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Posted on 06/12/2025 6:06:48 PM PDT by 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?'”
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No allowance for little Alex this week. What a jerk.
He’s a criminal now
Some children can break their parents’ hearts. I’m sorry for this father.
A guy on line was offered $200 a day to ‘join the protest’... This kid might have just been paid in cash to make a quick delivery. The people behind the “Protect Criminal Illegals’ Riots have lots of money but they know the FBI is watching them. I’m guessing using burner phones and burner people...
Throw the book at him if he doesn’t say how the ringleader is.
His truck should be seized.
He was known to the FBI as a member of the Brown Berets.........
Yes.that’s my feeling too. Dad’s a good guy, his son has dishonored him and will cause him much grief here. Beside the fact of the price to repair things at the home.
Alex has been on the wrong path for a long time and is a dupe of the guys running that fake ‘social justice’ show.
Yup, as I thought, they want others to do all the dirty work and take all the risks.
Dad acts like he didn’t know his kid was so inclined. Guess they don’t talk politics at the dinner table!
Oops, I read it as the FATHER with the riot leader.
My bad.
He's not a criminal. He just likes to commit credit card fraud Dad.
Dear Dad didn’t know the kid is a Marxist? How? He deaf or the kid dumb? Something stinks.
BIG BIG trouble.
Lock his sorry little butt up.
Along with the rest of his assets.
““My son is a good boy … he’s not a criminal. He doesn’t have a bad record, he’s clear,” he said.”
Oh, yes, he IS a criminal, dumb-ox!
I forgot to mention, dad. He surely must be turning his life around and is now an aspiring rap artist, huh, dad?
I must be old school. My idea of “a good boy” is totally different than the modern description.
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