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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-07/immigration-protest-stabbing-los-angeles-trump

Teen stabbed after fight breaks out at L.A. protest against Trump’s immigration policies

A 17-year-old boy is in critical condition after being stabbed Friday at a protest against President Trump’s immigration and deportation policies near Los Angeles City Hall, authorities said.

The Los Angeles Police Department received a report around 1:35 p.m. of a male victim being stabbed at 200 N. Spring St. after a fight broke out during the protest, according to a department spokesperson. The victim was taken to a hospital and an order to disperse was issued at the protest, police said.

An LAPD spokesperson said that a few people were detained in connection with the incident. At 2:12 p.m. the LAPD announced that the protest had been cleared from the Spring Street area around City Hall.

The public is asked to avoid the area, as Spring Street is closed from Temple Street to First Street while investigators gather evidence and search for witnesses, according to the LAPD.

The protest moved to the 6th Street Viaduct and was blocking westbound lanes of traffic around 2:30 p.m., prompting a temporary closure of the bridge, according to the LAPD. At 2:50 p.m. the LAPD said protesters were walking eastbound on the bridge and that it was set to reopen soon.

Friday’s rally was the sixth straight day of protests against Trump’s immigration crackdown in downtown L.A. During the week, hundreds of high school students have been walking out of classes to join the demonstrations.

Trump has vowed to carry out the largest deportation effort in U.S. history and declared a national emergency at the southern border, deploying troops there.

He has issued executive orders limiting legal pathways for entering the U.S., bolstering efforts to seal off the U.S.-Mexico border and promoting sweeps to round up and deport people who are not authorized to be in the country. Some of the orders have been challenged in court.

There are an estimated 11 million to 15 million immigrants lacking documentation in the U.S., including more than 2 million in California.

I hope everyone comes out and we shut it all down. Millions and millions of protesters in all white neighborhoods. Can’t wait for the Ken and Barbie class to strap up again.

No kidding. I see Migrant farm workers in the Central Valley take a couple days off from the AG fields to protest Trump. Then we have MAGA men heckling and yelling obscenities and racial slurs from their cars as they pass. Doesn’t surprise me that we’re seeing violence. Reminds me of what happened in Germany not so long ago. It’s why we say “never forget” when things like that happen.

Haven’t you been watching? Latinos in immigrant jobs are staying home and hiding as much as possible. Ask Texas how the housing industry is doing. And I’ve already seen pics of grapes dying on the vine.

Now, I ain’t the smartest feller ever set foot in a holler, but even a half-blind coonhound knows when somethin’ smells rotten, and buddy, this here reeks worse than a possum carcass on a July road. Ain’t no surprise what happens when the big men on the hill start rattlin’ their sabers and barkin’ orders ‘bout who gets to stay and who gets run outta town. Ain’t never been the man in the fancy boots what suffers, neither—always the ones workin’ sunup to sundown, never takin’ nothin’ that wasn’t earned, just tryin’ to keep food on the table while the folks who ain’t never broke a sweat decide their fate.

I seen this kinda thing before, yessir. The sheriff don’t come ‘round when the bank’s takin’ yer granddaddy’s farm, don’t show up when the mill man slashes wages, but you let a feller stand up and holler ‘bout how unfair it is, and all of a sudden here come the boys in blue with their batons and their beanbag guns, ready to keep order. Now I ain’t sayin’ nothin’ outright, but if y’all ever noticed how the rules always seem to land harder on folks without a lawyer or a pile o’ cash in their pocket, well, you might just be startin’ to see what’s what.

What gets me, though, is how some folks cheer for the boot that’s stompin’ ‘em down. Like a rooster in the henhouse helpin’ the farmer count eggs, happy to be useful ‘til he realizes he’s just a meal waitin’ to happen. Y’all ever wonder why it’s always the poor man fightin’ another poor man over crumbs, while the feller ownin’ the whole loaf just sits back and watches? Keep us bickerin’ and scrapin’, and we’ll never stop to wonder why we gotta fight for scraps in the first place.

Now, I know some folks think the law is the law, and rules is rules. But I’ll tell you what my granddaddy told me: “Ain’t no such thing as a fair fight when one man got a shotgun and the other got a rock.” And it sure do seem like some folks got a whole armory while others ain’t even got a slingshot.

Way I see it, ain’t a man alive what don’t deserve the right to work a day’s labor and get a day’s wage, to raise his young’uns without fear o’ gettin’ snatched up, and to walk down his own street without worryin’ if the man with the badge done decided he’s a problem today. But reckon as long as some folks keep thinkin’ the real enemy is their neighbor instead o’ the feller what owns the whole dang town, we’ll keep seein’ more o’ the same.

But hey, I’m just a simple man. Ain’t nothin’ to see here, just some ramblin’ nonsense from a country boy who sure does believe folks oughta look out for one another instead o’ lettin’ the rich man pit ‘em against each other. Pay it no mind.

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