Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure and honor spending time with you.
Speaker 2: Special coverage today of the ongoing protests and then the response,
Speaker 2: and now National Guard is on the ground. So we'll
Speaker 2: be turning with our reporter Michael Monks, who's kind of
Speaker 2: bouncing between downtown and the detention center in Alameda Street.
Speaker 2: So we'll check with Michael Monks here very shortly as
Speaker 2: we continue here for the next couple of hours. More
Speaker 2: protests are scheduled today, and I think sometimes we tend
Speaker 2: to conflate the word protest with riot. There are more
Speaker 2: protests scheduled today at two o'clock. Now will those turn violent?
Speaker 2: Will they turn unruly? That remains to be seen. Protesting
Speaker 2: still allowed, unruly violence not allowed. The governor has said
Speaker 2: that he's that the bringing on of the National Guard,
Speaker 2: the militarization of the police, is going to escalate things
Speaker 2: that is inflaming and already tense SITUATIONUA. The President had
Speaker 2: remarked in the past that he wished he had responded
Speaker 2: more forcefully in his first term when the Black Lives
Speaker 2: Matter protests erupted, and he said the next time around
Speaker 2: he's not going to wait. This seems to be that
Speaker 2: example of the next time around, the first time that
Speaker 2: the president has called for the National Guard without consultation
Speaker 2: from a governor since I believe Alabama nineteen sixty five
Speaker 2: when they were trying to get kids into desegregated schools.
Speaker 2: So it is an historical a time that we're saying,
Speaker 2: we haven't seen this in sixty years that a president
Speaker 2: has acted outside of a consultation with a governor to
Speaker 2: deploy the National Guard.
Speaker 3: But that is what we're seeing.
Speaker 2: The President said he's going to send two thousand National
Speaker 2: Guards men and women. The governor says it's only about
Speaker 2: three hundred that are here right now. We do have
Speaker 2: an update that White House borders are Tom Holman was
Speaker 2: talking with NBC News Jacob sober Off and said that
Speaker 2: the raids are going to continue in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: They're not going to be deterred.
Speaker 2: Demonstrations and clashes with law enforcement are not going to
Speaker 2: stop ice efforts.
Speaker 3: When asked what was.
Speaker 2: Different as a National Guard has never been deployed in
Speaker 2: that capacity by the president, Holman said that I'm going
Speaker 2: violent rhetoric could lead to a loss of life. This
Speaker 2: from ABC seven. Here's what Homan said. The protesters are
Speaker 2: purpose excuse me, purposely trying to overwhelm law enforcement. President
Speaker 2: Trump's bringing in the National Guard again. I want to
Speaker 2: be clear, not just to protect the law enforcement officers,
Speaker 2: to protect this community because people are going to get in.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, the rhetoric is so high against ice
Speaker 2: officers in this city. It's a matter of time before
Speaker 2: someone gets seriously hurt.
Speaker 3: He continued.
Speaker 2: If this rhetoric continues, this violence continue, someone's going to
Speaker 2: lose their life. It's an anti Trump agenda and anti
Speaker 2: ICE agenda, and they're going to keep coming. But we
Speaker 2: got help coming and we're going to do our job,
Speaker 2: continue doing that job. He went on to then say
Speaker 2: that there could be charges not just against the demonstrators, protesters,
Speaker 2: people turning violent, but actually against elected officials. Governor Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass could face federal charges if
Speaker 2: their response to ICE raids exceed legal boundaries. He says,
Speaker 2: I'll say it about anybody, if you cross that line.
Speaker 2: It's a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien.
Speaker 2: It's a felony to impede law enforcement from doing their job.
Speaker 2: When asked if Bass was crossing the line, he said,
Speaker 2: if she crosses that line, we'll ask the DOJ to prosecute.
Speaker 2: Do I think she's crossing I don't think she's crossed
Speaker 2: the line yet, but I'm telling you the warning we're signing, Yes,
Speaker 2: the warning we're signing is we're not going to tolerate
Speaker 2: people attacking our officers. Holman had suggested that the Attorney General,
Speaker 2: Pam Bondi, was considering charges against officials who supported the protests.
Speaker 2: When asked, he said, I think Pambondi the Department of
Speaker 2: Justice is looking at that. And you know, like I said,
Speaker 2: many times, he's elected officials or these non government organizations.
Speaker 3: They can't cross the line either.
Speaker 2: I mean, we got people like you know, Hakim Jeffrey
Speaker 2: is saying he's going to doc's ice employees.
Speaker 3: So I guess we're looking at arresting anybody who disagrees.
Speaker 2: There's a big difference between protesting, disagreeing, vehemently disagreeing, and
Speaker 2: even that dirty word rhetoric just means talk and taking
Speaker 2: malicious action. And one of the things that I think
Speaker 2: we're starting to witness here, and we see this in
Speaker 2: most authoritarian type regimes is that if you're not with us,
Speaker 2: you're against us.
Speaker 3: In other words, if you're.
Speaker 2: Protesting the crackdown on illegal immigration, which is which is
Speaker 2: a quite visible crackdown. The numbers are not exorbitant, the
Speaker 2: numbers aren't crazy. The numbers are in line with what
Speaker 2: we've seen with previous presidents. But what we're seeing is
Speaker 2: a very public display of might. So we've got ice
Speaker 2: that's going out, we want to make sure there's cameras
Speaker 2: on them.
