Anti-ICE Mob Descends on Downtown Los Angeles As

Things are getting tense in downtown Los Angeles Friday night as anti-ICE protesters are at it again, attacking law enforcement, blowing whistles, and throwing water bottles. Video journalist Anthony Cabassa is on the scene:

BREAKING 🚨: Chaos is unfolding as the protests flip violent. Water bottles and rocks being thrown at federal brokers retreating, protestors pepper sprayed as brokers attempt to keep control.

Agents are vastly outnumbered, no local police presence after over an hour of turmoil. pic.twitter.com/oCli2wCuoI

— Anthony (@anthonycabassa) January 31, 2026

The Los Angeles Police Department declared a tactical alert after protesters refused to disperse.

⚠️Community Advisory⚠️

Due to violent agitators on Alameda between Temple and Aliso the City of Los Angeles has gone to TACTICAL ALERT.

Federal Authorities are taking particles, bottles and other objects. Federal Authorities have declared an Unlawful Assembly at the Detention…

— LAPD Central Division (@LAPDCentral) January 31, 2026

Federal Authorities are taking particles, bottles and other objects.  Federal Authorities have declared an Unlawful Assembly at the Detention Center and they’ve deployed pepper balls and tear gasoline.

GWN and Democrat politicians will doubtless describe this as a “non-violent” protest, but inform that to the people getting hit by water bottles:

Officials have shut down protests in downtown Los Angeles due to those the Los Angeles Police Department called “violent agitators.”

On social media, the LAPD said federal officers “declared an Unlawful Assembly” and used pepper balls and tear gasoline to disperse protesters who gathered for the “ICE Out” nationwide day of protest.

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Aerial footage from Sky5 confirmed police have set up skirmish traces to push back the protesters.

Earlier this night, issues seemed to be calming down — only to shortly heat back up again.

As of about 6:15 p.m., police “continue to gain compliance after the dispersal order was issued, however, protestors continue to remain and throw bottles and rocks at the officers,” they said.

A few minutes later, police clarified that “protestors are actively fighting with Officers after multiple dispersal orders were issued,” and less-than-lethal weaponry is getting used “due to the violence against officers.”

It does not appear as if they’re paying consideration to LA Mayor Karen Bass:

Peaceful protest is a constitutional proper. I urge Angelenos to exercise that proper safely and not give this administration an excuse to escalate.

Los Angeles stands together.

— Mayor Karen Bass (@MayorOfLA) January 31, 2026

For Dem Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-23), meanwhile —who in 2018 inspired supporters to publicly confront and harass Trump administration officers — there’s nothing to see right here:

Los Ángeles, CA – I requested Rep. Maxine Waters and her ideas on the protest turning violent, with a number of protestors and federal brokers injured, she said she hasn’t seen any violence.

She just left the protest. pic.twitter.com/LridH0e6YH

— Anthony (@anthonycabassa) January 31, 2026

Although the LAPD says issues are calming down at this hour, video is still being posted displaying that there are loads of indignant protesters still creating mayhem:

BREAKING 🚨: Chaos, as LAPD are firing less than deadly into the gang, a number of members of the media have been hit, including me. Police shot my legs as I used to be strolling away from police line, and when I turned around they shot me twice in the abdomen with less than deadly. pic.twitter.com/2fqLzKNXom

— Anthony (@anthonycabassa) January 31, 2026

This is an evolving state of affairs, and RedState will keep you apprised of any additional developments.

Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do every little thing they will to intervene with and threaten ICE brokers implementing our immigration legal guidelines.

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