Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office downplayed the riots gripping Los Angeles, likening them to sports celebrations that notoriously break out in Philadelphia after an Eagles’ victory. 

«LA riots? Have these geniuses ever seen what happens when the Eagles win a playoff game?» Izzy Gardon, Newsom’s communications director, told Fox News Digital on Sunday morning. 

Philadelphia notoriously sees sports revelers flood the city after beloved teams such as the Eagles or Phillies win championships, sometimes setting cars ablaze and causing property damage. The city even greases city light poles to dissuade partiers from scaling them and deploys additional police to the streets while often wearing riot gear.

Fox News Digital reached out to the governor’s office to ask about claims by California Republicans and natives that Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass bore some of the blame for the riots. They and other local Democrats issued messages defending illegal immigrants and condemning federal agents for carrying out deportation raids in the left-wing city. 

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«Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have a real habit of letting Los Angeles burn,» Republican California Rep. Darell Issa posted to X on Saturday evening. 

«If only Karen Bass fought against the Los Angeles fires like she fights for illegal aliens,» Issa added in another post, referring to the Palisades fire that tore through Southern California in January. 

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«Gavin Newsom is unqualified for a plethora of reasons, the least of which is his support of illegal alien insurrectionists. He is an all purpose, all around loser,» Hollywood actor and California resident James Woods posted to X.

Eagles fans celebrating after the Super Bowl in February. (Getty Images)

Federal officials have also pinned blame for the violence on Democratic elected officials who have «villainized and demonized» ICE law enforcement, Fox Digital previously reported. 

«This is on you, Governor. It is a shame that California openly defies federal law and sides with illegal aliens, including hardened criminals, against its own citizens,» Harmeet Dhillon, former vice chair of the California Republican Party and current assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, posted to X. 

«The violent targeting of law enforcement in Los Angeles by lawless rioters is despicable and Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom must call for it to end,» DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in a statement. «The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to protect and defend the lives of American citizens.… From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale. This violence against ICE must end.» 

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Newsom on Friday described the Trump administration’s immigration raids in Los Angeles as «chaotic and reckless.»

«Continued chaotic federal sweeps, across California, to meet an arbitrary arrest quota are as reckless as they are cruel. Donald Trump’s chaos is eroding trust, tearing families apart, and undermining the workers and industries that power America’s economy,» Newsom’s statement read. 

The press office doubled down in support of shielding illegal immigrants from deportation in a response X post to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Saturday. 

«In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California. These operations are essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States. In the wake of this violence, California’s feckless Democrat leaders have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens,» Leavitt posted to X. 

Newsom’s office responded: «These are anything but basic. Your indiscriminate sweeps are terrifying entire communities and detaining hardworking, tax-paying Californians. It’s cruel escalation and must end.»

Gov. Gavin Newsom (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

When asked about the riots, and California Republicans condemning the violence and Newsom’s stance on immigration on Sunday morning, the governor’s office compared the lawlessness to street parties after an Eagles win. 

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The riots in Los Angeles, however, have included targeted attacks on federal law enforcement officials, including violent protesters lobbing rocks and other items at immigration officials. U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks, for example, shared a photo of a Border Patrol agent’s bloody hand that was injured by a rock flying through the windshield.

Police kick tear gas back to the crowd as people block off the street and set a fire during protests on Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Paramount, California. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Saturday to deploy 2,000 National Guardsmen to Paramount, California, to help quell the violence, and has also slammed the local leaders for the chaos. 

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«If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!» Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday evening. 

En una medida que no ocurría en 60 años, el presidente Donald Trump ordenó desplegar 2.000 miembros de la Guardia Nacional en Los Ángeles para dispersar las protestas que comenzaron en respuesta a las redadas de inmigración, una iniciativa que está en contra de la voluntad del gobernador demócrata al que la Casa Blanca calificó de “irresponsable”.

