The 26-year-old twin daughters of a prominent Los Angeles official were among those arrested on Sunday during the violent anti-ICE riots that have plagued the city over the last four days.
Rick Cole, the chief deputy controller of Los Angeles, told protesters that his daughters, Lucia Aguilar and Antonia, were taken into custody on Sunday, according to a report from LA Mag.
“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs. So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out,” Cole, who previously served as mayor of Pasadena, told protesters outside a hotel on Sunday. The crowd had gathered after federal Immigration and Naturalization Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents reportedly conducted operations there earlier in the day.
Lucia Aguilar and Antonia were taken into custody around 7 p.m. Sunday after some of the most intense violence of the disturbances, when rioters tossed boulders, fireworks and Molotov cocktails at officers on the Route 101 Freeway.
According to a report from KATV, the two women were arrested for allegedly assaulting police officers with a deadly weapon.
“It’s unclear which was the deadly weapon they allegedly used