Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas has claimed that he was tear-gassed by the Nationwide Guard at a ‘very peaceable’ protest in Los Angeles.
The singer-songwriter, 27, took to social media to element his expertise, sharing his message to greater than 4 million followers on Instagram.
‘Tear gassed nearly instantly on the very peaceable protest downtown – they’re inciting this,’ he wrote.
The musician had attended a protest in opposition to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division’s operations in Los Angeles over the weekend.
The protests, which started on Friday and carried on by means of till Sunday, noticed quite a few individuals stage a peaceable demonstration, campaigning in opposition to ICE’s raids of a number of workplaces in Los Angeles for alleged immigration violations.
President Donald Trump authorised the deployment of the Nationwide Guard in response.
On Sunday, Finneas wrote on an Instagram Story: ‘F**ok ICE.’
His subsequent publish noticed him repost a message to Nationwide Guard and army personnel who don’t want to partake in Trump’s order: ‘If you’re Nationwide Guard or Lively Obligation army and you’re being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US residents, then that is the quantity to the GI Rights Hotline. There may be assist, you don’t must undergo with it.’
A number of celebrities have banded collectively to criticise ICE and the army response to protests throughout Los Angeles, together with Eva Longoria and Chrissy Teigen.
On X, Longoria shared a publish from California Governor Gavin Newsom, which criticises Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth over his menace to deploy active-duty Marines in response to the protests.
Newsom described the menace as ‘deranged behaviour,’ whereas Longoria added that it was ‘Un-American’ whereas additionally sharing a video of a girl being separated from her youngster throughout an ICE raid.
Teigen shared varied posts in assist of the protests on her Instagram Tales, together with a hyperlink to a mass protest on June 14.
Huge raids are underway in main cities throughout the US as a part of Trump’s pledge to arrest 3,000 suspected unlawful immigrants per day.
One in Los Angeles descended into chaos, as counterprotests led to a number of arrests, allegedly with out warrants.
Two Residence Depot shops, a clothes store known as Ambient Attire, and different places have been raided by ICE brokers within the predominantly Latino metropolis of Paramount.
The President issued an government order, posted to the White Home web site, outlining Trump’s plan to stop undocumented immigrants from ‘invading’ communities and costing state and native governments.
And a coverage which beforehand restricted officers’ talents to arrest undocumented immigrants at ‘delicate’ places, reminiscent of faculties, church buildings and hospitals, was rolled again.
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