- 6/12/2025
The Los Angeles D.A. and top police officials hold a press briefing to announce charges connected to the anti-ICE protests.
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00:00Thank you very much for coming today. We will be joined. I will be joined. My name is Nathan
00:05Hockman. I'm the district attorney of Los Angeles County. You will hear after myself from Sheriff
00:11Robert Luna of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and then Jim McDonald, the chief of
00:17the Los Angeles Police Department. Before I announce the charges, the state charges that
00:24have been brought that are tied to these immigration protests, let me first put an overview about the
00:29charges. The complaints and the information you will hear about the charges today are not
00:34evidence. Evidence has to be presented in a court of law. A individual is presumed innocent
00:40until and unless they are proved guilty in that court of law beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:46So the discussion of the charges today is just that. It's a discussion of charges and not
00:51ultimately does not ultimately constitute evidence of the crimes that will be presented in a court
00:58of law. So I first want to start out with a thank you. On behalf of the district attorney's
01:04office, I want to thank the hundreds of law enforcement officers from the LAPD, from Los Angeles Sheriff's
01:12Department, from their related law enforcement agencies that have come to Los Angeles to help
01:19out in this situation. It is not a situation certainly that law enforcement intended to actually
01:25have happened. Both the district attorney's office, the LAPD, the L.A. Sheriff's Department,
01:31and local law enforcement do not participate in federal civil immigration enforcement. I want
01:38to make that crystal clear. We were not alerted ahead of time that this was going to happen.
01:43We were not involved in the participation of it or the staging of it. We are not involved
01:49at all with respect to federal civil immigration enforcement. What happened, though, is that
01:55though the law enforcement has done its absolute best to protect individuals who wanted legitimately
02:03to protest, to use their First Amendment rights of speech to peacefully assemble. And when I
02:09say law enforcement has worked incredibly hard, they have worked overtime to make sure that people
02:15who want to engage in this legitimate protest have the opportunity to do so. The District
02:21Attorney's Office equally will fiercely protect people's rights to peacefully assemble and peacefully
02:28engage in First Amendment protected speech. However, when that speech crosses over from protected
02:35speech into illegal conduct, the people who engage in that illegal conduct will be prosecuted. They
02:43will first be arrested, they will be prosecuted, and they will be punished to the full extent
02:48of the law. We have said this repeatedly. We've said this as a warning to people who are thinking
02:54about conducting these illegal acts, pretending that they are engaged in protests, but at the
03:00moment they engage in the illegal acts, they are no longer legitimate First Amendment protesters.
03:07They are criminals, and they will be prosecuted as criminals. If people want to be
03:13If people want to hurl insults, we will protect that. If people want to engage in crimes,
03:18we will prosecute them. So hurling bricks, hurling cinder blocks, hurling fireworks will not be
03:25tolerated in this county now or ever. So when we talk about the cases that we are brought, I'm going to
03:32highlight five cases today that we have brought in order to again not not to give an example of the types of
03:40cases that we are bringing. And as importantly, the types of potential criminal consequences the individuals
03:48who have engaged in this criminal activity will face. And I in saying that we have literally, we will be
03:55having literally dozens and dozens of additional cases that will be brought to us from law enforcement
04:02to consider filing. In the weeks to come, we will look through all those cases. And by the way, as a quick aside, for any
04:11individual who's engaged in criminal conduct, but did not get immediately arrested. Let me provide some bad news for you.
04:18There's a tremendous amount of video out there through social media and otherwise, we will know who you are who engaged in this
04:27conduct. We will track you down. We will arrest you. We will prosecute you and we will punish you. So for people who've
04:36already engaged in this in this illegal activity, we're coming for you. For people who are thinking that maybe this is a good idea to do. Please take this as
04:45your warning. That if you engage in this conduct, please don't come to us afterwards and say, we didn't think anything was going
04:52to happen to us. Because those prosecutions will occur. And again, before I go into the examples, let me give you one more overview. If you
05:03only saw the social media and the media reports of what's going on over the last five days, you would think that Los Angeles is on the verge of war. That we are truly being
05:14attacked repeatedly over and over and over again. Because that has been the media's message to both people in Los Angeles, to people in the state of California, to people in this nation, to people throughout this entire world. That somehow, every second of every day, there's another exploding firework on our street, that motorcycles are running into cops, that stores are being looted, that buildings are being vandalized and graffitied.
