Los Angeles has descended into complete chaos.
The city’s sanctuary policies have created a nightmare that defies belief.
And a Los Angeles mob committed a crime so outrageous it made Gavin Newsom look like an accomplice.
Brazen mob steals handcuffed suspect from federal agents
A bombshell report from Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald reveals the unthinkable reality of what’s happening on Los Angeles streets.
According to an LAPD commander who spoke with Mac Donald for her Wall Street Journal piece, a mob attack occurred that sounds like something from a lawless failed state.
Mac Donald reported that “a mob of several dozen surrounded two ICE agents taking an illegal alien into custody on Vermont Boulevard.”
What happened next will make your blood boil.
“Six men jumped out of a truck and grabbed the handcuffed suspect from the back of the ICE van, threw the suspect into their truck and fled,” Mac Donald wrote.
Federal agents tried to pursue the abduction squad but couldn’t catch them.
But here’s the part that will leave you furious.
The LAPD commander revealed to Mac Donald that his department refused to issue an alert for officers to apprehend the fleeing criminals.
The reason? Los Angeles sanctuary laws prohibit using city personnel for federal immigration enforcement.
A handcuffed criminal was kidnapped from federal agents in broad daylight, and local police stood down because their woke politics matter more than stopping an actual crime in progress.
LAPD commander reveals the truth about California’s chaos
The same LAPD commander who witnessed this insanity told Mac Donald something that perfectly captures the reality on the ground.
“We don’t have s— under control,” the commander said.
“It’s a godsend that the National Guard and the Marines are here.”
Mac Donald revealed that law enforcement are forbidden from expressing these views publicly because it doesn’t fit the narrative that Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing.
The commander explained to her how sanctuary policies are making everyone less safe.
“It would be safer if we could work with ICE,” he said. “We should block off the street to assist their agents in making arrests.”
Instead, California forces police to watch criminals escape while federal agents get attacked.
Mac Donald noted that neither this incident nor another attack on an ICE detention center received any media coverage.
The mainstream press is covering up the chaos while California burns.
Judge downplays violence while city erupts
While real police work gets sabotaged by sanctuary laws, the violence in Los Angeles has reached crisis levels.
Mac Donald’s reporting reveals that rioters have been using weapons against police officers and destroying businesses throughout downtown.
But Judge Charles Breyer dismissed these attacks as just “some stray violent incidents” when he tried to block President Trump’s National Guard deployment.
The violence became so severe that Police Chief Jim McDonnell had to put the entire LAPD on tactical alert.
Mayor Karen Bass was forced to announce an emergency curfew for downtown because local law enforcement couldn’t handle the situation.
Even with federal backup, Mac Donald reports that LAPD divisions became so understaffed that one violent area saw as many homicides in seven days as it typically sees in a month.
Sanctuary policies create a criminal paradise
The commander’s revelations to Mac Donald expose exactly what critics of sanctuary policies warned would happen.
When organized mobs can literally steal handcuffed suspects from federal agents without any consequences, the rule of law has completely collapsed.
California has released thousands of criminal illegal aliens back onto the streets over recent years.
Progressive prosecutors have refused to charge thieves and vandals in the name of social justice.
This has created exactly what you’d expect: a sense that breaking the law carries no consequences.
Now we’re seeing the inevitable result of these failed policies.
Organized criminal gangs are attacking federal agents and stealing their prisoners while local police get ordered to look the other way.
This represents the complete breakdown of law and order in America’s second-largest city.
Trump’s response exposes California’s failure
While Democrats claim Trump’s National Guard deployment was authoritarian overreach, the LAPD commander’s account proves the opposite.
Mac Donald’s reporting shows that federal intervention became necessary because California officials failed to maintain basic public safety.
The commander told Mac Donald that more federal troops would actually help, not fewer.
Local police want to work with federal agents but can’t because of sanctuary laws that protect criminals instead of citizens.
As Mac Donald writes in her Wall Street Journal piece, there’s more danger to society from tolerating lawlessness than from responding to it with all legal means.
The question isn’t whether Trump overreacted to California’s chaos.
The question is why local officials are so committed to protecting criminals that they’ll let mobs attack federal agents and steal their prisoners.
California chooses criminals over citizens
Mac Donald’s explosive reporting reveals the true cost of sanctuary policies.
These aren’t just feel-good measures to help immigrants – they’re actively enabling criminal behavior and undermining federal law enforcement.
When local governments obstruct justice and protect criminals from consequences, that’s the real assault on democracy.
The LAPD commander’s candid admission to Mac Donald shows that even local law enforcement knows these policies are disasters.
But they’re forbidden from speaking the truth because it doesn’t match the political narrative.
Meanwhile, criminals grow bolder knowing they can literally steal suspects from federal agents without facing any consequences from local police.
This is what happens when ideology trumps law enforcement in America’s cities.
