June 8, 2025 • 39 mins
Michael Monks - Armed agents in tactical gear used flash-bang grenades to disperse a crowd in Los Angeles's Fashion District and fired less-than-lethal ammunition at protesters outside a detention center. Federal officials announced that 9-year-old fourth grader Martir Garcia Lara, a student at Torrance Elementary School, will be deported after he and his father, Martir Garcia-Banegas, 50, were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during an immigration hearing on May 29. The two were separated after expecting an update on their immigration status.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's always a pleasure and honor spending time with you.
Special coverage today of the ongoing protests and then the response,
and now National Guard is on the ground. So we'll
be turning with our reporter Michael Monks, who's kind of
bouncing between downtown and the detention center in Alameda Street.
So we'll check with Michael Monks here very shortly as
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we continue here for the next couple of hours. More
protests are scheduled today, and I think sometimes we tend
to conflate the word protest with riot. There are more
protests scheduled today at two o'clock. Now will those turn violent?
Will they turn unruly? That remains to be seen. Protesting
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still allowed, unruly violence not allowed. The governor has said
that he's that the bringing on of the National Guard,
the militarization of the police, is going to escalate things
that is inflaming and already tense SITUATIONUA. The President had
remarked in the past that he wished he had responded
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more forcefully in his first term when the Black Lives
Matter protests erupted, and he said the next time around
he's not going to wait. This seems to be that
example of the next time around, the first time that
the president has called for the National Guard without consultation
from a governor since I believe Alabama nineteen sixty five
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when they were trying to get kids into desegregated schools.
So it is an historical a time that we're saying,
we haven't seen this in sixty years that a president
has acted outside of a consultation with a governor to
deploy the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But that is what we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
The President said he's going to send two thousand National
Guards men and women. The governor says it's only about
three hundred that are here right now. We do have
an update that White House borders are Tom Holman was
talking with NBC News Jacob sober Off and said that
the raids are going to continue in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They're not going to be deterred.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Demonstrations and clashes with law enforcement are not going to
stop ice efforts.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
When asked what was.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Different as a National Guard has never been deployed in
that capacity by the president, Holman said that I'm going
violent rhetoric could lead to a loss of life. This
from ABC seven. Here's what Homan said. The protesters are
purpose excuse me, purposely trying to overwhelm law enforcement. President
Trump's bringing in the National Guard again. I want to
be clear, not just to protect the law enforcement officers,
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to protect this community because people are going to get in.
I'm telling you, the rhetoric is so high against ice
officers in this city. It's a matter of time before
someone gets seriously hurt.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He continued.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
If this rhetoric continues, this violence continue, someone's going to
lose their life. It's an anti Trump agenda and anti
ICE agenda, and they're going to keep coming. But we
got help coming and we're going to do our job,
continue doing that job. He went on to then say
that there could be charges not just against the demonstrators, protesters,
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people turning violent, but actually against elected officials. Governor Gavin
Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass could face federal charges if
their response to ICE raids exceed legal boundaries. He says,
I'll say it about anybody, if you cross that line.
It's a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien.
It's a felony to impede law enforcement from doing their job.
When asked if Bass was crossing the line, he said,
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if she crosses that line, we'll ask the DOJ to prosecute.
Do I think she's crossing I don't think she's crossed
the line yet, but I'm telling you the warning we're signing, Yes,
the warning we're signing is we're not going to tolerate
people attacking our officers. Holman had suggested that the Attorney General,
Pam Bondi, was considering charges against officials who supported the protests.
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When asked, he said, I think Pambondi the Department of
Justice is looking at that. And you know, like I said,
many times, he's elected officials or these non government organizations.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
They can't cross the line either.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I mean, we got people like you know, Hakim Jeffrey
is saying he's going to doc's ice employees.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So I guess we're looking at arresting anybody who disagrees.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
There's a big difference between protesting, disagreeing, vehemently disagreeing, and
even that dirty word rhetoric just means talk and taking
malicious action. And one of the things that I think
we're starting to witness here, and we see this in
most authoritarian type regimes is that if you're not with us,
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you're against us.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
In other words, if you're.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Protesting the crackdown on illegal immigration, which is which is
a quite visible crackdown. The numbers are not exorbitant, the
numbers aren't crazy. The numbers are in line with what
we've seen with previous presidents. But what we're seeing is
a very public display of might. So we've got ice
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that's going out, we want to make sure there's cameras
on them.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We've got the.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Homeland Security Secretary who's gonna go out and she's gonna
put on her bullet proof vest and she's going to
go out there and accompany these officers and make sure
there's cameras on them. And then we're seeing crackdowns on
people who are by no means a threat to their communities.
We're seeing crackdowns on people that have been members of
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the community for years. We're seeing crackdowns on kids nine
year olds, and they're all very visible. And this is
a bit of signaling to the base that the president
is doing what he promised. He is getting rid of
anyone who is here without documents, and those documents are
the most important things. And so when people stand up
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and they say, how dare you? And we've seen this
in red states too. There was a story that was
being covered with a woman who was running a cafe
in Kentucky where eighty percent voted for Trump, and Ice
came in and arrested her. She'd been there for decades,
and the people said, wait a minute, well that's we
liked her.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
We didn't know what it was going to be about that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We thought it was just we thought it was people
in California, right, And there's no there doesn't seem to
be any differentiation because for the longest time during the campaign,
he heard from the president and actually you heard from
Elon Musk back when they were still buddies, that the
goal was to get rid of the worst, right, the
gang bangers, the drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers. But
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it turns out we're actually targeting the some people I
suppose are probably good people. Part of his his equation,
it's easier to grab somebody who's a law abiding citizen.
We're seeing this at a number of immigration court hearings
across the country, where you've got the person who's here
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is showing up for their status hearing they're showing up
and then ICE pops in. The prosecutors dismissed the case
so that there's no reason to hold them any longer.
Ice shows up and arrest them of the parking lot,
sin it all over the place, and of course this
ends up erupting into the protests that we saw, you know,
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over the weekend, and then obviously as things started to
get ugly last night, they turned very destructive.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
KTLA was covering some of what was happening.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Chaos and calamity rocked Paramount Saturday, on the second day
of demonstrations against federal immigration operations in southern California. KTLA
was on the ground and in the air, capturing the
explosive environment.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, the shots you're hearing are rubber bullets that they're using,
the mayor of Paramount says.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Tension escalated after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE,
and other federal agents were apparently staging at or near
a local home depot center, but.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I here in the community.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Throngs of protesters gathered in the industrial area, sparking more
clashes between law enforcement and members of the community. Crowds
taunted authorities, with some people going so far as to
block a US Marshal's service bus, while others hurled rocks
and other objects at law enforcement vehicles. According to the
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La County Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, and I mean we saw the videos. It's not
even a According to the sheriff, our eyes don't deceive us.
We saw people throwing rocks at the vehicles.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Federal agents responded with pepperballs, rubber bullets, tear gas, and
flash bangs in the.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Last several hours. I mean, that's like warzone, right, war zone.
So unfortunately the crowd.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Has Honestly, if it weren't for the clothes that people
are wearing, and I'm serious right now, if it weren't
for the clothes that people were wearing, if you saw
this footage, would you know the difference between this and
say Gaza or the streets of Kiev. No, No, I
mean you'd see, you'd see a military presence, you'd see
people throwing rocks, and you'd see the military using a
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heavy handed response. I mean, we are, we are seeing
a certain portion of civilization unraveling, and the problem. The
problem is both sides are fighting over how to be
more civilized. One side says we need to be more authoritariative,
more authoritative, and if we just take control then people
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will be free. Nothing's just freedom like control. Then you've
got the other side that's saying, how dare you be
so heavy handed? We are going to fight you with
violence because nothing says civil like violence, and nothing says
leave us alone, like come and get us. You're not
dealing with the you know, dealing with a whole lot
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of people that are thinking through things, are you? The
crowd has grown, we believe at this time it's at
approximately three hundred and fifty, maybe four hundred.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
As the crowd has grown, it has become more violent.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
A wooden palette and then a car went up in
flames during the unrest, sending black smoke into the air.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And why are you lighting cars on fire? What the
hell sense does that? Bank?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Ah, we're protesting, only are you then? I mean you
look like you're celebrating a Dodgers World series. Stop lighting
cars on fire? What is the matter with you? Not
a lot of thinking through by anybody here. The strategy
by law.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Enforcement is to crush opposition.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And even Tom Holman, the the borders are said, we're
gonna get them. They're anti Trump literally says, they're anti Trump.
