ICE Cracks Down, LA Blows Up - Redacted News

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President Trump authorized the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles this weekend to respond to what the White House described as approximately 1,000 protesters turned rioters.

Two competing narratives are emerging online:

• Democrats claim the protests were largely peaceful, but video footage shows fires, vandalism, and assaults on federal agents.
• Republicans describe it as a “violent insurrection.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom formally requested that the Trump administration rescind the troop deployment, calling it a “serious breach of state sovereignty” and accusing the White House of “inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”

Newsom added, “We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved.”

But is that true?

The unrest began after ICE conducted aggressive raids on Friday at the Los Angeles Fashion District, a wholesale clothing distributor, and a Home Depot. Protests erupted immediately and escalated into street blockades, looting, and clashes with law enforcement—before federal troops were ever deployed.