Speaker 3: We've got the.
Speaker 2: Homeland Security Secretary who's gonna go out and she's gonna
Speaker 2: put on her bullet proof vest and she's going to
Speaker 2: go out there and accompany these officers and make sure
Speaker 2: there's cameras on them. And then we're seeing crackdowns on
Speaker 2: people who are by no means a threat to their communities.
Speaker 2: We're seeing crackdowns on people that have been members of
Speaker 2: the community for years. We're seeing crackdowns on kids nine
Speaker 2: year olds, and they're all very visible. And this is
Speaker 2: a bit of signaling to the base that the president
Speaker 2: is doing what he promised. He is getting rid of
Speaker 2: anyone who is here without documents, and those documents are
Speaker 2: the most important things. And so when people stand up
Speaker 2: and they say, how dare you? And we've seen this
Speaker 2: in red states too. There was a story that was
Speaker 2: being covered with a woman who was running a cafe
Speaker 2: in Kentucky where eighty percent voted for Trump, and Ice
Speaker 2: came in and arrested her. She'd been there for decades,
Speaker 2: and the people said, wait a minute, well that's we
Speaker 2: liked her.
Speaker 3: We didn't know what it was going to be about that.
Speaker 2: We thought it was just we thought it was people
Speaker 2: in California, right, And there's no there doesn't seem to
Speaker 2: be any differentiation because for the longest time during the campaign,
Speaker 2: he heard from the president and actually you heard from
Speaker 2: Elon Musk back when they were still buddies, that the
Speaker 2: goal was to get rid of the worst, right, the
Speaker 2: gang bangers, the drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers. But
Speaker 2: it turns out we're actually targeting the some people I
Speaker 2: suppose are probably good people. Part of his his equation,
Speaker 2: it's easier to grab somebody who's a law abiding citizen.
Speaker 2: We're seeing this at a number of immigration court hearings
Speaker 2: across the country, where you've got the person who's here
Speaker 2: is showing up for their status hearing they're showing up
Speaker 2: and then ICE pops in. The prosecutors dismissed the case
Speaker 2: so that there's no reason to hold them any longer.
Speaker 2: Ice shows up and arrest them of the parking lot,
Speaker 2: sin it all over the place, and of course this
Speaker 2: ends up erupting into the protests that we saw, you know,
Speaker 2: over the weekend, and then obviously as things started to
Speaker 2: get ugly last night, they turned very destructive.
Speaker 3: KTLA was covering some of what was happening.
Speaker 4: Chaos and calamity rocked Paramount Saturday, on the second day
Speaker 4: of demonstrations against federal immigration operations in southern California. KTLA
Speaker 4: was on the ground and in the air, capturing the
Speaker 4: explosive environment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the shots you're hearing are rubber bullets that they're using,
Speaker 3: the mayor of Paramount says.
Speaker 4: Tension escalated after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE,
Speaker 4: and other federal agents were apparently staging at or near
Speaker 4: a local home depot center, but.
Speaker 5: I here in the community.
Speaker 4: Throngs of protesters gathered in the industrial area, sparking more
Speaker 4: clashes between law enforcement and members of the community. Crowds
Speaker 4: taunted authorities, with some people going so far as to
Speaker 4: block a US Marshal's service bus, while others hurled rocks
Speaker 4: and other objects at law enforcement vehicles. According to the
Speaker 4: La County Sheriff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean we saw the videos. It's not
Speaker 2: even a According to the sheriff, our eyes don't deceive us.
Speaker 2: We saw people throwing rocks at the vehicles.
Speaker 4: Federal agents responded with pepperballs, rubber bullets, tear gas, and
Speaker 4: flash bangs in the.
Speaker 3: Last several hours. I mean, that's like warzone, right, war zone.
Speaker 3: So unfortunately the crowd.
Speaker 2: Has Honestly, if it weren't for the clothes that people
Speaker 2: are wearing, and I'm serious right now, if it weren't
Speaker 2: for the clothes that people were wearing, if you saw
Speaker 2: this footage, would you know the difference between this and
Speaker 2: say Gaza or the streets of Kiev. No, No, I
Speaker 2: mean you'd see, you'd see a military presence, you'd see
Speaker 2: people throwing rocks, and you'd see the military using a
Speaker 2: heavy handed response. I mean, we are, we are seeing
Speaker 2: a certain portion of civilization unraveling, and the problem. The
Speaker 2: problem is both sides are fighting over how to be
Speaker 2: more civilized. One side says we need to be more authoritariative,
Speaker 2: more authoritative, and if we just take control then people
Speaker 2: will be free. Nothing's just freedom like control. Then you've
Speaker 2: got the other side that's saying, how dare you be
Speaker 2: so heavy handed? We are going to fight you with
Speaker 2: violence because nothing says civil like violence, and nothing says
Speaker 2: leave us alone, like come and get us. You're not
Speaker 2: dealing with the you know, dealing with a whole lot
Speaker 2: of people that are thinking through things, are you? The
Speaker 2: crowd has grown, we believe at this time it's at
Speaker 2: approximately three hundred and fifty, maybe four hundred.
Speaker 3: As the crowd has grown, it has become more violent.
Speaker 4: A wooden palette and then a car went up in
Speaker 4: flames during the unrest, sending black smoke into the air.
Speaker 3: And why are you lighting cars on fire? What the
Speaker 3: hell sense does that? Bank?
