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Los Angeles – 17 June 2025
1. Wide protestors outside the Metropolitan Detention Center
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Al Aguilar, protestor:
"Well, I didn’t come for the first week after Friday, mainly because of due process. Like, I see only one news person, that’s you, right here, right now. But during that time, there was so many newscasts showing all the destruction, like you see behind us, and people getting arrested, firebombs, everything like that going on. I feel this is the time to talk to people, the ones that are not violent like that. I know, I’m sure they have feelings, but when they’re showing them in a strict manner, their voices are silent, though they’re loud, a lot of people, their voices silent because people are only looking at what they’re doing. Sometimes it’s the quiet ones that people listen to."
3. Wide Al Aguilar poses with protest sign
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Al Aguilar, protestor:
"As far as immigration, that’s what, it’s a president the United States voted for, the people voted for the majority. And if this is what they want, then this is a policy they’re going toward. Like the sign I did, due process, that’s all, if they have due process in what they’re doing, if this is what they want to do, then it should be done with due process not illegal and by the Constitution and due process."
5. Wide protest signage, Marine guard
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Josue Roman, protestor:- on his Uncle being detained by ICE.
"He was working at Home Depot. ICE just came and they took him. When I found out, I broke down. I just went, my tears went down. I didn’t know what to do. And then I was seeing him in the cell when he calls me telling me I want my family back. It’s just, it doesn’t add up, you know? It doesn’t really add up. And I tried my best to take care of my mom because my mom is an immigrant. I’ll be sad if they take my Mom. I’ll heartbroken, right?"
7. Wide Marine guard and Homeland security officers
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Josue Roman, protestor:
"We’re not done. This is the beginning and we’re gonna, we’re going to come back. Just remember one thing, karma’s a, karma is a dick and karma will get them back. You know, we are not done, president thinks he’s done, we aren’t done. We’re coming bigger, we coming stronger and we know what we are going to do."
9. Wide protestors wave flags outside the Metropolitan Detention Center
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mehregan Pezeshki, protestor:
"I’m an Iranian American. I’ve been in the States for 17 years. And my family is, I have families back in Iran. And US and Iran, were gonna sit at a table and make a deal about the nuclear weapon and nuclear sites in Iran on Sunday. And then Israel start bombing Iran on Friday. They were gonna sit at the table in two days, and then before then, they started bombing Iran. They bombed, they killed all the people that they were gonna come and sit with them at the tables and have an agreement."
11. Medium Little Tokyo Immigrant poster, with local business open sign
STORYLINE:
Demonstrators continued to protest Tuesday outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, voicing frustration over a recent wave of federal immigration raids that has shaken the local community.
Josue Roman, another protester, shared an emotional story about his uncle being detained by ICE. “He was working at Home Depot, ICE came down and they just took him,” Roman said. “When I found out, I broke down. I was seeing him in the cell when he calls, ‘I want my family back.’ It just doesn’t add up.”
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