LA Protests are NOTHING like seen on TV

A manmade storm called being "TACO Trump" is unleashing mayhem on Los Angeles and USA.

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I will not be interrupted by him or anyone else!

(Dave Holmes, Esquire, June 11) On Sunday afternoon, I drove to the Los Angeles [anti-] ICE protest down by [the intersection of] Temple and Alameda. It’s around 14 miles from my house and miraculously took only 35 minutes that day.

Maybe people were already down at the protest, or maybe they were at the L.A. Pride Parade, or maybe they were just at brunch, but even the chronic arterial blockage on the 101 [Freeway] at Silver Lake Boulevard was moving pretty nicely.

I pointed myself to the southeast side of where I knew the protests to be because I know a cheap parking lot down there. I situated myself right near the Geffen Wing of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), with the Barbara Kruger Untitled (Questions) mural on the exterior wall: Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose?

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I went and chanted and was home safe and sound by 7:00 pm. And now the Marines are here.

As with the [Los Angeles] fires earlier this year, people from all corners and chapters of my life have been texting to check in ever since. Also like the fires, everything happening in Los Angeles right now is happening around the corner and a world away.

If you didn’t know, if you didn’t want to know, you could pretty easily keep not knowing. Los Angeles is crazy vast [4,000 square miles]. It feels more like a patchwork of [88] little cities than the great big city it is [and even bigger county].

That Sunset Fire was five miles away from where we live, from where we sat watching it on local news. We didn’t even smell it until long after it had been contained. Our go bags didn’t even move from the entryway to the car. We were protected by a freeway, by a distance that isn’t actually that far.

Jackbooted thugs will rule the world starting here

For Sunday, I had made a loose plan to meet up with a couple friends who were also heading downtown. They’d gone to City Hall, and up where they were, at that end of it, the LAPD were trying to move the crowd, to kettle [trap] them using flash-bangs and rubber bullets.

I was a seven-minute walk from where this was happening and wouldn’t have known if we hadn’t been texting and trying to find each other. I was at the L.A. Protests. They’re NOTHING like what you’re seeing on TV

• Dave Holmes, Esquire.com via MSN.com, June 10, 2025; The Simpsons via MostAmazings, June 7, 2025; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly