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Young Kim: “The protest started last Friday, which started out…”

Featuring: Young Kim, Republican | U.S. House California, 40th Congressional District

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Congresswoman Young Kim and Congressman Jimmy Gomez Discuss National Guard Deployment in Los Angeles

Published | Video Starts at 01:35

And so we have known that the ICE officers will be in large cities, including Los Angeles, as we've seen. And The protest started last Friday, which started out peacefully, which, you know, every people have a constitutional right to have a peaceful protest, but it turned into, over time, more violent and that committing active crimes on the street are unacceptable. People are protesting in designated areas with permits. That's acceptable. But what we're seeing right now, the images that we're seeing, people throwing rocks at cars and including AD police cars setting streets on fire, these are un American and unacceptable. (01:35–01:56)

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Asserts that protests started peacefully but turned violent, with crimes being committed on the streets.

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