The unidentified demonstrator allegedly threw rocks at law enforcement and damaged government vehicles, the FBI said.
As tense anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles enter their fourth day, federal officers have ramped up law enforcement’s response – and have added one protester to the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted list.’
The unidentified demonstrator has been accused of assaulting a federal officer and damaging government property during Saturday’s protest in Paramount, a city 30 miles south of Los Angeles.
The suspect allegedly threw rocks at law enforcement on Alondra Boulevard around 3:30 p.m. Saturday, “injuring a federal officer and damaging government vehicles,” according to the FBI’s Los Angeles field office. It was not immediately clear whether the officer was injured or the extent of the damage.
Jesus fucking christ. Most wanted. For disagreeing with the administration and throwing some rocks.
Oh no! Would somebody please think of the government property.
Dude, I know this guy!!!
He was literally with me, thousands of miles away from this scene. We made ham sandwiches and drank iced tea.
I saw him the other day in Miami. We threw some rocks around because we are such bad boiz
Me, him, and Luigi Mangione have been on the International Space Station since November 2024!
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Property damage is not violence.
shooting their own feet by escalating unnecessarily. if you are already on most wanted list, all stops go. What are they going to do, put you on most wanted list?
A play out of Israel’s book. To the dungeon for throwing rocks. Soon it will be a bullet to the head.
So does that mean the cops who were busting out their own cruiser windows the other day are also on that list?
The FBI is asking the public for help identifying a man at the Los Angeles protests against ICE whom the agency has put on its ‘Most Wanted list. ‘ (FBI)
How about you go fuck yourself instead.
Throwing rocks, starting fires, and initiating violence? I’d say there’s a much better than 50% chance that this is someone who came to instigate violence rather that support the protest. If he’s ever arrested, I’d bet money that he turns out to have a pardon from Trump in his history or a ProudBoy tat or both.
You are wrong, people are pissed and are willing to show it. Have you never felt serious about something in your life? He didn’t initiate the violence, the raids in his community from masked fascist goon squads started the violence. He is defending the people.
Stop discrediting ways of protesting you dont like by making sruff up. The outside agitator trope is a counterinsurgency tactic to sow distrust in resistance movements.
This already happened with the George Floyd protests and in the end no proof was ever shown for this being a relevant factor in any meaningful way.
Stop discrediting ways of protesting you dont like by making sruff up. The outside agitator trope is a counterinsurgency tactic to sow distrust in resistance movements.
This already happened with the George Floyd protests and in the end no proof was ever shown for this being a relevant factor in any meaningful way.
Yes, it can be used to sow distrust, and it’s also a method that has been regularly used to incite violence so the authorities can respond with escalated violence. As for proof, you mean proof like the white supremacist that police identified as having been started fires and incited violence at otherwise peaceful George Floyd protests? Or this one? Or these guys?
The use of agents provocateur to turn peaceful protests violent is so common that it’s practically a tradition at this point.
Step 1. Peaceful protest
Step 2. Police start gunning down protestors
Step 3. “Guys dont escalate, the police might start shooting people”
Step 4. Fascism
I think you know what step you are at
You can’t just cherry pick random data points and use those to assert broad claims. How about these guys. Was the Minneapolis precinct burning the action of proud boys?
If anything a majority were the most average of average. If you’re gonna keep pushing this narrative at least make sure you get your paycheck from the DHS.
Alright…
At least the violence is against the appropriate targets.
we can help identify the ICE PIGS instead.
Even if they offer a cash reward, Luigi has taught us they won’t pay out
You know, for those people lacking a moral compass
they won’t pay out
They will always have a loophole to keep you from getting yours.
I’m just hoping they didn’t bring their phones. Btw, if you go to a protest, don’t bring your smartphone.
Oh stone throwers go on the most wanted list? We on the fast track to protesters getting bulldozed and opened fire on now.
Why stop at bulldozers?
It’s a reference to Rachel Corrie and the countless others that are frequently murdered via bulldozer in Palestine.
