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FBI Is Investigating Funding Behind Violent Riots in LA

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Who brought in the pallets of cinder blocks?

Who paid for the bionic face masks? The mass signage? Who is paying these protesters?

GPS data from the Los Angeles riots, per Tony Seruga, reveals at least 309 tracked devices are linked to ultra-wealthy homes worth over $10 million in areas like Brentwood, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Palo Alto, and cities such as New York, Seattle, and Maui.

79% of them reportedly fly private three or more times a year.

Exclusive: FBI’s Patel says bureau investigating funding behind anti-ICE riots in LA

Lawmakers say they fear foreign influence, and ideological donations fueling violence and that protesters are being paid.

By Steven Richards and John Solomon, Just The News, June 9, 2025 10:59pm

As parts of Los Angeles burn under the fury of riots, there are burning questions in Washington about who instigated the protests against immigration enforcement operations and whether any funding is coming from foreign sources.

FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News the bureau is investigating the money trail behind those organizing and promoting the demonstrations spreading across the country.

“The FBI is investigating any and all monetary connections responsible for these riots,” Patel said in a statement sent late Monday to Just the News.

After initial—and largely peaceful—demonstrations in response to several immigration raids in Los Angeles late last week, the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protests escalated over the weekend to include more than 1,000 rioters filmed assaulting immigration officers, burning self-driving vehicles, looting, temporarily closing down at least one city highway, and throwing concrete rocks at law enforcement officers.

The images of violent rioters waving Mexican and other foreign flags as cars burned in the background circulated the country and drew attention from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress.

Month-old footage of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum threatening to “mobilize” over legislative proposals to tax remittances to Mexico resurfaced in light of the protests, raising concerns about whether rhetoric from south of the border could be inflaming tensions. Sheinbaum responded to the violence on Monday, condemning it but promising Mexican government commitment to all Mexicans, “regardless of immigration status.”
Biggs: “They hate this country”

“[You] got the outside influences…the Mexican flags and all these people and the Mexican president…Sheinbaum,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Monday. “[All] these people…they hate this country, and they want to change this country, and it’ll turn, basically, the country into a Third World hellhole.”

Biggs said that he has “no doubt” that foreign influence is driving the protests, at least in part.

“Not a doubt in my mind. Not a doubt in my mind,” he said. “I mean, even if you just take the statements of President Sheinbaum of Mexico, tacitly, she’s basically encouraging this,” Biggs continued.

Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., said he fears some of the protesters are being paid, and it is essential for Congress to follow that money trail.

“Well, I do think it’s important for Congress to raise those questions and do that, look into it and find out what we can,” he told Just the News. “I also think the Justice Department will play an important role in trying to see these kind of things through, because, again, these ICE agents are there simply carrying out their responsibility.”

Former FBI Executive Assistant Director Chris Piehota told Just the News that the FBI likely began looking immediately into how these violent protests were sparked. (…..more)

“What you are witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order, and on national sovereignty,” he said.

“Carried out by rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion of our country.”

This wasn’t street violence—it was an occupation.

“We’re not going to let that happen.”

Then he tore into the root of it all.

“Millions of people were allowed to come into our country totally unchecked and unvetted by stupid people or radical left people or sick people.”

And then, without flinching:

“Open border policy, the dumbest policy yet—I would say even dumber than men playing in women’s sports.”

[Troops cheer]

“Transgender for everyone,” he added. “Even dumber than that!”

“These are animals, but they proudly carry the flags of other countries. But they don’t carry the American flag,” he said.

“They only burn it.”

He asked a question everyone already knew the answer to.

“Did you see a lot of the flags being burned? They weren’t being burned by people from our country or from people that love our country.”

Then he delivered what felt like a vow.

“People that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year.”

He held up his finger: “One year!”

And this wasn’t just talk. According to Trump, the plan was already in motion.

“We’re going to try and get that done. We’re working with some of your senators.”

He mentioned Senator Josh Hawley and turned to others in the room.

“I think you guys—are you guys in favor of it?”

He grinned.

“Boy, would this be a bad time for them to say no.”

Then came the bombshell.

Trump dropped another charge—one aimed at the people pulling the strings behind the curtain.

As everyone suspected, Trump said this wasn’t just rage in the streets.

It was funded, well planned, and professional.

“They’re attempting to infiltrate and occupy federal buildings wearing armor and face shields, the best money can buy.”

“Somebody’s financing it,” he said.

“We’re going to find out through Pam Bondi and Department of Justice who it is.”

He was signaling, the DOJ is already working on the case.

“They’re already on it.”

“Who’s financing all this equipment?” he asked.

“Very professional.”

And then he doubled down on his commitment to defend the homeland:

“Under the Trump administration, this anarchy will not stand. We will not allow federal agents to be attacked, and we will not allow an American city to be invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy. And that’s what they are.”


Source: https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/fbi-is-investigating-funding-behind-violent-riots-in-la.html/


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  • g77enn

    LA RIOTS A REPEAT OF THE BERKELEY 60S RIOTS? What I saw when I got trapped in Dwinelle Hall during the riots was a crowd of older people (mid late twenties) throwing rocks at the Alameda County Police who were shaking their batons at the crowd. There were no rocks on campus. Hence the rioters brought them. I knew there were no rocks on campus because I loved to throw rocks with friends in my hometown and I could find none on campus. Right then and there I decided both sides were out of their minds and that I would have nothing to do with either side. About 8 am one morning I could not get to my chem lab in Latimer Hall because the national guard standing shoulder to shoulder surrounded much of the campus. Fearing I would flunk chemistry for not attending class, I walked up to one of the guardsmen who immediately ordered me to halt whereupon I asked him for help to get to class and he told me I could approach the lab by going around via the back of the campus. How thankful I was that it proved easy to attend chem lab that day.

    There was a student in my dorm who often wore a flack jacket? Apparently he was shooting from the dorm at the national guard with a pellet gun? Subsequently we were told to close and curtain all our windows and that those who didn’t do so would be in danger of a bullet fired through their window. Most of the police seemed fine, not like the Alameda county police and by far the majority of the students were fine. But there were people implanted…

  • residentp

    You don’t have to look far….start with the rino’s and some old presidents like Obama who came from nowhere, then the American haters in Congress with their proxy actors like Soros and then look at those supporting the nwo agenda. It may even be the UN or WEF or those that scheduled events like depopulation of the globe and Big Pharma will definately be on the list as to steer the globe in a direction to be totally dependant on their drugs and one way to do that is to have a one world government with them in control. Destroy present governments by these riots and push their candidates into replacement positions of power. Strange that the migrants didn’t really leave as if they are deployed now to make sure they will stay. They were brought in to stay as to change the government and to vote out the present Americans and to replace them with new blood. A nation not willing to take up their arms allowed by the Constitution as to protect their future, then actually declared themselves willing to allow other to rule over them. A country wants citizens willing to fight for it. At the moment the invaders are doing the fighting…so let them take the country>>>>.

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