Who's Funding This? Hundreds Show Up Out of Nowhere, Interesting Item Handed Out to LA Anti-ICE Group

While it looked like law enforcement came out in force on Monday night to help deal with the rioting in Los Angeles, Fox News reported something interesting happening earlier that evening.

Fox's Bill Melugin reported how "hundreds" showed up out of nowhere, some with foreign flags.

🚨WHERE DID THEY COME FROM: Fox News' @BillMelugin_ is STUNNED by the seemingly random group of hundreds of people who have shown up out of NOWHERE to demonstrate in Los Angeles:

"They've taken over the street." pic.twitter.com/DcvriAVxsh
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 10, 2025

Then they reported that people were being given earplugs, gas masks, and water bottles, not to drink but to toss at the cops.

🚨 #BREAKING: Rioters are being given earplugs, gas masks, and water bottles to throw at police, per @BillMelugin_

FOX LA also reporting TRUCKLOADS of bionic shields, which cost $60+ each, are being delivered to rioters.

There is NOTHING organic about this. WHO IS FUNDING IT? pic.twitter.com/kkjZIR9qES
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 10, 2025

Melugin also said people were communicating by radio to let others know where the police movements were.

NEW: LAPD announces that they made 50 arrests during the riots over the weekend, including charges for attempted murder w/ a Molotov cocktail, & assault w/ a deadly weapon on an officer. Five officers and five LAPD horses have sustained minor injuries, and crowds were using hand…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 9, 2025

Five officers and five LAPD horses have sustained minor injuries, and crowds were using hand held radios to communicate law enforcement movements to eachother, LAPD says.

But this was perhaps the most intriguing moment, from the local Fox affiliate: the video of the truck pulling up, just giving away bionic face shields.

ICYMI: Here’s the moment a pickup truck dropped off boxes of face shields in downtown LA during our live report on @FOXLA with @Elex_Michaelson and @DevineNews pic.twitter.com/4JZYE69dMg
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) June 10, 2025

Fox LA's Elex Michaelson also commented, asking who was funding this.

#BREAKING We just saw people arrive in Downtown L.A. with truck loads of Bionic Face Shields that demonstrators quickly grabbed.

It certainly seems like gear you'd wear if you're preparing for conflict with police.

Who is funding this? pic.twitter.com/2hZphafOsi
— Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) June 10, 2025

Sounded like the reporters couldn't quite believe it.

There were a bunch of them in the truck, as well as boxes of something else. The UVEX bionic face shields appear to run from about $35-60 online depending on where you get them from. You're not going to wear that just to "protest," as the reporters noted, you're going to wear that because you anticipate being involved in a confrontation with the police.

Meanwhile, Democrats are blaming Trump and ICE, with Mayor Karen Bass saying the answer is to "stop" the ICE raids and people like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) pretending there was no violence.

Watch: Rioters Attack LAPD HQ As Maxine Waters Rebukes LAPD Chief With Wild Denial of Violence

It's the Democrats' failures that fostered the situation in the first place.

Editor's Note: President Trump isn't going to allow lawlessness to reign in America. We will not have a repeat of 2020's "Summer of Love."

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