Two federal employees were hospitalized after a violent mob of up to 50 demonstrators attacked them outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, prompting felony charges against two arrested protesters and a stern warning from federal prosecutors.
Violent Confrontation Caught On Camera
Video footage captured the shocking assault as protesters followed Bureau of Prisons employees into a parking lot near Alameda and Commercial streets. The demonstrators first taunted the workers as they finished their shifts, then suddenly launched physical attacks. One federal worker was pummeled near a set of stairs while another had his authorized clear bag snatched from his hands. The situation escalated when protesters grabbed one agent by his backpack and struck him repeatedly with punches.
The federal employee under attack drew his firearm while attempting to retreat from approximately a dozen protesters who surrounded him with cameras and mobile phones. Multiple 911 calls brought LAPD Central Division officers to the scene. The victims were transported to local hospitals with undisclosed injuries, where they remained as of the report.
Unprecedented Assault On Federal Agents
First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California called the persistent attacks on federal agents unprecedented. He stated that assault levels against federal agents have never reached this magnitude. Essayli emphasized that anyone who assaults or stalks a federal officer will face felony charges, warning that such attacks endanger all parties because officers are legally permitted to defend themselves with reasonable force.
The two arrested suspects face felony and misdemeanor battery charges. LAPD confirmed the demonstrators deliberately and suddenly attacked the federal employees with multiple strikes. The group included individuals carrying Palestine flags and wearing face coverings during the anti-ICE demonstration.
Ongoing Tensions At Detention Facility
The Metropolitan Detention Center, which houses both an immigration detention facility and US District Court, has become a focal point for activist demonstrations. Protesters have gathered based on rumors that illegal migrants are being secretly detained in the building’s basement. The facility continues to operate despite the heightened tensions and security concerns raised by the violent incident.
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Yahoo: Anti-ICE mob films attack on innocent workers in shocking videos – two rushed to hospital
This is insane! These protesters have got to be stopped! Sick of it! These guys are doing their job!
Agree
Totally AGREE!
The whole group of protesters should get prison time
The ice agents are just doing their job. These people are unruly and need to be treated that way. Ice needs to quit playing nice and start using deadly force. Keeping it real peace out.
A minimum of 10 years in Federal Prison on the spot. Look how quickly the Jan 6 protestors were incarcerated with no parole.
Terrorists trying to injure or k*ll federal police need life without parole in Guantanamo Bay, solitary confinement as well.
Gitmo is solitary confinement
When demonstrators get violent, it is the officers right to and duty to protect themselves and others with violence if necessary.
Well do what other countries do. Start shoot6the protesters if they get violent. Enough of the kid gloves and bulls..
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ICE are nothing more than thugs. They are not following the law they are attacking people for being brown. There is a difference.
LOL
ICE is only doing their job! The thugs are not following the law and should be treated as criminals with whatever force is needed to solve tge problem. Then prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law! ICE is arresting criminals, or illegals that should not be here! LEARN THE LAWS YOURSELF LADY!!
This falls into the, I feared for my life, category. Shoot 4 or 5 and the rest will fold like origami.
Danette is a bot or hysterical
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Not a bot just red blood American who is tired of Ice shooting citizen in the face. Arresting children on their way home from school. Using intimidation, no warrants non police tactics. Now they have gloves to deliver shocks to their victims. No, until ICE starts using warrants, stop putting them in alligator jails. Stop raping the detained, in short treat these people leagl or not as humans being. Once that happens the protest will die down.
Do you only listen to MSN and CNN?
You English not too good.
Stop spreading untrue propaganda. The legal paperwork and casework are more complicated, with different requirements than the TV lawyers portray. Most of the warrants required are already obtained. STILL, you don’t just violently injured federal law enforcement cause you don’t like what they’re doing! We’re not an anarchist state.
Agree!
Aman Very unprofessional,Go after the real criminals Go to the hood arrest the Gangs oh No they have GUNS Cowards
As the left claims that the right is the violent group!
Shoot all them scumbags. Put them in the ground
Danette,
You are mis-informed or willfully avoiding reality. ICE are here to protect American citizens from illegal aliens. You wouldn’t want someone entering your home without your authorization, would you? Same thing. It’s akin to someone breaking into your house. You put locks on your house. You call the police if someone does break in or attempts to. And, yes, they are aliens if they are not citizens, or legal immigrants. If they are not legal immigrants, they are illegal aliens.
Absolutely correct! Thank you!
Americans don’t need to be protected from undocumented immigrants. ICE are using racial profiling to determine who to detain. People with legal status as well as actual U.S. are being placed in detention centers and even deported. Americans need to be protected from ICE, but since at the moment only Americans with brown skin you’ll ignore the actions of ICE and think you are some sort of patriot when xenophobic bigot is more appropriate.
Must be one of the peaceful protests that we hear so much about. Shoot them with rubber bullets.
They were extremely lucky they didn’t get shot.
Being attacked by multiple thugs certainly would have been a clear self preservation tool
When the crowd gets less than peaceful. Bring in the Buses and lock them all up. The Crowds are all anti American. They are against our laws and our constitution. By the way if you enter the country without vetting you have no rights whatsoever
Shoot a bunch of these violent protesters. They are breaking the law. Endangering people. Defense with serious harm to violent protesters should be the accepted action. This should be the accepted action taken to quill these violent protesters. All though protesting isn’t pretty, non violent protests, are acceptable.
We can thank the Biden / Harris administration for seetting the stage for this lunacy by not allowing the border patrol to do their jobs and the rest of the politicians for blatantly condemning ICE for doing it’s job and in doing so told people by proxy that it was alright to ignore and skirt the law. I for one am getting sick of my tax dollars being used to take care of illegals and having to spend thousands to get them back out of the country.
Immigration Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol are the Guardians of America and should be treated with respect and appreciated by American citizens. When President Trump came to Long Island in 2017 , Long Island was under siege by MS-13 and he brought in forces to eradicate them. In 2021, Biden/Harris let them back in and fear and murders returned to our Country. Stop calling the Federal Agency, “ICE” and address them as the Federal Enforcement Officers they are.
The article did not report how many of the attackers were shot.
Let the agents do their job and teach those protesters a valuable lesson