A senior Los Angeles official has revealed that his daughters were arrested during the ongoing riots in the city for allegedly assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon.
Rick Cole, the Chief Deputy Controller of LA, told a rally that his 26-year-old twin daughters, Lucia Aguilar and Antonia, were taken into custody on Sunday night, according to LA Mag.
“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs. So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out,” Cole, a former mayor of Pasadena, told demonstrators outside a hotel in the city on Sunday, where there had reportedly been ICE raids early that day.
Lucia Aguilar and Antonia were taken into custody at around 7 p.m. Sunday after being arrested during violence that saw rocks and other objects hurled from a bridge onto police vehicles on the 101 Freeway below, according to LA Sheriff’s Department records seen by the Daily Mail.
No details have yet been released on exactly why the sisters were arrested.
The unrest in Los Angeles is continuing into a fifth day today, with around 700 Marines and an additional 2,000 National Guard members deployed by President Trump to maintain order.
