WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.160 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.720 with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:18.559 App KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 4 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:20.800 It's time for your morning wake up call. 5 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:25.399 Here's Amy King. 6 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:34.799 Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your 7 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:39.679 wake up call for Monday, June ninth. I'm Amy King. 8 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:43.920 Thanks for starting your day with us. WHOA what a weekend? 9 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:50.759 Huh protests all weekend long and the residuals continued overnight. 10 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:52.799 We're gonna bring you the latest. We're gonna have all 11 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.719 the updates, let you know what happened, what's about to happen. 12 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.039 We're checking in with the ABC's Alex Stone, who's been 13 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:01.759 covering the protests all weekend. Of course, we had our 14 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:04.640 Michael Monks on it even got tear gas that was nice. 15 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:10.040 I'm being facetious, but it seems like things have calmed 16 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:13.560 down a bit over overnight, although there were still protesters 17 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.040 out overnight. But like I said, we're going to keep 18 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.000 you updated with that. We're going to bring you all 19 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:20.120 up to date, see what happened while you were sleeping. 20 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:23.640 And then we're also going to because the world continues 21 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.640 to turn. We're going to also cover the other things 22 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.319 that have been happening around the world and right here 23 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.599 in LA during this time. So here's what's ahead on 24 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.319 wake up Call. Plumes of black smoke have risen into 25 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.640 the skies over downtown La as ICE immigration protests turned 26 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:44.840 violent yesterday, prompting police to declare a tactical alert and 27 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:48.920 an unlawful assembly call for all of downtown. The one 28 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:52.239 oh one remained closed in We're going to get the 29 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:55.159 latest on that from Will Coleschreibers. At the north it's 30 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:56.359 the southbound lanes right. 31 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:57.879 Actually, it looks like everything's open. 32 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:00.519 They got it open finally. Okay, that's good. That's good 33 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:03.040 because that was a mess. We'll be telling you about that. 34 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:06.560 Several hundred National Guard members have arrived in LA to 35 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:10.240 assist in protecting federal property during the ice protests. President 36 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.879 Trump called up two thousand and also put marines at 37 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.240 Camp Pendleton on standby in case they're needed. LA Mayor 38 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:20.800 Bass and Governor Newsom say they are not needed and 39 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.840 are a dangerous escalation. LA schools will be in session 40 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:27.840 today in spite of the unrest. District authorities say they 41 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.439 support families in any decision that's best for the students 42 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.400 in the circumstances, and that the demonstration would be monitored 43 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.800 for updates. The man caught up in an ice sweep 44 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:43.240 in Maryland and deported to a Central American prison has 45 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:46.520 been returned to the US. ABC. Stephen Portenoy's going to 46 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.319 join us at five point twenty to tell us what's 47 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.759 next for the alleged MS thirteen member Kilmar Abrago Garcia. 48 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:56.639 And of course, the big news over the weekend, because 49 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:04.280 I am an optimist, Gizmo left the nest. So Sonny 50 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:08.039 and Gizmo, our big Bear Eglitz have both left the nest. 51 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.439 They were pretty much gone all weekend, but I checked 52 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:13.240 last night and they're both back in the nest this morning. 53 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.879 So we're gonna check with We're gonna check in with 54 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:20.039 Sandy Steersy, executive director at Friends of Big Bear Valley, 55 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:22.879 find out how our eagles are doing and what is 56 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.520 next as they continue their journey. It was so cool 57 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:27.879 to see it, although Gizmo kind of fell out of 58 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.319 the nest oops, but she made it and she did great, 59 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:32.599 and she spent the weekend away and then they both 60 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:34.439 came back last night, so we'll keep you all up 61 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:36.560 to date on that. Again. We'll be talking to Sandy 62 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.800 Steers at five point fifty, So let's get started with 63 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.479 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 64 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.960 Of course, we're talking protests. Dozens of arrests have been 65 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:49.400 made during the demonstrations in downtown. La Police declared that 66 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:53.560 unlawful assembly yesterday in the area of Alameda Street, where 67 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:57.439 National Guardsmen were positioned outside the Federal Building. Kfi's Michael 68 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:00.360 Monks was there and says the troopers responded in mediately 69 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:01.599 when confronted. 