Tear Gas Deployed As National Guard, ICE Officers Push Back Protesters In L.A.

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Tear gas is deployed as National Guard troops and ICE officers push back against anti-ICE demonstrators at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center.

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00:00Street, I'm standing amid the crowd of protesters.

00:03I didn't see any impetus for this, but we're just going to watch this unfold.

00:30I'm not trying to live a life of a police.

00:34What do you do?

00:36Where is that fucking impetus?

00:41Nothing but power.

00:46If you're black and brown, shame on you.

00:49Shame on you.

03:30oh wait watch sorry did we have to move um no there has really not been very much communication

03:42sorry they're just continuing to push the crowd back i don't know if you can see in some of the

03:49images that we've been sending you but the dhs officers now have gas masks on sorry about that

03:59that car but yeah they just keep pushing people beyond the sidewalk okay all right we've just seen

04:09some vehicles go in there are vehicles pulling in i can't tell what those vehicles are but there are

04:16i can see the insignia department of homeland security there is a bearcat going in

04:24unmarked vehicle another unmarked vehicle

04:30u.s u.s customs and border enforcement u.s customs and border protection

04:38and what i'm seeing for the first time too are ice officers carrying tear gas that that is the next

04:50wave of law enforcement that we've seen join this skirmish that you're seeing but again lots of vans

04:57that are coming in so they clearly wanted to create it at yes

05:04i can't tell uh because uh for this these vans that you're looking at for example this van doesn't

05:20have any windows at all and then yeah it's very very difficult to tell if this is part of an

05:27immigration enforcement and bringing people in but i am outside the metropolitan defense uh detention

05:34facility so oh now they're backing up

05:37now they're backing up

05:41uh

05:47uh

05:55uh

05:59uh

06:01uh

06:05You're scared of all your people.

06:08You don't see that word.

06:09Journalist, you don't want to.

06:35You don't want to.

07:05You don't want to.

07:35You're tired of what you are, motherfuckers.

07:38We're winding together.

07:40We're winding together.

07:44Yeah.

07:45Get back.

07:46Get back.

07:47Get back.

07:52Oh, yeah.

07:54Yeah, I mean, OK, right.

07:59We're backing up.

08:00We're backing up.

08:01Yeah, I don't.

08:02There wasn't a specific thing other than the announcement, but the announcement was very

08:09big.

08:10I mean, you heard it live here.

08:11I don't really know, and certainly this crowd is very confused as to why this is happening.

08:21I think we can get a little closer, Mike.

08:24Are you OK?

08:26Are you OK?

08:27Here, hand this to me.

08:28No, no, no, no.

08:29So, are you OK?

08:32You OK?

08:34Yeah.

08:35Put this down.

08:37He needs water in his eyes.

08:39There you go.

08:39Take it.

08:40I don't have that.

08:42That's all I got.

08:43Yeah.

08:44Head pulls off.

08:45Head back.

08:45We're in the water.

08:46Mask off?

08:47Yeah, mask off.

08:48Mask off.

08:48Hey, go back to our eyes if you don't want to get fucking tear gas.

08:52We're back on going through the herd.

08:53Let's go.

08:54We're going back.

08:54We're going back to the herd, everyone.

08:56Hold on.

08:56We're going to stay here.

08:57They're lying.

09:00Nope.

09:02Nope.

09:03They hunted us like cattle.

09:05Haunted us like cattle.

09:08Turn your head.

09:10You need to tell me.

09:11Wash it out.

09:12Turn your head.

09:13Turn your head to the side.

09:14I'm going to lie down.

09:15I'm going to sit.

09:15I'm going to turn it, OK?

09:17There you go.

09:18There you go.

09:21OK.

09:22Other side.

09:23Other side.

09:37Tell me if you can see.

09:42OK.

09:43We have a minute.

09:44Yeah, we're just trying to help Mike. He's, he took some in the eyes.

10:04Thank you. I think I lost my dead earphones.

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