So is this about Trump? Is this about undocumented immigrants?
Is this about getting the rapists, the murderers, the drug dealers?
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Trendea Ragua I always mispronounced that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
What is this about? He says.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
If the violence continues, if the rhetoric continues, someone's going
to lose their life. It's an anti Trump agenda.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
U H.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So is that what this is about? It's all political?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Is it about safety or is it about the anti
Trump agenda. We'll talk with Michael Monks, who is live
and in the midst of where we assume there's gonna
be some more protests this afternoon. Those are supposed to
start at two o'clock. Will they turn unruly? Hard to say.
Will the presence of the National Guard there make things safer?
Or will that inflame the already burning embers of what
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we saw happen yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
We'll find out from Michael Monks. Next.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
More protests was scheduled for two o'clock exceptternoon downtown our
own Michael Monks is all over and actually Michael's been
working since early this morning and he's gonna be working
throughout the day to make sure that you have the
latest the raids. Yesterday the ice raids turned destructive because
you had ice raids and then you had protesters.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You had a staging area.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
In Paramount where people got word, hey, there's a staging
area going on here, and then they started protesting and
it turned ugly, which, if I'm being honest, is kind
of what I think some people wanted to see. They
wanted an excuse to come in with the heavy hand.
They wanted to be able to send in the military
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and say, look how strong, look how mighty we are,
and this administration and is not going to allow the
criminal element to run wild in our streets any longer.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
And then they made it political.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Too, the presidents of these Democrat run cities. Democratic run cities,
but that's right, Democrat run cities, he said, are the problem,
which means that if you don't have documents, go to
Orange County, because that's not they're not focusing They're not
focusing on Republican areas. So just if you don't have documents,
just grab the fam head to Orange County. You're gonna
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be safe there. I mean, that's not true, but probably safer.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
We're seeing new video shows from maybe seven showing the
chaotic moments protesters and federal agents clashed across Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
It marked the second day in a row of unrest
as ice rates continue. Explosive flash bangs and clouds of
tear gas filled downtown LA. Last night, is police declared
an unlawful assembly. There also appears to be some looting
at a cannon store and Compton lapd sais Why are
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you looting?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They?
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I really support people who are here fighting for their lives.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And I'm gonna support him even better with these peanut
m and ms.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
But Michael Monks is KFI reporter who has been covering this. Michael,
I know you've been working since early this morning and
all this stuff, So thank you so much for taking
time and then doing it at this special coverage broadcast
that we have going on today.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Where are you now and what's the latest that you're hearing.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I'm on Alameda Street outside the Federal Building, and I'll
tell you there's a lot of spray paint on the wall,
there's a lot of noise, and you know, you might
think this is just a usual day in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You wouldn't be wrong.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
The difference this time is that there are military guys here,
uniformed military personnel with very large guns, with large sticks,
and they are lined up facing off with about one
hundred hundred and fifty protesters right now. It's what you
might describe as team a little bit of chirpiness, a
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little bit of barking and jawing back and forth, some
birds being flipped.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That sort of thing to have no sort of action.
But there are.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Military vehicles parked here, DHS police are here outside this
federal building right now. A lot of honking on the street,
honking and support, a lot of chance. But so far
it's just kind of a stare down.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Does it feel tense with this starenup?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
No, You've got a couple of rabble rousers in the
crowd that are trying to get a little more action going.
Whether or not that's going to be effective is yet
to be seen. It's been interesting over the past few
days because it's daytime right now, and it has been
in the daytime where most of the violent activity has
taken place. It seems at nighttime it looks more like
this a little chippiness, a little bit of violence, not much,
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but mostly just staring down until finally it evaporates. But
it has been in the daytime where most of the
activity has taken place.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, that seems a little bit odd to me.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Usually, you know, your protesters, your genuine protesters, will head
home and then you've got the rabble rousers out a
little bit later at night.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Doesn't seem to necessarily be the case this time around them, No,
not at all.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
And you know, this has drawn a pretty sizable crowd.
There's also apparently some demonstrations according to the laped outside
their Central Division office as well as on Olvera Street.
I've not made it over to either of those locations yet.
This seems to be ground zero for these protests for
the past few days.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
It's believed that some.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Of the people who have been detained by ice may
be housed inside this building. And it is absolutely covered
in profanity and a variety of different messages that have
been spray painted here over the past forty eight seventy
two hours. And there looks like there's some folks who
may be anxious to get back.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
To that type of work. But with the military here,
the vibe is a little different.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
So what's the involvement of the LAPD right now? I
mean this is this is in their backyard. So are
they showing up or are they leaving everything to the
National Guard or to the federal enforcement.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Well, this looks like a jurisdictional situation. This is fout property.
So there is Department of Homeland Security police. They are
uniformed and they are wearing their heavy gear as well.
They've got their mask on, they've got their weapons at
they're ready, and they are also surrounded by what is
believed to be California National Guardsmen who have been deployed
here at a few different sites around LA. So this
is not the LAPD's jurisdiction. Should it spill out into
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the streets, should we start to see that type of
activity take place like we've seen the past couple of days,
that's where you'll start to see LAPD.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Need to answer the call.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
And that's also where we've seen conflicting reports from local
officials and national officials about the speed and urgency with
which LAPD has responded. Because LAPD has a policy they
have since the seventies they don't assist in immigration enforcement efforts.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
But they are supposed to keep the peace otherwise.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
So whether or not they've done it on a time
frame that has been acceptable, that's what's been debated.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Michael Monks is downtown, he's said, near the while we
I think it's the detention center. It's the federal building
off Alameda, and Michael, the vibe right now is chill.
Have you been able to talk with any of the protesters?
I just wonder what goes through their minds on a
day like this when they know they're going to go protest,
They know they're going to face somebody who's holding a
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big gun, probably a helmet, and has been told stands still,
don't react unless you know you have to whatever. So
I mean, how does one this is gonna sound silly,
but I mean it. How does one just go about
their normal day as they prepare for something like this.
Have you been able to talk with any of them?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I think this is what we've heard from folks is
they're angry or they're scared, and like many protests, this
is something that gives you the opportunity to let it
out a little bit, even if nothing is going to
change today. You got the shout, you got to point
you let some anger out. The challenge will be whether
people who came down to protest in a First Amendment way,
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in a peaceful way, even if they're a little loud,
even if they're a little profane, are they going to
get swept up in people that see this as an
opportunity to misbehave. Even if these other folks don't support
the calls at hand, they just want to engage in mischief.
That's that's got to be some of their concerns as well. Yeah,
I think that's what we see so often with these
protests that get out of hand, is you have you
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have the the truble.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Looting? I mean, why is anybody looting? Doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
It never does whenever we see any of these protests,
whether it was Black Lives Matter, whether it's this, whether
it's Rodney King, Why are we stealing things? It just
just there's no there's no logic to it other than
crimes of opportunity. Protesters have a very fine line that
they have to walk in order to garner sympathy from
people that otherwise haven't.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Been paying attention.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
And you know, you cross that fine line in the
wrong direction, you're gonna lose folks forever.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Absolutely absolutely all right, Michael Muggs at the detention center.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
We'll check with you a little bit later on here too.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Michael, thank you so much for for the ongoing coverage
and putting yourself there.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I was just thinking, if you're if you're somebody who
is who's big into this cause, and you're getting ready
and you're going to protest, and you know it's going
to be a big day, and you know that things
could potentially turn.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Violent, you don't know. You hope they don't.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Some do, but you know, I'm just the average Joe Schmo.
