Anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles spit on and burn American flag
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Protesters in Los Angeles were filmed burning and spitting on American flags as they chanted anti-Trump slogans over the weekend.

A video from the event displays a group of numerous people, many masked, gathered around a U.S. flag burning on the ground. Some members of the group spit on the flag or poured flammable liquid to keep the fire going before adding another flag to the flames.

Several protesters raised flags from South American countries, such as Mexico, while the American flag burned. They also chanted “F-Trump.”

Additional footage from the weekend disturbances shows Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department officers intervening to break up the crowds, deploying flash bangs as they advanced.

An American flag burns on the ground in Los Angeles.

Anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles burn an American flag. (Oliya Scootercaster/FreedomNewsTV)

Protesters marched into the L.A. Live area, an entertainment complex in the heart of downtown Los Angeles that sits adjacent to Crypto.com Arena and the Los Angeles Convention Center, and were blocking lanes on Figueroa and 11th streets, police said.

President Donald Trump sent in the National Guard this weekend after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were reportedly attacked on the streets of L.A. as they conducted raids to catch and deport illegal immigrants. Seeing that neither California Gov. Gavin Newsom nor L.A. Mayor Karen Bass were moving aggressively enough to stop the attacks, Trump signed a presidential memorandum to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester,” the White House said in a statement.

police move to disperse anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles

Riot police advance to disperse anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles. (Oliya Scootercaster/FreedomNewsTV)

Newsom objected immediately even as the riots spiraled.

“I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command,” Newsom wrote on X on Sunday alongside his letter to President Trump. “We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty – inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”

Fox News’ Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

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