70 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:04.199 These shields went down, the helmet mask came down, and 71 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:07.479 the pushing started, the tear gas started, and this crowd 72 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:09.120 just cleared out in an instant. 73 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:14.080 It was a third day that demonstrators got violent. The 74 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.920 LAPD requested mutual aid last night from the La County 75 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.560 Sheriff's Department, which sent more than one hundred deputies to 76 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.839 support the department and the Highway patrol. Sheriff Robert Luna 77 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:27.160 says they were mostly tasked with clearing people out of 78 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:27.560 the area. 79 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:30.639 As we're doing this and we see that the crowds 80 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:35.920 are not diminishing, I have put out a formal request 81 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:37.800 for more mutual late. 82 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:42.439 Assistance, the National Guard was called in to help protect 83 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.519 the police who were trying to disperse demonstrators. Chief McDonald's 84 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.800 says he wouldn't have jumped in pulling the National Guard 85 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:50.519 in so quickly. 86 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:53.319 I'd say that we would go to that right away. 87 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.920 I'd say we wouldn't have been there yet. Looking at 88 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:00.560 the violence tonight, I think we got to make a reassessment, okay. 89 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.600 Referring to the violence last night, McDonald says people causing 90 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.480 chaos may not believe in the spirit of the actual demonstration. 91 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:11.160 Even more disgusting that many of the people who were 92 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:13.680 doing this come in from other places just to hurt 93 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.720 people and to cause havoc. 94 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:19.759 McDonald says his officers are facing more and more potentially 95 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:24.439 deadly violence, including being shot at with commercial grade fireworks. 96 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:26.800 And we're going to get the latest on the protest 97 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:29.879 with ABC's Alex Stone in just a moment, But first 98 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.319 let's take a first look at your morning commute. And 99 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.040 we had that one on one freeway closed for much 100 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.199 of yesterday, but will Cole Schreiber says it's open. 101 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:38.920 Yeah. 102 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:39.560 The good news is. 103 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:42.279 At this hour the mainline lanes of the north and 104 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.480 south one oh one through downtown Los Angeles are open. 105 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:47.319 There are exceptions though. 106 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:49.959 The transition roads it looks like from the one ten 107 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.399 freeway are still closed. So if you're trying to get 108 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:54.560 through the four level interchange and thinking you're going to 109 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.519 go from the one ten to the south one o one, 110 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:59.800 not quite yet. They're still working on that. And some 111 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:01.959 of the the on and off ramps in downtown LA 112 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.319 are closed. We know for sure that the Alameda off 113 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.079 ramp from the northbound side of the one on one 114 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:10.480 is blocked off as they were to clean up debris 115 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:12.759 and just have that blocked. 116 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:13.920 Off until further notice. 117 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:17.639 And we've got some issues fifty five southbound dire road 118 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.319 crash there on the off ramp, and the westbound side 119 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:25.680 of the ten at Ediwanda in Ontario from Ediwanda to 120 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:29.040 the fifteen two lanes closed for Caltrans were huge delays 121 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.600 back from Citrus. So that's a big Caltrans project that 122 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:35.160 they're still working on. With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports. 123 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:36.040 I'm will Cole Schriver. 124 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.199 It's five oh six on your wake up call, so 125 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:44.000 will the protest yesterday I was watching it from the 126 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.680 comfort of my home, as was I and just the 127 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.319 police cars and the pelting of them with the rocks. 128 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:54.920 I mean, it was just absolutely unbelievable to me. 129 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:57.319 Those police cars were all on the you know, the 130 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.439 lower level of the freeway and those on and off 131 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.000 ramps are elevated above them, and anybody up there just 132 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:08.160 had free rain basically to just throw stuff down there. 133 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:09.079 And it was unfortunate. 