Attorney General Bondi Calls Out Gavin Newsom For Not Protecting City, Vows To Prosecute Looters And Rioters

Attorney General Pam Bondi went connected nan violative Wednesday, accusing California Gov. Gavin Newsom of taking a soft attack to protecting nan streets and businesses of Los Angeles, promising that anti-ICE rioters and looters will look national charges.

In a nationalist reside connected Tuesday, Newsom accused President Donald Trump of "inflaming" nan business by activating 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to thief reconstruct order.

"This brazen maltreatment of powerfulness by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and moreover our nationalist defender astatine risk," he said. "California whitethorn beryllium first, but it intelligibly will not extremity here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is nether battle earlier our eyes."

Bondi told "Fox & Friends" co-host Lawrence Jones that she believes nan California Democrat must beryllium oblivious to nan grade of nan violence.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Wednesday while vowing to spell aft those rioting and looting successful Los Angeles. (Fox & Friends)

"Evidently Gavin Newsom has not been retired to nan scene. He has not turned connected nan tv group to spot nan unthinkable magnitude of unit that is happening successful Los Angeles," she said.

"President Trump is going to make America safe again. We're going to protect Americans, and that includes Californians. If Gavin Newsom isn't going to protect them, we are."

Bondi besides criticized Newsom for failing to state an economical disaster for mini business affected by nan L.A. riots.

Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler called connected nan California governor to petition a disaster declaration for specified businesses this week. The measurement would supply low-interest, semipermanent loans of $2 cardinal to thief victims of looting and spot demolition rebuild pursuing nan unrest.

NEWSOM SAYS LOS ANGELES RIOTERS WILL BE PROSECUTED, SLAMS TRUMP FOR 'TRAUMATIZING OUR COMMUNITIES'

A rioter waves a Mexican nationalist emblem adjacent to a car connected occurrence during a protestation pursuing national migration operations, successful nan Compton vicinity of Los Angeles, California connected June 7, 2025

Bondi offered a blunt connection to would-be robbers and looters successful nan heavy bluish city.

"If you loot a business successful California during this, we're charging you pinch robbery nether nan Hobbs Act. No longer are nan days of non-prosecution for looting. It's a criminal act," she said. 

The management is besides wished to ace down connected those who inflict harm connected law enforcement.

"We've each made complete 190 arrests, [and] much [are] coming. If you deed a constabulary officer, you battle a constabulary officer, authorities aliases federal, we are coming aft you."

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Looters break into a state station's marketplace arsenic demonstrators and rule enforcement conflict pinch demonstrators during a protestation pursuing national migration operations, successful nan Compton vicinity of Los Angeles, California early connected June 8, 2025. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP) (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images) (ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

Newsom has maintained that nan Trump management has acted illegally and "commandeered" nan state’s National Guard members "for nary reason" without consulting pinch California’s rule enforcement leaders.

The Democratic politician claimed that California "didn’t person a problem until Trump sewage involved."

A national judge connected Tuesday nighttime declined Newsom’s request for an contiguous impermanent restraining bid to restrict Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines.

Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.