Congress passed a resolution on Friday that condemns the “violent riots” in Los Angeles, referring to the demonstrations that broke out earlier this month amid the Trump administration’s ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts in Southern California.
Led by Rep. Young Kim, R-Anaheim Hills, and the rest of California’s Republican House delegation, the resolution said protests “quickly escalated into violent riots across Los Angeles, where acts of arson, widespread looting, property destruction, and vandalism were committed, blocking streets and highways, lighting streets on fire, throwing rocks at law enforcement vehicles, and assaulting federal and local peace officers.”
“Peaceful protests are a constitutional right, but vandalism, looting, violence and other crimes are not,” Kim said, adding that her resolution is an effort to “support law and order as our communities see unrest enabled by California’s soft-on-crime policies.”
Only seven Democrats voted for the resolution on Friday, June 27, including California Reps. Jim Costa of Fresno and Adam Gray of Merced.
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