Los Angeles ICE Riots Live
January 30th, 2026Via: Conner:
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Via: Los Angeles Times:
After hours of peaceful protests in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, tensions escalated outside the Metropolitan Detention Center with law enforcement pushing into a crowd of about 200 people and spraying a chemical agent on demonstrators.
Amid the unrest, the city went on tactical alert shortly after 5 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
“Federal Authorities are taking debris, bottles and other objects,” the department wrote on X. “Federal Authorities have declared an Unlawful Assembly at the Detention Center and they have deployed pepper balls and tear gas.”
The department later issued a dispersal order for the area of Alameda Street between Union Station and First Street. As of 6:30 p.m., the LAPD said arrests were being made.
