FBI Director Kash Patel said that the agency will target individuals who assault law enforcement officials during protests and riots in Los Angeles, while his second-in-command said that the government is “not stopping” immigration enforcement operations that sparked the demonstrations.
“Hit a cop, you’re going to jail... doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got here, or what movement speaks to you,” Patel wrote on Saturday. “If the local police force won’t back our men and women on the thin blue line, [the FBI] will.”