Speaker 2: Ah, we're protesting, only are you then? I mean you
Speaker 2: look like you're celebrating a Dodgers World series. Stop lighting
Speaker 2: cars on fire? What is the matter with you? Not
Speaker 2: a lot of thinking through by anybody here. The strategy
Speaker 2: by law.
Speaker 3: Enforcement is to crush opposition.
Speaker 2: And even Tom Holman, the the borders are said, we're
Speaker 2: gonna get them. They're anti Trump literally says, they're anti Trump.
Speaker 2: So is this about Trump? Is this about undocumented immigrants?
Speaker 2: Is this about getting the rapists, the murderers, the drug dealers?
Speaker 2: Trendea Ragua I always mispronounced that.
Speaker 3: What is this about? He says.
Speaker 2: If the violence continues, if the rhetoric continues, someone's going
Speaker 2: to lose their life. It's an anti Trump agenda.
Speaker 6: U H.
Speaker 3: So is that what this is about? It's all political?
Speaker 2: Is it about safety or is it about the anti
Speaker 2: Trump agenda. We'll talk with Michael Monks, who is live
Speaker 2: and in the midst of where we assume there's gonna
Speaker 2: be some more protests this afternoon. Those are supposed to
Speaker 2: start at two o'clock. Will they turn unruly? Hard to say.
Speaker 2: Will the presence of the National Guard there make things safer?
Speaker 2: Or will that inflame the already burning embers of what
Speaker 2: we saw happen yesterday.
Speaker 3: We'll find out from Michael Monks. Next.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: More protests was scheduled for two o'clock exceptternoon downtown our
Speaker 2: own Michael Monks is all over and actually Michael's been
Speaker 2: working since early this morning and he's gonna be working
Speaker 2: throughout the day to make sure that you have the
Speaker 2: latest the raids. Yesterday the ice raids turned destructive because
Speaker 2: you had ice raids and then you had protesters.
Speaker 3: You had a staging area.
Speaker 2: In Paramount where people got word, hey, there's a staging
Speaker 2: area going on here, and then they started protesting and
Speaker 2: it turned ugly, which, if I'm being honest, is kind
Speaker 2: of what I think some people wanted to see. They
Speaker 2: wanted an excuse to come in with the heavy hand.
Speaker 2: They wanted to be able to send in the military
Speaker 2: and say, look how strong, look how mighty we are,
Speaker 2: and this administration and is not going to allow the
Speaker 2: criminal element to run wild in our streets any longer.
Speaker 3: And then they made it political.
Speaker 2: Too, the presidents of these Democrat run cities. Democratic run cities,
Speaker 2: but that's right, Democrat run cities, he said, are the problem,
Speaker 2: which means that if you don't have documents, go to
Speaker 2: Orange County, because that's not they're not focusing They're not
Speaker 2: focusing on Republican areas. So just if you don't have documents,
Speaker 2: just grab the fam head to Orange County. You're gonna
Speaker 2: be safe there. I mean, that's not true, but probably safer.
Speaker 7: We're seeing new video shows from maybe seven showing the
Speaker 7: chaotic moments protesters and federal agents clashed across Los Angeles.
Speaker 8: It marked the second day in a row of unrest
Speaker 8: as ice rates continue. Explosive flash bangs and clouds of
Speaker 8: tear gas filled downtown LA. Last night, is police declared
Speaker 8: an unlawful assembly. There also appears to be some looting
Speaker 8: at a cannon store and Compton lapd sais Why are
Speaker 8: you looting?
Speaker 3: They?
Speaker 9: Ah?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: I really support people who are here fighting for their lives.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna support him even better with these peanut
Speaker 3: m and ms.
Speaker 2: But Michael Monks is KFI reporter who has been covering this. Michael,
Speaker 2: I know you've been working since early this morning and
Speaker 2: all this stuff, So thank you so much for taking
Speaker 2: time and then doing it at this special coverage broadcast
Speaker 2: that we have going on today.
Speaker 3: Where are you now and what's the latest that you're hearing.
Speaker 5: I'm on Alameda Street outside the Federal Building, and I'll
Speaker 5: tell you there's a lot of spray paint on the wall,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of noise, and you know, you might
Speaker 5: think this is just a usual day in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't be wrong.
Speaker 5: The difference this time is that there are military guys here,
Speaker 5: uniformed military personnel with very large guns, with large sticks,
Speaker 5: and they are lined up facing off with about one
Speaker 5: hundred hundred and fifty protesters right now. It's what you
Speaker 5: might describe as team a little bit of chirpiness, a
Speaker 5: little bit of barking and jawing back and forth, some
Speaker 5: birds being flipped.
Speaker 3: That sort of thing to have no sort of action.
Speaker 3: But there are.
Speaker 5: Military vehicles parked here, DHS police are here outside this
Speaker 5: federal building right now. A lot of honking on the street,
Speaker 5: honking and support, a lot of chance. But so far
Speaker 5: it's just kind of a stare down.
Speaker 3: Does it feel tense with this starenup?
Speaker 5: No, You've got a couple of rabble rousers in the
Speaker 5: crowd that are trying to get a little more action going.
