Downey residents react after immigration raids shake Hispanic-majority community near LA
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Protests are continuing across the country, as are the immigration raid that have sparked the demonstrations. |
| 0:06.0 | But with parts of Los Angeles under curfew, the city has been quieter for a second straight night. |
| 0:12.0 | As many as 700 U.S. Marines could also be on the streets by this evening, joining thousands of National Guard troops. |
| 0:19.0 | Anger did boil over, meanwhile, in a dramatic confrontation today when a California senator |
| 0:24.6 | was handcuffed while interrupting a press conference about ICE's conduct. |
| 0:28.6 | Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports from Los Angeles. |
| 0:32.6 | Outside of Los Angeles last night, a community came together to relay a message. |
| 0:38.4 | No ice! |
| 0:39.6 | No ice out of Downey, |
| 0:43.4 | a majority Hispanic community where yesterday agents |
| 0:46.0 | reportedly conducted at least three immigration raids. |
| 0:49.2 | My mom was a migrant and I was crying with him |
| 0:52.0 | on the way over here, like how lucky we are. |
| 0:55.1 | To know that I can go to bed and not worry about in the morning that I'm going to be taken away |
| 1:01.8 | from my kids. |
| 1:03.0 | This is Downey Memorial Christian Church, and we are not okay with you being on our property. |
| 1:08.2 | Reverend Tanya Lopez captured this video of one arrest, which spilled into her church's parking lot. |
| 1:13.8 | They didn't allow him to identify himself. They just grabbed him. |
| 1:16.9 | We spoke with Lopez and Downey resident Paulina Alcala, who first spotted the confrontation. |
| 1:22.6 | I wanted him to hear me very clearly, do not sign anything, do not answer any questions. |
| 1:28.3 | Who can I call? |
| 1:29.3 | And that's when they decided to draw their weapon on me because I was refusing to step back. |
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