President Donald Trump and his administration have carried out multiple arrests to curb the ongoing anti-ICE riots, now in their sixth consecutive day in Los Angeles.
FOX LA, reporting live on Monday, captured footage of a truck unloading and distributing what appeared to be thousands of dollars’ worth of professional riot gear—specifically, high-tech bionic face shields—to violent demonstrators.
According to Fox LA reporter Elex Michaelson, the masks being distributed to protesters were identified as Uvex Bionic Face Shields. These shields are typically used by machinists and autobody workers to guard against chemical splashes and flying debris.
However, rioters have been repurposing them as protection against police crowd control gas, making it more difficult for law enforcement to disperse violent demonstrations and restore order.
Journalist Andy Ngo reported that “Far-left extremists set up a website to crowdfund riot gear for the open border insurrectionists in Los Angeles.”
Now, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, has announced that the FBI’s Los Angeles field office has arrested Alejandro Theodoro Orellana on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Civil Disorder (18 U.S.C. § 371) in connection with his alleged role in distributing face shields to suspected rioters.
Orellana is an alleged member of the Brown Berets, “a radical Latino paramilitary group that are currently embedded in cities across the United States,” according to RANN.
Joshua Steinman, a former military officer who served on the National Security Council during Trump’s first term as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Cyber, claims that Alejandro Orellana represents the kind of foreign sabotage operatives that, in his view, were allowed to enter the country under the Biden administration, the Daily Caller reported.
