DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Immigrant-rights activists are protesting the LAPD’s alleged involvement with ICE after one other reported immigration raid in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday morning.
Unión del Barrio and the Neighborhood Self-Protection Coalition are denouncing the LAPD’s supposed collaboration with “masked kidnappers,” as demonstrators rallied in downtown this afternoon.
Because the starting of the raids in Southern California, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell has confused that the division just isn’t concerned in these operations, however after what performed out within the morning, these activists say that’s merely not true.
The group factors to a video exhibiting LAPD officers holding the gang again as federal brokers took a number of folks into custody close to East ninth Road and South Spring Road shortly after 9 a.m. The video additionally exhibits unmarked automobiles utilized by masked federal brokers, which led to a 911 name of a attainable kidnapping.
The LAPD launched a press release that stated officers had been merely there after responding to a name of a attainable kidnapping in progress, however as soon as they realized it was an immigration operation, they started helping with crowd management. LAPD stated they didn’t arrest anybody.
“Preliminary feedback of the decision indicated that a number of people had been making an attempt to detain folks with out figuring out themselves, prompting issues from bystanders,” the assertion learn.
“Upon arrival, the officers and supervisor noticed that the gang was rising more and more agitated and spilled into the road, making a risky state of affairs and a big public security hazard as a result of visitors and congestion within the busy downtown hall,” the assertion continued. “Officers requested further items to handle the escalating scene and make sure the security of pedestrians, drivers, and people concerned within the operation. At one level, {a partially} handcuffed girl approached and stood close to a LAPD officer. After a number of minutes, a Federal agent approached and assumed management of the girl. LAPD was not concerned in her detention or arrest.”
“LAPD’s function was restricted to sustaining order and public security. Officers remained on scene to de-escalate tensions, transfer pedestrians out of the roadway, and permit emergency automobiles secure passage.”
Most of the demonstrators are calling the detentions kidnappings.
“The folks had been popping out to defend them (detainees), and guess who protected the abductors, who’re kidnapping our folks, LAPD officers,” stated one of many demonstrators. “They utterly protected the ICE operation that kidnapped our folks.
“Los Angeles is meant to be a sanctuary metropolis, a spot of security, a spot of dignity, a spot the place our immigrant brothers and sisters, our neighbors, our co-workers, our households can reside with out concern,” stated one other. “But when Los Angeles is a sactuary, then why are folks being dragged out of the office in handcuffs, why are ICE brokers storming Residence Depot parking heaps?”
“In line with long-standing coverage, the LAPD doesn’t take part in or help with civil immigration enforcement,” LAPD’s assertion stated.
LAPD stated that they weren’t notified by federal brokers of their deliberate legislation enforcement exercise upfront.
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