Federal officer pulls gun in clash with protesters in downtown L.A.

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Set us as preferred Local and federal authorities said they are investigating after two federal officers were assaulted and one of them was captured on video brandishing a gun at protesters in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend.The incident unfolded late Saturday night at the corner of Alameda and Commercial, near the Metropolitan Detention Center.The federal jail facility houses defendants awaiting criminal trials; adjacent is an immigration detention facility known as B-18.

Demonstrators have gathered in the area almost nightly since immigration raids began last June.According to the Los Angeles Police Department, protesters began to follow two federal detention officers to their cars in a local parking lot and then “suddenly and deliberately attacked the federal employees striking them multiple times.”Video that same night captured a federal officer, his face swollen and bloodied, brandishing a gun as people began to scream.“Put that s— down,” a person screamed at the officer, as he yanked on a woman’s shirt, gun in hand and pointed directly at her.In a video caption, an Instagram user said the woman had been “blinded by mace.”As the officer walked away and got into an elevator, he again pointed his gun at protesters who had followed him.

Another person in the elevator also appeared to have pulled his gun.California In a newly unsealed order, a federal judge in California held the government in civil contempt for violating a court order requiring it to forensically image any cellphone used by agents present at more than a dozen identified immigration operations.Videos from the scene showed protesters holding Mexican and American flags, along with a banner that read “F— I.C.E.” LAPD officers arrived soon after the clash, wielding batons and trying to push the crowd back.“LAPD doesn’t care that ...