Financing of the Los Angeles riots to be investigated

 


Calls for an investigation into the financing of the Los Angeles riots reached the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, with Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) becoming the first Republican to do so publicly.

For days, Los Angeles news reports have shown rioters wearing expensive face shields, headsets, and other protective gear preparing for clashes with police and immigration agents, all a result of a weekend immigration raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Even mainstream media outlets in the City of Los Angeles have condemned the provision of such equipment, which obscures protesters' faces and protects them from less-lethal crowd control measures employed by the National Guard and Marines.

All of this piqued the interest of Hawley, who declared Wednesday that he will conduct an investigation into the violence as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism.