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Daily Mail
5 hours ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
CNN host reacts live as LAPD detains reporter on-air
A CNN reporter and his crew were briefly detained, forced out of an area of the Los Angeles riots and warned by police if he trespassed again he would be arrested. Just after midnight, live coverage of the chaos was briefly interrupted as an anchor Laura Coates could hear someone speaking to police. 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?' One officer can be heard asking if Carroll heard what another officer told him, which the reporter says he could not hear. 'We're letting you go but you can't come back here, because then if you come back in, you go,' suggesting he would be arrested if he returned. Carroll agrees and thanks the officer before telling him to 'take care.' Before the reporter can explain what happened, he is stopped by another journalist who describes himself as being from The New York Times. 'I'm Chris with the New York Times. We got video of you guys, if you need it later,' the second reporter said. Carroll thanks the New York Times employee and then describes what had just happened. 'I was called over, and the officer told me to put my hands behind my back,' he said. Carroll asked the officer if he was being arrested before being told he was merely detained. 'I was walked out of the area. They took down my information,' he added before his audio is lost. A few minutes later, Coates reestablishes contact with Carroll and he gets into more detail. 'They did not put me in zip ties, but they did grab both my hands as I was escorted over to the side,' he said. Carroll described what occurred as one of the 'risks' that the press takes to cover these stories, though he admitted it was 'low on that sort of scale.' 'It is something that I wasn't expecting simply because we've been out here all day,' Carroll said. He noted that typically, officers usually recognize that 'the press is there doing a job.' Carroll then returned to reporting on those who were being arrested for not dispersing from the area. The network later reported that other members of Carroll's crew were also briefly detained and forced to leave the protest zone. Two security personnel for CNN were also detained Monday night but were not charged, they said. Carroll has been with the network for well over a decade. has reached out to CNN for comment. At least 74 people have been arrested in connection with riots of over the weekend with more to come as the chaos continues to rage across the streets of California's biggest city. Hundreds of Marines have been mobilized to Los Angeles after Donald Trump sent National Guard troops to quell the immigration protests. Chaos erupted after protesters clashed with immigration officials across downtown Los Angeles over the weekend, leading to three days of violence and Looters targeted businesses across the city amid the demonstrations, which saw cars torched and security forces firing tear gas at rioters. Despite the National Guard's presence, the military is set to temporarily deploy about 700 Marines from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms to the city. It is unclear what grounds the administration used to send the troops, but for now, the Insurrection Act is not expected to be invoked. California officials have been slammed for their handling of the riots as an understaffed police department struggles to quell the violence. Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for unlawfully' deploying another 2,000 National Guard troops.
The Independent
6 hours ago
- Politics
- The Independent
‘That f***ed my hair up': Twitch streamer Hasan Piker stunned by flashbang in LA riots
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker was caught up in the Los Angeles riots, with footage capturing the moment he was disoriented by loud flashbangs. Piker, who lives in LA and is known for posting YouTube videos under the moniker 'HasanAbi', was interrogated by border agents last month upon returning from overseas over his anti-Trump political views. On Monday, photos and footage of him attending the protests were shared on social media. 'They're firing into the crowd now. I don't think that's fireworks, buddy,' Piker is heard saying as he streamed from the scene. '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,' he said while standing in a throng of protestors on a highway underneath a bridge. 'I think they're going to push in from this side of the road. Oh ****, oh *****. That *f***ed my hair up,' he adds as loud bangs are heard. Piker continues to walk through the crowd, as the loud bangs continue and fans are seen approaching him to shake his hand and take selfies. The riots erupted on Friday after federal immigration officers arrested large groups of undocumented immigrants in areas of the city with large Latino populations. What began as a peaceful protest has since escalated with dozens of arrests and reports of looting. President Donald Trump responded to the riots by deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to the city, followed by 700 marines on Monday. California Governor Gavin Newsom slammed his decision, calling it 'reckless' and 'pointless,' claiming that only a few hundred of the original Guard troops have been deployed, despite the president's insistence that thousands are there. Newsom has said that California will sue the government for its deployment of the National Guard to quell the protests. 'Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight. He's exacerbated the conditions. He's, you know, lit the proverbial match. 'He's putting fuel on this fire, ever since he announced he was taking over the National Guard — an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act,' Newsom said on MSNBC Sunday evening.
