Los Angeles City Council aide arrested on assault charges in anti-ICE protests

Jurado and her staff said Monday that an aide to Los Angeles City Councilman Ysabel Jurado was arrested for allegedly assaulting an officer in an anti-ICE protest.

Luz Aguilar, who served as Jurado's deputy economic innovation and community growth, was arrested around 7 p.m. Sunday and booked a few hours later, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's inmate records.

“These allegations are very worrying and I take them very seriously,” Jurado, who represents downtown and community in the East District of Los Angeles, said in a statement. “While I respect individual due process rights, I will follow the highest standards of conduct for the team.”

Aguilar's father is Pasadena City Councilman Rick Cole, who is also a senior assistant to Kenneth Mejia, a city controller in Los Angeles. Records show that Aguilar's sister, 26, was arrested at the same time.

Both are held on $50,000 bail.

Jurado said Aguilar (listed as Aguilarcole in prisoner records) was placed on unpaid leave, while the council office assessed the facts and considered “appropriate action.” Although Aguilar is accused of attacking a police officer with a deadly weapon, “it is a developing situation,” Jurado spokesman Lisa Marroquin said.

Marroquin can't say which law enforcement agency the officer came from.

Cole said in a text message that he said Monday that he has no information on the allegations. He said a day ago during an anti-ice rally in Pasadena that the fight against immigration arrests was “personal” for him.

“I just saw pictures of my two daughters on the roadside in downtown Los Angeles [with] He said at the rally.

Protests over federal immigration attacks remained angry Sunday after President Trump ordered the National Guard to travel to Southern California. Some protesters in downtown Los Angeles dropped rocks from highway overpasses onto police cruisers, while others destroyed government buildings, burned Waymo cars or stole businesses.

Cole's boss Mejia is an outspoken critic of LAPD. Mejia expressed concerns about the existence of LAPD officials in “the ice attack near the ice attack.”

Mejia said he had asked the department to hand over information about the financial impact of the raid on police resources. Los Angeles announced it was a sanctuary city last year, and police chief Jim McDonnell repeatedly said the LAPD was not involved in “civil immigration enforcement”, pointing to decades-old policies.

“The emergence of LAPD has raised serious questions about whether our mission to comply with the city is to protect the city, which is the reason for the attention and confusion about the role of LAPD,” ​​Mejia said in a statement on social media.

A LAPD spokesman did not have any details about the arrest when he contacted the Times.

Jurado, a former tenant rights lawyer, won a seat on the 15-member board of directors in November. During the campaign, she described herself as an abolitionist – the people who supported the abolition of police and prisons.

In the final weeks of the campaign, Jurado's recording told the college student: “F, this is the policeman I saw 'em.” Later, she issued a statement downplaying her remarks, saying it was just “lyric poetry” in the rap song.

The city council plans to hold a special meeting Tuesday to discuss federal immigration attacks, including “related threats to public services and facilities”, and open up the possibility of closed-door meetings with McDonald on the subject.