LAPD Forced to Deny It Helped ICE Agents as Angry Mob Charged

The Los Angeles Police Service (LAPD) is forced to deny that he helped immigration agents and customs’ application (ICE) during a raid after the police retained an angry crowd trying to interfere.

As so-called “sanctuary city”, prohibits it from local police from helping federal police. Amnesty activists try to stop ice raids by physically facing ice agents.

As reported by the local affiliate of ABC Kabc-7, the LAPD officers responded to a report by a “kidnapping” in downtown, but arrived to find an ice raid instead, surrounded by an unruly crowd trying to stop it.

Kabc reported:

The LAPD published a statement that the officers were simply there after responding to a call from a possible kidnapping in progress, but once they realized that it was an immigration operation, they began to help control the crowd. LAPD said they had stopped anyone.

“The first comments of the appeal indicated that several individuals were trying to hold people without identifying themselves, which aroused concerns of passers -by,” the statement said.

“Upon their arrival, the officers and the supervisor saw that the crowd became more and more agitated and spread on the street, creating a volatile situation and a significant danger of public security due to traffic and congestion in the occupied corridor of the city center,” continued the press release. “The police asked for additional units to manage the growing scene and ensure the safety of pedestrians, drivers and people involved in the operation. At one point, a partially handcuffed woman approached and held near an officer of the LAPD. After several minutes, a federal agency approached and took control of the woman. LAPD was not involved in his detention or his arrest. ”

THE Los Angeles Times indicated that the LAPD was forced to defend its actions by proving that it was not there to help ice, that is to say the application of federal laws:

According to the LAPDThe incident started with police officers responding to an allegedly abduction report near the East 9th Street and South Spring Street around 9:10 a.m., the report said that people were trying to kidnap others without identifying.

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“Federal agents did not inform LAPD in advance of their planned application activity,” the press release said. “The ministry responded in office only of the initial radio call reporting a potential removal. No arrest was made by LAPD. “

The ministry said the police stayed on the scene to “defuse the tension, take out the pedestrians out of the roadway and allow the safe passage of emergency vehicles”.

Local officials, all the Democrats, called the Raids on the ice cream to stop.