Body found outside looted store as LA riots take deadly turn: Live updates

Police are investigating after a man’s body was found on the sidewalk in downtown LA after a night of looting.

Cops were called to the area of West 3rd Street and Broadway shortly after 1:30 a.m., where they found the unresponsive man, according to KTLA.

It is the same intersection where a T-Mobile store was looted the night before.

Footage from the local news station showed police at the scene standing next to the man, who was lying on his back wearing a red sweatshirt.

An LAPD spokesperson said they are investigating the matter and it is unclear if his death was related to protest activity.

A mystery donor was caught on camera dispersing tactical gear to Los Angeles rioters as anti-ICE protesters wreaked havoc on the city.

The unidentified woman passed out gas masks and riot shields to demonstrators from her Ford F-150 in the downtown streets, just steps from federal buildings, as the National Guard was stationed nearby.

The masks were branded ‘bionic shield’, FOX 11 reports, and the mystery donor – who handed out the goods from a pick-up truck – appeared to be travelling with a group of masked individuals.

It is unclear if they are affiliated with any particular organization.

Witnesses also claimed that the rioters were ‘graffitiing, burning rubber nd preparing for clashes with police’.

Dr. Phil McGraw was working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border czar Tom Homan the day the protests started in Los Angeles.

The TV host previously worked with the agency as they rounded up undocumented migrants in Chicago in January.

On Friday, he was with Homan at the Homeland Security Investigations field office in LA, his conservative TV channel, MeritTV, told CNN.

He had ‘exclusive’ access to Homan, and the two men sat down for taped conversations about ICE efforts both ‘the day before and the day after the LA operation.’

A MeritTV spokesperson said rather than join agents in the field, the two men taped interviews that were scheduled to air on ‘Dr. Phil Primetime’ on Monday and Tuesday nights.

‘In order to not escalate any situation, Dr. Phil McGraw did not join and was not embedded,’ the channel spokesperson said.

Pete Hegseth refused to answer questions about the costs of deploying Marines to Los Angeles during his testimony before the House on Tuesday.

House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee ranking member Rep. Betty McCollum asked Hegseth what the cost of the deployment would be.

‘This is a deeply unfair position to put our Marines in. There’s no need for the Marines to be deployed,’ McCollum said.

Hegseth deflected and attacked the decisions of the previous Biden administration, instead focusing on illegal immigration.

‘Could the Secretary please address the budget,’ McCollum asked him.

Hegseth refused to acknowledge McCollum’s question and attacked the politics of the past administration.

Elon Musk bolstered Democratic Sen. John Fetterman after he slammed his own party for backing – or at least refusing to call out – the violent and destructive LA rioters.

Fetterman demanded his caucus colleagues join him in denouncing rioters who are wreaking havoc on downtown Los Angeles.

‘I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that,’ Fetterman wrote on X with an image of cars on fire with a masked rioter waving a Mexican flag.

He continued: ‘This is anarchy and true chaos. My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.’

Musk replied to Fetterman’s post with an emoji of an American flag.

Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker shared footage of himself attending the LA riots on Monday.

‘They’re firing into the crowd now. I don’t think that’s fireworks, buddy,’ he said as he walked through the chaos.

‘They’re already deploying flashbangs. Not great. Look, what they’re going to try and do is close down the other side of the road.’

As he moved through a sea of people waving Mexican flags, the sound of flashbangs could be heard in the background.

‘I think they’re going to push in from this side of the road. Oh ****, oh *****. That f****d my hair up,’ Piker said.

Charlamagne Tha God blamed Trump’s deployment of the National Guard for the chaos in Los Angeles during Monday’s episode of The Breakfast Club.

‘Trump really wasted no time doing the worst of everything folks thought he would,’ he said.

‘Like, you can’t put the military on protesters. Did I miss something? Were they not being peaceful? Because I didn’t hear about any ruckus or violence until the National Guard showed up!’

His co-host, DJ Envy, mentioned the video of protesters throwing rocks at immigration officers.

‘I did see one video, I guess it was a protester throwing rocks or bricks at cars as I guess they were agents when they were driving by,’ he said.

‘But did that call for the National Guard?’ Charlamagne replied.

Pete Hegseth is testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing focused on the department’s budget on Tuesday.

He is expected to face a sharp grilling over the administration’s decision to send Another 2,000 National Guard troops along with 700 Marines to Los Angeles.

Lucia Aguilar Cole, 26, who serves as the Community Growth and Economic Innovation Deputy for the Los Angeles City Council, was taken into custody around 7pm along with her sister, Antonia, according to LA Sheriff’s Department records.

The women are the daughters of Rick Cole – the city’s current Chief Deputy Controller and a former mayor of Pasadena. They were arrested during unrest that saw protesters hurling rocks and other objects from a bridge on to the 101 Freeway, where police vehicles were positioned below.

California Democrat Linda Sanchez told CNN Monday that the rioters participating in the fiery Los Angeles ICE protests were no different than sports fans.

‘It’s no different than when a team wins a national championship & people get overexcited,’ Sanchez said, adding that the ‘vast majority of protestors have been peaceful.’

‘We have been calling for protestors to protest peacefully, that is their constitutional right. The vast majority of protestors have been peaceful. There are always a few bad actors.’

‘And yes, we think anybody who commits property damage ought to be arrested and ought to be prosecuted,’ Sanchez noted.

‘But to send in federal troops, or Marines when there isn’t a war atmosphere or a war circumstance going on, is just beyond the pail. It’s authoritarian flexing. It’s not making anyone safer.’

An Australian news reporter has spoken out about the terrifying moment she was tear-gassed by cops while covering the Los Angeles riots.

ABC’s North America correspondent Lauren Day was reporting on the immigration protests, in California‘s biggest city on Monday evening, when she was hit with the non-lethal chemical weapon.

Day explained the police had been attempting to disperse demonstrators when she and her team were caught in the firing line.

‘This is really an example of just how quickly things can escalate after a long standoff with protestors police have now started to disperse the crowds, including with tear-gas,’ she told ABC News.

‘We got hit and you can see why it’s called tear-gas it burns your eyes, burns your nose, your lips, your throat.

‘It’s pretty unpleasant I’ve got to say.’

President Donald Trump defended his decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles in a new Truth Social post.

‘If I didn’t “SEND IN THE TROOPS” to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now, much like 25,000 houses burned to the ground in L.A. do to an incompetent Governor and Mayor,’ he said.

Gavin Newsom, who many have tipped to make a bid for the presidency in 2028 as the Democratic candidate, has lambasted Trump on social media, accusing him of using the National Guard and Marines as political pawns – and even dared border authorities to arrest him.

‘U.S. Marines have served honorably across multiple wars in defense of democracy. They are heroes. They shouldn’t be deployed on American soil facing their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a dictatorial President.

‘This is un-American,’ he wrote on social media platform X.

Trump meanwhile said it would be ‘great’ if Newsom were arrested, referred to the governor as Gavin ‘Newscum’ and declared that America would be plunged into ‘civil war’ were he in charge.

A poll conducted from June 4 to June 6 found that 54 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s plans to deport all of those in the country illegally, Enten continued.

Another 51 percent said they supported agents searching their respective towns for suspected illegal aliens.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has vowed to hunt down the protestor filmed hurling cinder blocks at law enforcement vehicles during the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles.

The suspect, identified as Elpidio Reynam, has been added to the bureau’s most wanted list after a $50,000 reward was announced for information leading to the suspect’s arrest and conviction.

‘That guy has just been identified, and they are doing a search warrant on his house as we speak,’ Bondi told Fox News.

The FBI has accused the 40-year-old Reyna – who lives in Compton – of injuring a federal officer after throwing rocks at law enforcement vehicles, Fox reported.

The Los Angeles FBI has warned that he should be considered armed and dangerous and Essayli said on social media Monday that he faces eight years in prison if convicted of what he called a ‘brazen attack’ that could have killed officers.

President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles to quell the immigration protests.

The last time the military was used for direct police action under the Insurrection Act was in 1992, when the California governor at the time asked President George H.W. Bush to help respond to Los Angeles riots over the acquittal of police officers who beat black motorist Rodney King.

Trump’s deployment also appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s National Guard was activated without a request from its governor.

The last time the National Guard was activated without a governor’s permission was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to protect a civil rights march in Alabama.

In a directive Saturday, Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is ‘a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States’.

California Governor Gavin Newsom contends it is his charge as governor to call in the National Guard, labelling Trump’s action as ‘an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism’.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum fanned the flames of the ongoing riots in Los Angeles, calling Mexican migrants living in the US ‘heroes’ while blasting the immigration policies of US President Donald Trump.

‘We disagree with this approach to the migration phenomenon,’ Sheinbaum said during a press conference Sunday afternoon in San Andrés Cholula, Puebla.

‘It’s not about raids or violence, but rather working on a comprehensive reform that takes into account the Mexicans on the other side of the border,’ she added. ‘That is our position, always a call for peace, to not exacerbate any form of violent protest.’

Sheinbaum said that 35 Mexican nationals were arrested by ICE agents as part of Trump’s deportation efforts.

Jason Carroll, a CNN national correspondent covering the anti-ICE riots in his native California, was reporting from the scene when suddenly he was confronted by law enforcement.

Anchor Laura Coates interrupted CNN law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller: ‘Wait one second, John. Hold on. I want to get Jason. What’s going on? I hear you. What am I seeing? Jason Carroll being… What? What happened? Jason?’

Carroll finally speaks while talking to a member of law enforcement attempting to remove him from the area.

‘I am being detained. I am being detained, Laura,’ he said to Coates, before turning to the officer and asking: ‘I am not being arrested, correct?’

LA Mayor Karen Bass encouraged rioters to ‘rise to the moment’ in a social media post that seemingly tried to urge for peaceful demonstration.

She urged protesters not to ‘buy into Trump’s chaos’ and reiterated the demonstrations are ‘about protecting our immigrant communities’ and not the ‘destruction’ of LA.

Bass has repeatedly come under fire for her weak response to the riots, which saw her suggest that local law enforcement had the situation under control as the city burned.

Shocking footage shows how violent riots plunged Los Angeles into chaos for four days straight.

A van ploughed into crowds, protesters torched cars and threw rocks at cops, and journalists were shot with rubber bullets as authorities staged a brutal crackdown.

People were also left running for their lives as a people carrier was driven full-speed into a crowd, with reports that several protesters were injured.

An outraged shop owner hit out at the ‘ridiculous’ rioters who are targeting businesses in downtown LA.

‘It doesn’t look like they are protesting ICE,’ Monty, owner of Bargain2Perfumes told NewsNation, ‘They are just doing this for looting the store and everything.’

His store was among those broken into and raided during the riots.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed President Donald Trump for allegedly mistreating the National Guard troops that the president deployed to LA.

Newsom has adamantly opposed Trump’s order to deploy troops to curb the riots, arguing that the deployment of troops ‘trampled’ on the state’s sovereignty.

California has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the order.