Immigration raids escalated throughout Los Angeles over the weekend resulting in public protests towards President Trump’s insurance policies.

The Grammy-winning artist and producer took to Instagram on Sunday to share quite a few social media posts in regards to the protests, which erupted after Trump ordered Nationwide Guard troops into L.A., together with one IG Story the place he merely wrote, “F–k ICE.”

The 27-year-old additionally shared that he attended the “very peaceable” protests and claimed he was tear-gassed upon arrival.

“Tear-gassed nearly instantly on the very peaceable protest downtown. They’re inciting this,” he wrote on his IG Story, referring to escalating tensions.

The Grammy-winning brother of Billie Eilish additionally reshared footage of an Australian reporter being allegedly shot by a rubber bullet — at shut vary — whereas reporting stay at one of many demonstrations on Sunday.

Federal brokers and navy presence elevated within the metropolis as Trump ordered 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops to answer the rising protests on Saturday.

The protests centered round federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles, the place ICE officers had been reportedly detaining immigrants.

“BRING IN THE TROOPS!!!” Trump posted on Fact Social late Sunday — whereas each California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have stood firmly towards the choice, accusing Trump of escalating the problem together with his navy response.

“Donald Trump is placing gasoline on this hearth. Commandeering a state’s Nationwide Guard with out consulting the Governor of that state is prohibited and immoral,” Gavin Newsom wrote on X. “California will probably be taking him to courtroom.”

“It is a bald-faced lie for Newsom to say there was no downside in Los Angeles earlier than President Trump received concerned,” stated Deputy Press Secretary for The White Home, Abigail Jackson in a press release.