Finneas stated that he was tear-gassed whereas attending a protest in Los Angeles over immigration raids on Sunday.
“Tear-gassed nearly instantly on the very peaceable protest downtown — they’re inciting this,” the Grammy-winning music producer wrote on Instagram. A rep for Finneas didn’t instantly reply to request for additional remark.
The incident occurred at certainly one of a number of protests across the metropolis Sunday, as hundreds within the metropolis took to the streets protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids geared toward undocumented immigrants within the area. “Fuck ICE,” Finneas wrote on his Instagram Sunday, reposting a number of different messages in regards to the protests and raids, together with one which stated “if you’re into this fascist shit you’re small and weak and can lose.”
President Donald Trump deployed California’s Nationwide Guard Sunday over the protests, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom responding with a proper request for the Trump Administration to “rescind their illegal deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command.”
“We didn’t have an issue till Trump received concerned,” Newsom wrote Sunday. “It is a severe breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions whereas pulling assets from the place they’re truly wanted.”
Finneas wasn’t the one outstanding musician voicing his help for the protestors this weekend, as Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong posted a video on his Instagram Sunday captioned with the center finger emoji and an ice dice.
With the protests going down in downtown LA, the BET Awards — set to happen on the Peacock Theater Monday evening — reaffirmed Sunday that the present will proceed as deliberate, however added that the community “stays dedicated to the protection of our visitors and workers. We’re working intently with LAPD and monitoring the scenario.”