05:43But let me put this in perspective for you. There are 11 million people in this county, 4 million of which live in Los Angeles City. We estimate that there's probably thousands of people who've engaged in legitimate protest. Let's say 4,000 people. That means that 99.9% of people who live in Los Angeles City or generally in Los Angeles County have not engaged in any protest at all.
06:12Now, amongst the people who've engaged in protest at all. Now, amongst the people who've engaged in protest, we estimate there are hundreds of people, let's say up to maybe 400 to use rough percentages, who've engaged in this type of illegal activity. So what does that mean? That means that 99.99% of people who live in Los Angeles City or live in Los Angeles County have not committed any illegal acts in connection with this protest whatsoever. So let me put this in perspective.
06:39Let's put that as a context when we look at these images over and over again that the media wants to put out there to try and scare us all. And then understand what the resources that we can bring that law enforcement can bring to this task.
06:57The Los Angeles Police Department has over 8,500 officers. Sheriff Luna has over 9,000 officers. The California Highway Patrol, the local law enforcement agencies that have all been enlisted and have been so generous in helping us out, bring additional thousands of officers if needed for any level of civil unrest that might occur.
07:19And that civil unrest has been on a downward trend over the last several days. But these law enforcement officers are absolutely ready for anything that comes their way. So let me describe these five cases.
07:34The first case involves a defense individual who's been charged. His name is Juan Rodriguez. He's from Gardena. He's been charged with one felony count of assault upon a peace officer, resisting arrest and advocating violence against an officer that has caused injury.
07:53On the in the at 5 p.m. On June 8th, Mr. Rodriguez allegedly passed out commercial grade fireworks to a group of protesters who lit them and threw these commercial grade fireworks at police officers at the intersection of First Street and Los Angeles Street.
08:12He's also accused of throwing the fireworks himself at the officers and one of these fireworks exploded and injured an officer from the exploding sparks. If convicted as charged, Mr. Rodriguez will be facing six years and four months in state prison.
08:33Second case, it involves Randy Paul Ruiz and Georgina Ravalero. Both have been charged with two felony counts of assault upon a police officer on June 8th at approximately 3 40 p.m. Police were holding a skirmish line at the corner of Temple and Alameda streets where Mr. Ruiz allegedly drove his motorcycle into a line of officers.
09:00Minutes later, Mr. Ravalero is accused of driving another motorcycle into the officers injuring one and knocking down several others. If convicted as charge, Ruiz and Ravalero each face up to six years and four months in state prison.
09:19Third case, Timmy Polk and Raven Mitchell. This case involves both of these individuals being charged with one felony count.
09:29One felony count of second degree commercial burglary and grand theft on June 8th at about 10 15 p.m. Mitchell was double parked near a Nike store in the 600 block of South Broadway. There was allegedly being looted by a group of people.
09:46Paul is accused of stealing multiple items from that store and getting into the car driven by Mitchell. They fled, but they were arrested a short time later. If convicted as charged, they each face up to three years in state prison.
10:02The next two cases are Los Angeles Sheriff's Department cases. Sheriff Luna will provide additional facts about these cases, but let me just give a quick overview of each one.
10:12Ulysses Sanchez. Ulysses Sanchez has been charged with one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon possession of a firearm by a felon and one misdemeanor count each of reckless driving and possession of a smoking device on June 8th at 9 35 p.m. Mr. Sanchez engaged in reckless driving. It is minivan in downtown Los Angeles. Many of you saw the video footage of this.
10:29where he was driving in donuts and injuring individuals. Mr. Sanchez is a third striker. If convicted as charged, Mr. Sanchez faces up to 25 years to life in state prison. The fifth case is closed.
10:59Christopher Gonzalez and Yosselyn Johnson. In this case, they both been charged with one felony count of conspiracy to commit vandalism and two felony counts of vandalism as well.
