SCOOP: Comer probing Newsom, Bass response to Los Angeles riots

FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee is present probing the riots successful Los Angeles and California officials' handling of them, Fox News Digital is learning first.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., who chairs the subcommittee connected law enforcement, sent letters to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and to the Department of Justice (DOJ) connected Friday.

"The rioters successful Los Angeles person committed vicious acts of unit and fearmongering directed astatine instrumentality enforcement and others. They acceptable occurrence to vehicles and spot astir the city, and assaulted officers with deadly weapons specified arsenic rocks and Molotov cocktails," Comer wrote to the DOJ.

"Assaults connected instrumentality enforcement officers legally executing their orders are reprehensible and those liable indispensable beryllium dealt with successful accordance with the severity of their actions."

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is launching a probe into the Los Angeles riots. (Getty Images)

Comer wrote akin letters to Newsom and Bass, accusing them of having "protested President Trump’s enactment to quell the unit caused by the rioters successful Los Angeles, adjacent resorting to falsely blaming him for the actions of convulsive rioters."

"You person championed California's sanctuary policies, which forestall section instrumentality enforcement's practice with national migration authorities. You person besides made it wide that you mean to artifact the objectives of the national government, and support aliens, careless of their migration status, transgression activity, anti-American views, oregon incitement to riot," the Oversight Committee missive said.

GOP investigators are requesting documentation of immoderate communications betwixt Bass and Newsom regarding the protests, arsenic good arsenic their communications with state, section and national instrumentality enforcement.

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The U.S. National Guard is deployed astir downtown Los Angeles connected June 8, 2025 pursuing an migration raid protestation the nighttime before. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

Comer is besides requesting a staff-level briefing connected the demonstrations.

Days of rioting erupted successful Los Angeles aft Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids resulted successful implicit 100 suspected amerciable immigrants being arrested past weekend.

President Donald Trump sent the National Guard into Los Angeles implicit Newsom's objections. Democrats person accused Trump of needlessly escalating the situation, portion the president's GOP allies argued it was a indispensable measurement to quell the violence.

Comer said instrumentality enforcement "were forced to occurrence capsicum spray to disperse crowds and made dozens of arrests," blaming the escalation connected the rioters.

A national justice ruled Thursday that Trump indispensable instrumentality power of the California National Guard to Newsom, but an appeals tribunal rapidly reversed that decision.

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The demonstrations successful Los Angeles, portion severe, are not isolated – activists crossed the state person sprung up to protestation the Trump administration's crackdown connected amerciable immigration.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Bass, Newsom and the DOJ for comment.