I'm just thinking, I mean, what do you have for breakfast?
It sounds facetious, but it's not think about when you
get up, Like you go to sleep after whatever happened yesterday,
and you're probably all wound up. You probably don't sleep
very well. Then you wake up and you go, okay,
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I mean, I'm going to go back downtown, so do you.
But I gotta take a shower, walk the dog, have
some oatmeal.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
The whole time.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's got to be this weird, almost purgatory feel before
you're about to get back into what has the potential
to be a very volatile situation. At the very least,
your plans are I'm just going to scream and I'm
gonna let my frustrations out, as Michael said, yep, But does.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It does it get worse? Does it boil over?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And if it does boil over, maybe they don't even
know where they plan on landing if things start to
get violent.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Tough to say.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I talked about some of the rubber bullets. You're going
to hear about these rubber bullets in just a few moments.
As the protests are scheduled to begin again today. As
you hear Michael Monks say, about one hundred people already
at the federal building off Alameda, and there are more
planning on showing up a little bit later on this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
More on that next.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
First time a president has called for National Guard deployment
without consultation of the local governor since nineteen sixty five.
So a big deal that's going on, and the National
Guard has arrived.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
They are on the scene.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
We're seeing new video showing the chaotic moments protesters and
federal agents clashed across Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
From maybec seven plus.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
It marked the second day in a row of unread
as ice rates continue. Explosive flash bangs and clouds of
tear gas filled downtown LA.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Last night. Is police declared an unlawful assembly.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
There also appears to be some looting at a convenience
store in Compton.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Lapd says, yeah, I made mention of this in the
last eightment. What it sense. It doesn't make any sense
to go looting. But listen, if you are someone who
is you gotta go to the convenience store. Do you
want to pick up your rock Star energy and maybe
a bag of Doritos? Just be cautious. There's people out
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there that are looking to start looting for the sake
of looting.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
I guess they detained several people and eventually arrested twenty seven.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
And this comes as the National Guard troops that President
Trump ordered have started to arrive.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
When assumes reporter Amanda Pelasios joins US Live from downtown
Los Angeles with the breaking update.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Amanda, good morning, yew. We've already seen a large, growing
National Guard presidence here in downtown LA. If you take
a look behind me here you can see. Troops are
stationed along Alameda Street as another protest is expected to
take place later today near City Hall.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And that is similar to what we heard from Michael Monks,
who was there right now. We'll check with Michael here
in about another ten or fifteen minutes too.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
This follows President Trump's deployment of two thousand National Guard
members in response to a series of immigration protests across
the city. This is new video from overnight showing the
troops arrive. They stopped at City Hall after driving through Paramount,
then knitted up here at the Federal Building meantime. This
follows another night of protest all right, and video from
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last night shows tense moments in downtown LA as protesters
clashed with police, some setting off fireworks and starting fires.
Officers responded with what appeared to be tear gas to
disperse the crowds, and a separate incident, demonstrators were seen
entering a damaged convenience store in Compton and looting items
for I'm inside.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, we said that. That doesn't make any sense to me.
According to the LP, I just don't have the mindset.
I'm fine with the mindset of a protester. I'm fine
with the mindset of somebody that's so frustrated they have
to go to the streets and they have to scream
and they have to say what they got to say.
And look, that's not political. We've seen that from the left,
from the right. That is, someone who's passionate about their viewpoint.
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Our country was founded on that. But turning things into
looting just doesn't make any sense. There's no logic behind
it whatsoever.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
According to the LPD, multiple individuals who would turn to
the area after disperse order was issued on Elemeda Street
were detained in our expect to be to be booked
for failure to disperse.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
All right, so that's civil infraction. They're booked for that.
My guess probably chargers are going to be dropped. We
see this all the time when it comes to civil
civil unrest and civil disobedience, where you get people who
are arrested for staying in the way and not leaving
when they're supposed to. They get arrested and then the
charges end up getting dropped or they end up with something,
you know, community service.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Or somebody of that sort.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
We spoke with meyerbas about the deployment of the National
Guard and believes it's not necessary.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh what she.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Said, my concern. And we have experienced civil unrest, and
I remember nineteen ninety two very well that one of
the worst things you can do is have an extreme
presence of law enforcement that gets everybody agitated, and the
Violence Act actually escalates it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Okay, And today's protest is scheduled for two PM, and
the LPED says officers and the National Guard were remain
stationed in this area reporting in downtown Late Amanda Plosius.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
All right, so national Guard is there. About three hundred troops,
is what we're hearing. The President said he was going
to send two thousand, but it ends up being like
three hundred so far. That doesn't mean we're not going
to have two thousand. It's three hundred so far. So
larger protests expected around two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
What does that mean? Honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And I think this is why it's such a tense
and anxious moment for everyone that's witnessing this.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
This is happening in your city or your backyard. Right.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
This is a Southern California issue. I can tell you
the people of Omaha are not paying very close attention
to this. Other than the political wonks who want to
be able to argue about this over coffee with someone
who has a different viewpoint, those are the only people
who are really paying attention to this outside of our area,
other than people who may have documentation issues. They're watching
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what's going on in southern California as well, which is
part of why this show of force is so important
for the administration to show we're cracking down, we're doing
it right, We're coming after you, and if you're here
without documents, self deport now right. It's part of the messaging.
(26:52):
What will be interesting to see is if cooler heads prevail,
And by cooler I don't mean don't yell, don't scream, whatever.
What I mean is they're going to be rock throwing.
Will there be water bottles being thrown? Will there will
we have to see tear gas and rubber bullets and
things of that nature. Again, rubber bullets, of course, were
being used uh yesterday as well, and I would assume
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that the rubber bullet guns are are loaded and ready
for today.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
The Violin clash and Paramount protesters face to face with
Border Patrol agents one side, hurling rocks and bottles the
other firing back with pepper spray and rubber bullets.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Just chaos, man, Just chaos. Now, some of this, some
of this is coming from the protesters. So you're hearing
some of the explosions, the flash bangs, the the tear gas,
the rubber bullets that are coming from U enforcement. But
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some of what you're hearing, like the fireworks, those are
coming from the protesters, which, of course, the whole situation
continues to get escalated.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Sources tel Fox eleven Border Patrol agents Saturday morning. We're
here across the street from Home Depot for a staging
area possibly prepping for an immigration rate.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, across the street from the Home depot. And as
we know, there have been other raids that have happened
at the home depots. Look, you've got people who are
there without documents, that are sitting out front and they're
they're looking for daytime labor jobs.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It is it is, uh, it is easy pickings for ice. Boom.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
They pull in surround these guys and you go, I'm
gonna grab you and you and you and you and
you and you and you and you everybody in the
van boom and then they go boop. We got our
dozen guys today. You don't have to go tracking people down,
you don't have to go finding somebody who's in a gang.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You know, it's really easy pickings. That's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Protesters then moved in.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You think it's get in our hand, not patrol everybody.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
Right now, local officials speaking with demonstrators.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
These are hard working community members.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
People are rich. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
These We have to protect community and make sure they
have rights like anybody else.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All right.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
So there's somebody this protesting because they believe very firmly
in their stance, Okay, And I think that gets lost sometimes.
I think what we end up seeing is this this
binary choice that media is covering law enforcement and law breakers.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Right, there is no middle ground.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
It's undocumented immigrants who are throwing rocks at law enforcement
who are trying to keep America safe, and that sort
of eliminates the gray area.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Video obtained exclusively by Fox shows federal authorities trying to
leave the ten situation, taking on rocks and chunks of concrete.