11:11On June 9th at 6 30 p.m. Mr. Gonzalez was is accused of vandalizing an apartment complex down here on the 500 block of South Broadway and Mr. Gonzalez allegedly painted graffiti right here on the hall of justice.
11:28They each face three years and eight months in state prison.
11:33I'm going to turn the microphone over to sheriff Luna to go into greater detail. But again, I cannot commend enough the tireless work that law enforcement has brought to this task to try and keep us safe and still ensure that people who want to legitimately protest get that opportunity.
11:56Sheriff Luna Thank you all for covering this story. I do want to start off not only by thanking all of you for being here, but I do want to take a just a quick second to thank the district attorney the day after the protest started. He called me. He told me he was assigning us a special prosecutor to deal with violence against our deputy sheriffs or any other related
12:01police officers. And I really appreciate that because just for a quick second.
12:06If you could think of the mindset of our employees having to leave their families and coming to work.
12:11to know that they're going to be in the middle of some of the that I would like to do with the police officers that they're going to be in the middle of some of the that I would like to do.
12:16called me. He told me he was assigning us a special prosecutor to deal with violence against
12:23our deputy sheriffs or any other related police officers. And I really appreciate that because
12:29just for a quick second, if you could think of the mindset of our employees having to leave their
12:35families and coming to work to know that they're going to be in the middle of some of the that
12:41isolated chaos that you've seen, it is good to know that when they are being violently attacked,
12:47whether it's with rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, pyrotechnics, pepper spray, I could go on and on,
12:54that they know that the individuals that we're going to focus on them and we have a district
13:01attorney who's going to bring forward charges. And just really quick, I received the same call
13:07from the U.S. attorney here in Los Angeles. And I think all of you saw something earlier today
13:13where he is doing the same thing with federal charges. So I just say that and Mr. Hockman
13:21said it perfectly and articulated it very well. There's a big distinction between individuals
13:30that protest and demonstrate to violent, destructive, basically anarchists. I mean,
13:38just creating that chaos. What we're talking about are the individuals who don't care about the issue
13:45at hand because we will facilitate all peaceful First Amendment activity. But when you have people
13:51that are out here to commit acts of violence against our deputy sheriffs or police officers or
13:59just they're destroying our city, we're going to stop it. You see it, it's frustrating. And as the
14:07days have gone on, arrests are climbing. And now the prosecutions are taking place. And just this
14:14warning, because if you didn't get caught the last couple of nights, there's a lot of evidence out
14:20there. And you're probably going to get detectives or others knocking on your door and arresting you and
14:28bringing you in for either committing all these acts that we've talked about. So just a little bit
14:34on some of the cases. On Saturday during civil arrest in Paramount, a local gas station was burglarized,
14:40looted on Alondra Boulevard. After the unlawful assembly concluded, Compton deputies responded to the gas
14:47station to secure the location and take the reports of the burglaries that had occurred. While at the
14:55location, an individual shouted at them and threw two full cans of beer in their direction. And I don't
15:00think it was to say thank you. It was for the opposite reason. The deputies ordered him to leave.
15:06However, he refused and threw a third full can of beer at our deputies. Based on the suspect's
15:13assaultive actions, deputies used less lethal force, specifically a 40 millimeter baton launcher,
15:20striking the suspect. The deputies were able to immediately handcuff the suspect without any
15:25further incident. The suspect, 20-year-old Eduardo Cervantes, a resident of Linwood, was arrested for
15:32assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer. He was released on his own recognizance yesterday at
15:38the Compton Court. Separately, two suspects arrested for felony vandalism here at the Hall of Justice.
15:44On Monday, deputies were driving in the 200 block of Temple Street near the Hall of Justice when they
15:51observed an act of vandalism in progress. They witnessed a 20-year-old Christopher Gonzales
15:57Reese defacing the south wall of the Hall of Justice building, not with a spray can. He was literally
16:05standing there with a paint roller, a very long stick, and writing graffiti over an area measuring
16:13about 18 feet by 12. The suspect was using beige paint, and the content of the graffiti included
16:21profanity directed at a federal agency. The same suspect was previously identified as the same
16:27individual who was observed committing a similar act of vandalism on the south wall of a building
16:33located in the 500 block of North Broadway. In both occurrences, a second suspect identified as
16:3940-year-old Yoselin Johnson appeared to act as a lookout and was observed video recording the acts of
16:48vandalism. Following the second incident, deputies contacted both suspects and took them into custody.
