WATCH: LA Resident Films Downtown Mall Amid Anti-ICE Riots—It’s Straight-Up Dystopian

[American Girl]

Excerpt:
A video that’s gone viral captures a dystopian scene in downtown Los Angeles, where a resident filmed the aftermath of anti-ICE riots, revealing a mall that’s a shadow of its former self. Shared on X, the footage shows every store boarded up and fortified, a stark contrast to what’s supposed to be one of the most prestigious iconic places on earth. “Los Angeles resident records what the mall looks like right now in Downtown LA,” the caption reads, a lament for a city under siege. For many, this is a moment of outrage, a visual of what Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have wrought, turning California into a “3rd world country,” as the post claims. The image above, from the video, sets the scene: a multi-level mall, its stores shuttered, the signs of Zara, Victoria’s Secret, and Sephora barely visible behind plywood, the air thick with a sense of abandonment. It’s racked up over 1 million views, and it’s a story that demands attention.




California should be the iconic globally recognized destination location of the United States but Democrats have turned it into a 3rd world country hell hole.

Rest assured, this is what the Democrats want from the remaining 49 States in America come 2028.
https://defiantamerica.com/watch-la-resident-films-downtown-mall-amid-anti-ice-riots/

[Smokin Joe]

I have to take issue with this:

The anti-ICE protests, sparked by Trump’s immigration policies, have turned the city into a battleground, with businesses paying the price.

These protests are part of a CCP funded much larger net of protests, replete with paid organizers and actors, trying to change national policy by chimping out and breaking even more laws than the ones which have forced policy to enforce our laws. The goal is to disrupt this administration in hopes of getting back to the corruptocracy of the Democrat dominated previous administration.

While The Administration tries to return legal compliance with our immigration laws to the country, misbehaving is on those who do it. It isn't a righteous protest of something unfair, it is enforcing the existing laws the previous administration ignored in hopes of packing the population bases of Democrat run cities with malleable people they hoped to have vote for Democrats, but who at the very least would pad population numbers to shift the balance of the House of Representatives by adding more heavily Democrat populated districts (even if they were not eligible to vote but were just counted in the census).

IMHO, count the non citizens to keep track of how many there are, but do not count them for the purpose of allocating congressional districts, and because they are not legally present, they should have no vote.

[Cyber Liberty]

https://defiantamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/la-mall-downtown.mp4

[GtHawk]

https://defiantamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/la-mall-downtown.mp4

C’mon man! The majority of those shops boarded up were probably empty, almost every mall, enclosed ones are dead or dying in California. The successful ones now are those that went back to the open air concept.

[Cyber Liberty]

C’mon man! The majority of those shops boarded up were probably empty, almost every mall, enclosed ones are dead or dying in California. The successful ones now are those that went back to the open air concept.

This appears to be open air with two levels.  You can see buildings behind the stores and no ceiling.

[GtHawk]

This appears to be open air with two levels.  You can see buildings behind the stores and no ceiling.

I admit I didn’t look that close, the most successful open air malls around me are single story.

There is a huge mall near me in Westminster, CA that is more ore less a zombie mall, the near future plans are to flatten it, build a new open air mall, multi floor apartments with commercial on the first floor and large open areas of park and garden. I’m not sure which is worse a dead mall large multi story pigeon coops.

[Smokin Joe]

I guess it depends on whether or not you are one of the pigeons.

[Cyber Liberty]

I admit I didn’t look that close, the most successful open air malls around me are single story.

There is a huge mall near me in Westminster, CA that is more ore less a zombie mall, the near future plans are to flatten it, build a new open air mall, multi floor apartments with commercial on the first floor and large open areas of park and garden. I’m not sure which is worse a dead mall large multi story pigeon coops.

Good point...I hate those shit birds.