As Los Angeles burst into riots this week over a federal immigration raid, one protester took to his social media channels to explain just what was going on — why arsonists armed with Palestinian flags stood alongside vandals armed with Palestinian flags, why some masked protesters hurled rocks at police cars while others summoned automated Waymo taxis only to set them on fire. His explanation for the riots was lucid and fascinating. The riots, he said, were not about illegal immigration. Of course they weren’t — there are tens of millions of people living illegally in the United States right now, and President Donald Trump ran three times on removing them. No, said the protester; the riots were about something more.
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