Speaker 5: Whether or not that's going to be effective is yet
Speaker 5: to be seen. It's been interesting over the past few
Speaker 5: days because it's daytime right now, and it has been
Speaker 5: in the daytime where most of the violent activity has
Speaker 5: taken place. It seems at nighttime it looks more like
Speaker 5: this a little chippiness, a little bit of violence, not much,
Speaker 5: but mostly just staring down until finally it evaporates. But
Speaker 5: it has been in the daytime where most of the
Speaker 5: activity has taken place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems a little bit odd to me.
Speaker 2: Usually, you know, your protesters, your genuine protesters, will head
Speaker 2: home and then you've got the rabble rousers out a
Speaker 2: little bit later at night.
Speaker 3: Doesn't seem to necessarily be the case this time around them, No,
Speaker 3: not at all.
Speaker 5: And you know, this has drawn a pretty sizable crowd.
Speaker 5: There's also apparently some demonstrations according to the laped outside
Speaker 5: their Central Division office as well as on Olvera Street.
Speaker 5: I've not made it over to either of those locations yet.
Speaker 5: This seems to be ground zero for these protests for
Speaker 5: the past few days.
Speaker 3: It's believed that some.
Speaker 5: Of the people who have been detained by ice may
Speaker 5: be housed inside this building. And it is absolutely covered
Speaker 5: in profanity and a variety of different messages that have
Speaker 5: been spray painted here over the past forty eight seventy
Speaker 5: two hours. And there looks like there's some folks who
Speaker 5: may be anxious to get back.
Speaker 3: To that type of work. But with the military here,
Speaker 3: the vibe is a little different.
Speaker 2: So what's the involvement of the LAPD right now? I
Speaker 2: mean this is this is in their backyard. So are
Speaker 2: they showing up or are they leaving everything to the
Speaker 2: National Guard or to the federal enforcement.
Speaker 5: Well, this looks like a jurisdictional situation. This is fout property.
Speaker 5: So there is Department of Homeland Security police. They are
Speaker 5: uniformed and they are wearing their heavy gear as well.
Speaker 5: They've got their mask on, they've got their weapons at
Speaker 5: they're ready, and they are also surrounded by what is
Speaker 5: believed to be California National Guardsmen who have been deployed
Speaker 5: here at a few different sites around LA. So this
Speaker 5: is not the LAPD's jurisdiction. Should it spill out into
Speaker 5: the streets, should we start to see that type of
Speaker 5: activity take place like we've seen the past couple of days,
Speaker 5: that's where you'll start to see LAPD.
Speaker 3: Need to answer the call.
Speaker 5: And that's also where we've seen conflicting reports from local
Speaker 5: officials and national officials about the speed and urgency with
Speaker 5: which LAPD has responded. Because LAPD has a policy they
Speaker 5: have since the seventies they don't assist in immigration enforcement efforts.
Speaker 3: But they are supposed to keep the peace otherwise.
Speaker 5: So whether or not they've done it on a time
Speaker 5: frame that has been acceptable, that's what's been debated.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks is downtown, he's said, near the while we
Speaker 2: I think it's the detention center. It's the federal building
Speaker 2: off Alameda, and Michael, the vibe right now is chill.
Speaker 2: Have you been able to talk with any of the protesters?
Speaker 2: I just wonder what goes through their minds on a
Speaker 2: day like this when they know they're going to go protest,
Speaker 2: They know they're going to face somebody who's holding a
Speaker 2: big gun, probably a helmet, and has been told stands still,
Speaker 2: don't react unless you know you have to whatever. So
Speaker 2: I mean, how does one this is gonna sound silly,
Speaker 2: but I mean it. How does one just go about
Speaker 2: their normal day as they prepare for something like this.
Speaker 2: Have you been able to talk with any of them?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think this is what we've heard from folks is
Speaker 5: they're angry or they're scared, and like many protests, this
Speaker 5: is something that gives you the opportunity to let it
Speaker 5: out a little bit, even if nothing is going to
Speaker 5: change today. You got the shout, you got to point
Speaker 5: you let some anger out. The challenge will be whether
Speaker 5: people who came down to protest in a First Amendment way,
Speaker 5: in a peaceful way, even if they're a little loud,
Speaker 5: even if they're a little profane, are they going to
Speaker 5: get swept up in people that see this as an
Speaker 5: opportunity to misbehave. Even if these other folks don't support
Speaker 5: the calls at hand, they just want to engage in mischief.
Speaker 5: That's that's got to be some of their concerns as well. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think that's what we see so often with these
Speaker 5: protests that get out of hand, is you have you
Speaker 5: have the the truble.
Speaker 3: Looting? I mean, why is anybody looting? Doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: It never does whenever we see any of these protests,
Speaker 2: whether it was Black Lives Matter, whether it's this, whether
Speaker 2: it's Rodney King, Why are we stealing things? It just
Speaker 2: just there's no there's no logic to it other than
Speaker 2: crimes of opportunity. Protesters have a very fine line that
Speaker 2: they have to walk in order to garner sympathy from
Speaker 2: people that otherwise haven't.
Speaker 3: Been paying attention.
Speaker 5: And you know, you cross that fine line in the
Speaker 5: wrong direction, you're gonna lose folks forever.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely all right, Michael Muggs at the detention center.
Speaker 3: We'll check with you a little bit later on here too.
Speaker 2: Michael, thank you so much for for the ongoing coverage
Speaker 2: and putting yourself there.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking, if you're if you're somebody who
Speaker 2: is who's big into this cause, and you're getting ready
Speaker 2: and you're going to protest, and you know it's going
Speaker 2: to be a big day, and you know that things
Speaker 2: could potentially turn.
Speaker 3: Violent, you don't know. You hope they don't.
Speaker 2: Some do, but you know, I'm just the average Joe Schmo.
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking, I mean, what do you have for breakfast?
Speaker 2: It sounds facetious, but it's not think about when you
Speaker 2: get up, Like you go to sleep after whatever happened yesterday,
Speaker 2: and you're probably all wound up. You probably don't sleep
Speaker 2: very well. Then you wake up and you go, okay,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to go back downtown, so do you.
Speaker 2: But I gotta take a shower, walk the dog, have
Speaker 2: some oatmeal.
Speaker 3: The whole time.
Speaker 2: It's got to be this weird, almost purgatory feel before
Speaker 2: you're about to get back into what has the potential
Speaker 2: to be a very volatile situation. At the very least,
Speaker 2: your plans are I'm just going to scream and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna let my frustrations out, as Michael said, yep, But does.
Speaker 3: It does it get worse? Does it boil over?
Speaker 2: And if it does boil over, maybe they don't even
Speaker 2: know where they plan on landing if things start to
Speaker 2: get violent.
Speaker 3: Tough to say.
Speaker 2: I talked about some of the rubber bullets. You're going
Speaker 2: to hear about these rubber bullets in just a few moments.
Speaker 2: As the protests are scheduled to begin again today. As
Speaker 2: you hear Michael Monks say, about one hundred people already
Speaker 2: at the federal building off Alameda, and there are more
Speaker 2: planning on showing up a little bit later on this afternoon.
Speaker 3: More on that next.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: First time a president has called for National Guard deployment
Speaker 2: without consultation of the local governor since nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2: So a big deal that's going on, and the National
Speaker 2: Guard has arrived.
Speaker 3: They are on the scene.
Speaker 7: We're seeing new video showing the chaotic moments protesters and
Speaker 7: federal agents clashed across Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: From maybec seven plus.
Speaker 8: It marked the second day in a row of unread
Speaker 8: as ice rates continue. Explosive flash bangs and clouds of
Speaker 8: tear gas filled downtown LA.
Speaker 3: Last night. Is police declared an unlawful assembly.
Speaker 8: There also appears to be some looting at a convenience
Speaker 8: store in Compton.
Speaker 2: Lapd says, yeah, I made mention of this in the
Speaker 2: last eightment. What it sense. It doesn't make any sense
Speaker 2: to go looting. But listen, if you are someone who
Speaker 2: is you gotta go to the convenience store. Do you
Speaker 2: want to pick up your rock Star energy and maybe
Speaker 2: a bag of Doritos? Just be cautious. There's people out
Speaker 2: there that are looking to start looting for the sake
Speaker 2: of looting.
Speaker 8: I guess they detained several people and eventually arrested twenty seven.
Speaker 7: And this comes as the National Guard troops that President
Speaker 7: Trump ordered have started to arrive.
Speaker 8: When assumes reporter Amanda Pelasios joins US Live from downtown
Speaker 8: Los Angeles with the breaking update.
Speaker 6: Amanda, good morning, yew. We've already seen a large, growing
Speaker 6: National Guard presidence here in downtown LA. If you take
Speaker 6: a look behind me here you can see. Troops are
Speaker 6: stationed along Alameda Street as another protest is expected to
Speaker 6: take place later today near City Hall.
Speaker 2: And that is similar to what we heard from Michael Monks,
Speaker 2: who was there right now. We'll check with Michael here
Speaker 2: in about another ten or fifteen minutes too.
Speaker 6: This follows President Trump's deployment of two thousand National Guard
Speaker 6: members in response to a series of immigration protests across
Speaker 6: the city. This is new video from overnight showing the
Speaker 6: troops arrive. They stopped at City Hall after driving through Paramount,
Speaker 6: then knitted up here at the Federal Building meantime. This
Speaker 6: follows another night of protest all right, and video from
Speaker 6: last night shows tense moments in downtown LA as protesters
Speaker 6: clashed with police, some setting off fireworks and starting fires.
Speaker 6: Officers responded with what appeared to be tear gas to
Speaker 6: disperse the crowds, and a separate incident, demonstrators were seen
Speaker 6: entering a damaged convenience store in Compton and looting items
Speaker 6: for I'm inside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we said that. That doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: According to the LP, I just don't have the mindset.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with the mindset of a protester. I'm fine
Speaker 2: with the mindset of somebody that's so frustrated they have
Speaker 2: to go to the streets and they have to scream
Speaker 2: and they have to say what they got to say.
Speaker 2: And look, that's not political. We've seen that from the left,
Speaker 2: from the right. That is, someone who's passionate about their viewpoint.
Speaker 2: Our country was founded on that. But turning things into
Speaker 2: looting just doesn't make any sense. There's no logic behind
Speaker 2: it whatsoever.
Speaker 6: According to the LPD, multiple individuals who would turn to
Speaker 6: the area after disperse order was issued on Elemeda Street
Speaker 6: were detained in our expect to be to be booked
Speaker 6: for failure to disperse.
Speaker 2: All right, so that's civil infraction. They're booked for that.