At least one agent injured.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, that's not cool, alright, So we're.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
Seeing agitators throwing items towards numbers of black and they're
firing right back. It feels like a war zone out.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Here, which is the point I made earlier. It's a
war zone right now.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And if you're a protester who's throwing something, you're an agitator.
If you're law enforcement who's throwing something, well, you're part
of a controlling the crowd perspective is everything, isn't it.
We'll check with Michael Monks, who continues his reporting from
outside the detention set of the Federal Building off of Alameda.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Michael Monks joins us.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Next, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, a.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Special coverage of the ongoing protests, and we'll find out
exactly whether or not things are gonna get violent again today.
Hopefully what we saw yesterday, the clashes that were going
on to Paramount Compton are the the culmination of the
most that we see of the protests turning violent. Michael Monks, though,
(31:07):
is at the Federal Building downtown, and really we had
three different sites yesterday, right we had Compton, we had Paramount,
and then Downtown didn't really get all that violent.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
At least that was some of the reporting I was hearing.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Now downtown kept itself relatively tame last night, and it
looks as though the issues in Compton spilled over from
Paramount once the protest was pushed out of that area,
So it did end up being at three different sites,
but kind of a two different events. Right here now
on Alameda Street outside the Federal Building, where we do
see military in their full military guard, military vehicles, military weapons,
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along with Department of Homeland Security police. This crowd of
anti ice demonstrators has grown probably doubled in size since
we talked twenty or so minutes ago, and it's gotten
much louder, and now it's become a bit of a
traffic issue, a traffic very slow moving across Alameda, and
that's because it's spilled into the streets a little bit.
And so brazen was one guy that he's parked his
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mini van blocking two lanes and pulled out a couple
of grills as if we were about to have a
little asada out here on a Sunday afternoon. He seems
to have been disabused of that notion and has packed
up his grill and is starting to leave. But you
hear the honking. Some of those are honks of support.
Some of those are honks of frustration by people who
maybe didn't get the mimmo and just want to get
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out of dodge.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
But it is, you know, there's a lot of tones.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
There's a lot of honking, a lot of yelling, and yes,
the atmosphere is certainly intensified, certainly the volume, but still
not a lot of violent activity right now. Just a
lot of shouting, a lot of jib jabbing so.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Far, okay, and that's great, that's fine. What is the
demeor of the National guardsmen that are there, the others
that are standing guard.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Are they being chill and just observing, stonefaced, good stoic
standing here, just looking at the crowd, not engaging at all.
They clearly got their orders and no better than to engage,
so they are prepared though. They've got pretty good sized
guns here and pretty good.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Sized sticks as well.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
If these folks here's the scene, basically, we're in the
loading dock behind the main entrance of the federal building
and there are military vehicles part tier. This protest is
taking place on the sidewalk. If folks start to spill
into that loading dock area, the parking lot outside the
loading dock that's when they might meet some of these sticks.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Okay, And that's based on what I was seeing from
some of the other reporting, and obviously I'm working from
the confines of the studio. This is kind of where
we saw things happening yesterday as well. Was right at
the loading docks. In fact, some people I believe were
trying to get into the building yesterday and that's when
they were repelled out with some of the tear gas yesterday.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
But again didn't turn all that violent.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Just seem to be a lot of what you're seeing today,
plus some people trying to get into the building.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, I'll note that.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Look, there are protests happening across the country and they're
going to continue as long as this ice activity take place.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
But I would say Lay's special.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Breed when it comes to organizing and getting people to protest.
The message goes out and people respond quickly, and the
numbers typically swell, and there are agitators. There are people
that are always at the ready to escalate the situation,
who really want to take out more than just frustration.
They want to take out long simmering anger on governments,
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on industries, on traditions, and those sorts of things, and
that's what I think we've seen in La so far
when it has escalated. Don't see much of that right now,
but that doesn't mean it's not going to come. There
is a bigger rally scheduled at about two o'clock at
city Halls the few blocks from here, and we'll see
what type of characters show up for that.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
So Michael Bunks is reporting from the Federal building there
on Alameda, and I'm looking at the I'm looking at
the traffic maps right now, and that looks like such
a mess.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Did you say that the dude he set up his
grill like on Elamina.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Yeah, he pulled a minivan over and blocked the two
right lanes and then pulled out a pair of grills
and looked like he was prepared to start cooking. But
he has since packed up the grill, but his van
is still blocking two lanes. Traffic pretty slow moving past here,
and that's because the sidewalk is only so large here,
and now it is spilling out into the street. And
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my curiosity is now towards who's coming down for the
city hall protests?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Are they going to stop by here first? How big
is this crowd going?
Speaker 5 (35:27):
To get and is this crowd going to disperse and
go to city hall or are you going to have
multiple scenes taking place?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, all right, let's check in with you again here
after we do news, Michael, if that's all right, because
I do want to hear I know you were at
city hall earlier. I want to hear a little bit
about that and then I can hear it sounds like
sounds like more people keep showing up the longer than
than I keep talking. So absolutely discussing. You're just a
few boma sor right. Thank you very much, Michael, monksters
live there. I just got word from the city of
Pasadena is aware of a gathering taking place near a
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location within the city and members of the Pasadena Police
Department are monitoring that situation. The city encourages all those
in attendance to remain peaceful, in law abiding is nonviolent.
Protest is a powerful tool for those who seek change.
At this time, the city is not aware of any
federal law enforcement action in the city, including those regarding immigration.
So that is a statement from Pasadena. You heard Michael
(36:16):
say that there were protests elsewhere. There are Chicago, New York,
a lot of it happening. But something unique about Los
Angeles is he did point out that we seem to
have agitators at the ready. Be curious to see if
those agitators are at the ready to really make these
shenanigans violent this afternoon, or if this is more about
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civil disobedience and in simply obstruction of you know, ICE
doing whatever it is that they're going to do. But honestly,
if ICE isn't doing anything other than detaining people, then
there's really unless they're going out and arresting people. I
don't know that these agitators are going to get worked up, right.
(37:02):
There's nothing to really escalate the situation unless they decide
to start escalating that situation. Be curious to hear from
Michael Monks. We will after one o'clock about what the
situation is at City Hall. He may mention that there
were protests that were set to go on there. We
do hear that there's going to be protests going on
starting at two o'clock this afternoon. So we are going
to be live right up until two o'clock. Then we'll
(37:23):
hand things over to another live show. I'm back this
afternoon at four. We'll have a bit of a recap
of what we see going on here and then some
of the other things that are going on in southern California.
Of course across the United States as well. Because of
the tensions that are happening, we are seeing that there
are some other events where the organizers have just no,
I'm not talking about protest organizers. Other organizers of other
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events in the area have just said, not really worth
our time. It's not worth going out there and being
at the center of a news story tomorrow. So we're
seeing some cancelations. If you had plans today, you're gonna
want to check and see if they're still going on,
because some places they're saying nope.
Speaker 11 (38:02):
This is from KTLA breaking news out of the city
of Whittier, where a swap meet that happens typically every
Sunday over at cal Hi in the parking lot has
been canceled due to possible ice activity.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Today.
Speaker 11 (38:13):
An email and a Facebook post was sent out informing
all the vendors of the cancelation. Impossible ice activity again
in Whittier. Also in commerce in Santa Fe Springs, the
vendors who weren't aware were told.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
To go home once they arrived. That's a booger.
Speaker 12 (38:30):
It's sad. It's sad the way we're living. People living
in fear like this, it's incredible. I mean, I never
lived through something like this, where people are living in
fear because they got to watch out for ice.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
It's crazy.
Speaker 12 (38:44):
This is crazy.
Speaker 11 (38:46):
The Whittier Swap Meet again held at the California High
School every Sunday in the parking lot there. The hundreds
of weekly vendors are hopeful that they can return next week.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah, I hope so too. Love me a good swap meet.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
All right, we'll get the latest from Michael Munksy was
at city Hall earlier. I believe he is going to
be back there for the protests That is scheduled for
two o'clock at City Hall, but right now an awful
lot of people are gathering there at the Federal Building
off Alameda. You'll hear live from downtown next KFI AM
six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's always a pleasure and honor spending time with you.