134 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:12.040 And I'm wondering where they got these big, huge chunks 135 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.360 of rocks that they got. But it started when there 136 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.439 was the protests that were on the surface streets spilled 137 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.279 out onto the freeway. They blocked the one on one 138 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:23.519 freeway for a while, which is a scary thing of itself, 139 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:28.560 aside from you know, bottlenecking traffic and leaving people completely stuck. Yeah, 140 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:34.279 it's also really difficult because it's dangerous to have people 141 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:35.439 out on the roadway like that. 142 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:39.040 You'll have some times people get fed up and they 143 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:41.879 do things behind the wheel that they wouldn't normally do, 144 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:45.759 like you know, aim for protesters. Later that evening last night, 145 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.279 I saw a video of a minivan. It seemed like 146 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:52.319 the minivan was doing circles and actually going after protesters. 147 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:53.879 So, yeah, a lot going on. 148 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:55.800 There a lot going on. But the good news is 149 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.199 that they've cleared that roadway off and it doesn't appear 150 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:01.560 that any officers were hurt as they were tossing these 151 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.839 huge chunks of concrete over the overpass. Okay, let's say 152 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:07.800 good good morning now to ABC's Alex Stone, who has 153 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.160 been covering this all weekend. Alex, can you give us 154 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.600 the latest on what's going on overnight and what's happening 155 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:15.920 this morning if anything. 156 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:19.040 Amy, Good morning. Yeah, all is fairly quiet right now. 157 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.199 Wasn't even a couple of hours ago, though, I mean 158 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.560 a very long night for mainly the LAPD that even 159 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.519 two o'clock in the morning, that there were people that 160 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:31.920 were out and throwing concrete and shooting off fireworks at 161 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:35.279 the officers. But just how quickly this whole thing has 162 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.840 escalated since Friday when we got the first word of 163 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.840 the emigration enforcement that was. 164 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.000 Going on, and then to the point that we're at now. 165 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:48.720 But you heard Chief McDonald saying overnight that they know 166 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:52.080 this is bad, that it has escalated, that they know 167 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:55.279 that they've got to get a handle on this, saying this. 168 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:58.240 It is violence that I've seen is disgusting. It's escalated 169 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.759 now since the beginning of this incident. What we saw 170 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.600 the first night was bad. What we've seen subsequent to 171 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.879 that is getting increasingly worse and more violent and amy. 172 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:12.399 Overnight, the crowd's using dumpsters and park benches as their 173 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:17.120 shields downtown around City Hall to protect themselves against the 174 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.879 pepper balls and the rubber and the foam rounds. The 175 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.279 lapd has been shooting off and we know that they're 176 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:25.279 around sixty who have been arrested. But I mean, really, 177 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:29.879 for a lot of the officers, they can't deal with arresting. 178 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:30.919 People because they don't have the resources. 179 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.039 They don't have the time that that takes time to 180 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.840 put them in handcuffs, haul them away, transport them, do 181 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.240 the paperwork that it's just about moving these crowds out, 182 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:44.759 getting them to eventually disperse, eventually go home. And they 183 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:47.519 were able to do it yet again overnight that things 184 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:49.960 are calm now, but it'll be a question of where 185 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.440 things go today. There are a couple of protests, mainly 186 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.279 earlier in the day that are planned today, so hopefully 187 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:57.840 then those crowds disperse. 188 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.440 And we're not going into the evening hours, but we'll 189 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:00.440 see what happened tonight. 190 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:02.240 Yeah. I think one of the things that I was 191 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:04.639 thinking as I was watching all of this, Alex is 192 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.639 you mentioned the dumpsters and the park benches, like they 193 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:11.679 literally went into Grand Park ripped the pink benches that 194 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.639 are all around the park that have been put there, 195 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.360 you know, for people to enjoy. They took them and 196 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:19.600 they stole them and put them in the roadways. They're 197 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:22.039 all damaged. They're going to have to all be replaced. 