Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during a press conference on Wednesday claimed the LA riots were “provoked by the White House,” going so far as speculating the city is part of a national experiment to determine how much power the federal government has. Bass claimed local officials initially heard the administration was searching for violent felons, gang members and drug dealers. Yet, she alleged federal agents were raiding...

As riots and immigration protests grip Los Angeles, President Donald Trump is determined not to repeat the violence of 2020. In recent days, Trump administration officials have pointed to the riots that broke out in Minneapolis in 2020 after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer, singling out Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, for slow-walking the activation of the National Guard. ...