Anti-ICE rioters, according to the latest reports from the Los Angeles Police Department, have been coordinating their efforts in part by communicating via two-way radios to share the locations of and actions taken by law enforcement, military, and federal agents.

Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin shared the latest details he’d received from the LAPD in an X post on Monday, reporting that dozens had already been arrested on a number of different charges and that at least five officers and police department horses had been injured while attempting to quell the unrest.

“NEW: LAPD announces that they made 50 arrests during the riots over the weekend, including charges for attempted murder w/ a Molotov cocktail, & assault w/ a deadly weapon on an officer. Five officers and five LAPD horses have sustained minor injuries, and crowds were using hand held radios to communicate law enforcement movements to eachother, LAPD says,” Melugin posted.

NEW: LAPD announces that they made 50 arrests during the riots over the weekend, including charges for attempted murder w/ a Molotov cocktail, & assault w/ a deadly weapon on an officer. Five officers and five LAPD horses have sustained minor injuries, and crowds were using hand…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 9, 2025

The LAPD’s confirmation of coordinated action among the protesters lent credence to multiple reports claiming that the riots only look chaotic on the surface — and that underneath, they are well-organized and well-funded and being executed by people who have been well-trained.

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“LAPD firing rubber bullets at rioters who have removed the pink park benches to use as shields. If you just spend 2 minutes watching these ppl you can see they are trained and organized. They know what they’re doing,” Kira Davis posted.

LAPD firing rubber bullets at rioters who have removed the pink park benches to use as shields. If you just spend 2 minutes watching these ppl you can see they are trained and organized. They know what they’re doing. pic.twitter.com/VVqI8k1DzN

— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) June 9, 2025

Retired Army Colonel Kurt Schlicter assessed the situation in a Townhall column published Monday, where he said that the chaos was all just “an illusion” meant to scare and intimidate people into compliance.

“This is not a battle of cops versus rioters; it is a battle between narratives. Most people see regime media video of Third World savages waving the tacky banners of their garbage homelands, lighting fires, hassling cops, and doing other things consistent with being barbarians, and think that Los Angeles is in chaos and therefore get scared,” Schlicter wrote. “The idea behind this color revolution – it is organized and planned, not spontaneous or genuine – is to intimidate normal people into submitting and embracing the politicians associated with its goals in the hopes that it will stop. This is the work of the Democrat Party; the rioters are its useful idiots, acting to support the party’s goals while it’s maintaining deniability.”

A thread from @wokal_distance laid out the strategies employed by coordinated protests — strategies designed first to ultimately ensure that law enforcement has no reasonable alternative to using force, and then to ensure that when they do use force, they are on camera and the protesters on the front lines put the most sympathetic faces possible (babies, the elderly) on the movement.

“The riots happening in LA are not organic or spontaneous. They’re designed to look chaotic to cover up the fact that they’re well funded, exceptionally organized, and carried out by well trained activists using intelligent, highly developed tactics,” the thread began.

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The riots happening in LA are not organic or spontaneous.

They’re designed to look chaotic to cover up the fact that they’re well funded, exceptionally organized, and carried out by well trained activists using intelligent, highly developed tactics.

Here’s a primer: pic.twitter.com/ZxZ7x71R65

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) June 9, 2025

Another thread from @datarepublican explored who was the funding the riots, naming the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights or CHIRLA, and PSLWEB / Party for Socialism and Liberation, among others.

A number of NGOs have been implicated in this. Foremost is Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights or CHIRLA, and the photos of signs show they were printed by PSLWEB / Party for Socialism and Liberation. pic.twitter.com/yS7jXkHGJ8

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 8, 2025

More than 100 House Democrats voted on Monday against a resolution condemning the recent fire attack in Boulder, Colorado, on people demonstrating in support of hostages kidnapped by Hamas in the October 7, 2023, assault on Israel.

The measure, which denounces the “antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado” and offers a critique of the U.S. immigration system because the suspect was an illegal immigrant, passed with strong bipartisan support from 205 Republicans and 75 Democrats. However, 113 Democrats opposed the resolution, leaving them open to broadsides from Republicans.

“House Democrats just sided with terrorists over cops and couldn’t even bring themselves to condemn antisemitism. They’re officially the antisemite and anti-cop caucus,” Mike Marinella, a spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the Republican Jewish Coalition posted a list on X of all the Democrats who voted against the resolution, calling their opposition “shameful.”

Here are the names of the 113 House Democrats who just voted AGAINST @RepGabeEvans’ resolution denouncing the antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado.

Shameful. pic.twitter.com/jBOZXcRjBF

— RJC (@RJC) June 9, 2025

The resolution notes Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who is now facing hate crime and many other charges in connection to the June 1 firebombing in Boulder, allegedly shouted “Free Palestine” and spoke about wanting to kill all the Zionists.

In addition, it mentions Soliman is an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa and his case “demonstrates the dangers of not removing from the country aliens who fail to comply with the terms of their visas.” The resolution also expresses gratitude to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — a federal agency derided by some Democrats.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) chided Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO), who introduced the resolution, during a press conference before the vote.

“Who is this guy? He’s not seriously concerned with combating antisemitism in America. This is not a serious effort. This guy’s going to be a one-term member of Congress. He’s a complete and total embarrassment,” Jeffries said. The top Democrat also called the resolution and Evans a “joke.”

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) fired back at Jeffries in a post on X.

“Only radical Democrats would call it a joke to denounce antisemitic terrorism and express gratitude to law enforcement for detaining the terrorist here illegally who perpetrated the Boulder attack,” Scalise said. “Appreciate [Evans] — a veteran and former law enforcement officer – for leading on this important resolution.”

Evans, a first-term congressman who is a former Army Black Hawk helicopter pilot and police officer, also delivered a retort.

“I served our nation in uniform in the Middle East, as a cop in Colorado, & now as a Congressman,” Evans said on X. “This wildly offensive sentiment from Democrat’s Leader is why antisemitism persists. The Left is unserious about finding real solutions. Condemning terrorism is not a joking matter.”

Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO), who represents Boulder, had pushed for the House to go with his own resolution condemning the attack and criticized the measure from Evans. Among his complaints were that it contained small “inaccuracies” and failed to recognize the Boulder Police Department or FBI for their response to the firebombing — only ICE, “the one agency that was not in Boulder that day.”

Still, Neguse ended up voting to pass the measure from Evans, which did affirm “that free and open communication between State and local law enforcement and their Federal counterparts remains the bedrock of public safety and is necessary in preventing terrorist attacks.”

A Democrat who voted against the resolution, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), griped about how arguing the Boulder attack is a “reflection” of the U.S. immigration system “uses Jews as a partisan pawn.”

Nearly all House Republicans and Democrats joined together to pass another resolution from Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) condemning antisemitic violence across the United States — including the Boulder firebombing — in the midst of a “disturbing pattern of targeted aggression” that also encompasses the recent killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., and an arson attack on the home of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish.