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Idiot protesters besieged Los Angeles restaurant after mistaking airport security workers for ICE
UK Daily Mail ^ | 01/29/2026 | EMMA RICHTER

Posted on 01/29/2026 9:13:59 AM PST by DFG

A large mob of protestors surrounded a restaurant in Los Angeles after mistaking airport security workers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

The demonstrators gathered outside of Ten-Raku, a Korean BBQ spot in Lynwood, on Wednesday night after hearing reports that federal officers were allegedly inside.

In reality, they blared airhorns and whistles and shouted at off-duty TSA officers who were just trying to enjoy dinner, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office told the Daily Mail.

When confronted about mistaking the airport staff for ICE, one irate demonstrator gave the excuse that people get 'emotional' and make 'mistakes,' noting that ICE does the same when they arrest people.

The heated ordeal in the parking lot of Ten-Raku comes after weeks of heightened outrage at Trump's immigration and detention policies across the country.

Wednesday's intense scene was eventually calmed after sheriff's deputies arrived - and the confused airport workers were safely escorted out of the restaurant.

No injuries or arrests were reported during the noisy ordeal, according to police.

When approached by Fox 11, a woman with long curly hair, who is believed to be one of the protest organizers, refused to comment because she doesn't 'trust Fox.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: california; ice; idiotprotesters; lynwood; tenraku; tsa

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1 posted on 01/29/2026 9:13:59 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG
"Idiot Protesters..."

Doesn't narrow things down much...

2 posted on 01/29/2026 9:16:03 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: DFG

If one understood their communication system, one could really have some fun sending these mobs to locations all over LA county.


3 posted on 01/29/2026 9:18:43 AM PST by PGR88
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To: DFG
No injuries or arrests were reported during the noisy ordeal, according to police.

Start arresting their dumb butts and this will stop.

4 posted on 01/29/2026 9:18:48 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: DFG

I would not characterize these protestors as “idiots” as if this is simply amusing. We have a mob mentality on our hands. Roving mobs are looking for anyone who looks like an ICE agent or who supports ICE. The same thing happened in Minnesota where a protestor tried to force a man to say “F__k ICE” to prove he was not an ICE agent and was on the “right side” of the protests. This is what Hitler’s Brownshirts used to do. Rove around looking for anyone who looked Jewish or looked like a Communist to beat up.


5 posted on 01/29/2026 9:19:20 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: DFG

This proves once again that these protesters are paid and organized.


6 posted on 01/29/2026 9:19:49 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: DFG
Haha, they were off-duty TSA officers. Now that's funny.

8 posted on 01/29/2026 9:23:19 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: DFG

I’d like to carry some foam insulation in a spray can.

Shoot it into those bullhorns.

Ear damage is violence!


9 posted on 01/29/2026 9:24:33 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Scrambler Bob

OOPS Airhorns, not Bullhorns.

But same response.


10 posted on 01/29/2026 9:25:36 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: DFG

We spend 15 thousand dollars a year or more per student for 12+ years here in Commiefornia and these are Sherlock Holmeses we end up with.


11 posted on 01/29/2026 9:26:23 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: PGR88

> If one understood their communication system, one could really have some fun sending these mobs to locations all over LA county. <

I like the way you think. And that would give the CIA something useful to do. Hack and take over the protestors’ communication system. Then send them all to an LA garbage dump.


12 posted on 01/29/2026 9:26:33 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: DFG

Actually I think tsa “officers” deserve this treatment way more. These people were glorified baggage handlers that were turned into some of the worst violators of travellers rights and privacies. Molestations.


13 posted on 01/29/2026 9:28:26 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I agree with you. They all need to be arrested for disturbing the peace at a minimum. Take them to the jail for body cavity searches and lice showers. Currently they face no consequences, and like the emotional and intellectual toddlers that they are, they just keep throwing tantrums. Give them two nights in jail as a spanking and most of this nonsense stops.


14 posted on 01/29/2026 9:29:36 AM PST by guthunde47
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To: DFG

This is not gonna help the Left in the eyes of any fence in the middle types that may be still out there.


15 posted on 01/29/2026 9:30:52 AM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

This is part of a bigger problem, you are correct.

I am horrified by these “nurses” who advocate administering paralytics or poison to ICE or anyone who supports them. And this business in Brooklyn, where the ER staff at a hospital verbally abused a couple of police officers and refused them treatment (for injuries they incurred while arresting a suspect) because they thought they were ICE.

These things have to stop. They indicate a deeper, and more serious problem in our society due to the fact that there is little to no accountability for people as a result of their actions.

If punishment was significant and swift, the incidence of these things would diminish.


16 posted on 01/29/2026 9:35:44 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: DFG

Everyone who took part in that protest should be involuntarily committed and subjected to a psychiatric exam before release.


17 posted on 01/29/2026 9:37:29 AM PST by Dave911
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To: DFG
No injuries or arrests were reported during the noisy ordeal...

Which is why they keep happening.

18 posted on 01/29/2026 9:42:40 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: unixfox

All trails lead back to the Democrat Party!


19 posted on 01/29/2026 9:43:16 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: Who is John Galt?

Paid protesters are not interested who they are confronting, it all pays the same.


20 posted on 01/29/2026 9:54:31 AM PST by chopperk
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