A senior Los Angeles official has revealed that his daughters had been arrested through the ongoing riots within the metropolis for allegedly assaulting a police officer with a lethal weapon.
Rick Cole, the Chief Deputy Controller of LA, instructed a rally that his 26-year-old twin daughters, Lucia Aguilar and Antonia, had been taken into custody on Sunday evening, in response to LA Magazine.
“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs. So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out,” Cole, a former mayor of Pasadena, instructed demonstrators outdoors a resort within the metropolis on Sunday, the place there had reportedly been ICE raids early that day.
Lucia Aguilar and Antonia had been taken into custody at round 7 p.m. Sunday after being arrested throughout violence that noticed rocks and different objects hurled from a bridge onto police autos on the 101 Freeway under, in response to LA Sheriff’s Division data seen by the Day by day Mail.
No particulars have but been launched on precisely why the sisters had been arrested.
The unrest in Los Angeles is constant right into a fifth day right now, with round 700 Marines and a further 2,000 Nationwide Guard members deployed by President Trump to keep up order.