Ridiculous.
MSNBC reporter David Noriega in LA reports Maxine Waters & 1 other mbr of Congress (Judy Chu) denied entry & the ability to exercise oversight at LA #DHS detention facility, supposedly b/c DHS can't ensure their safety b/c "unrest" OUTSIDE.
Ie, DHS is 💯% incompetent, can't do their most essential, core job of protection.
UPDATE
Notable that, unlike shady, gutless #DHS & #ICE, the CHP (California Highway Patrol) are not only NOT wearing masks to hide their faces, they have name tags & wear non- militarized uniforms.
#CHP is #California's State Police & not pretending to be anything else.
David Noriega is again
reporting from LA, says the police have begun pushing protesters back across the street they've been on, accompanied by several loud bangs (flash bangs?).
What he seems to be describing is the "kettling" others w/LE background have described as a control tactic of pushing people back against bldgs & into smaller, tighter groupings, which often aggravates the situation & endangers protesters.
Fake News!
The video in the James Wood tweet that Ted Cruz is reposting is fake.
Per Brian Stelter on CNN, this video is actually from 2020 George Floyd protests.
#LAprotests #LA #LosAngelesProtests #LosAngeles
Juliette Kayyem on CNN interpreting what, now that it's dark in LA, the live video of a couple of cars driving extremely fast on some main road in LA where protests have been indicates - possibly anti-protesters trying to harm protesters and another reason it's important to de-escalate.
I dunno - gotta ask yourself who'd want to set Waymos on fire? Outside agitators? MAGA saboteurs? Tesla/DOGE irregulars?
Hardly seems like something serving the agenda of the anti-#ICE anti-#Deportations crowd protesting criminality, militarization & violence of #TrumpDeportations.
