As protests against immigration raids erupted in Los Angeles and other major US cities in June 2025, an old video clip from Florida circulated in false posts purporting to show a lady caught in the clashes pleading for her child's safety.

Overtime for police officers responding to the protests reached nearly $12 million, according to the city's top budget analyst.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Press Club and investigative reporting network Status Coup today sued the Los Angeles Police Department and its chief, alleging in federal court that reporters’ rights were violated by police while covering recent immigration raids and subsequent civil unrest.

The protests in Los Angeles County began as a reaction to a handful of immigration raids, including one outside a Home Depot and another at a clothing manufacturer in the city's garment district.

President Donald Trump is moving swiftly to act on his immigration promises with little internal restraint, determined to test the bounds of his executive authority in order to fulfill the promises of his reelection campaign.

President Trump has said the city would be burning without military intervention, but the protests have been confined to a relatively small area.

The Southern California native joins a growing number of music artists speaking out against the immigration raids.

In the days before protests erupted in Los Angeles, the Trump administration stepped up its efforts to detain migrants — taking into custody those who arrived for routine check-ins while also conducting workplace raids that have sent waves of fear across Southern California and beyond.