16:53A search of their vehicle led to the discovery of large buckets of paint and a 10-foot extension pole
17:01believed to have been used in the commission of these crimes that were described. Both suspects were
17:07arrested and booked on felony vandalism charges. And just as I wrap up, and before I turn it over to
17:15my partner, Chief Jim McDonald, I just want to reiterate, we will facilitate the peaceful protest.
17:23And thank God, 99% of them are taking place in this one square mile area here in the city of Los
17:30Angeles. And then when you saw in Paramount and Compton on Saturday, we are going to do everything
17:37we can to protect our employees when they're being attacked. So if you come to demonstrate, that's
17:44great. If you come to throw things at us, attack our employees, you're going to get arrested, maybe not
17:51that day, but later, and you're going to get prosecuted. And not only may you serve significant time
17:57in jail, but there's going to be fines behind that. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to
18:03Chief McDonald, and I'll be available for questions after he has completed his portion.
18:10Thank you, Sheriff Luna, and thank you all. Good afternoon. And again, you'll hear some common
18:14themes here, certainly. I want to start by expressing my sincere gratitude to all of our officers and
18:19deputies on the lines for their professionalism and dedication. They've been asked to work long hours
18:24in dangerous and unpredictable conditions, and I'm grateful and proud of their resilience.
18:30I also want to thank our dedicated partners from local, state, and federal agencies for ongoing
18:34partnership and unwavering support during these challenging times. The Los Angeles Police Department
18:40recognizes and supports the right to peaceful protest, but when individuals choose to weaponize
18:45that right by assaulting peace officers, endangering lives, or committing crimes under the cover of a
18:54crowd that is no longer a protest. That is a crime, and it won't be tolerated. Three individuals have
19:00been charged with felony assault on our officers, including the use of fireworks and motorcycles to
19:05cause harm. These were deliberate attacks, acts that injured officers who were simply doing their job
19:12out there to protect the public. Let's not forget our officers face uncertain and often dangerous
19:18situations every day, and their risk to their lives has been even greater over these last few days.
19:25I've watched Molotov cocktails and fireworks shop mortars being launched out of tubes at our officers.
19:32They're encountering routinely M-type fireworks and commercial-grade fireworks, which in the state of
19:37California are considered explosives and they can kill. Our officers should never have to face targeted
19:43violence while standing on a line to protect others. I want to thank the District Attorney for pursuing
19:49felony charges in these cases. It sends a strong and important message, if you assault a peace officer
19:55in this city or this county, you will be held accountable. Additionally, I'm also pleased that there are charges
20:00related to looting and vandalism, crimes that took advantage of the unrest to target businesses and city
20:06property. In one case, a retail store was burglarized and tens of thousands of dollars in merchandise
20:12were stolen, and another graffiti was sprayed onto a historic public building while an accomplice
20:18stood watch. These crimes don't advance any cause or further any message. What they do is harm to our
20:24communities, our small businesses, and our civic institutions. The LAPD will continue to investigate
20:30all incidents thoroughly and work with our partners in the DA's office to bring every offender to justice.
20:36We remain committed to protecting First Amendment rights, restoring peace, and holding criminals
20:42accountable. I want to thank our officers, our partners, and this community for their resilience
20:47and cooperation throughout this event. Thank you.
20:52And before we start with questions, I also want to thank the two members of my office that have worked
20:59around the clock to bring these charges. Alva Lynn, who's our head deputy of our charge evaluation
21:05division, and Deputy District Attorney Michael Blank of our Crimes Against Police Officers Division.
21:13Now we'll take questions. Yes.
21:15So earlier today, Major General Sherman said that National Guard members have detained some people.
21:22They've already done this, and then immediately turned them over to law enforcement.
21:26Can you share a little bit about which law enforcement they went to, how many detained?
