Here, from Julia Bonavita and Peter D’Abrosca’s article for Fox News, is the latest information on what so many of our media insist are “mostly peaceful protests” in Los Angeles:
As the protests against Los Angeles’ immigration raids spread, state law enforcement leaders are sounding the alarm on the dangers facing officers on the front lines of the riots.
“I’ve been around a very long time, and I have seen similar to what we’re facing now,” Jake Johnson, president of the California Association of Highway Patrolmen (CAHP), told Fox News Digital. “But I’ve never seen the amount of onslaught.”
Thousands of protesters descended on Los Angeles in the last two weeks after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers began conducting raids throughout the sanctuary city. The violence included rioters hurling projectiles at law enforcement officers and lighting numerous self-driving electric vehicles on fire.
“There’s hundreds of state troopers [and] highway patrolmen that are deployed in both the Bay Area and particularly in Los Angeles,” Johnson said. “[They] are working very long hours, anywhere from 16 to 20 hours a day, trying to keep the peace down there. It’s been a very dangerous situation.”
“I witnessed one of our officers get hit in the head with a rock,” Johnson said. “Had he not had his helmet and mask on, [there is] no doubt in my mind he would have been killed. It smacked him right in the face and he was actually pulled to safety by an [officer] I know very well.”
There’s your “mostly peaceful” update. I’m sure Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom are pleased as punch on how well things are going there.
Would you be?