198 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:23.879 And then you look at the Waimo cars that were 199 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:27.080 set on fire. Those who pays for that. 200 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.799 And spirts cover right, Yeah, and they eventually shut that off, 201 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:36.159 so no cars will come into downtown right now. But yeah, 202 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:38.639 and then you have the whole element of the National 203 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:40.960 Guard here now, where what is their role going to 204 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.320 be Because they have been federalized by President Trump and 205 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.120 they didn't come through the normal channels. They're not really 206 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:49.879 communicating with the LAPD. Chief McDonald's saying that they had 207 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:51.720 one conference call together, but they don't know what the 208 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:53.759 role of the National Guard is going to be. 209 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:54.679 That he's not. 210 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.120 Against them being here, but there are steps that they 211 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:00.399 would have taken to get to this point and to 212 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.600 say we want this type of unit. This is a 213 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.039 combat brigade that is here right now. This is not 214 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:10.080 military police that normally we see come in during wildfires 215 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:12.919 and doing the roadblocks. So you know that they would 216 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.919 have gone to the mutual aid system and then where 217 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:19.200 police trained together, that they're on the same radio channels. 218 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:21.440 There are steps to get to this point. 219 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:25.000 And because they are here for the first times in 220 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:28.679 nineteen sixty five some Alabama was the last time a 221 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:32.559 president deployed the National Guard in that case to protect protesters, 222 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:37.600 that without the governor doing it, that this is unusual 223 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:40.320 territory to be in. That they are not here working 224 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:43.039 with the state. They are not in lockstep with the 225 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:44.360 LAPD at this point. 226 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:45.279 And then this. 227 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.320 Threat of active duty Marines being called in, and I mean, 228 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.360 I can tell you within senior levels of law enforcement, 229 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:52.240 they do not. 230 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:55.399 Like that idea. The rules of engagement would be different. 231 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:57.559 They would not be on police radios. 232 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:01.399 They are not trained in crowd control outside of a 233 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:05.240 warfare environment like a police are. They don't train with 234 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:08.519 the police in the state of California under police standards, 235 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:11.720 that would be a whole different thing. So there is 236 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:14.919 hope among law enforcement that that step is not taken 237 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:17.080 because it's really not welcome at the moment. 238 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.919 Yeah, and I don't know, Alex, did you get a 239 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.919 chance to talk to any protesters that yeah, yeah, yeah, 240 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:23.799 And what are they saying? 241 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.080 Well, I mean, I think that you've got two different crowds. 242 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:30.279 You've got the troublemakers who are out at night, who 243 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.960 whether it be George Floyd or a Lakers protest or 244 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:38.000 not a protest, but you know, a celebration that gets 245 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.559 out of control, don't want to call a riot or dodgers. 246 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:42.279 You've always got that crowd. 247 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:44.480 That comes in at night and we see them doing 248 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.559 the looting and setting the fires, and they may not 249 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:51.279 even really be into whatever they're out there for that 250 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:55.200 they're just out there to battle the police and create 251 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:56.440 mayhem and they find it fun. 252 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:59.480 Usually younger men who are out there doing that. 253 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.000 Of those who are out during the day, like the 254 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:05.600 protests that are planned this morning, that are typically very 255 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:10.480 into the topic, that are passionate, that have a reason 256 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:11.240 why they're there. 257 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:12.320 This woman among them. 258 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:15.360 Here protesting for our families that are being separated in 259 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:17.919 our neighborhoods and we want justice. 260 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.200 Now, that's very different compared to nighttime where it's going 261 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.159 to be you know, bleep the police and you know, 262 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:27.000 we want this and we want that and breaking windows 263 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:30.320 and dropping concrete onto the CHP cars on the one 264 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:32.799 on one. So I mean, really two different crowds from 265 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:36.120 the daytime crowd to the nighttime crowd a world of difference. 266 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:38.879 And do the ones who are there for actually for 267 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.840 the cause to protest the ice raids, do they realize 268 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.240 that when there are things like blocking a freeway and 269 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:48.559 the vandalism and that kind of stuff, that does not 270 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:49.639 advance their cause. 