Special coverage today of the ongoing protests and then the response,
and now National Guard is on the ground. So we'll
be turning with our reporter Michael Monks, who's kind of
bouncing between downtown and the detention center in Alameda Street.
So we'll check with Michael Monks here very shortly as
(00:24):
we continue here for the next couple of hours. More
protests are scheduled today, and I think sometimes we tend
to conflate the word protest with riot. There are more
protests scheduled today at two o'clock. Now will those turn violent?
Will they turn unruly? That remains to be seen. Protesting
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still allowed, unruly violence not allowed. The governor has said
that he's that the bringing on of the National Guard,
the militarization of the police, is going to escalate things
that is inflaming and already tense SITUATIONUA. The President had
remarked in the past that he wished he had responded
(01:07):
more forcefully in his first term when the Black Lives
Matter protests erupted, and he said the next time around
he's not going to wait. This seems to be that
example of the next time around, the first time that
the president has called for the National Guard without consultation
from a governor since I believe Alabama nineteen sixty five
(01:28):
when they were trying to get kids into desegregated schools.
So it is an historical a time that we're saying,
we haven't seen this in sixty years that a president
has acted outside of a consultation with a governor to
deploy the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But that is what we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
The President said he's going to send two thousand National
Guards men and women. The governor says it's only about
three hundred that are here right now. We do have
an update that White House borders are Tom Holman was
talking with NBC News Jacob sober Off and said that
the raids are going to continue in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They're not going to be deterred.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Demonstrations and clashes with law enforcement are not going to
stop ice efforts.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
When asked what was.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Different as a National Guard has never been deployed in
that capacity by the president, Holman said that I'm going
violent rhetoric could lead to a loss of life. This
from ABC seven. Here's what Homan said. The protesters are
purpose excuse me, purposely trying to overwhelm law enforcement. President
Trump's bringing in the National Guard again. I want to
be clear, not just to protect the law enforcement officers,
(02:31):
to protect this community because people are going to get in.
I'm telling you, the rhetoric is so high against ice
officers in this city. It's a matter of time before
someone gets seriously hurt.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He continued.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
If this rhetoric continues, this violence continue, someone's going to
lose their life. It's an anti Trump agenda and anti
ICE agenda, and they're going to keep coming. But we
got help coming and we're going to do our job,
continue doing that job. He went on to then say
that there could be charges not just against the demonstrators, protesters,
(03:06):
people turning violent, but actually against elected officials. Governor Gavin
Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass could face federal charges if
their response to ICE raids exceed legal boundaries. He says,
I'll say it about anybody, if you cross that line.
It's a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien.
It's a felony to impede law enforcement from doing their job.
When asked if Bass was crossing the line, he said,
(03:27):
if she crosses that line, we'll ask the DOJ to prosecute.
Do I think she's crossing I don't think she's crossed
the line yet, but I'm telling you the warning we're signing, Yes,
the warning we're signing is we're not going to tolerate
people attacking our officers. Holman had suggested that the Attorney General,
Pam Bondi, was considering charges against officials who supported the protests.
(03:51):
When asked, he said, I think Pambondi the Department of
Justice is looking at that. And you know, like I said,
many times, he's elected officials or these non government organizations.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
They can't cross the line either.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I mean, we got people like you know, Hakim Jeffrey
is saying he's going to doc's ice employees.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So I guess we're looking at arresting anybody who disagrees.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
There's a big difference between protesting, disagreeing, vehemently disagreeing, and
even that dirty word rhetoric just means talk and taking
malicious action. And one of the things that I think
we're starting to witness here, and we see this in
most authoritarian type regimes is that if you're not with us,
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you're against us.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
In other words, if you're.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Protesting the crackdown on illegal immigration, which is which is
a quite visible crackdown. The numbers are not exorbitant, the
numbers aren't crazy. The numbers are in line with what
we've seen with previous presidents. But what we're seeing is
a very public display of might. So we've got ice
(05:03):
that's going out, we want to make sure there's cameras
on them.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We've got the.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Homeland Security Secretary who's gonna go out and she's gonna
put on her bullet proof vest and she's going to
go out there and accompany these officers and make sure
there's cameras on them. And then we're seeing crackdowns on
people who are by no means a threat to their communities.
We're seeing crackdowns on people that have been members of
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the community for years. We're seeing crackdowns on kids nine
year olds, and they're all very visible. And this is
a bit of signaling to the base that the president
is doing what he promised. He is getting rid of
anyone who is here without documents, and those documents are
the most important things. And so when people stand up
(05:54):
and they say, how dare you? And we've seen this
in red states too. There was a story that was
being covered with a woman who was running a cafe
in Kentucky where eighty percent voted for Trump, and Ice
came in and arrested her. She'd been there for decades,
and the people said, wait a minute, well that's we
liked her.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
We didn't know what it was going to be about that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We thought it was just we thought it was people
in California, right, And there's no there doesn't seem to
be any differentiation because for the longest time during the campaign,
he heard from the president and actually you heard from
Elon Musk back when they were still buddies, that the
goal was to get rid of the worst, right, the
gang bangers, the drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers. But
(06:43):
it turns out we're actually targeting the some people I
suppose are probably good people. Part of his his equation,
it's easier to grab somebody who's a law abiding citizen.
We're seeing this at a number of immigration court hearings
across the country, where you've got the person who's here
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is showing up for their status hearing they're showing up
and then ICE pops in. The prosecutors dismissed the case
so that there's no reason to hold them any longer.
Ice shows up and arrest them of the parking lot,
sin it all over the place, and of course this
ends up erupting into the protests that we saw, you know,
(07:29):
over the weekend, and then obviously as things started to
get ugly last night, they turned very destructive.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
KTLA was covering some of what was happening.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Chaos and calamity rocked Paramount Saturday, on the second day
of demonstrations against federal immigration operations in southern California. KTLA
was on the ground and in the air, capturing the
explosive environment.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, the shots you're hearing are rubber bullets that they're using,
the mayor of Paramount says.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Tension escalated after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE,
and other federal agents were apparently staging at or near
a local home depot center, but.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I here in the community.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Throngs of protesters gathered in the industrial area, sparking more
clashes between law enforcement and members of the community. Crowds
taunted authorities, with some people going so far as to
block a US Marshal's service bus, while others hurled rocks
and other objects at law enforcement vehicles. According to the
(08:39):
La County Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, and I mean we saw the videos. It's not
even a According to the sheriff, our eyes don't deceive us.
We saw people throwing rocks at the vehicles.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Federal agents responded with pepperballs, rubber bullets, tear gas, and
flash bangs in the.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Last several hours. I mean, that's like warzone, right, war zone.
So unfortunately the crowd.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Has Honestly, if it weren't for the clothes that people
are wearing, and I'm serious right now, if it weren't
for the clothes that people were wearing, if you saw
this footage, would you know the difference between this and
say Gaza or the streets of Kiev. No, No, I
mean you'd see, you'd see a military presence, you'd see
people throwing rocks, and you'd see the military using a
(09:25):
heavy handed response. I mean, we are, we are seeing
a certain portion of civilization unraveling, and the problem. The
problem is both sides are fighting over how to be
more civilized. One side says we need to be more authoritariative,
more authoritative, and if we just take control then people
(09:48):
will be free. Nothing's just freedom like control. Then you've
got the other side that's saying, how dare you be
so heavy handed? We are going to fight you with
violence because nothing says civil like violence, and nothing says
leave us alone, like come and get us. You're not
dealing with the you know, dealing with a whole lot
(10:10):
of people that are thinking through things, are you? The
crowd has grown, we believe at this time it's at
approximately three hundred and fifty, maybe four hundred.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
As the crowd has grown, it has become more violent.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
A wooden palette and then a car went up in
flames during the unrest, sending black smoke into the air.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And why are you lighting cars on fire? What the
hell sense does that? Bank?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Ah, we're protesting, only are you then? I mean you
look like you're celebrating a Dodgers World series. Stop lighting
cars on fire? What is the matter with you? Not
a lot of thinking through by anybody here. The strategy
by law.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Enforcement is to crush opposition.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And even Tom Holman, the the borders are said, we're
gonna get them. They're anti Trump literally says, they're anti Trump.
