Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has shared a message of assist amid protesters rallying in opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration’s latest deployment of the Nationwide Guard in Los Angeles.
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On Sunday night (June 8), Armstrong posted a protest snippet from downtown L.A. through Instagram Tales, captioned with a middle-finger emoji and an ice dice. The clip featured a dwell recording of “F— Off,” a monitor from Saviors (Édition de Luxe), the deluxe model of Inexperienced Day’s 2024 album, launched in Might 2025.
The publish comes amid growing criticism of federal raids throughout Southern California, which noticed ICE brokers detaining dozens of people alleged to be undocumented immigrants. The crackdown was shortly adopted by the unrequested deployment of Nationwide Guard troops to L.A., marking one of many first occasions in fashionable historical past that the Guard was despatched to a state with out the governor’s approval.
California Governor Gavin Newsom slammed the transfer as a “severe breach of state sovereignty” in a letter issued Sunday afternoon, whereas L.A. Mayor Karen Bass echoed that sentiment, calling the scenario “provoked chaos” throughout a press convention.
Armstrong’s assertion additionally follows feedback from Finneas, who claimed he was tear-gassed whereas attending what he described as a “very peaceable protest” in downtown L.A.
The Grammy-winning producer and artist posted a number of Instagram tales, writing: “Tear-gassed virtually instantly on the very peaceable protest downtown — they’re inciting this.” Finneas additionally reposted a video exhibiting 9News Australia correspondent Lauren Tomasi being struck within the leg by a rubber bullet whereas reporting dwell from the scene.
The protests started Friday in response to ICE raids at a number of Los Angeles-area companies. By Sunday, the Nationwide Guard had arrived within the metropolis, and pictures of closely armed officers confronting peaceable demonstrators, together with journalists and musicians, started flooding social media.
For Armstrong, this thespian act of resistance suits squarely inside a decades-long custom of speaking out against institutional injustice. Inexperienced Day’s discography is crammed with political commentary, from the anti-Bush sentiment of American Fool to more moderen critiques of gun violence and authoritarianism.