Rachel Maddow Claims Anti-ICE Riots Are Part Of ‘Joyful And Sustainable’ Resistance To Trump

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow claimed Monday night that President Donald Trump was in a state of panic, with the riots in Los Angeles representing the “joyful and sustainable opposition” to his agenda.

Trump ordered 700 Marines to back up the National Guard deployment Monday as the riots following raids by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a Home Depot continued. After MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell spoke dismissively of the impact of the anti-ICE riots, Maddow espoused her theory.

“One of the important things that Mayor Bass brought out when you were talking to her about what’s happening in Los Angeles tonight, and you know this, but just how isolated and tiny a spot of Los Angeles we’re talking about, Downtown Los Angeles, where in the areas where these office buildings are, very few people live anywhere near that. It’s not a residential area,” O’Donnell claimed.

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“Most people living in Los Angeles, most Los Angeles local taxpayers never set foot in that part of Los Angeles,” O’Donnell continued. “You can easily live a life there and never see it. And so it is this — this really isolated little spot that doesn’t in any way disrupt any protest that’s being held down there outside a federal building, doesn’t in any way disrupt anything about the way life is lived in Los Angeles.”

Video posted to social media Saturday showed an individual wearing a motorcycle helmet throwing rocks at the windshields of vehicles containing ICE agents. The Federal Bureau of Investigation