Incident details
- Date of incident
- June 9, 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Equipment broken
- Actor
- Private individual
Equipment Damage
A news van shared by KNBC and KVEA was vandalized during an immigration enforcement protest in Los Angeles, California, on June 9, 2025.
A news van shared by KNBC and KVEA was defaced and vandalized during an immigration enforcement protest on June 9, 2025, in Los Angeles, California, according to videos posted on social media by multiple accounts.
The protests began June 6 in response to federal raids in and around Los Angeles of workplaces and areas where immigrant day laborers gathered, amid the Trump administration’s larger immigration crackdown. After demonstrators clashed with Los Angeles law enforcement officers and federal agents, President Donald Trump called in the California National Guard and later the U.S. Marines over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
In a video posted to Instagram, a person is seen attempting to smash the van’s passenger-side window with a skateboard as a car alarm beeps in the background. The van, covered in graffiti, has a shattered front windshield.
In a separate video posted to YouTube by FreedomNewsTV on June 10, one of the defaced van’s tires is shown slashed, hissing loudly as it rapidly deflates.
KNBC and KVEA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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