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Who’s Behind the LA Riots? | Mike Gonzalez

Episode length: 12m

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In Los Angeles, protests against immigration enforcement have turned into assaults on federal officers and buildings, fires, and similar mayhem to the Summer of 2020. And it turns out that’s not all that is similar. The same people, using the same methods, are behind both this year’s LA riots and the BLM protests of five years ago.

I sat down with Mike Gonzalez, a Senior Fellow here at the Heritage Foundation, to talk about just that.

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BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution: https://www.amazon.com/BLM-Making-New-Marxist-Revolution/dp/1641772239

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