{"id":177531,"date":"2026-02-14T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177531\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T05:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:04:08","slug":"in-latest-response-to-ice-raids-long-beach-lawmaker-seeks-to-limit-use-of-flashbangs-explosives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177531\/","title":{"rendered":"In latest response to ICE raids, Long Beach lawmaker seeks to limit use of flashbangs, explosives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  In latest response to ICE raids, Long Beach lawmaker seeks to limit use of flashbangs, explosives<\/p>\n<p>After high-profile incidents of immigration agents blasting their way into people\u2019s homes, Long Beach\u2019s state senator has proposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB937\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">law<\/a> limiting when federal agents and other police can use devices like flashbang grenades, door-breaching explosives and chemical irritants such as tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez cited two instances she said were particularly egregious, one where agents blasted through the door of a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/federal-agents-blast-door-off-shatter-window-during-raid-huntington-park-home-children-inside\/16867990\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Park home<\/a> and later when a flashbang was used on demonstrators at a <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/mayor-of-l-a-county-city-says-feds-seemed-to-incite-violence-at-protest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">playground in Maywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year was a reaction to a lot of what happened,\u201d Gonzalez said, referring to the blitz of immigration enforcement that began in the Los Angeles region in June. \u201cNow we feel like we\u2019re not in reaction mode anymore. We are on offense, and we\u2019re going to continue on offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article from the Long Beach Post <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/immigration\/flashbangs-ice-bill-limit-mask-ban-lena-gonzalez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In latest response to ICE raids, Long Beach lawmaker seeks to limit use of flashbangs, explosives After high-profile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-177531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}