21:32We're still working out a lot of the communication and coordination with the Army, who is in charge of the Marines as well.
21:41So I don't think whether Chief McDonald or I have heard specifically about that.
21:48I'm almost positive, but there is some guessing in this, that when he's talking about law enforcement,
21:53he's talking about federal law enforcement.
21:55Because one of their missions, from what has been described to us, is other than protecting federal facilities,
22:03they are protecting federal employees or federal law enforcement.
22:07So they're going to be going out together from our limited understanding thus far,
22:12and I think that's exactly what he's talking about.
22:17I understand most of the people arrested are not facing the serious types of felonies that you're describing.
22:23They're probably going to be referred to the city attorney for less serious failures of whatever those allegations would be.
22:31In recent history in Southern California, hundreds of people have been arrested on those allegations and protests,
22:37and then the city has made the decision not to prosecute any of them.
22:41And I'm curious if you're going to take a different position, or what your thoughts are about that,
22:46as it relates to the people arrested in the last few days.
22:48So you are correct that there are certain crimes committed, misdemeanor crimes, committed here in Los Angeles City
22:54that would be the jurisdiction of the city attorney's office.
22:57I have spoken to the city attorney, Heidi Feldstein Soto.
23:01She takes these crimes very seriously.
23:03I don't want to speak for her ahead of time as to the types of charges she's going to bring on these various violations.
23:09And you're right, even misdemeanors can span a spectrum from failure to disperse, from violations of curfew,
23:19onto even more serious violent actions or actions involving theft.
23:24So I can tell you, having spoken to Ms. Feldstein Soto, that she and her office will be taking these violations very seriously.
23:32I don't think we have a precedent that was set in prior protests.
23:37I will tell you from the district attorney's office, which didn't bring charges in connection with the prior protests starting today.
23:45You've heard we are bringing these charges, felony charges.
23:48We consider the actions, particularly the actions against law enforcement, the actions against public safety,
23:54the actions defacing, as Chief McDonald said, historic buildings, extremely serious.
24:01In many ways, I've been, well, not in many ways, I've been a lifelong Angeleno.
24:06I've been here over 60 years in this city and in this county.
24:10These people who want to go ahead and not protest and not engage in legitimate speech,
24:17but want to go ahead and commit crimes in our home, we're going to protect our home.
24:23We're going to make sure if someone wants to throw cinder blocks at our police officers,
24:29we're going to protect our police officers and hold those people accountable.
24:33They want to go ahead and write disgusting words all over our public buildings, of our public buildings.
24:40We're going to go after them as well.
24:42They want to steal from our stores.
24:45We're going to hold them accountable for their actions.
24:47And that's the way I view it.
24:50That's the way the district attorney's office views it.
24:52If you want to come into our county, into our home, and commit crimes, you will be arrested, prosecuted, and punished.
25:01Two questions, if I may.
25:02The first one being, all three of you have spoken in some regard about outside agitators or anarchists, I've heard.
25:10Obviously, you also respect the rights of peaceful protesters.
25:15I'm wondering if you can provide any evidence of maybe organization from anarchists.
25:21Have you been able to trace a certain group that's behind it?
25:25Obviously, you've highlighted five cases of men and women doing destruction,
25:30but is there any other evidence about anarchists or people that are coming in here with organized intention?
25:36Go ahead.
25:38I'm limited in what I can respond to that only because there's ongoing cases,
25:47but I can assure you that all of us up here are looking to see if there is a conspiracy of some kind, organization.
25:58There is some evidence we've seen that I don't want to share at this time,
26:02and it's not because I don't want to talk to you about it.
26:04It's because we're focused on arresting those individuals involved,
26:08and bringing the best cases forward.
26:11Some of them may be to the district attorney, but highly likely to the U.S. attorney,
26:16where we're working with some of our federal partners to look at that angle of exactly what you're asking for.
26:21Then a quick follow-up for the chief, and this is coming from somebody who's been here for several days
26:28and have watched how your law enforcement officers have conducted themselves
26:31and have used less lethal rounds, from my perspective, only after being agitated by other people throwing things.
