Politics
BREAKING: Dead Body Found Near Looted LA Store As Riots Take ‘Dark Turn’
Los Angeles police uncovered a dead body on city streets shortly after rioters left the scene, sending the pro-immigration demonstrations down a dark road.
Local station KTLA reported that officers responded to the site of a riot around 1:30 a.m. PST on Tuesday after receiving reports of an unresponsive person. They located a man lying on his back in a red sweatshirt near a burned-out T-Mobile store, just one of dozens of businesses that have been looted.
It’s unclear if the man’s death is related to the rioting. The outlet shared video of the man, whose body was covered with a canopy, while police investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.
The site of West 3rd Street and Broadway is one epicenter of violence that has erupted across the city in response to raids conducted by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement over the weekend. What began as a protest against the operation quickly became a riot as participants donned face shields and earplugs and began hurling cinder blocks, electric scooters, and other dangerous items at federal officials.
Images from the scene show makeshift barricades as rioters launched fireworks at National Guardsmen and Marines sent by the Trump administration to restore order to the City of Angels. Even establishment media figures have condemned the tepid response by city and state officials like Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Residents losing their livelihoods in the havoc say they are fed up with the status quo.
“What’s the point of protesting right now? It’s just harming the community more than it’s helping,” Eddie Velazquez, a business owner near the site of some of the worst vandalism, told the NY Post.
The violence scenes have shown burning cars and smashed storefronts in places like Compton and Paramount, where demonstrators have spat on American flags while calling on others to “burn it all down.”
A source with ICE told the outlet that the violent demonstrators are advocating “for the actual criminals … sex offenders and the terrorists” the agency is targeting in its raids, exhibiting a gross misunderstanding of who is guilty or innocent.
“You have criminals, gang members, terrorists, child molesters, sex offenders that are being arrested, but since people don’t know the background of the case or what’s going on, everybody’s innocent,” the source described.
This is a developing story…
