Trump death threats emerge amid Los Angeles riots; Secret Service aware

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Secret Service confirmed Thursday that it is "aware" of threatening "Kill Trump" graffiti messages spray-painted astir the metropolis of Los Angeles during this week's riots. 

A spokesperson for the protective bureau would not corroborate whether an probe is underway but did accidental that it knows of the convulsive messaging directed astatine some President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. 

The messaging was seen successful the city's downtown country amid civilian unrest pursuing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of transgression amerciable immigrants. 

"Burn it each down," 1 said, with "Kill Trump" graffitied beneath it. 

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 connected June 7, 2025. (Getty Images)

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"Kill Trump," the different said, with "JD Vance" spray-painted below. 

Last weekend, clashes betwixt rioters and constabulary erupted successful Paramount, California, aft ICE conducted apprehension operations targeting amerciable immigrants with transgression records. 

The riots rapidly dispersed to Los Angeles, wherever the Los Angeles Police Department faced down atrocious actors of their own. Vehicles were acceptable ablaze, spot was covered with anti-ICE and anti-Trump graffiti, and stores were breached into and looted during the unrest. 

Protesters effort to airy a Molotov cocktail arsenic a firework explodes during a protestation successful Compton, California, connected Saturday, June 7, 2025 aft national migration authorities conducted operations. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

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Trump activated the California National Guard and U.S. Marines. He has been successful a ineligible battle with Gov. Gavin Newsom implicit power of the National Guard.

Other national instrumentality enforcement agencies person besides turned their attraction to the metropolis amid the tension. 

FBI Director Kash Patel warned those who perpetrate unit against police, saying "if you battle a instrumentality enforcement officer, you’re going to jail—period."

"It doesn’t substance wherever you came from, however you got here, oregon what origin you assertion to represent," Patel told Fox News Digital. "If section jurisdictions won’t basal down the men and women who deterioration the badge, the FBI will."

Police officers basal amid teardrop state during a protestation against national migration sweeps successful downtown Los Angeles connected June 8, 2025. (REUTERS/Daniel Cole)

Hundreds person been arrested since the riots began past weekend. 

The Trump administration, which says it has arrested transgression amerciable immigrants who person been convicted of murder, enactment crimes against children and battery, is continuing its ICE operations. 

"Murderers, pedophiles, and cause traffickers. These are the types of transgression amerciable aliens that rioters are warring to protect. How overmuch longer volition Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass proceed to prioritize these transgression amerciable aliens implicit their ain citizens?" Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said successful a connection connected Wednesday. 

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"Secretary Noem has a connection to the LA rioters: you volition not halt america oregon dilatory america down. ICE volition proceed to enforce the instrumentality and apprehension transgression amerciable aliens," McLaughlin added.

Fox News' Alexandra Koch and Cameron Arcand contributed to this report.