Posted on 06/08/2025 3:09:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Democrat senator criticizes Trump's deployment of National Guard.
The anti-ICE demonstrations in and around Los Angeles have been “peaceful,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) claimed on Sunday, despite clear evidence of violent clashes with federal authorities.
Booker seemed to take a page out of CNN’s “mostly peaceful” playbook from 2020 after President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles over the weekend. Trump criticized California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — both Democrats — for not being able to contain the chaos as videos and media reports documented how demonstrators hurled rocks, concrete, and fireworks at federal officers and their vehicles.
“The reality is we see peaceful protests launching in Los Angeles,” Booker insisted during a “Meet the Press” interview on NBC. “And again, any violence against police officers should not be accepted. Local authorities can handle that. But remember, a lot of these peaceful protests are being generated because the president of the United States is sowing chaos and confusion by arresting people who are showing up for their immigration hearings, who are trying to abide by the law.”
Sharing a clip of Booker’s comments, the White House’s “Rapid Response” account on X fired back.
Booker “thinks the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles — in which criminal illegals and violent mobs are hurling concrete projectiles at vehicles, lighting fires, and attacking federal law enforcement — are ‘peaceful,’” the account said.
Republican lawmakers who hit the talk show circuit on Sunday also dismissed the notion that the protests in Los Angeles should be characterized as nonviolent.
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said...
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democrats lie. it is what they do !
The left says whatever they want to be found during an Internet search, regardless of its relation to the truth. The way they operate, people who consume only the legacy media will believe that the actual riots were peaceful demonstrations. I hope they cannot get away with it this time like they did in 2020.
This time, let’s find out who is paying for the pallets of concrete blocks staged in the area.
If you’re blocking the road, you are not peaceful.
January 6 was mostly peaceful too (genuinely so). And you took and threw anybody tangentially associated into your gulag anyway.
I say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander: Hunt them down like dogs, round them up, lock them up and MELT DOWN THE KEYS.
Typical;
Blame the victim enough and people will believe it.
Scream Defund the police enough, people will believe it.
Say illegals are not breaking the law enough, people will believe it.
iots are most effectively ended by gunfire, that “whiff of grape” suggested by M. Bonaparte.
“Peaceful protest” was such BS that years of memes were generated mocking Dems; but they go at it again like brainless chickens.
Nobody believes them any more.
I don’t think anybody but politicians in LA should be allowed to say anything. Why this Jersey createn saying anything is beyond gross.
That’s Cory right over there, on the other coast.
Cory continues to prove he’s an idiot.
Nobody ever accused Cory of being smart ... maybe he should get some professional liar training from KJP.
liberals throwing rocks at federal agents = peaceful
grandmothers praying in the capital = insurrection
only in liberals TDS minds!
Another Dem Lib Liar.
Booger never tells the truth.
Cue the tape Cory…..
If it weren’t peaceful, the ICE agents would be taking real fire.
Two things I noticed about the L.A. riots on FOX News....They cut in on a good program...Life,Liberty, & Levin...to update the riots. Why not put it on the news???? Also, I never saw any use of water cannons for the riots. I always thought they were excellent for disrupting unlawful assemblies???? Fox news needs to get on the ball with this. The police reports sounded like mostly a waste of time. All in all the news reports could have waited until news time. Who makes these idiot decisions?
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