Patel promises FBI coming for anyone assaulting cops as Los Angeles erupts over ICE raids

Following violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles on Saturday night, FBI Director Kash Patel warned "if you assault a law enforcement officer, you’re going to jail—period."

"It doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got here, or what cause you claim to represent," Patel told Fox News Digital. "If local jurisdictions won’t stand behind the men and women who wear the badge, the FBI will."

President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to Paramount, California after immigration authorities driving in the area were pelted with rocks, stones, and concrete — shattering government vehicle windshields.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks shared a photo of one Border Patrol agent's bloody hand, which was injured by a rock flying through the windshield.

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Federal sources said agents could have been killed by the flying debris. 

"Doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got here, or what movement speaks to you. If the local police force won’t back our men and women on the thin blue line, we @FBI will," Patel wrote on X.

The bureau has an entire force dedicated to immigration, with its highest concentration in Los Angeles.

Several arrests have already been made for assault on a federal agent, Banks confirmed.

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The fiery Paramount protest marked the second consecutive day of substantial violent riots in Los Angeles.

On Friday night, more than 1,000 Los Angeles rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE agents, slashed tires, and defaced buildings.

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said protesters would not slow ICE agents down, and cautioned rioters.

"If you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," Noem wrote in an X post.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the agency is seeking information regarding the identity of those throwing rocks at vehicles conducting critical law enforcement operations, noting "it is only a matter of time."

"One of the perpetrators in this video is wearing a helmet, and we’re going to use our investigative tools to locate the individual," Bongino wrote in an X post. "I strongly suggest you turn yourself in, it’s only a matter of time."

Riley Gaines fires back at Simone Biles after social media dispute over transgender athletes

Simone Biles surprisingly sparred on social media with OutKick host Riley Gaines Friday, and Gaines has responded. 

Biles took offense to Gaines calling out a Minnesota high school whose softball team won a state championship Friday with a transgender pitcher. 

Marissa Rothenberger, a transgender athlete, threw a shutout to help Champlin Park High School win a state title. 

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Gaines, the host of the "Gaines for Girls" podcast, noted that comments on X were turned off on the Minnesota State High School League’s post with a photo of the team on social media. 

"To be expected when your star player is a boy," Gaines wrote. 

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Biles responded, calling Gaines "truly sick" for her comment and saying Gaines should be "uplifting" transgender athletes.

Gaines responded with a video on social media. 

"Yesterday, Simone Biles — the Olympic gymnast, the best of the best, bar none; there is no one even remotely in her league — I guess, in an attempt to be inclusive and virtuous, decided to sell out all girls who have dreams to achieve and to succeed, and to specifically personally attack and body shame me," Gaines said.

"Let’s get this straight. It’s my job. It’s the women’s job. This is what Simone Biles is saying: It’s the women’s job to find a way for the men’s feelings to be validated, for their identity to be affirmed. That’s not my job, actually, at all. So, to say I should be doing this is insane. 

"If she wants to use her platform to uplift men and women’s sports, then, by all means. But it’s certainly not my job. And I don’t believe it’s the job of any woman to do this."

Biles’ comments to Gaines included a dig at the former college swimmer losing to Lia Thomas, a trans swimmer, in 2022. 

"All of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser," Biles wrote. 

"You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!! But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!"

Gaines also addressed a second post from Biles, which told Gaines to "bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male."

"Number one, she's acknowledging there are differences, like physiological, biological differences, between men and women in saying this," Gaines responded. "Secondly, I'm 5-foot-5, which might seem like a giant to someone who's like, 4-foot-7, 4-foot-8, but I'm pretty standard size for a woman, just, like, relatively muscular, right? Being an athlete, I would imagine Simone would understand that. 

"But I weigh like 135 pounds, 5-foot-5 of pretty much pure muscle. Again, if anyone would understand that, you would think it's Simone Biles, a woman who has historically been scrutinized for having a very muscular, masculine-looking body."

Finally, Gaines commended Biles for calling out the horrible sexual abuse acts committed by former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. However, Gaines believes there’s a contradiction.

"This is a woman who has been incredibly brave in calling out and witnessing the horrific sexual abuse that she and hundreds of other female gymnasts faced at the hands of one sexual predator — that predator being Larry Nassar — in the same breath, believing that vulnerable women should be forced to strip down naked in front of men and locker rooms, so long as it makes the man feel happy," Gaines said. 

"If Larry Nassar came out as trans, I don't think it's responsible or safe for him to be housed in a women's prison."

Studies have shown that nearly 80% of people believe that biological males should stay out of girls and women's sports.

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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