Bondi Vows Federal Protection for Californians Amid Los Angeles Unrest
June 11, 2025 · The White House · 0:01:15
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What happened
Attorney General Pam Bondi addressed unrest in Los Angeles in a White House video published June 11, 2025. Bondi said Governor Gavin Newsom had evidently not been to the scene or seen the violence in Los Angeles, and that President Trump will make America safe again and protect Americans, including Californians — if Newsom is not going to protect them, the federal government will, as she stated it.
Bondi said Newsom also failed to declare an economic disaster, which she said would have allowed Kelly Loeffler and the Small Business Administration to help looted businesses with federal funding, as she stated it. She said looting a business in California during the unrest would be charged as robbery under the Hobbs Act, ending what she called days of nonprosecution for looting, as she stated it.
Bondi said law enforcement had jointly made over 190 arrests, with more coming, and warned that anyone who hits or assaults a police officer, state or federal, will be pursued, as she stated it. Attorney General Bondi is not on this site’s tracked-officials roster, so the page carries no official tags.
Why it matters
The clip fixes the Justice Department’s stated enforcement posture for the Los Angeles unrest — Hobbs Act robbery charges for looting and 190-plus arrests, as Bondi stated them — a federal-prosecution commitment the subsequent case record can be checked against.
Scoreboard watch
Bondi stated that over 190 arrests had been made jointly, as she stated the figure — checkable against subsequent Justice Department announcements on the Los Angeles cases.
Sources: The White House, “AG Pam Bondi: “If Gavin Newsom isn’t going to protect them [Californians], we are.””, 2025-06-11 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-06-11). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.