Looters tore apart stores across Los Angeles as daytime protests against ICE-immigration raids descended into chaos overnight, yet again — and even a museum dedicated to Japanese-American immigrants was vandalized.
Windows were smashed and merchandise was stolen at LA’s Broadway Apple store Monday night, while down the block the Adidas store was broken into and robbed of sneakers by frenzied crowds.
The windows of a nearby jewelry store were also smashed open and the shop’s shelves were completely emptied by looters, while two marijuana dispensaries and a pharmacy were also raided, according to NBC 4.
Footage from the chaos showed mobs masked and hooded hooligans pouring into the stores and grabbing armloads of whatever was in sight and then pouring back out onto the street spilling goods as they fled.
Some ran right into the ranks of waiting cops, but many were able to muscle themselves free from the overwhelmed officers and escape.
“This is so ridiculous. This doesn’t look like they’re protesting for ICE or anything. Just looting the stores,” one fed up business owner who watched the overnight chaos unfold told News Nation.
Across town in Little Tokyo, a sushi restaurant — Otoro Sushi — even had its doors ripped open by mobs, with troublemakers appearing to make off with a computer monitor and other equipment while onlookers yelled that they were “Making us look bad.”
The Japanese American National Museum was even targeted, with “F**k ICE” and other graffiti spray-painted across windows, walls, and even over what appeared to be an outdoor exhibit about Japanese-American soldiers who fought in WWII as their families were locked away in internment camps.
Volunteers flocked to the museum Tuesday morning with brushes and soap to help scrub away what vandalism they could, photos showed.
And back on Broadway workers were seen laboring to sweep up and take stock of the damaged stores, while shattered windows and doors were boarded up.
At least 14 people were arrested for looting, according to police, while another 96 were arrested for failure to disperse.
The protests were expected to continue for a fifth day and night Tuesday, as President Trump dispatched another round of National Guard troops — as well as Marines forces — to quell the chaos.
Those deployments — which California’s and LA’s Democrat leaders say have done nothing but fuel the chaos in the city — is expected to cost at least $134 million, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said its likely the troops will remain in LA for about 60 days, telling a House budget hearing that the protestors were “rioters, looters and thugs.”
Chaos was sparked in the City of Angels Friday after ICE carried out numerous raids to arrest suspected illegal immigrants. Activists attempted to block the raids and later picketed a downtown detention center where some of the detainees were being held, before the demonstrations snowballed into all-out riots in some areas.
