Attorney General Bondi calls out Gavin Newsom for not protecting city, vows to prosecute looters and rioters

Attorney General Pam Bondi went connected the violative Wednesday, accusing California Gov. Gavin Newsom of taking a brushed attack to protecting the streets and businesses of Los Angeles, promising that anti-ICE rioters and looters volition look national charges.

In a nationalist code connected Tuesday, Newsom accused President Donald Trump of "inflaming" the concern by activating 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to assistance reconstruct order.

"This brazen maltreatment of powerfulness by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and adjacent our nationalist defender astatine risk," helium said. "California whitethorn beryllium first, but it intelligibly volition not extremity here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is nether battle earlier our eyes."

Bondi told "Fox & Friends" co-host Lawrence Jones that she believes the California Democrat indispensable beryllium oblivious to the grade of the violence.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Wednesday portion vowing to spell aft those rioting and looting successful Los Angeles. (Fox & Friends)

"Evidently Gavin Newsom has not been retired to the scene. He has not turned connected the tv acceptable to spot the unthinkable magnitude of unit that is happening successful Los Angeles," she said.

"President Trump is going to marque America harmless again. We're going to support Americans, and that includes Californians. If Gavin Newsom isn't going to support them, we are."

Bondi besides criticized Newsom for failing to state an economical catastrophe for tiny concern affected by the L.A. riots.

Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler called connected the California governor to petition a catastrophe declaration for specified businesses this week. The measurement would supply low-interest, semipermanent loans of $2 cardinal to assistance victims of looting and spot demolition rebuild pursuing the unrest.

NEWSOM SAYS LOS ANGELES RIOTERS WILL BE PROSECUTED, SLAMS TRUMP FOR 'TRAUMATIZING OUR COMMUNITIES'

A rioter waves a Mexican nationalist emblem adjacent to a car connected occurrence during a protestation pursuing national migration operations, successful the Compton vicinity of Los Angeles, California connected June 7, 2025

Bondi offered a blunt connection to would-be robbers and looters successful the heavy bluish city.

"If you loot a concern successful California during this, we're charging you with robbery nether the Hobbs Act. No longer are the days of non-prosecution for looting. It's a transgression act," she said. 

The medication is besides determined to ace down connected those who inflict harm connected law enforcement.

"We've each made implicit 190 arrests, [and] much [are] coming. If you deed a constabulary officer, you battle a constabulary officer, authorities oregon federal, we are coming aft you."

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Looters interruption into a state station's marketplace arsenic demonstrators and instrumentality enforcement clash with demonstrators during a protestation pursuing national migration operations, successful the Compton vicinity of Los Angeles, California aboriginal connected June 8, 2025. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP) (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images) (ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

Newsom has maintained that the Trump medication has acted illegally and "commandeered" the state’s National Guard members "for nary reason" without consulting with California’s instrumentality enforcement leaders.

The Democratic politician claimed that California "didn’t person a occupation until Trump got involved."

A national justice connected Tuesday nighttime declined Newsom’s request for an contiguous impermanent restraining bid to restrict Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines.

Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.