“We Don’t Have Sh*t Under Control”: LAPD Cop Exposes Newsom’s Riot Lies

Leave it to California Dems and their media flunkies to pretend riots are “mostly peaceful,” while honest cops on the street get outnumbered, outgunned, and abandoned by the politicians who claim they’ve got it all “under control.”

We all know they have nothing under control.

For weeks now, Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and their press stooges have been waving off the pro-illegal/Anti-ICE riots tearing through Los Angeles and other US cities. It got so bad, President Trump had to call in the National Guard and Marines, while Dems and the media fought him every step of the way and acted like the lawkeepers were the real threat.

Well, the ugly truth is finally leaking out, and it’s nothing close to what they’ve been feeding you on the 6 o’clock news. Thanks to makeshift LAPD whistleblowers, who are risking their livelihoods to tell the truth, we now know what’s actually happening on the ground. There are break-ins at ICE detention centers, violent jailbreaks with homemade bombs, mobs ambushing federal agents, and city leadership tying law enforcement’s hands in the name of “sanctuary.”

Well, one brave LAPD commander laid it all out for the Wall Street Journal, and it flips the entire “mostly peaceful” fairytale right over.

These frontline cops say California’s so-called “sanctuary” policies are fueling total and complete chaos. Gangs are storming detention centers to free illegal aliens, ICE agents are getting jumped by street mobs, and local officers are muzzled from telling the truth about any of it. Meanwhile, the same Dems who lecture the public about “human rights” are doing everything they can to stop real law and order from cleaning up their mess.

Conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald wrote a compelling piece exposing the left’s lies about the riots.

WSJ:

We don’t have s— under control,” a Los Angeles Police Department commander told me on Sunday. “It’s a godsend that the National Guard and the Marines are here.” Officers on the street felt the same way, though the LAPD forbids them to express that view in public, the commander said.

There are two different pictures of what happened in Los Angeles—the official one from California’s elected leaders and the media, and the ground-level view from law enforcement. On Saturday—a week after President Trump activated the National Guard and six days after Gov. Gavin Newsom told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that local law enforcement officers were “sufficient to maintain order”—a crowd broke into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center downtown to liberate the detainees. The vandals overpowered the skeletal crew of National Guard soldiers, using improvised bombs made from M-80 firecrackers, nails and broken glass. Eventually about 100 law-enforcement officers arrived to put down the attempted jailbreak, but not before damage to the facility.

The day before, according to the commander I interviewed, a mob of several dozen surrounded two ICE agents taking an illegal alien into custody on Vermont Boulevard. Six men jumped out of a truck and grabbed the handcuffed suspect from the back of the ICE van, threw the suspect into their truck and fled. The ICE agents gave chase, but without sirens or lights, the pursuit was futile. Neither of these incidents was reported in the press. The commander said the LAPD didn’t put out an alert for its officers to apprehend the fleeing abduction squad, presumably to avoid violating Los Angeles’s sanctuary law, which bans using city personnel for federal immigration enforcement.

The LAPD commander I spoke to views California’s sanctuary policies and its opposition to the National Guard deployment as equally misguided. “It would be safer if we could work with ICE,” he said. “We should block off the street to assist their agents in making arrests.” Mr. Trump should provide more soldiers, not fewer, the commander insisted. They could then walk the streets with local officers during this time of anarchy.

So, who’s funding these riots? Well, the usual suspects are using NGOs, their favorite riot-laundering playbook, to unleash chaos across the country all over again. We covered this story recently, and this time, nobody’s guessing who’s behind it; there are receipts floating around.

Revolver:

It’s become as predictable as heat waves and mosquitoes: every summer, the radical left finds a new excuse to unleash chaos on America’s streets. It kicked off in full force with George Floyd’s so-called “summer of love,” a blood-soaked, fiery spectacle that left cities burned to the ground, a trail of injured and dead bodies, and police departments damaged and demoralized.

[…]

But now, we can break it down even further, thanks to this exclusive post that lays out the entire scheme, names, numbers, and receipts included.

