An illegal immigrant pleaded guilty to throwing a Molotov cocktail at police during anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots in Los Angeles in June.
On Wednesday, Mexican national Emiliano Garduno Galvez, 23, pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered destructive device as well as civil disorder. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
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According to an agreement signed by Galvez, viewed by the Los Angeles Times, Galvez admitted to lighting the wick of a Molotov cocktail and hurling it at police deputies engaging in crowd control during a riot on June 7. The device exploded in a grassy area near the foot of a protester about 15 feet from the deputies, and Galvez fled the scene.
In the agreement, he admitted to throwing the Molotov cocktail “intending to obstruct, interfere with, and impede the LASD deputies who were lawfully engaged in performance of official duties.”
He also admitted to rioting in the disruption of “the coordination of federal agencies’ personnel and preparation for immigration enforcement activities,” and also “obstructed, delayed, and adversely affected commerce.”
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The Home Depot near where the riot occurred had to close temporarily due to the violence, which included the looting of the store’s cinderblocks to hurl at police.
The riots around the ICE raids in Los Angeles resulted in President Donald Trump deploying 4,000 troops from the National Guard in an effort to quell the violence. The deployment was his first major use of the National Guard to suppress riots and crime, a tactic he would later use again in Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon.