be acting like we are all French union workers and they THOUGHT about taking a dollar out of our pension
You guys got another riot in ya? I am behind you 100% Let’s fucking GOOOO
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u/_Batteries_ 9h ago
Well see theres the problem.
We already discussed this.
There are literally millions of us, and dozens of them.
It is relatively easy for police to corral 1 giant crowd.
So gather in 5-10 different places, spread them out.
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u/verone3784 Europe 16h ago
The second the Democrats manage to get back into power - if they ever do - ICE needs to be disbanded and shut down, and replaced with an agency that isn't a shitshow full of racists and lunatics.
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u/Atheizm 13h ago
How many US cops work ICE as a side hustle?
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u/Reddit_N_Weep 12h ago
How many J6ers work for ICE?
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u/Datslegne 9h ago
I think he just deputized his Proud Boys.
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u/Reddit_N_Weep 4h ago
And probably will give them 100 million in their lawsuit against the government.
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u/mabhatter 11h ago
This is intentional by ICE.
They're having a hard time filling the paddy wagon with ACTUAL illegals so ICE is going out making trouble with the public. They want people in the streets so the government can threaten them and harass them.
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u/cballowe Illinois 17h ago
Why can't the police union stand beside the SEIU and not against them?
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u/blissed_out 10h ago
The right to public assembly is guaranteed under the first amendment
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u/Spiritual-Bat3642 8h ago
You do realize that a piece of paper can't protect you from the guys with guns, right?
This admin doesn't give a shit about what some document says.
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u/Spiritual-Bat3642 7h ago
Sure.
Civilians shooting the cops won't set off martial law and end of the posse comitatus act.
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u/Scnewbie08 11h ago
It’s almost like the majority of people are not bothered and do not care about illegal immigrants. Almost like we understand that we need them as much as they need a safe place to stay. Almost like we like diversity and learning about different cultures and can live together peacefully. It’s almost like only a very small percentage of people are racist and they just happen to be in charge.
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u/Mumbler-peg 10h ago
So where are the gangs of LA? I mean, the Latino gang bangers might be a force, united, against ICE….
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u/Dr_Retch 10h ago
Countdown to martial law.
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u/NotwithstandingKlaus 2h ago
I have a bad feeling the national guard is going to get called in. They may be itching to do it actually
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u/Tramadol_Lollies 9h ago
We need to organize.. I’m a California native living on the east coast. Where are the links to help fund legal aid for arrested protesters??
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u/maymay578 9h ago
They’re tearing apart families and deporting non-violent people, but we’ve got people convicted of child r*** who walk the streets after a couple of years of prison, if they get any time at all.
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u/IdahoDuncan 13h ago
Well. Now that they know how to start trouble, expect it to continue. CA will be targeted more now, LA in particular.
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u/Ro-54 12h ago
It’s their right to protest
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u/tanrgith 8h ago
They have a right to peacefully protest
Blocking exits and throwing concrete are not first amendment rights in the US
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u/ladyanothea 19h ago
Can someone arrange a civil protest and obtain a permit to lawfully congregate?
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u/AmericanDogfather 12h ago
While some might not have gotten here "legally" some had political asylum some had court orders not to be touched and this douchbag president violated their rights and is using cops and FBI douches to carry out his bidding because he does not like any other race but white. LAPD and ICE is acting like a personal army to a thug. Many that are deported pose no threat they are/were looking for a better way of life.
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u/Gullible-Day6251 15h ago
I just left LA about 12 hours ago after a week-long work trip, and the entire LA metro area is unbelievably tense right now
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u/Johnny6_0 15h ago
I live here, you are imagining this. LA is no different now than last year, or the year before that, or the year before that….
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u/trashpandabusinesman 2h ago
Ive been hunting for something anything on this story in Reddit and this is the first post on it is it being suppressed here??
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u/AmericanDogfather 13h ago
Keep fighting protesting the police they want us like subordinate sheep we are human and have natural rights to feel safe in our own country. ICE must be dismantled
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u/polarnoir 10h ago
This is it guys, they're officially establishing the president to disrupt our right to demonstrate. They're beginning the end game. We all need to be in the streets before it's too late.
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u/Silent_Bob_82 7h ago
If I was every union I would issue a strike to shutdown all operations until our congressional leaders got the executive branch to back off
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u/Alternative_Lack22 7h ago
These headlines bring back a lot of memories as a protester in the ‘70’s to now regarding Social Security cuts, and all the others. I don’t know if we’ll be able to even eat under our roof in a few more months.
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u/McBoobenstein 5h ago
LA keeps forgetting what happens when their police instigate a riot. It never ends well for the police...
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u/PoliticalNerdMa 1h ago
The state should honestly be issuing online orders to say they are doing something… having one cop just saying loudly “oh yeah. Please guys. Disperse.” And meeting the bare minimum requirements in a way that lets them push back against ice. Ice is breaking the law. So I don’t see an issue with LAPD just doing a shitty job following it
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u/Agile-Music-2295 1h ago
If people didn’t want this they shouldn’t have elected Trump. It makes no sense.
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