Es otra muestra de la intención de Trump de escalar la “mano dura” contra los inmigrantes y contra quienes manifiesten contra su política de deportaciones. Además, envía el mensaje a otros estados liberales que son considerados por el presidente como “santuarios” para indocumentados: no le tiembla el pulso para desplegar las fuerzas federales por este tema aún si no lo convocan.

La orden de Trump es la primera vez que un presidente activa la fuerza de la Guardia Nacional de un estado sin una solicitud del gobernador de ese territorio desde 1965, cuando el entonces presidente Lyndon B. Johnson envió tropas a Alabama para proteger a los manifestantes por los derechos civiles.

Las autoridades de inmigración y los manifestantes se han enfrentado durante dos días en el área de Los Angeles y los disturbios comenzaron el viernes después de que decenas de personas fueron detenidas por agentes federales de inmigración en diferentes lugares. Los arrestos se producen en medio de la ofensiva de Trump contra la inmigración, que ha implicado oleadas de redadas y deportaciones en todo el país.

Las fuerzas del orden con equipo antidisturbios desplegaron gases lacrimógenos y granadas aturdidoras para dispersar a los manifestantes en el centro de Los Angeles y la ciudad de Paramount durante los dos días, y las autoridades informaron múltiples arrestos el sábado.

Al anunciar el envío de los efectivos de la Guardia Nacional, la secretaria de prensa la Casa Blanca, Karoline Leavitt dijo en un comunicado: «Estas operaciones son esenciales para detener y revertir la invasión de criminales ilegales a los Estados Unidos. A raíz de esta violencia, los irresponsables líderes demócratas de California han abdicado por completo de su responsabilidad de proteger a sus ciudadanos”.

El gobernador de California, el demócrata Gavin Newsom, calificó el despliegue de tropas como «intencionalmente incendiario» y advirtió que solo aumentaría las tensiones.

«Esta es la misión equivocada y erosionará la confianza pública», dijo Newsom.

Funcionarios de la administración Trump describieron a los manifestantes como «alborotadores sin ley». El Departamento de Policía de Los Angeles, por su parte, dijo que las manifestaciones del sábado dentro de la ciudad «se mantuvieron pacíficas» y que «los eventos concluyeron sin incidentes».

En otras partes del condado de Los Angeles, una multitud de manifestantes en Paramount se volvió «cada vez más agitada, arrojando objetos y exhibiendo un comportamiento violento hacia los agentes federales y los alguaciles adjuntos», dijo el Departamento del Sheriff de Los Ángeles el sábado por la noche. En respuesta, el departamento solicitó recursos adicionales en todo el condado.

En las cercanías de Compton, un vehículo fue incendiado donde los manifestantes comenzaron a reunirse. El viernes, un video mostró varios proyectiles lanzados contra agentes equipados con chalecos antibalas y escudos protectores fuera de un centro de detención federal de Los Ángeles.

Leavitt argumentó que Trump llamó a los guardias para «abordar la anarquía que se ha permitido que se encone» y que «turbas violentas atacaron a oficiales de ICE y agentes federales de aplicación de la ley».

Trump invocó su autoridad bajo el Título 10, que permite al presidente llamar a la Guardia Nacional según sea necesario para repeler una invasión, reprimir una rebelión o ejecutar leyes. El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, Pete Hegseth, dijo que los infantes de marina en servicio activo en Camp Pendleton también serán movilizados si los disturbios continúan.

La medida de la Casa Blanca enfrenta críticas de algunos miembros de las fuerzas del orden. Muchos ven el despliegue de la Guardia Nacional como una reacción exagerada que puede ser contraproducente y solo provocar agitadores adicionales, dijo una fuente policial de alto rango involucrada en la respuesta a las protestas de Los Ángeles.

La Unión Estadounidense por las Libertades Civiles (ACLU, por sus siglas en inglés) opinó sobre la decisión de Trump de federalizar las tropas de la Guardia Nacional, calificándola de abuso de poder incendiario. «Al tomar esta acción, la administración Trump está poniendo en peligro a los angelinos, creando un peligro legal y ético para las tropas y socavando imprudentemente nuestro principio democrático fundamental de que los militares no deben vigilar a los civiles», dijo Hina Shamsi, directora del Proyecto de Seguridad Nacional de la ACLU.