Fox News
7 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
MORNING GLORY: Trump acted quickly in LA and super majorities support him
On April 29, 1992, Reginald Denny was driving his truck through the part of Los Angeles known as South Central. Protests following the acquittal of Rodney King had begun around 3:15PM that afternoon, shortly after the acquittal of the four Los Angeles Police Department officers who had been on trial for the beating of Rodney King. Mr. Denny's truck was stopped at the corner of Florence and Normandie Avenues shortly before 7PM —it was still daylight. The truck was attacked and Denny pulled from it and savagely beaten. A television news helicopter beamed the brutal beating live to tens of thousands of televisions tuned in throughout the region, and while most were horrified, some took the extended absence of a police response to mean that the Los Angeles Police Department was not going to respond to violence that afternoon and evening. The Los Angeles Riots followed, and for four days the city was engulfed in violence, shooting and flames. 63 people were killed, thousands injured and an untold number of businesses burned to the ground. It is my opinion and the opinion of many other journalists who covered the riots in real time from Los Angeles that the televised beating of Denny combined with the invisibility of police triggered the widespread rampage. Only after the National Guard arrived in force was order slowly restored. (My television studio then was PBS-affiliate KCET in the Los Feliz neighborhood, and because it was behind a fence and protected by gates it was not damaged while the Circuit City across the street was looted and burned.) The city's attempt to "Rebuild LA" met with, at best, mixed results despite the leadership of Los Angeles Olympics chairman Peter Ueberroth and his team's relentless efforts to assist the destroyed businesses and ruined home-owners. Riots may end in days, but their impacts linger for years. They can start in an instant in this age of immediate communication of online images and exhortations without an "eye in the sky" to transmit the signal, and spread as quickly as the urban wildfires that plagued LA early this year. At this writing, LA is convulsing again, this time with demonstrations and violence triggered by ICE doing its job and being met with violence. President Trump is not waiting on California Governor Gavin Newsom or LA Mayor Karen Bass to ask for help in quelling the unrest after it has spread beyond a few outbreaks. Trump federalized the California National Guard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the Marines at Twentynine Palms down the 5 Freeway and other Army units to ready for deployment to LA. June, 2025 is not going to be April, 1992, and everyone who lived through and remembers the former cannot want a sequel. Good for President Trump and thanks to local law enforcement, the Guard and the military. The left wing of the Democratic Party quickly distributed or picked up on the talking point that President Trump's actions constituted a "dangerous escalation," including former Vice President Kamala Harris. This is an absurd, politicized narrative, of course, because even one death would represent an infinite cost and the attacks on ICE agents were savage and occurred throughout the city. LAPD was visible in some areas but impotent to stop violence and Trump rightly sensed the dangerous potential for an instant escalation fueled by professional activists of the sort who have made Portland and Seattle so unstable. Trump did not want a repeat of the summer of 2020 when riots rocked the country following the murder of George Floyd. The reality of this age of encrypted messaging apps and the inability to contain online provocateurs is that inaction will inevitably lead to intimidation and violence. The vast majority of people watching from afar, but especially those with ties and roots to Southern California want the region spared another catastrophe. The country voted for border control, for order and for the rule of law. President Trump won in overwhelming fashion. Democrats siding now with the criminals attacking ICE agents or any man or woman in law enforcement will not be able to erase their posts and their past come November of 2026. Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor, and host of "The Hugh Hewitt Show," heard weekday mornings 6am to 9am ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh wakes up America on over 400 affiliates nationwide, and on all the streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel's news roundtable hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University's Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in broadcast, and this column previews the lead story that will drive his radio/ TV show today.