26:39However, there is a video now circulating online of less lethal methods being used on a woman,
26:45not quite a protester, standing very close to officers, being fired at with less lethal methods.
26:52Also a caveat that we do see these police officers give her multiple warnings,
26:57but I'm wondering if you can comment on the use of those methods at such a close distance
27:03as someone that did not seem to be posing much of a threat.
27:06Yeah.
27:06You know, I can't speak to that individual case because I'm not aware what the follow-up was,
27:11but each one of these we see generates an investigative follow-up.
27:14We will look into it thoroughly and then, you know, look for all the video we possibly can out there,
27:20body-worn video on the officers, and then a video from the environment there
27:24and put together as best we can what the circumstances were.
27:28Perhaps then you could speak to people out there who may not understand that a warning is a warning
27:33or that maybe officers would take that step.
27:36Yeah.
27:36You know, thank you for that.
27:38The bottom line is once we give a dispersal order, it's because things have gotten out of hand
27:42and we're trying to restore order, and you are ordered to leave that area,
27:46and the officers are going to clear that area.
27:48And some of the tactics used involve less lethal munitions,
27:53and certainly while they're way more accurate than they were in years past,
27:58certainly there's also times where they potentially hit a target that was not the intended target.
28:04So if you're in the environment and you're told to leave, please leave,
28:09because for your own safety and the safety of everyone around you.
28:11Do you know what's going on in Boyle Heights?
28:14I just saw a video when I was leaving my office to get over here.
28:17There was a white car and then two silver cars.
28:20I think it was an SUV and a silver truck came up, caught off the white car,
28:25and two people hopped out.
28:28I mean, they looked, you know, like they were,
28:30I couldn't tell if they were feds or local officers.
28:33Right.
28:33And then they detained that driver.
28:36Any idea what's...
28:37Yeah, I've heard about that too.
28:38I haven't been able to find out more about it at this time.
28:41I know that Hollenbeck units were dispatched to that,
28:44so once we free up here, we'll figure out what was going on out there more.
28:48Thanks.
28:49Chief, and just to kind of follow up on that question,
28:50just trying to understand,
28:51does that mean that you guys have begun use-of-force reviews on some of these incidents?
28:56Oh, yeah.
28:56Whenever anything happens of significance, we start looking at it right away,
29:00try and capture all the video we can, any other evidence we can right away.
29:04We're going to take a couple more questions.
29:08There's one particular question I wanted to ask.
29:10There was an arrest of Luz Aguilar.
29:12I believe she's an aide to one of our council members.
29:15I was wondering if there was any information regarding that arrest,
29:19if there were any charges that were posted for her and her sister, Antonia Aguilar.
29:24Was it when you talked about it?
29:26Yeah.
29:26No.
29:27Yeah, no, I'll have to follow up with you to see what those,
29:29if there were charges filed or not on that one.
29:31Maybe if the sheriff could just clarify what he had said earlier to the question
29:37about the National Guard now being given authorization to detain people.
29:43How would it work then, I suppose, and it sounded like from the previous answer,
29:47you were saying they're only really there to detain those that are causing harm
29:51to federal officers, but I don't know.
29:54How would a handoff work to local law enforcement
29:57if the National Guard was to detain, say, a protester?
29:59Let me clarify that.
30:03What's been communicated to me thus far,
30:06and we are asking for more specific communication from the Army,
30:11which the National Guard is falling under them now, along with the Marines,
30:16is that they've expressed to us that they have three,
30:21their mission is split up into three areas.
30:23That it is to protect federal functions,
30:27to protect federal facilities,
30:30and to protect federal personnel.
30:34They, and as far as I know,
30:37and again, I'm trying,
30:39we are all in meetings trying to increase
30:42our communication and coordination with them,
30:45so we're still asking for specific clarification.
30:47My understanding at this point is that
30:51they do not have the powers to arrest or detain,
30:55so if they are out in the field,
30:58they may be there,
31:00but they're working in conjunction with federal authorities.
31:05It could be ICE, Border Patrol,
31:06there's a whole host of acronym federal agencies that they're working with.
31:12But again, not knowing that specific incident,
31:16that's where communication and coordination is critical.