A renewed search for Madeleine McCann, an English toddler who disappeared from a family vacation to Portugal May 3, 2007, likely came from a trusted inside tip, according to Grey Bull Rescue founder Bryan Stern.

Madeleine was abducted from the family’s ground-floor apartment in Praia da Luz, a coastal, southern Portuguese city, when she was 3 years old.

Portuguese and German police began a new search this week in Praia da Luz that concluded Thursday, and officials have not yet said whether they discovered any evidence that may be significant to the missing persons case, according to Reuters.

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«The five W’s are unanswered right now: Who did it? How did it happen? When did it happen? Where did it happen, you know?» Stern, a multiple-tour combat veteran of the U.S. Army and Navy who now rescues people for a living, told Fox News Digital. 

«That’s why these situations are so frustrating … because there’s way more questions than answers. The only thing that anybody knows for sure is that there’s a little girl who used to be walking the streets; now she’s not.»

He added that renewed searches like this one for Madeleine show that law enforcement agencies are still actively searching for answers in an unsolved case, and they may have received a tip from someone who knew the main suspect in her disappearance or the suspect himself as part of a deal with prosecutors. 

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A search was conducted June 5, 2025, at the request of the German federal police to look for evidence that could implicate Christian Brueckner, who German prosecutors say is the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. (James Manning/PA Images)

In 2020, German authorities named Christian Brueckner, 45, the main suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance. That same year, German officials declared her dead.

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Authorities search for evidence in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. (James Manning/PA Images)

Brueckner continues to deny his involvement in the case. Brueckner spent many years in Portugal, including in Praia da Luz, around the time of Madeleine’s disappearance.

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The house where Christian Brueckner was reportedly staying in Monte Judeu, Portugal.  (James Manning/PA Images)

He is serving a seven-year sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in 2005 and is scheduled to be released in September, according to Reuters.

Brueckner was also charged in 2022 for sex crimes against children that German authorities allege he committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.

Police investigators arrive to continue an ongoing search operation in the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann at Atalaia, Lagos, in Algarve, June 5, 2025. (Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP)

A source involved with the search in Praia da Luz this week told Reuters it included several derelict houses, wells and reservoirs covering «dozens of hectares.»

Stern noted officials also likely used radar technology that «can see into the ground.»

Madeleine McCann disappeared from a Portugal vacation 18 years ago. (Carabinieri Milano/handout)

«They find stuff in the dirt all the time, all the time. It’s 2025. Technology is amazing. DNA technology, specifically, is amazing. DNA doesn’t die,» Stern said. «There’s technology that can see into the ground. They use it for fossils all the time. They use it for missing people all the time.

«They use it for oil drilling. They use them for water mitigation, all kinds of things. … It’s a type of radar that pushes sound and energy down, and it comes back up with a return, and that return, in today’s world, can actually be extremely, extremely detailed.»

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Authorities look for evidence in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. (James Manning/PA Images)

Stern works «all the time» with parents who have lost children, and he said talking to them is the hardest part of his job. 

«I don’t care about the bad guys. I don’t care about the Russians or Hezbollah or any of that stuff. What I care about is the mommy who’s depending on me to bring her kid back. That’s what really, really drives me and scares me. … My biggest thing that I’m afraid of is having to go to a mother saying I failed. Seven hundred and twenty-nine missions later, we’ve never failed; 7,128 people later, we’ve never failed.»

The search June 5, 2025, was conducted at the request of the German federal police as they look for evidence that could implicate Christian Brueckner, who German prosecutors say is the prime suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance. (James Manning/PA Images)

In the McCann case, however, Stern said not knowing absolutely that she is dead, because her remains have never been found, is «painful.»

Madeleine was born in May 2003 and would be turning 22 years old this year.

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The Official Find Madeleine Campaign, run by Madeleine’s parents — Kate and Gerry McCann — did not respond to an inquiry from Fox News Digital regarding the search.