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Time of India
4 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
'We're making LA safer place': Border Patrol arrests people present outside Newsom's anti-Trump rally; California Gov calls US President 'little'
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California (Andri Tambunan/The New York Times) US Border Patrol agents were prominently present outside an anti-Trump rally organised by California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in Los Angeles on Thursday. The agents made at least one arrest. Governor Newsom, who is speculated to have presidential aspirations and has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump , held the event, which he termed "Liberation Day," to announce plans to counter the GOP's redistricting efforts in Texas. In a social media post shortly before the rally, Newsom anticipated that "Donald Trump and [Texas Governor] Greg Abbott are going to have a very bad day today." A video captured by local affiliate Fox 11 and obtained by Fox News displayed what appeared to be over a dozen armed and masked Border Patrol agents positioned just outside the rally. The agents were seen escorting a man away in handcuffs as onlookers protested angrily. Speaking to Fox 11, Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino explained, "We're here making Los Angeles a safer place." He added, "Since we won't have politicians who will do that, we do that ourselves. So, that's why we're here today. As you can see, already making it a safer place." The Border Patrol chief further stated, "We're glad to be here, not going anywhere." When asked about his message to Newsom, Bovino responded, "Again, we're making Los Angeles a safer place, we're going to continue to do that, and they can take that one to the bank and cash it. " In reaction to the presence of federal agents, Newsom's office sent a statement in all-capital letters to Fox News Digital: "WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY WEAK LITTLE DONALD TRUMP, THE CRIMINAL PRESIDENT!" During the event, Newsom's press team posted on X, stating "TRUMP'S PRIVATE ARMY IS ILLEGALLY ON PRIVATE PROPERTY!!!!" In his remarks, Newsom acknowledged the federal agents, saying, "Right outside at this exact moment are dozens and dozens of ICE agents." He further commented, "Do you think it's coincidental? Donald Trump and his minions, Tom Homan, tough guy. Decided, coincidentally or not, that this was a location to advance ICE arrests. Indiscriminate? Perhaps. We'll find out later." "Wake up, America. this is a serious moment. Wake up to what's going on. Wake up to the fear, anxiety. Wake up to what's happening. Not just here in Los Angeles, where we saw our streets militarised, where we saw our due process rights thrown out the window," he said. "That's Trump's America. That's the moment we're living in. So, these are sober times."
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Border Patrol agents stage show of force at Newsom's 'big beautiful press conference'
As Gov. Gavin Newsom prepared to announce that he would take on President Trump's redistricting plans on behalf of California, scores of federal immigration agents massed outside the venue Thursday. Newsom was set to speak at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles, when Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino, who has been leading the immigration operations in California, arrived in Little Tokyo, flanked by agents in helmets, camouflage, masks and holding guns. "We're here making Los Angeles a safer place since we won't have politicians that'll do that, we do that ourselves," Bovino told a Fox 11 reporter in Little Tokyo. "We're glad to be here, we're not going anywhere." When the reporter noted that Newsom was nearby, Bovino responded, "I don't know where he's at." Newsom's office took to X to share that agents were outside, posting: "BORDER PATROL HAS SHOWED UP AT OUR BIG BEAUTIFUL PRESS CONFERENCE! WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED!" The apparent raid Thursday, during which one person was detained, comes amid calls from elected officials for an end to renewed immigration operations across the L.A. area. Federal agents have carried out a string of raids over the past week, arresting several people at car washes and Home Depot stores. Immigrant advocates and city leaders had hoped such sweeps had stopped with a federal judge's July order, affirmed by a U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 1. The courts ruled that immigration officials cannot racially profile people or use roving patrols to target immigrants. In a press conference outside of the museum following the operation, Mayor Karen Bass said, "there's no way this was a coincidence." "This was widely publicized that the governor and many of our other elected officials were having a press conference to talk about redistricting, and they decided they were going to come and thumb their nose in front of the governor's face. Why would you do that? That is unbelievably disrespectful, it's a provocative act," Bass said. "They're talking about disorder in Los Angeles," the mayor said, "and they are the