Fun story! Caterpillar - the construction equipment company - hired people to spy on Rachel Corrie’s family after her death.
O noes. He threw rocks
Quick shoot him in the face with less than lethal rounds!
That looks like President Trump how crazy
It’s a sad day when someone can make the FBl Most Wanted List just by damaging some property and hurting some cop’s delicate feelings. There are countless murderers, rapists, pedophiles and human traffickers out there, but this guy makes the list!? He’s a priority!?
He didn’t just make the list, they also labeled him as armed and dangerous.
I mean, he does indeed have arms. Dangerous, not so sure.
If everyone is on the most wanted list, then no one is on the most wanted list.
There are countless murderers, rapists, paedophiles and human traffickers out there, but…
Are they orange, stupid, and obese? If so then maybe they should run for office…
How about the cop who decided to pop a (right leaning apparently!) Australian reporter from close range with a rubber bullet, just for shits and giggles?
A British reporter was also shot in the calf
Yup. He required emergency surgery and is still in the hospital
Our right leaning is more in line with your Dems, though.
Makes me mad, though, seeing that cunt pop one off like that. Bring him down here and he can do a 1v1 fisticuff against our red kangaroo. That’ll learn him.
That guy’s probably drinking with his bros bragging about what he did. Maybe karma will catch up with him, but it seems like assholes are reigning supreme nowadays.
Violent protester. 75% chance it’s an undercover agent of the state.
Damn, turns out the state is the only thing capable of positive change.
Literal conspiracy seems more likely to you than someone responding to violence with violence?
Not op, but that’s is based on past events (both that the gov & various departments/agencies literally did that and that American protesters are relatively tame & opposed to violence, again, ‘relatively’).
So a reasonable guess/question (I take it that the “75%” is there for comedic reasons).
Yes, and if you read further into the actions/tactics of those various departments/agencies you’ll discover that propogating the myth of the “outside agitator” is a core part of those tactics.
It’s not a reasonable guess, it’s propogating propoganda based on half truths.
People like to believe in peaceful protests even if it does jack shit
It prob doesn’t even jack any shits.They might jack some shit actually - people reading about it on the toilet getting exposed to the truth & joining in on the movement(s).
Oh guaranteed some significant shits will get jacked. Absolutely.
It has been documented to happen, so it’s not incredibly outlandish. The regularity with which modern protest movements on the US left attempt to surpress violence to avoid giving an excuse to law enforcement makes it notable when it occurs. Again, far from unheard of, just not part of every instance.
So while it’s probably not the case that it’s overwhelmingly likely to be an agent provocateur, it would be unsurprising if it were that, someone there to push for escalation with no police affiliation, or just petty hooliganism. Last of which is significant only that it distinguishes someone who decided to do violence for a principled reason from someone who just wanted to throw rocks at cops.
Yes, ops and peace police exist. Why does that mean that it’s impossible for an individual to “do violence for a principled reason”? Is Luigi also an op?
I didn’t say that in the slightest, and in fact said the opposite.
It’s not a conspiracy theory to think that someone causing trouble came to the protest solely to cause trouble, for whom or why not withstanding.
The first two examples I gave, police and right wing accelerationists, have a political motivation. The third, holligans, are doing what they’re doing for it’s own sake.It’s obviously possible for someone aligned with the peaceful protestors to decide to throw rocks at cops. Neither I nor anyone else said otherwise.
There’s no need to put words in someone’s mouth or misrepresent what they’re saying.
The point of a protest is to cause trouble anything else is a parade.
It’s obviously possible for someone aligned with the peaceful protestors to decide to throw rocks at cops
The thing we are arguing about isn’t “possibility” it’s “probability”. To be fair, you have not directly stated you beliefs but the parent comment had stated their priors and they are completely divorced from reality.
Wait, you’re arguing with me because of what someone else said?
I said agitators aren’t a conspiracy theory. You asked why I thought the violence from the protestors was “impossible”. I said I didn’t think that, and it’s obviously possible and now you’re upset that I used the word “possible”?
