Overview

• Hawley’s formal letter demands that CHIRLA cease any involvement in organizing, funding or promoting the unrest and provide internal communications, financial records and third-party agreements.
• FBI Director Kash Patel announced on June 10 that the Bureau is investigating the source of riot funding, with CHIRLA among the entities under review.
• The anti-ICE demonstrations began last weekend in response to ICE raids and escalated into looting, vandalism and attacks on law enforcement officers.
• President Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles to help restore order amid the civil unrest.
• California Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration sued to block the federal troop deployment, but a federal judge rejected the state’s emergency motion.