Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California claimed Wednesday that President Donald Trump “started” five days of riots in Los Angeles after previously claiming no violence was occurring in the city.
Democratic Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles declared a curfew for parts of the city Tuesday following five days of rioting when United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents carried out an operation at a Los Angeles-area Home Depot. Waters previously denied violence was taking place in prior media appearances before attacking Trump during an appearance on “CNN News Central.”
“The president of the United States should do what he didn’t do when we were invaded in the Capitol, when they had the insurrection that he led, he should get on the phone and talk to the local police,” Waters told “CNN News Central” host Briana Keilar. “He should talk to the people that he’s had deployed there.
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Trump ordered 700 Marines to back up the deployment of federalized National Guard troops Monday as the riots continued into their fifth day. Video posted to social media Saturday showed an individual, who the FBI identified as Elpido Reyna in a Monday post on X, throwing rocks at the windshields of vehicles containing federal law enforcement personnel with the FBI offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
Despite that video, and reports of cars being vandalized and burned, Waters claimed Monday that “no violence” took place in Los Angeles.
“There had been no violence where anybody that was protesting hit anybody, shot anybody, threatened anybody,” Waters told “The Situation Room” co-hosts Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown.
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Other Democrats have started to demand that ICE cease its operations in the Los Angeles area as a way to “restore order.”
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California Rep. Maxine Waters Blames Trump For LA Violence She Said Wasn’t Happening?