source of the disorder in Los Angeles right now." In an emailed response, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Bass "must be misinformed." "Our law enforcement operations are about enforcing the law — not about Gavin Newsom," she said. McLaughlin added that U.S. Customs and Border Protection "patrols all areas of Los Angeles every day with over 40 teams on the ground to make LA safe." Newsom and Democratic allies, including organized labor, were at the Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum to announce the launch of a campaign for a ballot measure which, if approved by voters, would redraw the state's congressional maps to favor Democrats before the 2026 midterms. William T. Fujioka, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum, was attending the Newsom press conference when federal agents jumped out of SUVs just feet away from him in front of the museum. Video captured of the scene showed federal agents on either side of a man, in a red shirt and jeans, whose hands were cuffed behind his back. As a passerby shouted that they were "cowards," Bovino said, "well done." Carlos Franco said he works with Angel, the man who was arrested by federal agents, and said Angel was in Little Tokyo delivering strawberries. His delivery van was still parked outside the museum more than an hour after he was arrested, Franco said. Franco came straight to the scene after he received calls that his coworker had been arrested. 'He was just doing his normal delivery to the courthouse,' Franco said. 'It's pretty sad, because I've got to go to work tomorrow, and Angel isn't going to be there.' Saying he was shaken by his friend's apprehension, Franco advised everyone to 'be careful in general, whether you're undocumented or not." Bovino told reporters in Little Tokyo that agents were out conducting "roving patrol duties." He acknowledged that agents had detained one person and said, "we will patrol anywhere in Los Angeles." Asked if their presence just happened to coincide with Newsom's press conference, Bovino said, "breaking the law is not coincidental." "When they break the law, you can expect you're probably going to get arrested," he said. DHS did not immediately respond to questions about the arrest. Fujioka said the agents' appearance in Little Tokyo 'is a parallel of what happened in 1942,' and noting that the museum was built on the location where L.A. residents of Japanese descent 'were told to come here and put on buses and sent to camps.' At 73, Fujioka is a third-generation Japanese American. He said about 20 people were arrested during Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids two weeks ago at restaurants and businesses in and near Little Tokyo Village Plaza. 'What's happening right now is reprehensible,' he said. 'One of the fallacies is that this is only targeting Latinos. If you look at the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Chinese, even Japanese communities, they're being picked up right in court.' Speaking with community leaders on L.A.'s Westside early Thursday morning, Bass condemned the continued raids and said she believed they violated the temporary restraining order upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month. 'Even though we've had two successful court decisions, the administration continues with their unconstitutional behavior. Coming and going to Home Depot stores, continuing to chase people through parking lots, detaining them for no particular reason under the auspices that they could be criminals, [it] comes down to one thing — and that is racial profiling,' Bass said. The Trump administration last week petitioned the Supreme Court to allow mass deportation efforts across Southern California, seeking to lift a ban on 'roving patrols' implemented after a lower court found such tactics likely violate the 4th Amendment. "We know the next step is to go to the Supreme Court, and we are hoping that we will have a good decision there," Bass said. "But the question looms before us, even if we do have a positive court decision: 'Will the administration follow the rule of law?'" Times staff writer Laura J. Nelson contributed to this report. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. 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Los Angeles Times
4 days ago
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Border Patrol agents stage show of force at Newsom's ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL PRESS CONFERENCE'
As Gov. Gavin Newsom prepared to announce that he would take on President Trump's redistricting plans on behalf of California, scores of federal immigration agents massed outside the venue Thursday. Newsom was set to speak at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles, when Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino, who has been leading the immigration operations in California, arrived in Little Tokyo, flanked by agents in helmets, camouflage, masks and holding guns. 'We're here making Los Angeles a safer place since we won't have politicians that'll do that, we do that ourselves,' Bovino told a Fox 11 reporter in Little Tokyo. 'We're glad to be here, we're not going anywhere.' When the reporter noted that Newsom was nearby, Bovino responded, 'I don't know where he's at.' Newsom's office took to X to share that agents were outside, posting: 'BORDER PATROL HAS SHOWED UP AT OUR BIG BEAUTIFUL PRESS CONFERENCE! WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED!' The apparent raid Thursday, during which one person was detained, comes amid calls from elected officials for an end to renewed immigration operations across the L.A. area. Federal agents have carried out a string of raids over the past week, arresting several people at car washes and Home Depot stores. Immigrant advocates and city leaders had hoped such sweeps had stopped with a federal judge's July order, affirmed by a U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 1. The courts ruled that immigration officials cannot racially profile people or use roving patrols to target immigrants. In a press conference outside of the museum following the operation, Mayor Karen Bass said, 'there's no way this was a coincidence.' 'This was widely publicized that the governor and many of our other elected officials were having a press conference to talk about redistricting, and they decided they were going to come and thumb their nose in front of the governor's face. Why would you do that? That is unbelievably disrespectful, it's a provocative act,' Bass said. 'They're talking about disorder in Los Angeles,' the mayor said, 'and they are the source of the disorder in Los Angeles right now.' In an emailed response, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Bass, 'must be misinformed.' 'Our law enforcement operations are about enforcing the law — not about Gavin Newsom,' she said. McLaughlin added that U.S. Customs and Border Protection 'patrols all areas of Los Angeles every day with over 40 teams on the ground to make LA safe.' Newsom and Democratic allies, including organized labor, were at the Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum to announce the launch of a campaign for a ballot measure which, if approved by voters, would redraw the state's congressional maps to favor Democrats before the 2026 midterms. William T. Fujioka, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum, was attending the Newsom press conference when federal agents jumped out of SUVs just feet away from him in front of the museum. Video captured of the scene showed federal agents on either side of a man, in a red shirt and jeans, whose hands were cuffed behind his back. As a passerby shouted that they were 'cowards,' Bovino said 'well done.' Carlos Franco said he works with Angel, the man who was arrested by federal agents, and said Angel was in Little Tokyo delivering strawberries. His delivery van was still parked outside the museum more than an hour after he was arrested, Franco said. Franco came straight to the scene after he received calls that his coworker had been arrested. Angel is a 'father, a family man,' Franco added. 'He was just doing his normal delivery to the courthouse,' Franco said. 'It's pretty sad, because I've got to go to work tomorrow, and Angel isn't going to be there.' Saying he was shaken by his friend's apprehension, Franco advised everyone to 'be careful in general, whether you're undocumented or not.' DHS did not immediately respond to questions about the arrest. Fujioka said the agents' appearance in Little Tokyo 'is a parallel of what happened in 1942,' and noting that the museum was built on the location where L.A. residents of Japanese descent 'were told to come here and put on buses and sent to camps.' At 73, Fujioka is a third-generation Japanese American. He said about 20 people were arrested during ICE raids two weeks ago at area restaurants and businesses in and near Little Tokyo Village Plaza. 'What's happening right now is reprehensible,' he said. 'One of the fallacies is that this is only targeting Latinos. If you look at the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Chinese, even Japanese communities, they're being picked up right in court.' Speaking with community leaders on L.A.'s Westside early Thursday morning, Bass condemned the continued raids and said she believed they violated the temporary restraining order upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month. 'Even though we've had two successful court decisions, the administration continues with their unconstitutional behavior. Coming and going to Home Depot stores, continuing to chase people through parking lots, detaining them for no particular reason under the auspices that they could be criminals, [it] comes down to one thing — and that is racial profiling,' Bass said. The Trump administration last week petitioned the Supreme Court to allow mass deportation efforts across Southern California, seeking to lift a ban on 'roving patrols' implemented after a lower court found such tactics likely violate the 4th Amendment. 'We know the next step is to go to the Supreme Court, and we are hoping that we will have a good decision there,' Bass said. 'But the question looms before us, even if we do have a positive court decision: 'Will the administration follow the rule of law?'' Times staff writer Laura J. Nelson contributed to this report.
