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Top LA Official’s Daughters Arrested For Allegedly Assaulting Cops During Riots
The 26-year-old twin daughters of a prominent Los Angeles official were among those arrested on Sunday during the violent anti-ICE riots that have plagued the city over the last four days.
Rick Cole, the chief deputy controller of Los Angeles, told protesters that his daughters, Lucia Aguilar and Antonia, were taken into custody on Sunday, according to a report from LA Mag.
“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs. So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out,” Cole, who previously served as mayor of Pasadena, told protesters outside a hotel on Sunday. The crowd had gathered after federal Immigration and Naturalization Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents reportedly conducted operations there earlier in the day.
Lucia Aguilar and Antonia were taken into custody around 7 p.m. Sunday after some of the most intense violence of the disturbances, when rioters tossed boulders, fireworks and Molotov cocktails at officers on the Route 101 Freeway.
According to a report from KATV, the two women were arrested for allegedly assaulting police officers with a deadly weapon.
“It’s unclear which was the deadly weapon they allegedly used but they were arrested on Sunday during the time when protestors were throwing rocks and other objects from a bridge onto police vehicles on the 101 freeway,” the outlet noted.
Cole previously served as mayor of Pasadena, California
U.S. Marine Corps units began to arrive in Los Angeles on Tuesday as the unrest continues into a fifth day in a row. President Donald Trump authorized 700 Marines, as well as 4,000 California National Guard personnel, in order to defend federal property as state and local officials have yet to quell the riots.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has falsely claimed that violence only erupted after Trump dispatched the National Guard and has filed an emergency motion to have the order rescinded.
National Guard personnel could be seen assisting local law enforcement units in pushing crowds away from the federal building in downtown Los Angeles for the first time on Thursday night. Elsewhere in the city, rioters splintered into several different groups and proceeded to loot storefronts after they were pushed away from the area around city hall.
Additional disturbances erupted outside federal buildings in nearby Santa Ana, California, as well as multiple cities in Texas.
Apple store in downtown LA being looted tonight pic.twitter.com/3k5i7wKiSG
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) June 10, 2025