So is this about Trump? Is this about undocumented immigrants?
Is this about getting the rapists, the murderers, the drug dealers?
(11:18):
Trendea Ragua I always mispronounced that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
What is this about? He says.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
If the violence continues, if the rhetoric continues, someone's going
to lose their life. It's an anti Trump agenda.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
U H.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So is that what this is about? It's all political?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Is it about safety or is it about the anti
Trump agenda. We'll talk with Michael Monks, who is live
and in the midst of where we assume there's gonna
be some more protests this afternoon. Those are supposed to
start at two o'clock. Will they turn unruly? Hard to say.
Will the presence of the National Guard there make things safer?
Or will that inflame the already burning embers of what
(12:02):
we saw happen yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
We'll find out from Michael Monks. Next.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
More protests was scheduled for two o'clock exceptternoon downtown our
own Michael Monks is all over and actually Michael's been
working since early this morning and he's gonna be working
throughout the day to make sure that you have the
latest the raids. Yesterday the ice raids turned destructive because
you had ice raids and then you had protesters.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You had a staging area.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
In Paramount where people got word, hey, there's a staging
area going on here, and then they started protesting and
it turned ugly, which, if I'm being honest, is kind
of what I think some people wanted to see. They
wanted an excuse to come in with the heavy hand.
They wanted to be able to send in the military
(12:53):
and say, look how strong, look how mighty we are,
and this administration and is not going to allow the
criminal element to run wild in our streets any longer.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
And then they made it political.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Too, the presidents of these Democrat run cities. Democratic run cities,
but that's right, Democrat run cities, he said, are the problem,
which means that if you don't have documents, go to
Orange County, because that's not they're not focusing They're not
focusing on Republican areas. So just if you don't have documents,
just grab the fam head to Orange County. You're gonna
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be safe there. I mean, that's not true, but probably safer.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
We're seeing new video shows from maybe seven showing the
chaotic moments protesters and federal agents clashed across Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
It marked the second day in a row of unrest
as ice rates continue. Explosive flash bangs and clouds of
tear gas filled downtown LA. Last night, is police declared
an unlawful assembly. There also appears to be some looting
at a cannon store and Compton lapd sais Why are
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you looting?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They?
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I really support people who are here fighting for their lives.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And I'm gonna support him even better with these peanut
m and ms.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
But Michael Monks is KFI reporter who has been covering this. Michael,
I know you've been working since early this morning and
all this stuff, So thank you so much for taking
time and then doing it at this special coverage broadcast
that we have going on today.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Where are you now and what's the latest that you're hearing.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I'm on Alameda Street outside the Federal Building, and I'll
tell you there's a lot of spray paint on the wall,
there's a lot of noise, and you know, you might
think this is just a usual day in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You wouldn't be wrong.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
The difference this time is that there are military guys here,
uniformed military personnel with very large guns, with large sticks,
and they are lined up facing off with about one
hundred hundred and fifty protesters right now. It's what you
might describe as team a little bit of chirpiness, a
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little bit of barking and jawing back and forth, some
birds being flipped.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That sort of thing to have no sort of action.
But there are.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Military vehicles parked here, DHS police are here outside this
federal building right now. A lot of honking on the street,
honking and support, a lot of chance. But so far
it's just kind of a stare down.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Does it feel tense with this starenup?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
No, You've got a couple of rabble rousers in the
crowd that are trying to get a little more action going.
Whether or not that's going to be effective is yet
to be seen. It's been interesting over the past few
days because it's daytime right now, and it has been
in the daytime where most of the violent activity has
taken place. It seems at nighttime it looks more like
this a little chippiness, a little bit of violence, not much,
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but mostly just staring down until finally it evaporates. But
it has been in the daytime where most of the
activity has taken place.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, that seems a little bit odd to me.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Usually, you know, your protesters, your genuine protesters, will head
home and then you've got the rabble rousers out a
little bit later at night.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Doesn't seem to necessarily be the case this time around them, No,
not at all.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
And you know, this has drawn a pretty sizable crowd.
There's also apparently some demonstrations according to the laped outside
their Central Division office as well as on Olvera Street.
I've not made it over to either of those locations yet.
This seems to be ground zero for these protests for
the past few days.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
It's believed that some.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Of the people who have been detained by ice may
be housed inside this building. And it is absolutely covered
in profanity and a variety of different messages that have
been spray painted here over the past forty eight seventy
two hours. And there looks like there's some folks who
may be anxious to get back.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
To that type of work. But with the military here,
the vibe is a little different.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
So what's the involvement of the LAPD right now? I
mean this is this is in their backyard. So are
they showing up or are they leaving everything to the
National Guard or to the federal enforcement.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Well, this looks like a jurisdictional situation. This is fout property.
So there is Department of Homeland Security police. They are
uniformed and they are wearing their heavy gear as well.
They've got their mask on, they've got their weapons at
they're ready, and they are also surrounded by what is
believed to be California National Guardsmen who have been deployed
here at a few different sites around LA. So this
is not the LAPD's jurisdiction. Should it spill out into
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the streets, should we start to see that type of
activity take place like we've seen the past couple of days,
that's where you'll start to see LAPD.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Need to answer the call.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
And that's also where we've seen conflicting reports from local
officials and national officials about the speed and urgency with
which LAPD has responded. Because LAPD has a policy they
have since the seventies they don't assist in immigration enforcement efforts.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
But they are supposed to keep the peace otherwise.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
So whether or not they've done it on a time
frame that has been acceptable, that's what's been debated.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Michael Monks is downtown, he's said, near the while we
I think it's the detention center. It's the federal building
off Alameda, and Michael, the vibe right now is chill.
Have you been able to talk with any of the protesters?
I just wonder what goes through their minds on a
day like this when they know they're going to go protest,
They know they're going to face somebody who's holding a
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big gun, probably a helmet, and has been told stands still,
don't react unless you know you have to whatever. So
I mean, how does one this is gonna sound silly,
but I mean it. How does one just go about
their normal day as they prepare for something like this.
Have you been able to talk with any of them?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I think this is what we've heard from folks is
they're angry or they're scared, and like many protests, this
is something that gives you the opportunity to let it
out a little bit, even if nothing is going to
change today. You got the shout, you got to point
you let some anger out. The challenge will be whether
people who came down to protest in a First Amendment way,
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in a peaceful way, even if they're a little loud,
even if they're a little profane, are they going to
get swept up in people that see this as an
opportunity to misbehave. Even if these other folks don't support
the calls at hand, they just want to engage in mischief.
That's that's got to be some of their concerns as well. Yeah,
I think that's what we see so often with these
protests that get out of hand, is you have you
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have the the truble.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Looting? I mean, why is anybody looting? Doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
It never does whenever we see any of these protests,
whether it was Black Lives Matter, whether it's this, whether
it's Rodney King, Why are we stealing things? It just
just there's no there's no logic to it other than
crimes of opportunity. Protesters have a very fine line that
they have to walk in order to garner sympathy from
people that otherwise haven't.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Been paying attention.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
And you know, you cross that fine line in the
wrong direction, you're gonna lose folks forever.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Absolutely absolutely all right, Michael Muggs at the detention center.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
We'll check with you a little bit later on here too.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Michael, thank you so much for for the ongoing coverage
and putting yourself there.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I was just thinking, if you're if you're somebody who
is who's big into this cause, and you're getting ready
and you're going to protest, and you know it's going
to be a big day, and you know that things
could potentially turn.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Violent, you don't know. You hope they don't.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Some do, but you know, I'm just the average Joe Schmo.
