In vile posts calling for violence against law enforcement, the hotels where federal agents are staying in Los Angeles have been released online, with one agitator saying ‘burn them.’
The exact address of where Border Patrol agents stayed in Ranch Cucamonga, California just outside LA was posted on Instagram by a self-proclaimed ‘leftists’.
‘ICE at Hilton, car filled goggles, tuff ties, and riot shields,’ the video said, even though the cars were clearly marked Border Patrol, which is a sister agency of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE.
Border Patrol has been called in to help ICE as it carried out immigration arrests in Los Angeles last week.
Additionally, Border Patrol has always been able to operate within 100 miles of the US-Mexico border on its own.
‘Burn them,’ posted Instagram users @bobbygee57_ in response to the reel showing the agent’s location.
‘Got a match,’ asked @joseflocas.
Another user urged others to damage the tax-payer funded vehicles.
Instagram accounts shared the hotels of federal agents carrying out immigration enforcement in Los Angeles
Some of the commentators urges violence against Border Patrol agents
‘Pop the tires and use spark plugs to break their windows.’
Border Patrol agents have since relocated.
‘A lot of hotels are compromised,’ one agent on the ground told DailyMail.com.
He speculated they might have to sleep inside federal buildings to stay safe.
The agency’s intelligence team had been notified of the threats against its officers.
A second post made unverified claims that ICE agents had been kicked out of a hotel in Pasadena.
It shared the new hotel address where the they posters claimed the agents were moving to.
The @Stopicenet account shared an image of a Border Patrol truck engulfed in flames.
Anti-ICE agitators have released exact locations of where federal agents are sleeping on Instagram
The White House has argued that it needed to deploy the National Guard to California in order to keep law enforcement officials safe
A Free Palestine group shared instructions on how to organize against the cops in LA, saying peaceful protests don’t work.
‘Riots downtown are great, but what can you accomplish in small numbers, wearing a mask at night, with your phone at home,’ posted @solidaritysfl.
‘Showing up to a sidewalk protest with protest marshals empowers counterrevolutionary entities (liberals) to drain all the energy and radicalism into Instagram photo ops and call-your-representatives nonsense. That’s not going to work. It never has.
There are so many other options. If you’re all alone, show up to your local Food Not Bombs (in a mask) and let’s talk. We are everywhere.’
Federal officials have made if clear that violence against agents will not be tolerated.
‘Our law enforcement officers are just doing their jobs. Violence and intimidation against federal law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,’ ICE posted to X.
‘Assaulting, harassing and doxing ICE officers and special agents is against the law. The Justice Department will prosecute you for these federal crimes!’
While most of the protestors in LA have been peaceful, some have turned to violence, including setting cars on fire and throwing items at police during demonstrations
The Trump administration has argued that agent safety is one of the reason the president took the unprecedented step of calling in the national guard, despite opposition from both the governor and mayor of LA.
While most protestor in LA have been peaceful, some have set cars on fire and hurled items at officers and their vehicles since the clashes started on Friday.
