The ICE goons turned up in full battle rattle with mechanized war machines, some of them even on horseback, seeking to sweep through MacArthur Park. They were met by local activists who, armed only with bullhorns,

During an afternoon press conference with Bass, City Council member Eunisses Hernandez and Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Bass stated that the raid “was another example of the [Trump] administration ratcheting up chaos by deploying what looked like a military operation in an American city.”