Speaker 2: My guess probably chargers are going to be dropped. We
Speaker 2: see this all the time when it comes to civil
Speaker 2: civil unrest and civil disobedience, where you get people who
Speaker 2: are arrested for staying in the way and not leaving
Speaker 2: when they're supposed to. They get arrested and then the
Speaker 2: charges end up getting dropped or they end up with something,
Speaker 2: you know, community service.
Speaker 3: Or somebody of that sort.
Speaker 6: We spoke with meyerbas about the deployment of the National
Speaker 6: Guard and believes it's not necessary.
Speaker 3: Oh what she.
Speaker 9: Said, my concern. And we have experienced civil unrest, and
Speaker 9: I remember nineteen ninety two very well that one of
Speaker 9: the worst things you can do is have an extreme
Speaker 9: presence of law enforcement that gets everybody agitated, and the
Speaker 9: Violence Act actually escalates it.
Speaker 6: Okay, And today's protest is scheduled for two PM, and
Speaker 6: the LPED says officers and the National Guard were remain
Speaker 6: stationed in this area reporting in downtown Late Amanda Plosius.
Speaker 2: All right, so national Guard is there. About three hundred troops,
Speaker 2: is what we're hearing. The President said he was going
Speaker 2: to send two thousand, but it ends up being like
Speaker 2: three hundred so far. That doesn't mean we're not going
Speaker 2: to have two thousand. It's three hundred so far. So
Speaker 2: larger protests expected around two o'clock.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? Honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And I think this is why it's such a tense
Speaker 2: and anxious moment for everyone that's witnessing this.
Speaker 3: This is happening in your city or your backyard. Right.
Speaker 2: This is a Southern California issue. I can tell you
Speaker 2: the people of Omaha are not paying very close attention
Speaker 2: to this. Other than the political wonks who want to
Speaker 2: be able to argue about this over coffee with someone
Speaker 2: who has a different viewpoint, those are the only people
Speaker 2: who are really paying attention to this outside of our area,
Speaker 2: other than people who may have documentation issues. They're watching
Speaker 2: what's going on in southern California as well, which is
Speaker 2: part of why this show of force is so important
Speaker 2: for the administration to show we're cracking down, we're doing
Speaker 2: it right, We're coming after you, and if you're here
Speaker 2: without documents, self deport now right. It's part of the messaging.
Speaker 2: What will be interesting to see is if cooler heads prevail,
Speaker 2: And by cooler I don't mean don't yell, don't scream, whatever.
Speaker 2: What I mean is they're going to be rock throwing.
Speaker 2: Will there be water bottles being thrown? Will there will
Speaker 2: we have to see tear gas and rubber bullets and
Speaker 2: things of that nature. Again, rubber bullets, of course, were
Speaker 2: being used uh yesterday as well, and I would assume
Speaker 2: that the rubber bullet guns are are loaded and ready
Speaker 2: for today.
Speaker 10: The Violin clash and Paramount protesters face to face with
Speaker 10: Border Patrol agents one side, hurling rocks and bottles the
Speaker 10: other firing back with pepper spray and rubber bullets.
Speaker 2: Just chaos, man, Just chaos. Now, some of this, some
Speaker 2: of this is coming from the protesters. So you're hearing
Speaker 2: some of the explosions, the flash bangs, the the tear gas,
Speaker 2: the rubber bullets that are coming from U enforcement. But
Speaker 2: some of what you're hearing, like the fireworks, those are
Speaker 2: coming from the protesters, which, of course, the whole situation
Speaker 2: continues to get escalated.
Speaker 10: Sources tel Fox eleven Border Patrol agents Saturday morning. We're
Speaker 10: here across the street from Home Depot for a staging
Speaker 10: area possibly prepping for an immigration rate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, across the street from the Home depot. And as
Speaker 2: we know, there have been other raids that have happened
Speaker 2: at the home depots. Look, you've got people who are
Speaker 2: there without documents, that are sitting out front and they're
Speaker 2: they're looking for daytime labor jobs.
Speaker 3: It is it is, uh, it is easy pickings for ice. Boom.
Speaker 2: They pull in surround these guys and you go, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna grab you and you and you and you and
Speaker 2: you and you and you and you everybody in the
Speaker 2: van boom and then they go boop. We got our
Speaker 2: dozen guys today. You don't have to go tracking people down,
Speaker 2: you don't have to go finding somebody who's in a gang.
Speaker 3: You know, it's really easy pickings. That's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 10: Protesters then moved in.
Speaker 1: You think it's get in our hand, not patrol everybody.
Speaker 10: Right now, local officials speaking with demonstrators.
Speaker 1: These are hard working community members.
Speaker 3: People are rich. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 1: These We have to protect community and make sure they
Speaker 1: have rights like anybody else.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So there's somebody this protesting because they believe very firmly
Speaker 2: in their stance, Okay, And I think that gets lost sometimes.
Speaker 2: I think what we end up seeing is this this
Speaker 2: binary choice that media is covering law enforcement and law breakers.
Speaker 3: Right, there is no middle ground.
Speaker 2: It's undocumented immigrants who are throwing rocks at law enforcement
Speaker 2: who are trying to keep America safe, and that sort
Speaker 2: of eliminates the gray area.
Speaker 10: Video obtained exclusively by Fox shows federal authorities trying to
Speaker 10: leave the ten situation, taking on rocks and chunks of concrete.
Speaker 10: At least one agent injured.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not cool, alright, So we're.
