{"id":64349,"date":"2025-11-21T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/64349\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:32:08","slug":"chaos-and-brutality-on-our-streets-la-county-mayor-asks-residents-to-protect-each-other-amid-ice-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/64349\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Chaos And Brutality On Our Streets.’ LA County Mayor Asks Residents To Protect Each Other Amid ICE Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 The mayor of Long Beach took to social media to condemn recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity, calling federal agents\u2019 actions \u201cunacceptable\u201d and demanding they leave the city.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post, Mayor Rex Richardson accused federal agents<\/a> of “violently” ambushing a gardener working outside Polly’s Pies on Atlantic Avenue on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The gardener, who has worked as a contractor for years, \u201cwas chased down and brutalized here in this restaurant in front of guests, in front of visitors,\u201d Richardson said in a video.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a sad day in America when you can’t simply go to work, and where a resident can’t simply go to breakfast in their community,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cThis was a traumatic incident, and it was dehumanizing, and it’s absolutely unacceptable in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICE did not immediately respond to Patch\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

The incident involving the gardener was\u201c just one of many reports of ICE\u201d the city received Thursday, according to Richardson. <\/p>\n

\u201cChaos and brutality on our streets like this is unacceptable,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cWorkers in our city deserve a chance to make an honest living.\u201d <\/p>\n

Richardson called on residents to support one another as \u201ctargeted and inhumane enforcement actions like these seem to escalate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must look out for one another. If you see something, safely and smartly take action,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cAsk questions, record from a safe distance, document, use your First Amendment rights to support your fellow neighbors in need.\u201d <\/p>\n

Richardson concluded his video by demanding ICE leave the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cICE does not belong here, and these acts of dehumanizing chaos and brutality on our community need to stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Supervisor Janice Hahn echoed the mayor’s sentiments<\/a> in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cICE is continuing to terrorize our communities, and they hit Long Beach hard today,\u201d Hahn said. <\/p>\n

According to Hahn, \u201cat least nine people were detained by masked ICE agents at workplaces\u201d across the city on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201c(ICE Agents) are not communicating with local law enforcement, and we know they are not targeting violent criminals,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are targeting people based on the color of their skin, or their accent, or the place that they work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hahn went on to accuse ICE agents of violating \u201cresidents\u2019 rights every day they remain on our streets,\u201d adding that they are \u201cthey are creating chaos and spreading fear in our immigrant community, and they need to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hahn said she plans to \u201cunveil an ordinance barring all law enforcement, including ICE from concealing their identities\u201d on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how an authoritarian\u2019s secret police operate \u2013 not legitimate law enforcement in a democracy,\u201d Hahn said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 The mayor of Long Beach took to social media to condemn recent U.S. Immigration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-64349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64349","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=64349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}