Within the face of continued ICE raids, escalation by legislation enforcement, and shows of police violence at protests, the folks of LA proceed to point out as much as defend the immigrant communities that really outline town. One protester particularly has gone ultra-viral for his courageous confrontation of a gaggle of California Nationwide Guard officers stationed exterior the Los Angeles VA Clinic. The clinic is a part of the complicated that homes the LA Federal Constructing and the Metropolitan Detention Heart, one of many focal factors of the protests.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who’s in opposition to President Trump’s deployment of the Nationwide Guard to town, stated that the troops are only protecting federal property. “They’re guarding the federal constructing right here in downtown, and so they’re guarding the federal constructing in Westwood. That is what they’re doing,” she stated at a information convention.