271 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.080 You know, I think some do. Others believe that they've 272 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:54.639 got to do. 273 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:55.759 It to make a point. 274 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:57.440 And then you've got the others who are just doing 275 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.960 it because are it's fun and it's fighting the police, 276 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:03.440 and you know, they think in mass that they can 277 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:04.879 do it and then they're not going to be arrested, 278 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:06.039 they're not going to get into trouble. 279 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:09.200 There's a lot of motivation in these crowds. 280 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:11.919 Some are very authentic and they are there that they 281 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.600 believe that they have a point to make. Others are 282 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:18.480 there to hurt police or just to battle them, and 283 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:22.960 that it's you know, just fun on a Sunday night 284 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.519 because they've got nothing better to do. So, you know, 285 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.320 with thousands of people out there, everybody's got a different 286 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:29.960 reason for being out there. But yeah, I mean I 287 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.600 think some of them realize that it's not helpful. 288 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:35.679 All right. ABC's Alex Stone, thanks for all the information, 289 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.360 for covering this for us all weekend, and we shall 290 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:39.840 see what unfolds today. 291 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:41.159 You got it, Thanks, Amy? 292 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.679 All right, when we come back, the man speaking this 293 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:49.679 is all tied into ice raids. The man caught up 294 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:54.519 in that ice sweep in Maryland and mistakenly deported to 295 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:57.919 a Central American prison has been returned to the US. 296 00:14:58.080 --> 00:14:59.879 Remember the Supreme Court said, hey, you need to fas 297 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.759 facilitate his return because he shouldn't have been sent down 298 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:07.159 to that prison. Well, he's back in the US. Who 299 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:11.679 was done probably differently than anybody had thought it would happen, 300 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:15.279 according to the US Supreme Court order. But ABC Stephen 301 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:17.200 Portnoy's going to join us to tell us what is 302 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:21.759 next for kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is now back in 303 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:26.240 the US. It is five twenty on your Monday morning 304 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:29.399 wake up call. Good morning to you. I'm Amy King. Wow, 305 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:31.799 what a weekend here's what we're following in the KFI 306 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.279 twenty four hour newsroom. LA faces its fourth day of 307 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:40.320 protests over federal immigration raids. Rally is planned at Grand 308 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:44.279 Park in downtown LA at noon. Civil rights and labor 309 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:48.200 leaders are demanding the release of union leader David Huerta. 310 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.559 He was taken into federal detention on Friday during an 311 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.840 immigration enforcement action. Huerta is doing court at the Royball 312 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:00.120 Federal Building at one point thirty this afternoon. The LAPD 313 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:04.240 almost thirty arrests yesterday and CHP arrested another nineteen during 314 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:08.279 the protests. One was arrested for throwing allegedly a Molotov 315 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.799 cocktail at officers, another for trying to ram police with 316 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.240 a motorcycle. The CHP arrests mostly tied to the one 317 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:19.639 oh one being blocked by protesters. CHP officers became trapped 318 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:22.399 under the one oh one freeway overpass at Los Angeles 319 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:25.279 Street as the crowd from above pelted their patrol car 320 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.679 with rocks. At times, the officers tossed tear gas up 321 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:31.240 under the roadway above to try to disperse the crowd. 322 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.000 One officer came out from under the overpass and was 323 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:38.159 promptly pelted by rocks. He was able to run back 324 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:41.279 under to safety. At six oh five, it's Handle on 325 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.679 the news. Guess what Handle's going to be talking about. Well, 326 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.519 probably our dinner on Saturday night, which was fabulous by 327 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:50.879 the way, at the Anaheim White House. But also we'll 328 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:53.600 be talking about the protests and the National Guard and 329 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.799 everything that has to do with what's going on in 330 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.000 downtown LA. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's 331 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.240 Stephen Portnoy. We're also talking about ice raids, but this 332 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:05.079 one was on the other side of the country that 333 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:10.599 started the whole ball rolling with k Abrego Garcia. He's 334 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:14.279 now been returned to the US, but not to face 335 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:16.720 his due process on whether he should be deported, rather 336 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:18.480 to charge him with human trafficking. 