Speaker 10: Seeing agitators throwing items towards numbers of black and they're
Speaker 10: firing right back. It feels like a war zone out.
Speaker 3: Here, which is the point I made earlier. It's a
Speaker 3: war zone right now.
Speaker 2: And if you're a protester who's throwing something, you're an agitator.
Speaker 2: If you're law enforcement who's throwing something, well, you're part
Speaker 2: of a controlling the crowd perspective is everything, isn't it.
Speaker 2: We'll check with Michael Monks, who continues his reporting from
Speaker 2: outside the detention set of the Federal Building off of Alameda.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks joins us.
Speaker 1: Next, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, a.
Speaker 2: Special coverage of the ongoing protests, and we'll find out
Speaker 2: exactly whether or not things are gonna get violent again today.
Speaker 2: Hopefully what we saw yesterday, the clashes that were going
Speaker 2: on to Paramount Compton are the the culmination of the
Speaker 2: most that we see of the protests turning violent. Michael Monks, though,
Speaker 2: is at the Federal Building downtown, and really we had
Speaker 2: three different sites yesterday, right we had Compton, we had Paramount,
Speaker 2: and then Downtown didn't really get all that violent.
Speaker 3: At least that was some of the reporting I was hearing.
Speaker 5: Now downtown kept itself relatively tame last night, and it
Speaker 5: looks as though the issues in Compton spilled over from
Speaker 5: Paramount once the protest was pushed out of that area,
Speaker 5: So it did end up being at three different sites,
Speaker 5: but kind of a two different events. Right here now
Speaker 5: on Alameda Street outside the Federal Building, where we do
Speaker 5: see military in their full military guard, military vehicles, military weapons,
Speaker 5: along with Department of Homeland Security police. This crowd of
Speaker 5: anti ice demonstrators has grown probably doubled in size since
Speaker 5: we talked twenty or so minutes ago, and it's gotten
Speaker 5: much louder, and now it's become a bit of a
Speaker 5: traffic issue, a traffic very slow moving across Alameda, and
Speaker 5: that's because it's spilled into the streets a little bit.
Speaker 5: And so brazen was one guy that he's parked his
Speaker 5: mini van blocking two lanes and pulled out a couple
Speaker 5: of grills as if we were about to have a
Speaker 5: little asada out here on a Sunday afternoon. He seems
Speaker 5: to have been disabused of that notion and has packed
Speaker 5: up his grill and is starting to leave. But you
Speaker 5: hear the honking. Some of those are honks of support.
Speaker 5: Some of those are honks of frustration by people who
Speaker 5: maybe didn't get the mimmo and just want to get
Speaker 5: out of dodge.
Speaker 3: But it is, you know, there's a lot of tones.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of honking, a lot of yelling, and yes,
Speaker 5: the atmosphere is certainly intensified, certainly the volume, but still
Speaker 5: not a lot of violent activity right now. Just a
Speaker 5: lot of shouting, a lot of jib jabbing so.
Speaker 2: Far, okay, and that's great, that's fine. What is the
Speaker 2: demeor of the National guardsmen that are there, the others
Speaker 2: that are standing guard.
Speaker 5: Are they being chill and just observing, stonefaced, good stoic
Speaker 5: standing here, just looking at the crowd, not engaging at all.
Speaker 5: They clearly got their orders and no better than to engage,
Speaker 5: so they are prepared though. They've got pretty good sized
Speaker 5: guns here and pretty good.
Speaker 3: Sized sticks as well.
Speaker 5: If these folks here's the scene, basically, we're in the
Speaker 5: loading dock behind the main entrance of the federal building
Speaker 5: and there are military vehicles part tier. This protest is
Speaker 5: taking place on the sidewalk. If folks start to spill
Speaker 5: into that loading dock area, the parking lot outside the
Speaker 5: loading dock that's when they might meet some of these sticks.
Speaker 2: Okay, And that's based on what I was seeing from
Speaker 2: some of the other reporting, and obviously I'm working from
Speaker 2: the confines of the studio. This is kind of where
Speaker 2: we saw things happening yesterday as well. Was right at
Speaker 2: the loading docks. In fact, some people I believe were
Speaker 2: trying to get into the building yesterday and that's when
Speaker 2: they were repelled out with some of the tear gas yesterday.
Speaker 3: But again didn't turn all that violent.
Speaker 2: Just seem to be a lot of what you're seeing today,
Speaker 2: plus some people trying to get into the building.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll note that.
Speaker 5: Look, there are protests happening across the country and they're
Speaker 5: going to continue as long as this ice activity take place.
Speaker 3: But I would say Lay's special.
Speaker 5: Breed when it comes to organizing and getting people to protest.
Speaker 5: The message goes out and people respond quickly, and the
Speaker 5: numbers typically swell, and there are agitators. There are people
Speaker 5: that are always at the ready to escalate the situation,
Speaker 5: who really want to take out more than just frustration.
Speaker 5: They want to take out long simmering anger on governments,
Speaker 5: on industries, on traditions, and those sorts of things, and
Speaker 5: that's what I think we've seen in La so far
Speaker 5: when it has escalated. Don't see much of that right now,
Speaker 5: but that doesn't mean it's not going to come. There
Speaker 5: is a bigger rally scheduled at about two o'clock at
Speaker 5: city Halls the few blocks from here, and we'll see
Speaker 5: what type of characters show up for that.
