Bondi says that Los Angeles’s protests are ‘very different’ than on January 6, the rioters who were forgiven
Attorney General Pam Bondi rejected that the forgiveness of President Donald Trump for hundreds of uproarrs who assaulted the police during the January 6 attack against the Capitol create a double standard with the aggressive response of the administration to violence for immigration protests in Los Angeles.
“Well, this is very different,” Bondi said on Wednesday in a group in the camera with journalists from the White House. “These are people who hurt people in California at this time. This is ongoing.”
The attempts of Trump and other officials to enliven the indignation for the videos that show attacks against the application of the law in Los Angeles have been subject to a certain mockery in social networks, with the Democrats and other critics of the administration who publish comparisons with the application of the Law of Aggressions to the assaults that were subject on January 6, when a pro-trump mafia descended on the capitole.
The supporters of President Donald Trump meet outside the Capitol building, on January 6, 2021.
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Trump supporters collide with the police and security forces while the barricades push to assault the Capitol, on January 6, 2021.
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More than 140 officers suffered wounds during the riots of January 6, since they were beaten by objects ranging from baseball bats and hockey sticks to rocks and even an American flag.
Trump’s forgives for almost all 1,600 people accused in relation to the assault on the Capitol extended to more than 450 accused of assaulting or preventing officers, 300 of which they had not yet had their cases completely awarded.
The dismantling of the investigation of January 6 of the Department of Justice further arrested the investigations of approximately 60 people suspected of assaulting the police during the disturbances that had not yet been accused, according to the statistics published by the United States prosecutor’s office in Washington before assuming Trump’s position.
During Bondi’s confirmation hearing before the day of the inauguration, he said he believed that any forgiveness for the defendants of January 6 should be evaluated in a “case by case” and suggested that the pardons of the persons accused of assaulting the agents of the law would be opposed.
“Let me be very clear when talking with you: I condemn any violence in an agent of the law in this country,” Bondi said at that time.
Attorney General Pam Bondi talks to the press, outside the west of the White House, in Washington, on June 11, 2025.
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Bondi has not publicly commented on Trump’s forgiveness since then, although FBI director Kash Patel was significantly distanced during his confirmation hearing of Trump’s forgives for violent criminals on January 6.
“I have always rejected any violence against the police,” Patel said. “And I do not agree with the switching of any judgment of any person who committed violence against the application of the law.”
Members of the California National Guard Guard in front of the Federal Building of Edward R. Roybal in Los Angeles, on June 9, 2025.
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In his group with journalists on Wednesday, Bondi repeatedly dodged the questions about the opinions of the administration about the legal standards that must exist to invoke the insurrection law.
Instead, he pointed out what he argued that it seems to be improvements in the field that should not guarantee such aggressive intervention by the administration.
“At this time in California, we are at a good point,” Bondi said. “We are not afraid to go further. We are not afraid to do anything else if necessary.”
