Mexican flag-waving masked protester becomes the symbol of LA anti-ICE riots: ‘Perfect propaganda for Trump'
Dramatic footage shows a masked protester on a dirt bike waving a Mexican flag as he performs donuts around a blazing car in Los Angeles during the weekend's riots.
The drone footage of the masked protester went viral after it was shared on X.
Photos and video from the riots show multiple protesters in Los Angeles waving Mexican flags as they confronted federal agents.
Observers are saying that foreign flags at the protests give President Trump and Republicans easy talking points as they take a hard line against the anti-ICE protesters.
4 Demonstrator waving Mexican flag in LA protests.
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'Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America's political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil,' Vice President JD Vance posted on X late on Saturday.
Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) was among those who responded with fury to the viral clip.
'Defund sanctuary jurisdictions. Fund ICE,' she wrote on her personal X account.
4 The masked man circled a blazing car.
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'Simple message to illegal aliens: leave now. You broke our laws to get here and you will be deported,' Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) wrote on X.
'There's no confusion anymore. Democrats are putting illegals first and Americans last,' Christian Hernandez from the National Republican Congressional Committee wrote on X.
Many Democrats were also furious at the protester — saying it gives Trump more ammunition for a crackdown.
4 Los Angeles has seen unrest on Saturday in response to ICE raids.
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'I swear this guy has to be a Republican plant,' Democrat supporter Armand Domalewski claimed on X.
'This is like the perfect propaganda footage for Trump and Steven Miller. Why do people do this?' Australian political observer Drew Pavlou, wrote in response.
4 The stunt was branded 'perfect propaganda' for President Trump by frustrated Dems.
REUTERS
National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles early on Sunday morning on the orders of President Trump.
The president announced that 2,000 soldiers would be deployed to the city following protests over raids on undocumented migrants.
At least one person has been arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail and wounding three officers, and several others were detained following the unrest on Saturday, reportedly triggered by ICE raids on Friday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom branded Trump's actions 'purposefully inflammatory' and claimed it 'will only escalate tensions.'
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