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Heritage Explains

Who’s Behind the LA Riots? | Mike Gonzalez

Heritage Explains

Heritage Podcast Network

Education

4.7847 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In Los Angeles, protests against immigration enforcement have turned into assaults on federal officers and buildings, fires, and similar mayhem to the Summer of 2020. And it turns out, that’s not all that is similar. The same people, using the same methods, are behind both this year’s LA riots and the BLM protests of five years ago. 

I sat down with Mike Gonzalez, a Senior Fellow here at the Heritage Foundation, to talk about just that. 

BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution: https://www.amazon.com/BLM-Making-New-Marxist-Revolution/dp/1641772239

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0:00.0

Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.

0:06.7

There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.

0:11.3

Without a heritage, every generation starts over.

0:14.5

To remind the current regime.

0:18.7

We, the people, tell the governor what it is allowed to do.

0:22.5

All for action.

0:25.1

We need to get back in their box and stay there.

0:28.0

Lift-off.

0:28.9

We have a lift-down.

0:31.8

From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.

0:43.3

Thank you. This is Heritage Explains. For seeing Laura, what you're seeing behind me is one of multiple locations that have been burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the course of the night.

0:51.3

A second night since Jacob Blake was seen shot in the back seven times by a police officer.

0:59.0

And what you are seeing now, these images came and come and stark contrast to what we saw over the course of the daytime hours in Kenosha

1:08.0

and into the early evening, which were largely peaceful demonstrations in the face of law enforcement.

1:16.6

Many of our listeners may recognize this clip from CNN's coverage of the Black Lives Matter riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the summer of 2020.

1:25.6

The correspondent was standing in front of a group of cars that

1:29.2

had been set on fire by protesters. The now infamous words on the screen at the time read, quote,

1:35.6

fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting. This moment, among so many others,

1:43.5

typified the so-called Summer of Love of 2020.

1:47.4

The moral cowardice, malpractice, an outright lying of activists, legacy media, and leftist

1:53.1

politicians dragged the country through months of burned businesses, threatened families,

1:58.7

and whole cities living in terror.

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