In what has become a glaring example of political posturing over public safety, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass used a Monday night press briefing not to call for calm, not to support law enforcement, and certainly not to address the destruction tearing through her city—but to demand that the Trump administration stop the very immigration raids that triggered the current unrest.
“Stop the raids. Stop the raids, period,” Bass said flatly, as if enforcing federal law were the problem—not the masked agitators throwing rocks at ICE agents and vandalizing federal buildings. Her remarks come on the heels of President Trump’s Saturday decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles after riots erupted at a Home Depot targeted by ICE. One thousand protestors surrounded federal buildings, vandalized property, and violently attacked officers, forcing a dramatic federal response to protect both personnel and infrastructure.
MAYOR KAREN BASS: “We need to stop the raids.”
“This was chaos that was started by Washington, D.C.” pic.twitter.com/OQS11FqZ5z
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 10, 2025
According to Mayor Bass, however, the problem isn’t the breakdown of public order—it’s that Washington D.C. didn’t wait for Sacramento’s permission to protect federal assets and personnel.
“We didn’t need the National Guard,” she claimed. “They are guarding two buildings… so they need Marines on top of it?” Bass added, dismissing the deployment as unnecessary and even likening the situation to an “experiment” imposed upon her city without consent.
Yet footage tells a different story. Fox News’ Bill Melugin posted videos showing ICE agents struck by rocks, with images of damaged vehicles and injured officers further underscoring the real threat these federal agents faced. DHS officials confirmed widespread chaos, including tire-slashing, defaced federal property, and key roads shut down by protestors. In the face of such conditions, the claim that military support was “overreach” borders on delusional.
Mayor Karen Bass is a communist.
So basically, what you’re saying is when you find out where the next raid is, rioters are going to show up for violence?!
This is not peaceful protesting. This is unlawful assembly. pic.twitter.com/IDg8cCHxWv
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) June 9, 2025
And while President Trump’s decision to deploy troops has sparked predictable legal resistance from California officials—who filed a lawsuit claiming federal overreach—there’s little question that the deployment stemmed from escalating violence and a state unable or unwilling to handle it.
Trump, in turn, made it clear: restore order, or Washington will.
What’s most revealing about Bass’s remarks isn’t just her opposition to the federal response—it’s her framing. She suggests that enforcing immigration law is what caused the riots, and that the raids themselves are the core problem. That’s not just a deflection—it’s a dangerous inversion of responsibility. By that logic, the rule of law is to blame for lawlessness.