Speaker 2: So Michael Bunks is reporting from the Federal building there
Speaker 2: on Alameda, and I'm looking at the I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the traffic maps right now, and that looks like such
Speaker 2: a mess.
Speaker 3: Did you say that the dude he set up his
Speaker 3: grill like on Elamina.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he pulled a minivan over and blocked the two
Speaker 5: right lanes and then pulled out a pair of grills
Speaker 5: and looked like he was prepared to start cooking. But
Speaker 5: he has since packed up the grill, but his van
Speaker 5: is still blocking two lanes. Traffic pretty slow moving past here,
Speaker 5: and that's because the sidewalk is only so large here,
Speaker 5: and now it is spilling out into the street. And
Speaker 5: my curiosity is now towards who's coming down for the
Speaker 5: city hall protests?
Speaker 3: Are they going to stop by here first? How big
Speaker 3: is this crowd going?
Speaker 5: To get and is this crowd going to disperse and
Speaker 5: go to city hall or are you going to have
Speaker 5: multiple scenes taking place?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's check in with you again here
Speaker 2: after we do news, Michael, if that's all right, because
Speaker 2: I do want to hear I know you were at
Speaker 2: city hall earlier. I want to hear a little bit
Speaker 2: about that and then I can hear it sounds like
Speaker 2: sounds like more people keep showing up the longer than
Speaker 2: than I keep talking. So absolutely discussing. You're just a
Speaker 2: few boma sor right. Thank you very much, Michael, monksters
Speaker 2: live there. I just got word from the city of
Speaker 2: Pasadena is aware of a gathering taking place near a
Speaker 2: location within the city and members of the Pasadena Police
Speaker 2: Department are monitoring that situation. The city encourages all those
Speaker 2: in attendance to remain peaceful, in law abiding is nonviolent.
Speaker 2: Protest is a powerful tool for those who seek change.
Speaker 2: At this time, the city is not aware of any
Speaker 2: federal law enforcement action in the city, including those regarding immigration.
Speaker 2: So that is a statement from Pasadena. You heard Michael
Speaker 2: say that there were protests elsewhere. There are Chicago, New York,
Speaker 2: a lot of it happening. But something unique about Los
Speaker 2: Angeles is he did point out that we seem to
Speaker 2: have agitators at the ready. Be curious to see if
Speaker 2: those agitators are at the ready to really make these
Speaker 2: shenanigans violent this afternoon, or if this is more about
Speaker 2: civil disobedience and in simply obstruction of you know, ICE
Speaker 2: doing whatever it is that they're going to do. But honestly,
Speaker 2: if ICE isn't doing anything other than detaining people, then
Speaker 2: there's really unless they're going out and arresting people. I
Speaker 2: don't know that these agitators are going to get worked up, right.
Speaker 2: There's nothing to really escalate the situation unless they decide
Speaker 2: to start escalating that situation. Be curious to hear from
Speaker 2: Michael Monks. We will after one o'clock about what the
Speaker 2: situation is at City Hall. He may mention that there
Speaker 2: were protests that were set to go on there. We
Speaker 2: do hear that there's going to be protests going on
Speaker 2: starting at two o'clock this afternoon. So we are going
Speaker 2: to be live right up until two o'clock. Then we'll
Speaker 2: hand things over to another live show. I'm back this
Speaker 2: afternoon at four. We'll have a bit of a recap
Speaker 2: of what we see going on here and then some
Speaker 2: of the other things that are going on in southern California.
Speaker 2: Of course across the United States as well. Because of
Speaker 2: the tensions that are happening, we are seeing that there
Speaker 2: are some other events where the organizers have just no,
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about protest organizers. Other organizers of other
Speaker 2: events in the area have just said, not really worth
Speaker 2: our time. It's not worth going out there and being
Speaker 2: at the center of a news story tomorrow. So we're
Speaker 2: seeing some cancelations. If you had plans today, you're gonna
Speaker 2: want to check and see if they're still going on,
Speaker 2: because some places they're saying nope.
Speaker 11: This is from KTLA breaking news out of the city
Speaker 11: of Whittier, where a swap meet that happens typically every
Speaker 11: Sunday over at cal Hi in the parking lot has
Speaker 11: been canceled due to possible ice activity.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 11: An email and a Facebook post was sent out informing
Speaker 11: all the vendors of the cancelation. Impossible ice activity again
Speaker 11: in Whittier. Also in commerce in Santa Fe Springs, the
Speaker 11: vendors who weren't aware were told.
Speaker 3: To go home once they arrived. That's a booger.
Speaker 12: It's sad. It's sad the way we're living. People living
Speaker 12: in fear like this, it's incredible. I mean, I never
Speaker 12: lived through something like this, where people are living in
Speaker 12: fear because they got to watch out for ice.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 12: This is crazy.
Speaker 11: The Whittier Swap Meet again held at the California High
Speaker 11: School every Sunday in the parking lot there. The hundreds
Speaker 11: of weekly vendors are hopeful that they can return next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope so too. Love me a good swap meet.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get the latest from Michael Munksy was
Speaker 2: at city Hall earlier. I believe he is going to
Speaker 2: be back there for the protests That is scheduled for
Speaker 2: two o'clock at City Hall, but right now an awful
Speaker 2: lot of people are gathering there at the Federal Building
Speaker 2: off Alameda. You'll hear live from downtown next KFI AM
Speaker 2: six forty on demand