The high school students suspected of injuring two federal officers duringanti-ICE riots on Feb. 13used frozen water bottles as projectiles, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell said Tuesday.
The new detail came duringMcDonnell‘s remarks at aPolice Commission meetingas part of his rundown of protest activity in the city since Feb. 9.
McDonnell said unidentified suspects threw frozen water bottles at two Federal Protection Service Officers charged with protecting the Federal Building downtown during the wild anti-ICE melee, “resulting in one officer sustaining a head injury and one officer sustaining a laceration above the right eye.”
In a separate incident at the same protest, one ICE agent was struck in the head with a rock resulting in a injury,Department of Homeland Securityofficials said.
No arrests have been made in either incident. Reports were filed for assault with a deadly weapon in both incidents, McDonnell said.
McDonnell said about 200 students participated in the school walkout and anti-ICE demonstration that turned violent on Feb. 13.
Students from Thomas Jefferson High School, Maya Angelou Community High School and the Santee Education Complex were directed on social media to use Metro Transit and gather at Santee Education Complex, McDonnell said.
The group marched to City Hall and then to the Federal Building on Los Angeles Street, where participants “began to bang on windows and doors near the entrance” of the building before proceeding to the federal detention center, where the demonstrators “flooded the loading dock area and were confronted by Federal Service Protection agents,” McDonnell said.
“Members of the group threw frozen water bottles, striking two Federal Protective Service agents,” during the riotous confrontation that then unfolded, the chief said.
No LAPD personnel were injured and no arrests were made during the fracas, the chief said.
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