As the chaos from the Los Angeles riots continued to unfold Wednesday, one of the agitators who hurled weapons at police was unmasked as one of the undocumented migrants the protesters are fighting to protect
Emiliano Garduno-Galvez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was captured on video preparing the materials and then tossing the firebomb at officers as they walked by.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, he had previously been deported and has a criminal record in the US, including charges of grand theft and a DUI.
Other shocking videos of the chaos in LA circulating online appeared to show dozens of looters storming the shops at the FIGat7th shopping mall.
Protests have spread across the country, and marchers from Seattle and Austin to Chicago and DC have taken to the streets chanting slogans, carrying signs against ICE, and snarling traffic through downtown avenues and outside federal offices.
Meanwhile, California’s governor has repeatedly come under fire for his handling of the riots. The lawmaker and his fellow Democrats initially suggested that all was ‘peaceful’ as Los Angeles burned.
The chaos, which began Friday when anti-ICE protesters seized on a handful of police raids across the city, prompted Trump to take the extraordinary step of sending in troops over the objection of the California governor.
Newsom has tried to control the narrative, blaming Trump and his federal agents for inciting violence, but suffered an embarrassing technology gaffe on Tuesday as he tried to deliver a ‘Major Address to Californians.’