GOP lawmaker demands accountability for LAPD's delayed response time helping assaulted ICE officers

FIRST ON FOX: California GOP Congressman Darrell Issa is calling for an probe into allegations that the Los Angeles Police Department did not promptly respond to support ICE officers being assaulted arsenic unit broke retired successful the metropolis connected Friday night. 

Issa, who represents California’s 48th Congressional District and is simply a elder subordinate of the House Judiciary Committee, said successful a property merchandise Tuesday helium is calling for a "full and implicit Congressional investigation" into the effect clip of the LAPD assisting the ICE officers who, according to a property merchandise from DHS, waited for 2 hours for assistance. 

"Last night, implicit 1,000 rioters surrounded a national instrumentality enforcement gathering and assaulted ICE instrumentality enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and payer funded property," DHS said successful a press release connected Saturday, referring to the erstwhile nighttime erstwhile unit broke retired successful Los Angeles successful effect to the ICE raids. 

"It took the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) 2 hours to respond."

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GOP Rep. Darrell Issa is calling for an probe into LAPD's effect to anti-ICE riots. (Getty)

LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, who rapidly enactment retired a press release Friday reassuring the nationalist that the section does not enactment successful migration activities, pushed backmost against DHS’ assertion successful a Sunday property conference. 

"When we heard that, I deliberation anybody who's a constabulary serviceman couldn't judge it, and surely anyone with LAPD couldn't ideate however that could happen," McDonnell said to reporters. "Well, it didn't happen."

McDonnell claimed that the existent effect clip was 40 minutes owed to traffic. 

In a connection to Fox News Digital connected Monday, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stood by the department’s archetypal claim. 

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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, California, connected Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

"The information remains that it took the Los Angeles Police Department 2 hours to respond," McLaughlin said. "During that time, implicit 1,000 rioters surrounded a national instrumentality enforcement gathering and assaulted ICE instrumentality enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and payer funded property. DHS is grateful that present the LAPD is stepping up to assistance reconstruct instrumentality and order."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the LAPD for comment. 

Issa said successful a connection regarding his telephone for probe that, "We request to cognize if the governmental enactment of the City of Los Angeles, the State of California, oregon anyone other instructed the LAPD to basal down and not respond to the exigency requests of our ICE agents who were nether onslaught by rioters determined to artifact them, pain them, oregon adjacent termination them arsenic they bravely carried retired their sworn duties."

Democratic enactment successful California has faced wide disapproval from conservatives for blaming President Donald Trump for the unrest and referring to the protests, galore of them violent, arsenic "peaceful."

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A rioter waves a Mexican nationalist emblem adjacent to a car connected occurrence during a protestation successful the Compton vicinity of Los Angeles connected June 7, 2025. (Getty Images)

While immoderate protesters person remained peaceful, unit had taken spot by the extremity of the time Friday and continued into the weekend, resulting successful instrumentality enforcement officers being injured and attacked with projectiles and fireworks. 

On Monday, LAPD announced that 50 arrests had been made with charges including attempted execution and battle with a deadly limb connected an officer, Fox News nationalist analogous Bill Melugin reported connected X, adding that 5 LAPD officers and 5 LAPD horses sustained insignificant injuries.