Laura Powell:

Over the past two days, ICE agents have conducted targeted operations across the Los Angeles region, detaining more than 40 suspected illegal aliens. These enforcement actions triggered large-scale demonstrations, some of which turned confrontational, with reports of vandalism, blocked traffic, and physical clashes with federal agents.

The unrest has prompted questions about who is organizing and funding these protests. One of the organizations at the center of the resistance to ICE is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), a Los Angeles nonprofit that has long provided legal and advocacy services to illegal aliens. CHIRLA is known for radical positions on immigration—for example, it led a campaign to abolish ICE in 2018.

Yesterday afternoon, as clashes with federal law enforcement were heating up, CHIRLA Executive Director Angelica Salas held a press conference during which she announced that the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network’s hotline had received more than 50 calls reporting ICE activity and sightings of “men in military garb.” LARRN is organized by a coalition of nonprofits, and CHIRLA plays a central role, using its main phone line as the hotline number. LARRN’s hotline is one of the communication systems that allows legal observers, volunteers, and other activists to be quickly dispatched to the scene of immigration enforcement actions.

During her remarks, Salas referred to SEIU California President David Huerta as her “brother,” highlighting CHIRLA’s close ties to organized labor in California. Huerta had been arrested during one of the protests for blocking the path of an ICE vehicle, as shown by video footage released by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. Governor Gavin Newsom expressed his unequivocal support for Huerta, claiming he was only “witnessing” the action, while Essayli announced his intention to file criminal charges.

For her part, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has defiantly opposed federal immigration enforcement in the city, stating on social media Friday, “We will not stand for this” and “No vamos a permitir estas acciones,” (“We are not going to permit these actions”). She added that her office would collaborate with community-based organizations that serve immigrants. She has a long relationship with CHIRLA and bragged last year about obtaining federal funding for CHIRLA’s programs. That grant is part of a broader stream of public dollars that the organization receives from government sources.

In fact, according to a financial audit submitted to the state, the CHIRLA organization received nearly $34 million in revenue from government contracts during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, with 96% of that funding from the State of California. That figure marks a sharp increase from the prior year, when it received around $12 million in government contract revenue. Agencies contributing to CHIRLA’s funding during this period included the California Department of Social Services, the California Arts Council, the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, and the Department of Homeland Security. Notably, as mentioned above, a DHS contract funded CHIRLA to provide citizenship instruction and naturalization services.

With $100,000 remaining on CHIRLA’s contract, DHS froze the remaining funds in February. CHIRLA responded by suing. The court denied their motion for a preliminary injunction on May 29. This is one of two lawsuits CHIRLA filed against DHS this year. The other was dismissed for lack of standing and is on appeal.

To sum up how this works: Your tax dollars fund an organization that organizes efforts to directly interfere with the federal government’s lawful exercise of authority. Then, through its lobbying arm, that organization helps get Democrats elected to office, who then repay the favor by ensuring increased funding.

This is the nonprofit industrial complex at work.

EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayer-Funded Nonprofit Behind the Anti-ICE Riots in Los Angeles.

Over the past two days, ICE agents have conducted targeted operations across the Los Angeles region, detaining more than 40 suspected illegal aliens. These enforcement actions triggered large-scale… pic.twitter.com/bDTn0oB6nD

— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) June 8, 2025

So as you can see, the reason they have to keep pushing the fake “mostly peaceful” line and pin the blame on the National Guard is simple: it’s the Dems themselves unleashing this hell on America and her citizens.

The truth is, what Dems and their media stooges keep labeling as “mostly peaceful” has included people launching nail-packed fireworks at cops, tossing Molotov cocktails, dropping dangerous debris onto highway patrols from overpasses, hijacking freeways, torching intersections, and smashing up every store in sight, from hip boutiques to neighborhood gas stations.

Mostly peaceful…

While they gaslight America with talk of order and whine that Trump’s National Guard is overkill, small businesses and local bars in downtown LA are getting bulldozed by criminals who are running wild.

Heather Mac Donald’s piece goes on:

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