Presumptuous Politics : In Los Angeles and Portland, Anti-ICE Agitators Are Currently in the 'Find Out' Stage

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

In Los Angeles and Portland, Anti-ICE Agitators Are Currently in the 'Find Out' Stage

In June of 2025, RedState reported on anti-ICE rioters who were targeting, interfering, and obstructing Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Los Angeles. As our Managing Editor, Jen Van Laar, documented.

For the second day in a row, people protesting without a permit have shut down Los Angeles roadways and assaulted police officers, and for the second day in a row Mayor Karen Bass

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has publicly ignored the situation and privately told officers to stand down and retreat.

The lawbreakers, many of them holding flags from Mexico and other Latin American countries, say they're there to protest ICE raids, which they claim are picking up sweet little abuelas and whisking them off to concentration camps. 

Because of the inaction by L.A. Mayor Karen Bass (D) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), 

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President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard, but not before one brain trust decided to ride his motorcycle into a skirmish line of LAPD officers. Randy Paul Ruiz was arrested and indicted by L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman on two felony counts of assault upon a peace officer. 

On June 8, at about 3:40 p.m., police were holding a skirmish line at the corner of Temple and Alameda streets when Ruiz allegedly drove a motorcycle into the line of officers. 

A year later, Ruiz pleaded guilty to charges of obstructing, impeding, or interfering with law enforcement operations during civil disorder. Ruiz is now in the "find out" stage. First Assistant District Attorney Bill Essayli posted on X about this conviction.


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Randy Paul Ruiz, 28, of East Los Angeles, pleaded guilty today to 18 U.S.C. 111 for obstructing, impeding, or interfering with law enforcement during civil disorder, a felony carrying a maximum of five years in federal prison.

On June 8, 2025, two days after a wave of violence against law enforcement began, LAPD officers were stationed outside the Roybal Federal Building in Downtown L.A. to protect people and property threatened by violent agitators protesting enforcement of immigration laws Congress passed decades ago. The civil disorder closed a nearby freeway and federal offices.

Ruiz sat atop his motorcycle among the protesters. He then drove his motorcycle from the crowd into a skirmish line of LAPD officers. He was arrested and charged in state and federal court. His federal sentencing hearing is set for November 2.

Justice has finally come back to Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon is not far behind. U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford for the District of Oregon announced the plea of an anti-ICE agitator who assaulted a federal officer

A Gresham, Oregon, man pleaded guilty today after he was charged with assaulting a federal law enforcement officer during a declared riot near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in South Portland.

Ginovanni Joseph Brumbelow, 22, pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.

According to court documents, on June 14, 2025, Brumbelow struck a federal officer in the back of the head with a wooden stake while the officer was arresting another individual during a riot at the ICE facility in South Portland.

On July 15, 2025, a federal grand jury in Portland returned a three-count indictment charging Brumbelow with assault on a federal officer, assault of a federal officer with a dangerous weapon and civil disorder.

 

Brumbelow is also in the "find out" stage. His sentencing is scheduled for October 19, where he "faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release."  Also as part of his plea agreement, Brumbelow will pay full restitution to the federal officer he admitted he assaulted.

Breaking: Portland Antifa militant Ginovanni Joseph Brumbelow has been CONVICTED for felony assault against an ICE agent.

Brumbelow, 22, of Gresham, used a wooden stake to strike the officer in the head, attempting to impale him outside the Portland ICE facility.

He faces 20 years in prison for the June 14, 2025, attack.

While some of the big fish Americans want to see on the hook have yet to be caught, these smaller, and extremely violent fish still matter. Americans are weary of symbolic arrests, hearings, and claims of justice being served without any real consequences being meted out. Ruiz and Brumbelow were once exceptions, but now are becoming the poster children for the rule of law being executed. Let us hope this continues.

Editor’s Note: ICE and CBP continue to put themselves in harm's way in order to protect America’s sovereignty and to keep our streets safe. 

 

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