Evening Edition: Anti-ICE Riots Erupt In Los Angeles
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Monday, June 9th, 2025. I'm Evan Brown. Los Angeles is in chaos as rioters try fighting to stop immigration and customs enforcement agents. And now the National Guard is out. But why are they rioting?

It's kind of a holistic view is that ICE and Donald Trump are bad. They're to blame for everything. And regardless of what ICE is doing over here to attempt to get some bad people out of the community, let alone enforce the national law, that kind of gets lost in the whole thing. This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. ♪

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For a few days now, rioting protesters are setting cars on fire in Los Angeles, throwing Molotov cocktails and other things at police officers, all because they tried to stop agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, from conducting immigration raids.

There's been controversy as to how well the LAPD and other agencies responded to quell the violence, which is ongoing. So much so, President Donald Trump federalized and activated California's National Guard. He did this without asking for permission from California Governor Gavin Newsom. Now California is suing the president, saying the activation is illegal. Meanwhile, the videos and pictures show the rioters, masked and violent,

on motorbikes, burning things down, including the U.S. flag, while waving the flags of other countries. It is not the first time Angelenos have seen their city burn, and while it's not all over the place, it is interrupting daily life. Whenever they block freeways, everyone gets upset. I mean,

Because that's how we get around. So a protest in a three or four block area in Paramount, which is a small town southeast of Los Angeles, doesn't affect the 11 million people who live in our metro area. Fox's senior national correspondent William Lajeunesse is in Los Angeles. However, it does dominate the news.

And then, of course, you do have areas downtown where some of this took place on Friday that they're being disrupted. Obviously, today they're being disrupted in terms of going to work downtown. But big picture, what it does do, of course, is it dominates the airwaves. And it's kind of inescapable. And, you know, we are the news that we breathe in many ways. And it's going to color your opinion no matter what. But if everything you're watching on the news –

is related to these protests and people pro and con fighting about it, but mostly in this very, very blue state, in a much more blue city, if we looked at Democratic representation, there is a skew to the news. And in fact, I heard an anchor yesterday, I was stunned by what he said on the Sunday news.

news, making a total political commentary in the middle of a news report about this thing, condemning these ICE raids without having any idea who was arrested at that point in time and the criminal history of a lot of these individuals and the fact, which is often left out,

that it is against the law to be in this country illegally. And worksite enforcement, which is what this operation was, is a mandate for ICE. That is what they do. They go into, since 1986, the Immigration Reform Act, you need to hold employers responsible for hiring illegal immigrants. And that's what this started out with, four search warrants at a business that allegedly was laundering money for the cartels.

So getting back to your question, I guess a little bit of a greater fear is how does this continue, right? Neither side is going to back down, allegedly. Trump saying that the National Guard could be here for 60 days. Right.

The immigrant rights people and the activists and these organizations which are being fueled by the politicians who support this point of view. And it's kind of a circular thing, right? You know, I help get money for your organization, your money, your organization helps support me and we support one another. And it's a kind of a, um, um,

holistic view is that ICE and Donald Trump are bad. They're to blame for everything. And regardless of what ICE is doing over here to attempt to get some bad people out of community, let alone enforce the national law, that kind of gets lost in the whole thing. But where does it go from here? I don't think we know. And it could get worse. But you've looked at the pictures.

You've seen the five Waymo taxis that were destroyed yesterday. A lot of vandalism. Yeah, the big picture that I saw in the past 24, 48 hours was a masked protester, if we'll call them that, on a bike circling a burning car, waving a Mexican flag at

But also, I think I may be conflating two different photos, also having a keffiyeh on them, on their person. We're seeing a lot of those images. It's...

It's weird, isn't it? Well, yeah. I mean, you've got Palestinian supporters. You've got Ecuadorian flags, Salvadoran flags, Mexican flags burning the American flag. Part of this is, and I believe you've covered some of these things before as well. You've got this ebb and flow, right? The people rush the police line. Police fire back. They back off. It's an ebb and flow. And I will not...

call it a game, but if you've watched these things long enough, you know they want to be there, right? They've got either a mask on or they're trying to conceal or protect themselves from the tear gas and rubber bullets with man-made objects, barriers, if you will, but

The key continues, right? A rational person would go, you know what? I probably shouldn't be here right now. I might get hit in the head with a rubber bullet and it's going to hurt. But no, they want to do it.

So I talked to LAPD earlier today. I think they've had 43 arrests. This is LAPD, SO, and CHP together. 27 were for obstructing police and failure to disperse. One was attempted murder for throwing a malt off cocktail. Three for assaulting police, arson, and looting. That kind of thing. We are speaking with Fox News Senior National Correspondent William Lajeunesse in Los Angeles.

as the city is burning because of rioters who are trying to resist immigration and customs enforcement. And the California National Guard on the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. Please like and subscribe. We'll have more straight ahead.

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These arrests when they these are happening in from LAPD doing what you would expect police to do or whether the sheriff's deputies or state police highway patrol. This isn't even the work of the National Guard yet. That's a whole other layer here because the National Guard's been sent in and some of their their duties will be law enforcement related.

But I guess there had been some concern that LAPD is just overwhelmed. But here you are saying they've made plenty of arrests, but are they overwhelmed? They must be stretched at least.

So let's start out on Friday when ICE and HSI and with the backup of FBI, DEA, ATF were serving the search warrants on these four businesses that were allegedly involved with this cartel stuff. So ICE has made 114 arrests.

44 were at these businesses and then 77 roughly were in related or unrelated operations in the city. So you have all the federal arrests over here, largely on immigration grounds. Then, so it was Friday afternoon, I want to say around four o'clock, and I'm watching the coverage and all the media helicopters are up. And it was very obvious to me

that the feds were boxed in, right? They were outnumbered. There were several hundred, if not several thousand protesters converging because they all have the app, right? So there's a group chat, if you will. When ICE shows up somewhere, people converge on that to basically stop them to try to lay in front of the vehicle or obstruct them in one way or another. So the feds were clearly outnumbered.

And from the media helicopter shots, there were LAPD vehicles, patrol vehicles, kind of on the perimeter, but they weren't doing anything. And what the L.A. police chief has now admitted is that they were slow to respond. He blamed it on traffic. And this is kind of ironic because Jim McDonald, when he was the L.A. County Sheriff,

He allowed ICE into the county jail. But now as he's a police chief operating under Mayor Bass and the city council, which is very left wing, even more so than the Board of Soup, he's now saying, no, we're not going to cooperate with ICE in any way, shape or form. And that's how all California law enforcement is. But so I just want to separate. You have the legal or excuse me, the federal arrests over here for largely immigration violations. And then you have CHP, the sheriff and LAPD over here.

arresting those in response or protesting to this kind of thing. Right.

So I guess the way to kind of wrap this up would be to ask, you know, what is the average person who, again, who's just trying to go about their business? How do they exist in this time right now when they do have to get to work or school or get the kids to a certain activity? Are they avoiding a certain part of town here or are there? I would imagine there are vast parts of the L.A. metro area that are not really affected by it. But this again, again,

This is a danger to a lot of people. We have to admit that this is dangerous activity and that always spills over. Yeah. So you're, you're a hundred percent right. Avoid downtown. Um,

and the federal building in Westwood and the federal building downtown because that's going to be a site. I don't think we know where ICE is going to strike next, so you really don't know. I don't think it's going to be on the west side. Not that they don't employ illegal immigrants. I'm sure they do. But you've got to go because it's a sanctuary city and state, right? So if you're ICE and you know what your mandate is and you know what your president wants, unlike Joe Biden, you've got to go arrest people.

We saw during Joe Biden, we saw, you know, millions of people let in this country illegally. Well, now this new president wants to get rid of them. Where are you going to go? You're going to go to the large employers. So about between 13 and 19 percent, almost one in, well, of individuals in construction, landscaping and agriculture, they're illegal immigrants. So ICE could...

Go for the numbers and go do some worksite enforcement out of some of these locations, and they're going to get a lot of people. Now, the controversy, as you know, is going to be, well, he's just a working guy. He's a family guy. He's got an American wife. He's got a U.S. kid, something like this. Does that make them immune to –

deportation? The Trump administration would say, no, you can't take an ICE officer and I do the work site and I come into your office there and say, hey, Evan, and you got your I-9 papers, you got your stuff and you don't. Are you here illegally? Yes, I am. Bye. You're going away. You don't expect me to turn around and say no. And that's what's happening. William Lajeunesse, our senior national correspondent in Los Angeles. Thank you so much for being with us on the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. No problem. Thank you.

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