"Los Angeles has been under assault by the Trump Administration as masked men grab people off the street, chase working people through parking lots and march through children’s summer camps."
"They are motivated by a political agenda of provoking fear and terror."
"To me, this is another example of the administration ratcheting up chaos by deploying what looked like a military operation in an American city."
"I was so concerned that we were going to find tragedy. Instead, what we found was victory."
"They need to leave and they need to leave right now."
"Our city is definitely united … We are a city of immigrants, and we will stand united with Angelenos regardless of what country they came from, when they got here or why they’re here."
"You have a situation now where people are walking down the street, a car will pull up, no license plate, men will jump out completely masked, pull guns on whoever it is and take them away."
"Franky, it is outrageous and un-American that we have federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing is going on in our parks."
"It's outrageous and un-American that we have U.S. Marines who are trained to kill foreign soldiers overseas, deployed in our American city."
"The world needs to see the troop formation on horses walking through the park, in search of what?"
"It is outrageous and un-American that the federal government that seized our state's National Guard."