Protesters rally against immigration agents for second day in LA

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00:00The second day of protests in Los Angeles only saw growing unrest.

00:05Paramount, a suburb of LA, has become a main flashpoint for protests.

00:10As soon as I kicked my second can, I got hit.

00:13I wasn't out of breath, and I didn't think it was a bullet,

00:17so I just kept kicking him, and it didn't really hurt.

00:20Earlier, protesters attempted to block an ICE bus.

00:24We're just here, living, working.

00:26They stopped at Home Depot, where they know that people are undocumented.

00:31So us, as a community, have came here to try to make peace

00:36so that they don't make families separate one another.

00:39And what did they do? They just started to attack us.

00:42The raids on Friday saw migrants wrestled into handcuffs and unmarked vehicles.

00:47Human rights groups are furious.

00:50They were random sweeps, and they were picking up our community in random sweeps.

00:56They were racially profiling our community.

01:05Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in a social media post on Friday said,

01:09These tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.

01:16My office is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organizations.

01:21We will not stand for this.

01:24A senior White House aide and advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, Stephen Miller,

01:30condemned protests in Los Angeles against federal immigration raids, saying,

01:35They were an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.

01:40The White House is setting a goal for ICE to arrest at least 3,000 migrants per day.

01:46...by millions of people, many millions of people during the Biden administration.

01:51As LA braces for another night of protests, there's no sign of either side backing down.

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