La Protests Erupt Over Ice Raids Striking Images Of Clashes Tear Gas

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Dec 30, 2025, 10:44 PM

la protests erupt over ice raids striking images of clashes tear gas

The White House’s border czar said the National Guard will be sent into Los Angeles on Saturday night after a second day of clashes between federal agents and demonstrators over immigration raids that have... A series of surprise U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps in downtown Los Angeles on Friday prompted fierce pushback from protesters and officials who decried the actions as “cruel and unnecessary” and said they stoked fear in the immigrant... Tensions remained high in downtown into the evening. The Los Angeles Police Department declared an unlawful assembly and ordered about 200 protesters who remained gathered by the Los Angeles Federal Building to disperse around 7 p.m. The use of so-called less-lethal munitions was authorized at 8 p.m.

following reports of a small group of “violent individuals” throwing large pieces of concrete at officers, police said. A citywide tactical alert was issued shortly afterward. Los Angeles erupted in chaos as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids gripped the city in June 2025, delivering striking images of tear gas, burning vehicles, and a massive military response. Demonstrators demanded an end to what California Governor Gavin Newsom called 'chaotic federal sweeps,' while President Donald Trump doubled down, deploying 2,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to quell the unrest. The turmoil began on 6 June 2025, when ICE officers conducted surprise raids across Los Angeles, detaining dozens in the Garment District, Chinatown, and beyond. Protesters, numbering in the thousands, flooded downtown LA, blocking the 101 Freeway and clashing with law enforcement.

Striking visuals captured the intensity: a woman waving a Mexican flag amid flames, police in riot gear firing less-lethal rounds, and Waymo driverless cars set ablaze. 'There was a kind of stampede of people, and we were tear-gassed,' said Pau Castro, 27, a Los Angeles resident caught in the fray. new video loaded: How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens It’s just after 6 a.m. on Flower Street.

Amid the morning calm, a security camera captures a SWAT team moving in formation. Operators in tactical gear carry ladders into the backyard. Another group enters the front and attaches strips of explosives along the windows and door. Inside, Jenny Ramirez and her two kids are sleeping when her phone rings. It’s a neighbor calling. “Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, wake up, wake up.

I see a lot of police in front of your house. Are you OK? Get up.” Out front an armored vehicle pulls up. It’s carrying a K-9 team, a photographer and a drone operator. At the end of the convoy is a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle.

These are federal immigration agents at the home of U.S. citizens And they’re ordering them to exit immediately. Agents wait 14 seconds, then blow out the bedroom window. “My 6-year-old started screaming, ‘We’re here, we’re here, we’re OK, we’re OK.’ But he wasn’t understanding. It wasn’t, like, something that happened to the house and they were coming to help us. I told him, ‘They’re not helping us.’” The second explosion blows off the front door.

We wanted to understand what prompted this show of force and use of manpower. These high-risk tactics, according to current and former federal officials, are typically used for drug smugglers and violent fugitives, not by immigration agents trying to arrest a U.S. citizen accused of “injuring government property.” Who it turns out isn’t even home. But a closer look at the footage shows the man behind this raid is on scene watching. This is Greg Bovino. ♫ “Allow me to reintroduce myself.

My name is — ” ♫ He’s the Border Patrol chief who’s become a key figure and social media fixture in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and slick video campaign. Bovino’s rolled out cavalry in Los Angeles, boat patrols in Chicago, strip mall sweeps in Charlotte. Injecting Border Patrol tactics into areas nowhere near the border and sending agents trained to patrol vast deserts for border crossers into busy urban communities to round up unprecedented numbers of potential deportees. “This is how and why we secure the homeland.” Bovino’s playbook is a stark departure from ICE, a separate arm of Homeland Security that’s historically conducted more methodical, time-consuming investigations of individual targets. “On behalf of the men and women of the United States Border Patrol, it’s time to turn and burn. We’re turning and burning onto that next target.” “Turn-and-burn” isn’t showboating, Bovino says, it’s using fast-moving shows of force to deter criminals and keep agents from getting bogged down by agitators so they can...

“We’re here and we’re not going anywhere.” The messaging from the administration has been clear. Bovino and his aggressive approach are delivering the deportations President Trump promised and keeping Americans safe. But we took a deeper look at one of the operations featured on Bovino’s timeline. This raid on Flower Street and the events that led up to it, syncing hours of video and audio from CCTV, social media and a trove of never-before-seen police body cameras. We found behind Bovino’s social media hype about law and order lies an entirely different story about his turn-and-burn playbook and the spiral of consequences that it unleashes. The backstory of the raid at Jenny Ramirez’s house began a week earlier.

An immigration operation at two nearby car washes that seized a handful of potential deportees. But it also led to four vehicle crashes, hours of protests and violent clashes with federal agents, and emergency responses by six local police forces. “Can you get us additional units from East L.A., please?” “We got to get this crowd out of here.” By day’s end, four U.S. citizens with no prior records of violence were facing allegations of federal felonies. “I just feel like they’re trying to frame me as a criminal.” “If you jump in front of a vehicle —” “I was never charged. I was never read my rights.” “We’re U.S.

citizens.” “I felt like we were in the wrong place at the wrong time.” On June 20th, across the heavily Latino suburbs southeast of Los Angeles, reports of immigration agents and angry backlash were... “Are these [expletive] guys for one man? So crazy. Be [expletive] ashamed of yourselves.” “What’s your badge number actually?” “He’s got 45, 30.” “Leave him alone, [expletive]. Leave him alone.” Among the locations targeted was in the city of Bell, a local business here along the main drag, Jack’s Car Wash. It was like any other busy Friday afternoon until around 2:40 p.m., when footage shows seven seemingly ordinary vehicles begin to stream in.

At least 16 people would emerge. “It’s a lot of people for the car wash.” One worker who didn’t want to be identified for fear of retribution told The Times he thought the cars pulling in wanted a wash. “I was like, Oh, it’s probably a customer. But when they came out, they had these vests and, like, ski masks and sunglasses on, so you couldn’t identify who it was.” Most are Border Patrol agents, and according to a memo obtained... Workers said agents seem to approach everyone as a suspect but ask just two questions. “He asked, ‘Are you a citizen?

Are you from here?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ And he said, ‘Oh, where were you born at?’ I said, ‘Bellflower, California.’ He left right away.” The agents clearly spark fear for one customer who runs... Then a worker dashes off in the opposite direction. Agents sprint after the runners as new ones arrive to assist and search for more suspects. Meanwhile, in the restaurant parking lot next to Jack’s are Jenny Ramirez and her partner, Jorge, who had just delivered an order for Uber Eats. They’re in their Jeep eating a quick lunch while the baby naps, she says, when they notice a man sitting in a parked SUV. “And I’m like, Maybe they’re just waiting like us for orders.

And then when I just, like, saw what looked like a rifle, I told him, ‘Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go.’” When Jorge goes, he turns right, away from the car wash. But now his black Jeep is driving into a high-speed pursuit. This blue pickup is an unmarked Border Patrol vehicle chasing the fleeing car wash worker, who, according to this driver’s video, synchronized with CCTV footage, runs right in front of Jorge’s Jeep. “We were, like, so close to, like, running him over, and then we see this blue truck trying to ram us on my side. I just thought it was road rage at that point because the vehicles are not marked or anything.” But then the pickup suddenly stops to let an agent jump out. It gets rear-ended by Jorge’s Jeep.

Immediately, masked agents emerge with weapons drawn. “They jumped out and they were going towards us and we didn’t even have anything to do with it. We were just trying to get away from that place.” Jorge tries to back away, but his bumper is hooked on to the pickup, and both vehicles surge backward, right into a gray vehicle... “This guy is crazy. Meanwhile, about five minutes away in the neighboring town of Maywood, at Xpress Fleet Wash, another turn-and-burn operation is about to unfold. Driving nearby on his way to work is Edgardo Urias, a 19-year-old college student.

His dash camera shows a blue SUV on his left, veering into his lane and cutting him off. “There’s no signal no anything, and I just thought, like, regular L.A. drivers.” But then the SUV suddenly stops in a busy lane of traffic, and the back door flies open. The impact sends Edgardo’s side mirror flying through his window. “What was that, bro? What the [expletive]?” No one in the SUV appears to acknowledge the collision.

Two men in ballistic vests scramble out to the drying area. Other agents who hang back to dislodge their car door ignore Edgardo. “I see that this is, like, a suspected ICE raid. Like, I’m still not going to leave without an insurance because that could be, like, still to hit and run on me. And then I also have my car messed up.” For nearly two minutes, Edgardo, who seems free to leave, snaps photos and pleads for insurance. But then, after taking down a passerby who flees into traffic, agents abruptly turn their sights on Edgardo.

La Protests Erupt Over Ice Raids Striking Images Of Clashes Tear Gas

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