On a cold, grey Monday morning in June, a group of city workers quietly gathered outside Los Angeles City Hall to assess the losses.
After thousands of demonstrators gathered in downtown over the weekend to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration in the country without records, the word “ice” was marked with fresh graffiti on the word “ice” in about a dozen places.
On the south and west sides of the town hall, about twelve windows were smashed. At least 17 glass-covered light boxes around the structure were destroyed, and blue-gray glass fragments covered the fixtures.
At the front desk, the insults of spray paint were targeted at Mayor Karen Bass and President Trump.
After a block spanning downtown Los Angeles, vandals and graffiti stick out of the block: “Demolition of the Ace!!” was scratched on the front facade of the Los Angeles County Law Library. Several windows were boarded at the T-Mobile store on South Broadway, and the glass still littered the sidewalk. User tanks marked “exact impact” are located on the ground at various intersections.
The former Los Angeles Times building was shrouded in a sentence, and: “Immigration rule the world.” The doors of its historic Earth Hall were broken, graffitied on the large globe inside and outside the exterior walls of the building: “Return to Relatives” and “Trump is a Scary.”
But few Angelenos are angry at the destruction.
“It’s the usual. We always have protests,” Eileen Roman said while walking the dog near the Grand Central Market.
As the daughter of a Guatemalan immigrant, she said she understood why people were protesting. She said she will be involved in social media, although she does not intend to join the streets.
Roman, 32, said of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown: “I think we’re all worried about what’s going on.”
Thomas Folland, a downtown resident and professor of art history at Los Angeles Missionary College, also said the graffiti and vandals he saw Monday morning were not particularly worried.
“I’d love to know what the consequences were this morning,” Flander said. But, so far, he said, it’s not something that worries him — although he noted that his apartment building did start to climb the windows, looking forward to what might happen later this week.
“I’m not offended by graffiti,” Flander said. “It’s at least a real community expression.”
Sunday is the third day of protests in downtown Los Angeles for federal immigration and customs law enforcement officers Friday’s arrest of immigrants in the home warehouse parking lot, the Los Angeles clothing area and several other locations.
Tensions escalated on Sunday when President Trump ordered the deployment of hundreds of National Guards to the city. Demonstrators blocked Highway 101 among law enforcement officers, setting up self-driving cars to burn and throw combustion equipment (in some cases large pieces of concrete). Police waved tear gas and rubber bullets again.
At 8:56 p.m. Sunday, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a social media post that “schurners have been split” throughout the downtown area and that an illegal council was announced in the Civic Center area.
“Residents, businesses and visitors in urban areas should be vigilant and report any criminal activity,” LAPD Central Department explain On X. “Officers are responding to several different locations to disperse the crowd.”
About half an hour later, LAPD expanded illegal gatherings in downtown Los Angeles. By 10:23 p.m., the business owner reported that the store was destroyed and stolen in the Sixth Street and Broadway areas.
“All DTLA businesses or residents are required to report any vandalism, damage or robbery to the LAPD Central Department explain Just before midnight. “Please take pictures of all vandalism and damage before cleaning up.”
Eric Wright and his wife, vacationer Margaux Cowan-Banker of Knoxville, Tennessee, jogged Monday morning, stopped to take pictures (the past dozens of police cars), the Graffiti Federal Building in 300 N. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, which is ICE, ICE, ICE, IRS, IRS, HOUSEN and TURBAN and other Agenban and other Agenceencies.
There are eggs on the exterior wall with eve spray slogans.
A graffiti said: “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes obligation”
The couple laughed for this time, during which they were resident of the Red State of Los Angeles.
While “graffiti is hard – I appreciate the sentiment, someone has to clean it up.”
“But some graffiti people don’t protest, right?”
With the bankruptcy at dawn on Monday, city staff have been circulating in the city center, clearing out the consequences.
On Los Angeles Street in front of the Federal Court Building, several Yellow City Street sweepers drive on Los Angeles Street, between blooming purple jacarandas and dozens of police cars from various SoCal cities.
Before 9 a.m., two workers from the C. Erwin Piper Technology Center brought plywood boards to the town hall and climbed into the window. They told the Times that they planned to cross the road and repair the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters.
Members of the National Guard were stationed outside the Federal Detention Center and the Virginia clinic in downtown Los Angeles in Alameda, where police cars blocked roads around federal buildings.
A man in a silver SUV – whose heads are completely covered by white balaclava – drives in the streets of commercial and Alameda with windows down. They turned around from the officer standing nearby.
Some stores that usually open Monday morning are still closed, including blue bottles of coffee. But others, including the Grand Central Market, are already buzzing with their customers.
Octavio Gomez, director of the DTLA Alliance, quickly rolled the black paint quickly to the wall next to the new central market, which was newly covered by graffiti.
“Today was a bad day because… last night. “Everything will be back, right? Because there are still protests. ”
For the couple from Knoxville, the juxtaposition between Los Angeles weekend and protest news coverage is strange.
They have an idyllic Los Angeles-a food festival parades in Hollywood for a tour of the Grand Central Market.
But on TV and social media, Los Angeles is portrayed as a place of total chaos.
“The people who come back to our residence will be totally scared,” said Cowan-Banker, 42. “I’m sure they think it’s a war zone.”
But Wright said he thinks people should protest the Trump administration: “They are stealing people from their families,” referring to the ice attack. “This is the United States. I sent the National Guard to injure inflammation.”
“It goes straight into his voters,” Wright said of Trump.
“They are the ones we go home,” his wife added. “I’m glad we’re carrying messages here, even though no one will listen.”
The couple kept taking pictures while walking through a police car in the middle of a five-mile morning jog.