India Today
7 days ago
- India Today
70-year-old Sikh man in US beaten mercilessly with golf club near gurdwara, critical
A 70-year-old Sikh man was attacked with a golf club in North Hollywood, leaving him critically injured. The victim reportedly suffered from broken facial bones and bleeding in the brain. According to his brother, he has undergone three surgeries. The Sikh community in Los Angeles condemned the attack and also sought increased police protection in the area.A video taken after the attack shows Singh sitting on the pavement in a pool of his own blood, with the golf club used to attack him lying at his Singh was attacked by an unidentified suspect while he was taking his daily walk near a Gurdwara in Los Angeles last Monday. His brother, Gurdial Singh Randhawa, said Singh was totally unconscious. "He is totally unconscious; they keep him under sedation," Randhawa was quoted as saying by Fox 11 Los far, no arrest has been made in the case, and investigators say they are not looking into the attack as a hate reportedly told Los Angeles Police Department officers that the suspect was a man in his 50s. Police said the suspect is a man who was riding a bike at the time of the of the victim said the 70-year-old enjoyed feeding the birds in the parking lot behind the convenience store near the Gurudwara, according to a California-based news portal, would visit the Gurdwara of Los Angeles for daily prayer and meditation, according to the SIKH COMMUNITY HAS SOUGHT INCREASED POLICE PROTECTION IN THE AREAGurdial Singh Randhawa, the brother of the victim, led a prayer for healing with the Sikh community on Monday, 11th Sikh community is now demanding increased police protection following the brutal 70-year-old barely survived the attack but has been in the hospital, unresponsive and in critical condition, ever since. He's undergone three surgeries in the past week for broken facial bones and bleeding in the brain, ABC7 reported."Brutally attacked. I don't know how god saved him. He was almost dead," ABC7 quoted Randhawa as saying."The fact that this happened and no one came to stop it until the point that Singh was left in such critical condition has absolutely spread fear in our community," said Munmeeth Kaur, the legal director of the Sikh Coalition, ABC7 reported."We are asking, we're demanding, that there be increased security in this area so that our community can freely move about and feel at ease to be able to be here, to be walking," Kaur was quoted as saying by 7 LA City council member Monica Rodriguez said, "An assault on any one member of our community is an assault on all of us."advertisementThe victim's family has asked people who might have any information about the attack to come forward to share the information."Please help us, and if somebody can tell us more, something more could happen; we would really appreciate it," Randhawa was quoted as saying by ABC7.- EndsMust Watch
Daily Mail
06-08-2025
- Daily Mail
Bizarre cause of death revealed for girl, 11, who fell off boat into lake and died
An 11-year-old girl who died after falling off a boat in a Wisconsin lake suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning despite being out in open water, officials said. The horror unfolded around 4pm on July 27 on Lake Alexander as the girl, named as Maisy Livingston, lost her life after falling overboard. Her body was dragged from the lake around four hours later. In a preliminary autopsy, authorities said that carbon monoxide toxicity was a contributing factor to her death, which led to her drowning. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said in a press release that Maisy 'is believed to have suffered sudden loss of consciousness due to carbon monoxide toxicity, which caused her to fall out of the boat.' Three others on the boat were also treated for carbon monoxide toxicity, officials said, and they were in stable condition in local hospitals, per Fox11. Officials said that it is believed that Maisy suffered carbon monoxide poisoning from being sat by the boat's engine as it chugged along for hours, a rare process known as the 'station wagon effect.' The sheriff's office warned boaters to be aware of the risk even if they are sat in open air, as engines can spout noxious gas into the air around them despite not being in an enclosed space. Tributes poured in for Maisy following the tragic accident, with her family writing in an obituary that she had a 'fun-loving spirit' and was a 'true joy to all who knew her, and her absence leaves a deep ache.' The sheriff's office said in a statement: 'Although it is not a common event, there are numerous documented incidents of boats moving at slow speeds for extended periods of time, allowing carbon monoxide to build up in, and around, a watercraft.' 'This can occur even in open air boats which do not have an enclosed cabin area.' Officials warned boaters to be up to date on the risks associated with carbon monoxide poisoning, noting that the toxic gas is colorless and odorless. From 2000 to 2014, over 140 people were poisoned to death in similar open-air incidents while boating, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Maisy's family said in a heartbreaking tribute that she was a devoutly religious child who was 'kind, compassionate, thoughtful, and full of quiet joy.' 'Even at a young age, Maisy had a heart that was tuned to God's goodness,' they wrote. 'Maisy was a true joy to all who knew her, and her absence leaves a deep ache. But those who loved her take comfort in knowing that she is now in the presence of her Savior, whom she loved so dearly.' Images from the scene showed a large law enforcement presence descended on the lake after Maisy fell overboard. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said it raced to the scene around 4pm that afternoon after receiving reports of a girl overboard who never resurfaced. The Lincoln County Dive Team, Oneida County Dive Team, and Marathon County Dive Teams helped the search, with the Merrill Fire Department also joining efforts. Officials said that sonar technology was used to locate the missing girl under the water, and her body was sadly dragged from the water several hours after she fell in. The 11-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Cops said that they have launched an investigation into the incident, and said that foul play is not suspected at this time.