I'm just thinking, I mean, what do you have for breakfast?
It sounds facetious, but it's not think about when you
get up, Like you go to sleep after whatever happened yesterday,
and you're probably all wound up. You probably don't sleep
very well. Then you wake up and you go, okay,
(20:34):
I mean, I'm going to go back downtown, so do you.
But I gotta take a shower, walk the dog, have
some oatmeal.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
The whole time.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's got to be this weird, almost purgatory feel before
you're about to get back into what has the potential
to be a very volatile situation. At the very least,
your plans are I'm just going to scream and I'm
gonna let my frustrations out, as Michael said, yep, But does.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It does it get worse? Does it boil over?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And if it does boil over, maybe they don't even
know where they plan on landing if things start to
get violent.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Tough to say.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I talked about some of the rubber bullets. You're going
to hear about these rubber bullets in just a few moments.
As the protests are scheduled to begin again today. As
you hear Michael Monks say, about one hundred people already
at the federal building off Alameda, and there are more
planning on showing up a little bit later on this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
More on that next.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
First time a president has called for National Guard deployment
without consultation of the local governor since nineteen sixty five.
So a big deal that's going on, and the National
Guard has arrived.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
They are on the scene.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
We're seeing new video showing the chaotic moments protesters and
federal agents clashed across Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
From maybec seven plus.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
It marked the second day in a row of unread
as ice rates continue. Explosive flash bangs and clouds of
tear gas filled downtown LA.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Last night. Is police declared an unlawful assembly.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
There also appears to be some looting at a convenience
store in Compton.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Lapd says, yeah, I made mention of this in the
last eightment. What it sense. It doesn't make any sense
to go looting. But listen, if you are someone who
is you gotta go to the convenience store. Do you
want to pick up your rock Star energy and maybe
a bag of Doritos? Just be cautious. There's people out
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there that are looking to start looting for the sake
of looting.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
I guess they detained several people and eventually arrested twenty seven.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
And this comes as the National Guard troops that President
Trump ordered have started to arrive.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
When assumes reporter Amanda Pelasios joins US Live from downtown
Los Angeles with the breaking update.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Amanda, good morning, yew. We've already seen a large, growing
National Guard presidence here in downtown LA. If you take
a look behind me here you can see. Troops are
stationed along Alameda Street as another protest is expected to
take place later today near City Hall.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And that is similar to what we heard from Michael Monks,
who was there right now. We'll check with Michael here
in about another ten or fifteen minutes too.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
This follows President Trump's deployment of two thousand National Guard
members in response to a series of immigration protests across
the city. This is new video from overnight showing the
troops arrive. They stopped at City Hall after driving through Paramount,
then knitted up here at the Federal Building meantime. This
follows another night of protest all right, and video from
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last night shows tense moments in downtown LA as protesters
clashed with police, some setting off fireworks and starting fires.
Officers responded with what appeared to be tear gas to
disperse the crowds, and a separate incident, demonstrators were seen
entering a damaged convenience store in Compton and looting items
for I'm inside.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, we said that. That doesn't make any sense to me.
According to the LP, I just don't have the mindset.
I'm fine with the mindset of a protester. I'm fine
with the mindset of somebody that's so frustrated they have
to go to the streets and they have to scream
and they have to say what they got to say.
And look, that's not political. We've seen that from the left,
from the right. That is, someone who's passionate about their viewpoint.
(24:22):
Our country was founded on that. But turning things into
looting just doesn't make any sense. There's no logic behind
it whatsoever.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
According to the LPD, multiple individuals who would turn to
the area after disperse order was issued on Elemeda Street
were detained in our expect to be to be booked
for failure to disperse.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
All right, so that's civil infraction. They're booked for that.
My guess probably chargers are going to be dropped. We
see this all the time when it comes to civil
civil unrest and civil disobedience, where you get people who
are arrested for staying in the way and not leaving
when they're supposed to. They get arrested and then the
charges end up getting dropped or they end up with something,
you know, community service.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Or somebody of that sort.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
We spoke with meyerbas about the deployment of the National
Guard and believes it's not necessary.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh what she.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Said, my concern. And we have experienced civil unrest, and
I remember nineteen ninety two very well that one of
the worst things you can do is have an extreme
presence of law enforcement that gets everybody agitated, and the
Violence Act actually escalates it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Okay, And today's protest is scheduled for two PM, and
the LPED says officers and the National Guard were remain
stationed in this area reporting in downtown Late Amanda Plosius.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
All right, so national Guard is there. About three hundred troops,
is what we're hearing. The President said he was going
to send two thousand, but it ends up being like
three hundred so far. That doesn't mean we're not going
to have two thousand. It's three hundred so far. So
larger protests expected around two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
What does that mean? Honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And I think this is why it's such a tense
and anxious moment for everyone that's witnessing this.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
This is happening in your city or your backyard. Right.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
This is a Southern California issue. I can tell you
the people of Omaha are not paying very close attention
to this. Other than the political wonks who want to
be able to argue about this over coffee with someone
who has a different viewpoint, those are the only people
who are really paying attention to this outside of our area,
other than people who may have documentation issues. They're watching
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what's going on in southern California as well, which is
part of why this show of force is so important
for the administration to show we're cracking down, we're doing
it right, We're coming after you, and if you're here
without documents, self deport now right. It's part of the messaging.
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What will be interesting to see is if cooler heads prevail,
And by cooler I don't mean don't yell, don't scream, whatever.
What I mean is they're going to be rock throwing.
Will there be water bottles being thrown? Will there will
we have to see tear gas and rubber bullets and
things of that nature. Again, rubber bullets, of course, were
being used uh yesterday as well, and I would assume
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that the rubber bullet guns are are loaded and ready
for today.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
The Violin clash and Paramount protesters face to face with
Border Patrol agents one side, hurling rocks and bottles the
other firing back with pepper spray and rubber bullets.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Just chaos, man, Just chaos. Now, some of this, some
of this is coming from the protesters. So you're hearing
some of the explosions, the flash bangs, the the tear gas,
the rubber bullets that are coming from U enforcement. But
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some of what you're hearing, like the fireworks, those are
coming from the protesters, which, of course, the whole situation
continues to get escalated.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Sources tel Fox eleven Border Patrol agents Saturday morning. We're
here across the street from Home Depot for a staging
area possibly prepping for an immigration rate.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, across the street from the Home depot. And as
we know, there have been other raids that have happened
at the home depots. Look, you've got people who are
there without documents, that are sitting out front and they're
they're looking for daytime labor jobs.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It is it is, uh, it is easy pickings for ice. Boom.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
They pull in surround these guys and you go, I'm
gonna grab you and you and you and you and
you and you and you and you everybody in the
van boom and then they go boop. We got our
dozen guys today. You don't have to go tracking people down,
you don't have to go finding somebody who's in a gang.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You know, it's really easy pickings. That's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Protesters then moved in.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You think it's get in our hand, not patrol everybody.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
Right now, local officials speaking with demonstrators.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
These are hard working community members.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
People are rich. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
These We have to protect community and make sure they
have rights like anybody else.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All right.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
So there's somebody this protesting because they believe very firmly
in their stance, Okay, And I think that gets lost sometimes.
I think what we end up seeing is this this
binary choice that media is covering law enforcement and law breakers.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Right, there is no middle ground.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
It's undocumented immigrants who are throwing rocks at law enforcement
who are trying to keep America safe, and that sort
of eliminates the gray area.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Video obtained exclusively by Fox shows federal authorities trying to
leave the ten situation, taking on rocks and chunks of concrete.
At least one agent injured.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, that's not cool, alright, So we're.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
Seeing agitators throwing items towards numbers of black and they're
firing right back. It feels like a war zone out.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Here, which is the point I made earlier. It's a
war zone right now.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And if you're a protester who's throwing something, you're an agitator.
