Alleged LA riot leader’s father slams him for handing out supplies to anti-ICE protesters: ‘What the f--- are you doing?’

NY Post ^ | 6/12/25 | Jared Downing, Chris Nesi

[Libloather]

The dad of a young union worker and socialist activist arrested by the FBI for handing out face shields to dozens of LA rioters said his son isn’t a criminal — but slammed him for supplying the anti-ICE riots, and leading the feds to bust down the door of their family home.

Francisco Orellana’s reaction to seeing his son Alejandro “Alex” Orellana driving a truck loaded with supplies for protesters was: “What the f--- are you doing?”

The elder Orellana, a US citizen who moved to the US in the 1970s, told The Post the feds handcuffed the whole family in pursuit of his son on Thursday morning, smashing in the front door of their Los Angeles house and breaking a window on his truck.

The younger Orellana was busted on charges of conspiracy to commit civil disorders, US Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said.

Images taken at the riot show dozens of protesters running up to a truck Alex was allegedly driving to grab “Bionic Shield” transparent masks, which are normally used at jobsites to protect workers’ faces from flying debris or chemical splashes.

Francisco Orellana, a construction technician, told The Post he didn’t know how his son got involved in the protests, and said he may have been in the truck because someone asked him for a favor.

“My son is a good boy … he’s not a criminal. He doesn’t have a bad record, he’s clear,” he said.

“I saw the picture [of Alejandro in the truck], which my sister-in-law sent to my wife. I said, ‘what the f--- are you doing? Why are you doing that?'”

[piasa]

Oh, cool, you beat me to it. I had a feeling the Dad was a shop steward.

No way he doesn’t know what his kid was up to...he very likely put him up to it.