Rioters smash windows at LAPD headquarters as anti-ICE agitators clash with authorities

Rioters smashed windows of the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD's) office connected West 1st Street and faced teardrop state that officials deployed downtown arsenic agitators clash with authorities successful the city.

Rioters were seen targeting the LAPD office connected Sunday nighttime arsenic convulsive demonstrations dispersed done LA implicit the play successful effect to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.

President Donald Trump sent 2,000 National Guard troops to the country connected Friday.

"California politicians indispensable telephone disconnected their rioting mob," the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said successful a Monday greeting station connected X, on with video footage from the riots. "Federal instrumentality enforcement are moving to support and safeguard American citizens from transgression amerciable aliens. Why is California’s politician siding with overseas criminals?"

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Police officers are enveloped successful a unreality of fume from teardrop state and percussion grenades portion guarding a road onramp during a protestation against national migration sweeps successful downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 8, 2025. (REUTERS/Omar Younis)

The LAPD declared an "unlawful assembly" Sunday evening arsenic protesters failed to disperse successful the downtown area.

"Agitators person splintered into and done retired [sic] the Downtown Area," the LAPD's Central Division wrote connected X. "Residents, businesses and visitors to the Downtown Area should beryllium alert and study immoderate transgression activity. Officers are responding to respective antithetic locations to disperse crowds."

Protesters propulsion objects astatine constabulary vehicles connected a Freeway adjacent the Metropolitan Detention Center successful downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Ethan Swope)

Other video footage from the play shows protesters spitting connected the American emblem and mounting it connected fire portion chanting "F Trump"; mounting occurrence to vehicles; and throwing objects and fireworks astatine police.

ANTI-ICE PROTESTERS IN LOS ANGELES SPIT ON AND BURN AMERICAN FLAG

A antheral spits connected a burning American emblem during an anti-ICE protestation successful Los Angeles. (Oliya Scootercaster/FreedomNewsTV)

The demonstrations person drawn antithetic responses from section and nationalist politicians, with Democrats supporting Americans' close to protestation and Republicans calling for instrumentality and order.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, for example, said Trump had overstepped his boundaries erstwhile helium deployed the National Guard to assistance with the anti-ICE riots, claiming "local instrumentality enforcement didn't request help."

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A instrumentality enforcement serviceman works to enactment retired a occurrence during a protestation successful Compton, Calif., Saturday, June 7, 2025, aft national migration authorities conducted operations. (Ethan Swope)

"Let’s get this straight: 1) Local instrumentality enforcement didn’t request help. 2) Trump sent troops anyhow — to manufacture chaos and violence. 3) Trump succeeded. 4) Now things are destabilized, and we request to nonstop successful much instrumentality enforcement conscionable to cleanable up Trump’s mess," Newsom wrote successful a abstracted station connected X.

Newsom arrived successful Los Angeles connected Sunday evening to oversee the effect to the anti-ICE riots, gathering with authorities exigency officials.

Smoke rises from a burning car connected Atlantic Boulevard, during a standoff by protesters and instrumentality enforcement, pursuing aggregate detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), successful the Los Angeles County metropolis of Paramount, California, U.S., June 7, 2025.  (REUTERS/Barbara Davidson)

"We’re present to support the bid — not play into Trump’s governmental games," Newsom wrote.

Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker suggested the riots person been "peaceful" connected NBC’s "Meet the Press" connected Sunday. He accused Trump of "sowing chaos" with his nationwide crackdown connected amerciable migration and called the president's determination to nonstop successful troops "hypocritical astatine best" owed to his pardoning of the January 6 Capitol rioters.

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"The world is, we spot peaceful protests launching successful Los Angeles," the New Jersey legislator said. "A batch of these peaceful protests are being generated due to the fact that the president of the United States is sowing chaos and disorder by arresting radical who are showing up for their migration hearings."

Meanwhile, erstwhile Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to "Fox News Live" connected Sunday and called the determination to nonstop successful the National Guard "common sense" and "basic instrumentality enforcement."

CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS SLAM NEWSOM, BASS FOR LETTING LA BURN WITH RIOTS AMID TRUMP IMMIGRATION BLITZ

Demonstrators artifact the highway, arsenic instrumentality enforcement officers basal facing them, during a protestation against national migration sweeps successful downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 8, 2025. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

The medication is "bringing successful folks to supply enactment truthful that we tin bash the cardinal work of the government, which is to support its instrumentality enforcement and its radical from these convulsive assaults," Pompeo said.

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"We bash each retrieve the summertime of ‘20 erstwhile this got retired of manus and the section instrumentality enforcement and governments conscionable fto the flames burn. This can’t hap this time, and you spot President Trump and his squad taking the actions that are some due and indispensable to support people," the erstwhile Secretary of State said.

Fox News' Louis Casiano, Stephen Sorace and David Spector contributed to this report.