President Donald Trump has called for additional troops to join law enforcers at the Los Angeles County to disperse with rubber bullets and teargas – a three day protest which was triggered by a wide spread arrest of many immigrants within the county especially at locations like Home Depot parking lots, the Fashion District’s clothing wholesaler sites, and the Metropolitan Detention Center.
Reports indicate that the immigrants living in Los Angeles faced the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies in fury over what is described as the ‘brutality’ with which federal agents had approached its targets, including a clothing manufacturer in Los Angeles’s garment district, and Home Depot in the Westlake district and a warehouse in South Los Angeles. The arrests were carried out without judicial warrants, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) – advocates say that more than 200 people were taken.
Lawyers reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been holding detained families in the basements of federal immigration facilities, separating children and mothers from their fathers. Agents have refused access to attorneys and family members, according to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef).
Los Angeles is known to be home to many immigrants – many from Latin America, Asia and Africa. These imiescalated immigrants were said to have joined these protests, waving Mexican and Central American flags as they head downtown LA, Paramount, and Compton, blocking streets and even the 101 Freeway, engaging in acts of civil disobedience, and in some instances, turning to vandalism and confrontations with intense violence against law enforcers.
