Daily Mail News
By RACHEL BOWMAN and NATASHA ANDERSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 07:47 EDT, 9 June 2025 | Updated: 12:14 EDT, 9 June 2025
California officials have been slammed for their handling of the Los Angeles immigration riots as an understaffed police department struggles to quell the violence.
Looters targeted businesses across the city amid the demonstrations, which saw cars torched and security forces firing tear gas at rioters.
Donald Trump demanded on Sunday that both Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass apologize for the LA riots, insisting those involved are not ‘peaceful protesters’ as the duo had claimed, but instead ‘troublemakers and insurrectionists.’