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July 8, 2025

Armed and Masked Federal Agents Descend on L.A.'s MacArthur Park
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In Los Angeles, heavily armed federal immigration agents, some on
horseback, staged a dramatic sweep on a public park Monday, inflaming
tensions in a city already on edge from the Trump administration's mass
raids. Mayor Karen Bass arrived on the scene, where she told agents to
leave Mac Arthur Park, a popular public space in a largely immigrant and
working-class neighborhood where many children were playing. Activists
and community members, some who'd been tipped off about the sweep, were
seen repelling the agents, yelling insults at the armed and masked men,
some hurling fruit toward them. Mayor Bass later condemned the incident.

Mayor Karen Bass: "Frankly, it is outrageous and un-American that we
have federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing is going on in the
parks. … It's outrageous and un-American that the federal government
seized our state's National Guard. It's outrageous and un-American that
we have U.S. Marines, who are trained to kill foreign soldiers overseas,
deployed in our American city."



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