Los Angeles police made multiple arrests after violent agitators ignored dispersal orders Friday and pummeled officers with rocks and bottles during “National Shutdown” anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protests.
Thousands of protesters met in front of City Hall in the afternoon before many marched to a downtown federal detention center where a mob swarmed the area and reportedly blocked the building’s loading dock with a makeshift barrier.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Central Division shared a video of the loading dock unrest on X:
“We had hoped that demonstrations today would be peaceful, however, as you can see in this video, the violent agitators invited LAPD due to their actions,” the department wrote.
LAPD issued an order to disperse at 5:45 p.m.,
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