Daily Mail
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
LA anchor's comment about riots sparks mass viewer outrage
An anchor's wording while reporting on the Los Angeles riots has spawned a firestorm on social media after he appeared to warn that cops should be wary when responding to offenders who had been burning cars. 'It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators,' ABC7's Jory Rand urged, as his network's helicopter filmed a car set ablaze by protesters. Quick to take note of the characterization were several on X, who tore into the anchor and his coverage. The far-right Libs of TikTok, for instance, re-shared the footage and wrote: 'Yes. He really said that.' 'Is this how Democrats have fun now that Trump is getting rid of the fentanyl?' another joked. 'If patriots protested like that, the narrative would flip overnight,' someone else sniped. A post for Libs of TikTok initially erroneously identified one of Rand's co-anchors as the owner of the quote - sparing him from some of the outrage. The clip, meanwhile, was taken out of context, with Rand also labeling the burning of cars 'abhorrent' and acts of vandalism at other points in his coverage. 'This is obviously not something we want to see,' he said separately. 'We don't want to see cars burning in the streets, we don't want to see these acts of vandalism.' The chaos was triggered Friday by immigration raids that resulted in dozens of arrests of what authorities say are illegal migrants and gang members. Police ordered the public to disperse from downtown overnight after an intense day of demonstrations in the region. Around 300 National Guard troops were deployed to the region, spurring anger and fear among many residents. By noon local time on Sunday, hundreds had gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where Caputo was reporting. Protesters there approached members of the federal agency and were fired upon with control munitions. The group then moved to block traffic on the 101 freeway. The 300 guards called to the crisis have were seen using tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash bangs to control the crowds. President Trump has said the National Guard was necessary because Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats have failed to quell recent protests targeting immigration agents. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a staunch Trump ally, endorsed the president's move, doubling down Trump's recent criticisms of California democrats and their cooperation with his orders. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who lives in Los Angeles, said the immigration arrests and Guard deployment were designed as part of a 'cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.'
Daily Mail
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Astonishing moment CNN host realizes reporter is being detained by cops during live segment from LA riots
A CNN reporter and his crew were briefly detained, forced out of an area of the Los Angeles riots and warned by police if he trespassed again he would be arrested. Just after midnight, live coverage of the chaos was briefly interrupted as an anchor Laura Coates could hear someone speaking to police. Jason Carroll, a national correspondent covering the anti-ICE riots in his native California, was on the ground when suddenly he was confronted by law enforcement. 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?' One officer can be heard asking if Carroll heard what another officer told him, which the reporter says he could not hear. 'We're letting you go but you can't come back here, because then if you come back in, you go,' suggesting he would be arrested if he returned. Carroll agrees and thanks the officer before telling him to 'take care.' Before the reporter can explain what happened, he is stopped by another journalist who describes himself as being from The New York Times. 'I'm Chris with the New York Times. We got video of you guys, if you need it later,' the second reporter said. Carroll thanks the New York Times employee and then describes what had just happened. 'I was called over, and the officer told me to put my hands behind my back,' he said. Carroll asked the officer if he was being arrested before being told he was merely detained. 'I was walked out of the area. They took down my information,' he added before his audio is lost. A few minutes later, Coates reestablishes contact with Carroll and he gets into more detail. 'They did not put me in zip ties, but they did grab both my hands as I was escorted over to the side,' he said. Carroll described what occurred as one of the 'risks' that the press takes to cover these stories, though he admitted it was 'low on that sort of scale.' 'It is something that I wasn't expecting simply because we've been out here all day,' Carroll said. He noted that typically, officers usually recognize that 'the press is there doing a job.' Carroll then returned to reporting on those who were being arrested for not dispersing from the area. The network later reported that other members of Carroll's crew were also briefly detained and forced to leave the protest zone. Two security personnel for CNN were also detained Monday night but were not charged, they said. Carroll has been with the network for well over a decade. has reached out to CNN for comment. At least 74 people have been arrested in connection with riots of over the weekend with more to come as the chaos continues to rage across the streets of California's biggest city At least 74 people have been arrested in connection with riots of over the weekend with more to come as the chaos continues to rage across the streets of California's biggest city. Hundreds of Marines have been mobilized to Los Angeles after Donald Trump sent National Guard troops to quell the immigration protests. Chaos erupted after protesters clashed with immigration officials across downtown Los Angeles over the weekend, leading to three days of violence and Looters targeted businesses across the city amid the demonstrations, which saw cars torched and security forces firing tear gas at rioters. Despite the National Guard's presence, the military is set to temporarily deploy about 700 Marines from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms to the city. It is unclear what grounds the administration used to send the troops, but for now, the Insurrection Act is not expected to be invoked. California officials have been slammed for their handling of the riots as an understaffed police department struggles to quell the violence. Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for unlawfully' deploying another 2,000 National Guard troops. Trump told reporters he would support border czar Tom Homan if he arrested the 'criminal' governor. 'I would do it,' the president said when asked about Newsom daring his administration to arrest him. 'I like Gavin Newsom; he's a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent, everybody knows it,' the president added.