31:20Sheriff, do you know, are the Marines here?
31:22I've been hearing since Sunday they've been on their way,
31:25and what are we, Wednesday?
31:26I would be guessing if I try to answer that.
31:33Again, I'm just going to leave it at this.
31:36We are doing everything we can.
31:39I know Chief McDonald and I and our staffs
31:41are doing everything we can
31:42to improve our communication with the Army,
31:48so we would know those specific questions.
31:51And they were just activated, I think, what was it, Sunday?
31:54So there's a lot going on behind the scenes.
31:58And first of all, I just tell you,
32:00I've never served in the military.
32:03I have nothing but respect for people in the military,
32:05whether they're soldiers in the National Guard or Marines.
32:08They are our soldiers.
32:10So we're doing our best to put them and ourselves
32:14and primarily our community in a position
32:17so that we succeed together moving forward.
32:21Because frankly, we're all in an extremely difficult,
32:24difficult situation right now
32:26that none of us have ever been involved in,
32:28including the military.
32:29Thank you all.
32:30Assistant Justice Attorney,
32:31Maria Ramirez is going to give us some remarks in Spanish.
32:37I will briefly summarize the DA's statements in Spanish,
32:41and then any questions in Spanish can be directed
32:44at the individual agencies afterwards.
32:46We're here today to announce the tasks that my office has presented
32:51in relation to the migratory protests that have occurred in the last few days.
32:58First, we want to thank the hundreds of officials and diputados
33:02of agencies from all the South of California
33:04that have protected our streets and kept safe in Los Angeles.
33:09No matter the hour, day or night,
33:13these officials and diputados have been put in danger
33:17by being called to ensure that the protests were ordained and pacified.
33:22Unfortunately, that doesn't always happen
33:26and they have to be elogiated for their work.
33:30Even though the immigration laws are under the jurisdiction
33:34federal and not under the authority of our office,
33:39we recognize the real and profound impact
33:42that these operations have in the trust
33:46between the communities of immigrants and the local police.
33:50All of our state, no matter where they were born,
33:55they deserve to feel safe when they inform a crime,
33:59they require help if they are victims of a crime,
34:03or participate in the justice system
34:06without fear of represalias or separation of their loved ones.
34:11This office supports the right to protest
34:15pacifically and the freedom of expression,
34:18but if they put in danger the lives of the officials,
34:22they damage public property
34:25or participate in acts of violence
34:27under the context of the protest,
34:30we will be responsible.
34:32From today's office, our office has presented cases
34:36against more than dozens of people
34:38in relation to the protest migratories.
34:41These cases are against
34:431. Juan Rodríguez,
34:45also accused of a grave crime,
34:49assaulting an official in peace,
34:51resistant to arrest and promoting violence
34:54against an official causing injuries.
34:58Randy Paul Ruiz
35:00and Georgina Raveiero
35:02both accused of two grave crimes,
35:06assaulting an official in peace.
35:08Ulysses Sánchez
35:10enfrenta un cargo de delito grave de asalto con arma mortal, posesión de una arma de fuego por
35:18un delincuente y un cargo menor de conducción imprudente y posesión de un dispositivo de fumar.
35:26Christopher González y Jocelyn Johnson han sido acusados de un cargo de delito grave por
35:33conspiración para cometer vandalismo y dos cargos de vandalismo. Timmy Polk y Raven
35:40Mitchell enfrentan un cargo de delito grave cada uno por robo comercial en segundo grado y un robo a
35:47gran escala. Hemos referido tres casos a la oficina de la Fiscalía de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles para
35:55consideración de presentación de delitos menores. Quiero recordar a todos, aunque ha habido número
36:02de arrestos, no todos esos casos se presentarán a nuestra oficina. Algunos casos serán presentados
36:09a la oficina de fiscal de los Estados Unidos y a la oficina de fiscal de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles.
36:16Se espera que casos adicionales sean presentados a la oficina de fiscal de distrito para consideración
36:24de presentación. En algunos casos, las personas que fueron arrestadas han sido citadas y liberadas.
36:31Estos casos aún no se han presentado. Muchas gracias.
36:34Gracias a todos.