The point of a protest is to cause trouble
🙄oh, go fuck yourself. If you’re getting to that level of nitpicking you aren’t actually doing anything but looking for argument, unless you’re actually so brain damaged that you think that all nonviolent protest is just “parades”. Just in case: in this context, trouble is a word used and understood by native English speakers to mean “undirected violence and destruction perpetrated for it’s own sake”.
I said I didn’t think that, and it’s obviously possible and now you’re upset that I used the word “possible”
Not upset, and I do think I misread your list of reasons for why someone would be a ‘violent protester’ as an exhaustive list when you did not mean it as such. My point about priors still stands but you are correct that it is mostly directed at badbytes. What were you trying to communicate with your first comment if not re-enforcing badbytes message?
in this context, trouble is a word used and understood by native English speakers to mean “undirected violence and destruction perpetrated for it’s own sake”
I appreciate this, however this definition runs opposite to your usage above about how police/accelerationists “came to the protest to cause trouble”. Your usage there was to communicate “directed violence perpetrated for political sake”.
The word “violence” is a bit murky here and I’m not sure I agree on it’s inclusion in the definition of “trouble” however with how obstruction and vandalism are considered “violent” by police I stand by the statement that:
The point of a protest is to cause “directed violence perpetrated for political sake”.
Given that most of the people arrested for violence during the George Floyd protests turned out to be right winger accelerationists … It’s not exactly a stretch
My dude, they were arresting random people and charging everyone with assault, obstruction, etc. Of the over 14000 people arrested at the end of June 2020 you really believe the majority were right wing accelerationists?
Jacob Fagundo, Timothy O’Donnell, James Massey and Lamar Taylor were all right wing accelerationists?
The random people they picked up had charges dropped after the arrest. I’m talking about the actual convictions.
My dude
Also, learn what the word most means. Finding a could other examples doesn’t make me wrong.
Finding a could other examples doesn’t make me wrong.
You’re right, you are the one making bold claims and so the burden of proof is on you. You got any?
Hope that rock you’ve been living under is comfy. My claims are not bold. They’re quite well documented.
AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals
This one burnt down a police precinct during a BLM protest, trying to pin it on them
Boogaloo boys spotted at dozens of BLM protests as aggitators
Did you read your sources? They don’t say what you think they do.
- From the AP article you linked:
Of more than 300 arrested, there are about 286 defendants ___ Some of those facing charges undoubtedly share far-left and anti-government views. Far-right protesters also have been arrested and charged. ___ But many have had no previous run-ins with the law and no apparent ties to antifa, the umbrella term for leftist militant groups that Trump has said he wants to declare a terrorist organization.
In the classic misguided “journalistic neutrality” it does put additional emphasis on the 6 instances of “far-right extremism” a incidence rate of 2.1%. Do you believe that 2.1% is a majority?
- From the guardian article:
Hunter would later post multiple messages on Facebook bragging of his actions in Minneapolis on the night of 28 May and morning of 29 May, writing, “I set fire to that precinct with the Black community,” and, “My mom would call the FBI if she knew.”
“I’ve burned police stations with Black Panthers in Minneapolis,” he claimed in one message, and in another, “The BLM protesters in Minneapolis loved me.”
He wasn’t a lone actor trying to pin it on them, he was participating in an action with them.
- From the KansasCity article:
While Kansas City police haven’t made any arrests in the May 30 arson incident and say they haven’t seen direct evidence of extremists trying to disrupt the local protests,
Tere are so many agendas at play that it’s hard to tell who’s on what side. In some cases, they say they’re seeing a bizarre alignment between those on the far right, such as militias and the Boogalooers, and Black Lives Matter advocates protesting the death of George Floyd, with anger at police and the government being the common thread.
Which if you stopped to read for a second you would understand why the boogaloo boys specifically had real skin in the game with the protests against police brutality and why they wear Hawaiian shirts bearing the names of people killed in confrontations with police.
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