{"id":428562,"date":"2026-08-10T04:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428562\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:48:14","slug":"2-federal-employees-followed-and-attacked-following-downtown-la-protest-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428562\/","title":{"rendered":"2 federal employees followed and attacked following downtown LA protest, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 10, 2026 2:39AM<\/p>\n<p>Two demonstrators were arrested after federal employees were reportedly followed to their cars and struck multiple times, according to LAPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Two protesters were arrested during a skirmish outside the federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to Los Angeles police, protesters began to follow federal employees to their cars in a parking lot, and then the protesters struck them multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">LAPD officers were called to the area near Alameda Street and E. Commercial Street to control the crowd and arrested two people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Two federal employees were taken to the hospital in unknown conditions, LAPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video from the Citizen App shows the crowd of protesters in DTLA on Saturday night. Demonstrators have gathered in the area around the federal complex many times in the past to protest ICE enforcement, though it&#8217;s unclear what sparked Saturday&#8217;s protest.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, August 10, 2026 2:39AM Two demonstrators were arrested after federal employees were reportedly followed to their cars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[170558,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-428562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-170558","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428562","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=428562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}