337 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:22.359 That's right, Amy. He was returned to the US late 338 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:27.000 last week. The charges allege that Kilmar Brego Garcia took 339 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:30.480 part in a years long conspiracy to transport thousands of 340 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:32.160 migrants from Texas. 341 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:32.839 To the interior of the country. 342 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:37.160 The indictment alleges that drugs and guns were also smuggled 343 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.680 as part of the conspiracy. That Abrego Garcia alone ran 344 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:42.359 more than one hundred trips from Texas to Maryland and 345 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:46.440 other states, and he appeared in federal court in Tennessee, 346 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:50.559 where he's now being held. The attorneys for Abrego Garcia 347 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:52.160 say that they're going to fight to ensure he receives 348 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:54.559 a fair trial, something that said they say he had 349 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:58.079 not received when he was sent to El Salvador in March, 350 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:02.599 and the family remains in federal court in Maryland, saying 351 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:04.440 that the fact that he's back in the US does 352 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:08.000 not render the litigation that they initiated moot that. 353 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:10.519 They say that the federal. 354 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:12.920 Government thumbed its nose at the judge in Maryland for 355 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.599 months and that there need left a stain on the 356 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:19.119 constitution that needs to be addressed, perhaps with some sort 357 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.039 of contempt finding by the judge. 358 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:27.640 So his lawyers are his lawyers suing. 359 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:33.119 His family has filed the suit in Maryland, and that's 360 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:36.039 where things have been for months now, and that was 361 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:39.799 where the judge said that the federal government had to 362 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:43.920 bring had to facilitate his release in return from l Salvador, 363 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:45.720 and that was ultimately a decision that was upheld by 364 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:49.079 the Supreme Court. So he's back now, but for not 365 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.000 the reasons that the judge had ordered he's back for 366 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:54.680 different reasons, because of prosecutors went in and got a 367 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:59.039 federal grand jury indictment. Now it happens that the former 368 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:02.000 head of the Crew Fminal Division of that US Attorney's 369 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:05.079 office in the middle of Tennessee resigned some weeks ago. 370 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.880 He hasn't explained why fully, but our reporting is that 371 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:10.680 he did it because he believed that this case was 372 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:14.599 being pursued for political reasons. Ben Schrader is his name, 373 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:18.400 fifteen year career prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office in Tennessee, 374 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.359 and he said on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago 375 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.880 the only job description he's ever known is to do 376 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:26.039 the right thing and the right way for the right reasons, 377 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.359 which was all of his colleagues in the office and 378 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:32.200 across the department the best as they seek to do justice. 379 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:36.519 The fact that he resigned is interesting, and I wonder 380 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:38.599 whether at a certain point we'll hear more from him, 381 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:40.880 But so far he's said formally no comment. 382 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:43.480 Okay, So it'd be interesting because when I think Pam 383 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:45.480 Bondi came out on Friday, she was saying they'd been 384 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:48.319 working on this for a while to put this together. 385 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:49.680 So did he get wind of it and say I 386 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:52.240 don't want to be part of it, or like what's behind? 387 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:55.039 Well? Also defined for a while, I mean Pam Bondi's 388 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:56.839 only been in office for a few months and this 389 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:59.400 case has only been initiated for a couple of months. 390 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.799 The indictment was returned last month. So what does for 391 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:04.799 a while mean? And that'll be something that the defense 392 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:08.279 attorneys may point to if they do what Donald Trump's 393 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:10.960 defense lawyers did in his criminal prosecutions, which is to 394 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.559 allege that this is a selective and vindictive prosecution, an 395 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:16.559 example of you find me the man, I'll find you 396 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:17.039 the crime. 397 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:21.079 Okay, So then what happens next. 398 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:23.839 Well, ultimately this case will proceed. And you remember that 399 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:25.799 we're talking about two separate things here. We're talking about 400 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:28.440 the case against a Brego Garcia and Tennessee and the 401 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:31.000