California sheriff says nearly a dozen deputies injured in anti-ICE riots

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert G. Luna announced Friday that astir a twelve deputies were injured during the ongoing riots.

The riots began June 6 arsenic Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was conducting raids successful the metropolis and surrounding counties.

Luna said 10 deputies were injured aft protesters hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails and "high-grade pyrotechnics" astatine them.

"We person been encountering immoderate absorbing weapons retired there," Luna said. "[There is a] large quality betwixt the peaceful protesters and the individuals who are coming retired with weapons to onslaught our folks."

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna speaks during a quality league arsenic District Attorney Nathan Hochman looks connected Tuesday, June 11, 2025, successful Los Angeles.  (KTTV)

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The quality league focused connected plans to code planned nationwide protests Saturday against the Trump administration.

"It's a bully cause, but we bash not privation convulsive agitators retired determination destroying spot oregon committing acts of unit specifically against our constabulary officers, lawman sheriffs and CHP [California Highway Patrol]  officers," Luna said. "I conscionable privation to punctual everybody that our deputies person and proceed to look a unsafe concern retired there."

A protester places debris successful a occurrence arsenic Border Patrol unit successful riot cogwheel and state masks basal defender extracurricular an concern parkland successful Paramount, Calif., June 7, 2025.  (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

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Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said the LAPD is "fully prepared" for the upcoming planned demonstrations and "unprecedented" crowds.

"We're intimately monitoring developments and deploying our unit and resources strategically to support nationalist information portion safeguarding each individual's close to protestation peacefully," McDonnell said. 

"If you travel to our metropolis with the intent to perpetrate crimes, harm spot oregon harm others, including our officers, you volition beryllium arrested," helium added. "We volition not let violence, vandalism oregon threats to nationalist information to undermine the rights of those who are demonstrating lawfully. We're asking everyone who plans to enactment successful Saturday's lawsuit to bash truthful peacefully and respectfully."

Protesters face Los Angeles constabulary section unit successful riot cogwheel successful downtown Los Angeles Monday, June 9, 2025.  (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

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Since the onset of the protests, McDonnell said hundreds of radical person been arrested.

He added that a curfew, which volition stay successful effect done the weekend, "has played a cardinal relation successful helping to reconstruct order, peculiarly by curbing the transgression enactment that was mostly occurring during the evening hours."

CHP troopers volition beryllium connected progressive patrol passim the authorities looking for areas of concern.

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