The same leftists who spent four years screaming about “insurrection” decided to storm a federal courthouse in Los Angeles, hurl concrete blocks at law enforcement officers, and spray-paint “Kill your local ICE agent” on a government building. Democrats must be so proud of their base.
Welcome to clown world, folks — where smashing concrete into smaller pieces so you can throw them at cops’ heads is just “democracy in action,” according to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
About 50,000 people showed up to Gloria Molina Grand Park on Saturday for what organizers called a “No Kings” rally against President Trump. The main event was apparently too tame for the unhinged wing of the Democratic Party, so a splinter group of roughly 1,000 people marched over to the U.S. Courthouse and Metropolitan Detention Center to start a real party. Their idea of a good time? Launching fireworks, frozen water bottles, and chunks of concrete at Department of Homeland Security officers.
Two federal officers took cement blocks to the body and needed medical attention. But sure, Karen — “peaceful protest is our constitutional right.” Somebody get that woman a dictionary.
Here’s what the brave resistance fighters didn’t count on: cameras. Lots and lots of cameras. High-resolution surveillance footage, body-worn cameras on every officer, and independent journalists capturing every second of their little revolution in crisp 4K detail. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli hopped on X the very next day with a message that should make every masked concrete-chucker in Los Angeles lose sleep for the foreseeable future.
“To those who were smashing concrete blocks and throwing them at our officers, we have you on video. We will find you and arrest you too. You’ve been warned.”
Seventy-five people got arrested on the spot after the LAPD issued a dispersal order. Two face federal felony charges for assaulting law enforcement. One genius brought a dagger to a protest. A dagger! What is this, Medieval Times dinner theater?
The footage captured by journalist Julio Rosas — who works for an outlet literally called “Mostly Peaceful Media” (the jokes write themselves) — shows protesters in gas masks, respirators, and goggles shaking metal fencing and attempting to breach the protective barrier around the federal building. These people didn’t stumble into violence. They showed up dressed for it. They packed the goggles and the gas masks and the concrete-smashing tools right alongside their “No Kings” signs.
One protester screamed at officers on camera: “F—k you, f—ing come and get me.”
Ask and ye shall receive, pal.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin nailed it when she said the violence is “a direct result of sanctuary politicians and the media creating an environment that demonizes our law enforcement.” She’s right. Democrats and their media allies spent years calling ICE agents “Nazis” and “jackbooted thugs,” and now ICE officers are facing an 8,000% increase in death threats. Eight thousand percent. That’s not a typo.
And who showed up to cheer this garbage on? Doug Emhoff — Kamala Harris’s husband — spoke at a connected rally in Malibu. Kathy Griffin was there too, because of course she was. (Remember when she held up a fake severed head of the president and then cried about it? That woman has the self-awareness of a goldfish.) Bruce Springsteen headlined a sister event in Minnesota. Born to run — from accountability, apparently.
Speaker Mike Johnson called it exactly what it was: a “Hate America Rally” that brought together “the Marxists, the Socialists, the Antifa advocates, the anarchists and the pro-Hamas wing of the far-left Democrats.” That’s not a coalition. That’s a police blotter.
Meanwhile, somebody flew a banner over Los Angeles that read: “NOT A KING — HE’S YOUR DADDY!” That person deserves a medal.
The White House didn’t even dignify the tantrum with a serious response. Spokeswoman Abigail Jackson dismissed the whole spectacle as “Trump derangement therapy sessions.” Brutal and accurate.
Navy veteran Andre Andrews Jr. was on the ground as an independent journalist and drew the obvious distinction: “The peaceful protest was good for the cause. You have the right to do that. But the other people, they were definitely causing problems.” Even witnesses who sympathize with the movement can see what Democrats refuse to admit — that their side has a violence problem and has had one for years.
We watched these same people burn cities in 2020. We watched them firebomb crisis pregnancy centers after the Dobbs decision. We watched them blockade freeways in previous “No Kings” marches — which is why Caltrans had to install actual gates on the 101 Freeway on-ramps this time around like we’re fortifying against a barbarian invasion.
The difference now is that a president sits in the Oval Office who isn’t going to let them get away with it. Federal prosecutors have the footage, the FBI and U.S. Marshals are executing warrants, and more arrests are coming. Essayli’s office has authorized immediate arrests for anyone caught assaulting law enforcement, and the digital forensics teams are still combing through evidence.
To every masked revolutionary who threw concrete at a cop and thought the gas mask would keep them anonymous: enjoy the knock on your door. It’s coming.
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