If you're law enforcement who's throwing something, well, you're part
of a controlling the crowd perspective is everything, isn't it.
We'll check with Michael Monks, who continues his reporting from
outside the detention set of the Federal Building off of Alameda.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Michael Monks joins us.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Next, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, a.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Special coverage of the ongoing protests, and we'll find out
exactly whether or not things are gonna get violent again today.
Hopefully what we saw yesterday, the clashes that were going
on to Paramount Compton are the the culmination of the
most that we see of the protests turning violent. Michael Monks, though,
(31:07):
is at the Federal Building downtown, and really we had
three different sites yesterday, right we had Compton, we had Paramount,
and then Downtown didn't really get all that violent.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
At least that was some of the reporting I was hearing.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Now downtown kept itself relatively tame last night, and it
looks as though the issues in Compton spilled over from
Paramount once the protest was pushed out of that area,
So it did end up being at three different sites,
but kind of a two different events. Right here now
on Alameda Street outside the Federal Building, where we do
see military in their full military guard, military vehicles, military weapons,
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along with Department of Homeland Security police. This crowd of
anti ice demonstrators has grown probably doubled in size since
we talked twenty or so minutes ago, and it's gotten
much louder, and now it's become a bit of a
traffic issue, a traffic very slow moving across Alameda, and
that's because it's spilled into the streets a little bit.
And so brazen was one guy that he's parked his
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mini van blocking two lanes and pulled out a couple
of grills as if we were about to have a
little asada out here on a Sunday afternoon. He seems
to have been disabused of that notion and has packed
up his grill and is starting to leave. But you
hear the honking. Some of those are honks of support.
Some of those are honks of frustration by people who
maybe didn't get the mimmo and just want to get
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out of dodge.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
But it is, you know, there's a lot of tones.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
There's a lot of honking, a lot of yelling, and yes,
the atmosphere is certainly intensified, certainly the volume, but still
not a lot of violent activity right now. Just a
lot of shouting, a lot of jib jabbing so.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Far, okay, and that's great, that's fine. What is the
demeor of the National guardsmen that are there, the others
that are standing guard.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Are they being chill and just observing, stonefaced, good stoic
standing here, just looking at the crowd, not engaging at all.
They clearly got their orders and no better than to engage,
so they are prepared though. They've got pretty good sized
guns here and pretty good.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Sized sticks as well.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
If these folks here's the scene, basically, we're in the
loading dock behind the main entrance of the federal building
and there are military vehicles part tier. This protest is
taking place on the sidewalk. If folks start to spill
into that loading dock area, the parking lot outside the
loading dock that's when they might meet some of these sticks.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Okay, And that's based on what I was seeing from
some of the other reporting, and obviously I'm working from
the confines of the studio. This is kind of where
we saw things happening yesterday as well. Was right at
the loading docks. In fact, some people I believe were
trying to get into the building yesterday and that's when
they were repelled out with some of the tear gas yesterday.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
But again didn't turn all that violent.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Just seem to be a lot of what you're seeing today,
plus some people trying to get into the building.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, I'll note that.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Look, there are protests happening across the country and they're
going to continue as long as this ice activity take place.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
But I would say Lay's special.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Breed when it comes to organizing and getting people to protest.
The message goes out and people respond quickly, and the
numbers typically swell, and there are agitators. There are people
that are always at the ready to escalate the situation,
who really want to take out more than just frustration.
They want to take out long simmering anger on governments,
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on industries, on traditions, and those sorts of things, and
that's what I think we've seen in La so far
when it has escalated. Don't see much of that right now,
but that doesn't mean it's not going to come. There
is a bigger rally scheduled at about two o'clock at
city Halls the few blocks from here, and we'll see
what type of characters show up for that.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
So Michael Bunks is reporting from the Federal building there
on Alameda, and I'm looking at the I'm looking at
the traffic maps right now, and that looks like such
a mess.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Did you say that the dude he set up his
grill like on Elamina.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Yeah, he pulled a minivan over and blocked the two
right lanes and then pulled out a pair of grills
and looked like he was prepared to start cooking. But
he has since packed up the grill, but his van
is still blocking two lanes. Traffic pretty slow moving past here,
and that's because the sidewalk is only so large here,
and now it is spilling out into the street. And
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my curiosity is now towards who's coming down for the
city hall protests?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Are they going to stop by here first? How big
is this crowd going?
Speaker 5 (35:27):
To get and is this crowd going to disperse and
go to city hall or are you going to have
multiple scenes taking place?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, all right, let's check in with you again here
after we do news, Michael, if that's all right, because
I do want to hear I know you were at
city hall earlier. I want to hear a little bit
about that and then I can hear it sounds like
sounds like more people keep showing up the longer than
than I keep talking. So absolutely discussing. You're just a
few boma sor right. Thank you very much, Michael, monksters
live there. I just got word from the city of
Pasadena is aware of a gathering taking place near a
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location within the city and members of the Pasadena Police
Department are monitoring that situation. The city encourages all those
in attendance to remain peaceful, in law abiding is nonviolent.
Protest is a powerful tool for those who seek change.
At this time, the city is not aware of any
federal law enforcement action in the city, including those regarding immigration.
So that is a statement from Pasadena. You heard Michael
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say that there were protests elsewhere. There are Chicago, New York,
a lot of it happening. But something unique about Los
Angeles is he did point out that we seem to
have agitators at the ready. Be curious to see if
those agitators are at the ready to really make these
shenanigans violent this afternoon, or if this is more about
(36:42):
civil disobedience and in simply obstruction of you know, ICE
doing whatever it is that they're going to do. But honestly,
if ICE isn't doing anything other than detaining people, then
there's really unless they're going out and arresting people. I
don't know that these agitators are going to get worked up, right.
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There's nothing to really escalate the situation unless they decide
to start escalating that situation. Be curious to hear from
Michael Monks. We will after one o'clock about what the
situation is at City Hall. He may mention that there
were protests that were set to go on there. We
do hear that there's going to be protests going on
starting at two o'clock this afternoon. So we are going
to be live right up until two o'clock. Then we'll
(37:23):
hand things over to another live show. I'm back this
afternoon at four. We'll have a bit of a recap
of what we see going on here and then some
of the other things that are going on in southern California.
Of course across the United States as well. Because of
the tensions that are happening, we are seeing that there
are some other events where the organizers have just no,
I'm not talking about protest organizers. Other organizers of other
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events in the area have just said, not really worth
our time. It's not worth going out there and being
at the center of a news story tomorrow. So we're
seeing some cancelations. If you had plans today, you're gonna
want to check and see if they're still going on,
because some places they're saying nope.
Speaker 11 (38:02):
This is from KTLA breaking news out of the city
of Whittier, where a swap meet that happens typically every
Sunday over at cal Hi in the parking lot has
been canceled due to possible ice activity.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Today.
Speaker 11 (38:13):
An email and a Facebook post was sent out informing
all the vendors of the cancelation. Impossible ice activity again
in Whittier. Also in commerce in Santa Fe Springs, the
vendors who weren't aware were told.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
To go home once they arrived. That's a booger.
Speaker 12 (38:30):
It's sad. It's sad the way we're living. People living
in fear like this, it's incredible. I mean, I never
lived through something like this, where people are living in
fear because they got to watch out for ice.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
It's crazy.
Speaker 12 (38:44):
This is crazy.
Speaker 11 (38:46):
The Whittier Swap Meet again held at the California High
School every Sunday in the parking lot there. The hundreds
of weekly vendors are hopeful that they can return next week.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah, I hope so too. Love me a good swap meet.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
All right, we'll get the latest from Michael Munksy was
at city Hall earlier. I believe he is going to
be back there for the protests That is scheduled for
two o'clock at City Hall, but right now an awful
lot of people are gathering there at the Federal Building
off Alameda. You'll hear live from downtown next KFI AM
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