Los Angeles Taxpayers To Foot Millions For 'peaceful' Anti-ice Protests

The convulsive and destructive Los Angeles anti-ICE protests costs taxpayers $32 million, according to a study by nan metropolis fund chief.

Controller Kenneth Mejia posted nan figures connected X, detailing what nan money from section taxpayers will beryllium funding. City taxpayers are connected nan hook for emergency services, cleanup and nationalist spot damage, each stemming from nan protests that turned into riots, according to Mejia's post.

More than $29 million, aliases 92% of nan cost, is for nan Los Angeles Police Department's response. Part of these costs will besides screen nan costs of nan citywide tactical alerts.

LA ANTI-ICE RIOTERS FACE NEW CHARGES AS VIOLENCE RAGES

A rioter waves a Mexican nationalist emblem adjacent to a car connected occurrence during a protestation aft national migration operations successful nan Compton vicinity of Los Angeles June 7, 2025. (Getty Images)

A small much than $1 cardinal will spell to nan city’s efforts to cleanable up nan metropolis and repair harm to nationalist property, according to Mejia's post.

The remainder of nan money will beryllium distributed to various departments, specified arsenic nan Los Angeles Fire Department, nan city's thoroughfare services, wide services, tourism and others.

Mejia noted nan backing did not facet successful potential lawsuits that could originate from nan unrest.

FBI WILL INVESTIGATE 'ANY EVIDENCE OF A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY' IN LA RIOTS

A protester places debris successful a occurrence arsenic Border Patrol unit successful riot cogwheel and state masks guidelines defender extracurricular an business parkland successful Paramount, Calif., June 7.  (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

The protests, described arsenic "peaceful" by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and nan wide media, saw demonstrators violently conflict pinch nan LAPD complete aggregate days, prompting President Donald Trump to deploy some nan National Guard and active-duty subject personnel.

The protests person led to respective arrests, including Grzegorz Vandenberg, 48. He was charged pinch buying fireworks pinch nan intent to harm law enforcement and authorities officials during nan protests, according to nan Department of Justice.

While astatine a store, national authorities allege, he told labor he antecedently served successful nan military’s typical forces and claimed he could make tube bombs earlier revealing he was readying to recreation to Los Angeles to termination rule enforcement officers and authorities officials successful nan anti-ICE riots.

FEDERAL AGENTS THWART MAN'S EXPLOSIVE ALLEGED PLOT AGAINST OFFICERS DURING LA RIOTS

Protesters look disconnected pinch constabulary extracurricular a national building successful downtown Los Angeles for an anti-Trump "No Kings" objection June 14, 2025. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert G. Luna announced that astir a twelve deputies were injured during nan ongoing riots aft protesters launched rocks, Molotov cocktails and "high-grade pyrotechnics" astatine them.

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Since June 7, nan LAPD has made complete 500 arrests related to protests, according to nan LAPD.

Mejia's agency did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

Fox News' Christina Coleman, Julia Bonavita and Stepheny Price contributed to this story.

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