Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told Newsmax on Monday that the Trump administration is inflaming the situation in Los Angeles by showing a one-sided view of the demonstrations against raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and by calling in the National Guard and Marines.

“The administration is trying to create a violent situation, and to show pictures of only the people who are committing violence and not of the vast, vast, vast majority of people who are there peacefully protesting,” Jayapal told Newsmax congressional correspondent Kilmeny Duchardt during a protest on Monday outside the Department of Justice in Washington.

Jayapal, a liberal Democrat, was joined at the rally by hundreds of people, including teachers union leaders, who were protesting the arrest Friday of David Huerta, president of the California chapter of the Service Employees International Union, in connection with demonstrating in downtown Los Angeles against the ICE raids.

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