Trump: Gavin Newsom should be arrested over LA riots

Telegraph

4 hours ago

California Governor Gavin Newsom should be arrested over the violence engulfing LA, Donald Trump has declared.
On Sunday, Tom Homan, the president's border tsar, suggested Mr Newsom was at risk of being arrested if he thwarts ICE officers attempting to arrest illegal migrants in the state.
'I would do it if I were Tom,' Mr Trump said on Monday.
Speaking about Mr Newsom, he continued: 'He's a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent. Everybody knows.'
'The people that are causing the problem are professional agitators, they're insurrectionists. They're bad people, they should be in jail,' Mr Trump went on to state
Mr Newsom has dared Mr Homan to make good on his threat telling MSNBC: 'Come and arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don't give a damn.'
'He's a tough guy. Why doesn't he do that? He knows where to find me,' Mr Newsom added.
Masked protesters in Los Angeles smashed and torched self-driving electric cars during a third day of volatile demonstrations on Sunday sparked by immigration raids in the city.
The violence may spill over into a fourth day. The Service Employees International Union, which has around two million members, has organised a rally for Monday afternoon after the arraignment of its Californian president, David Huerta, who was arrested on Friday while protesting.
Mr Newsom said he planned to sue the Trump administration over the deployment of 2,000 national guard troops which he called 'an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act'.
Demonstrators protesting against federal immigration raids continued to clash with police who fired rubber bullets and tear gas while being hurled with bricks and stones.
Several journalists were injured during the crackdown, including an Australian presenter who was shot in the leg while reporting from downtown.
Ms Bass appeared at odds with the LAPD chief, who said the force was under-resourced and overwhelmed.
'He has received that support from the sheriff's department and from other police departments, and so I do not believe that he was describing a situation where we cannot get it under control here,' she told CNN.
Mr Newsom's confrontation with the president is the latest in a string of disagreements he has shared with Mr Trump, who has nicknamed the governor 'Newscum'.
The pair clashed earlier this year when Mr Trump blamed Mr Newsom for the California wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes and called for his resignation.
Juan Ramón de la Fuente, the Mexican foreign affairs minister, said 42 Mexicans had been detained in the riots, four of which were already returned to Mexico.
'We do not agree with violent actions as a form of protest,' Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexican president, said.
'Burning police cars appears to be more an act of provocation than of resistance. We condemn violence, no matter where it comes from. We call on the Mexican community to act pacifically and not allow itself to be provoked.'
At least 56 people were arrested over the weekend including a person accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at an officer.
Police declared all of downtown LA to be an unlawful assembly area on Sunday as officers geared up for another day of protests.