David Huerta, president of SEIU California, detained during L.A. ICE raids [View all]
Source: LA Times
By Rebecca Ellis, Rachel Uranga, Clara Harter, Ruben Vives and Kaitlyn Huamani
June 6, 2025 8:37 PM PT
Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta was injured and detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles Friday, labor union officials said — prompting protests and calls for his release.
Huerta, 58, was treated at a hospital and then transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A., where he remained in custody as of 5:30 p.m., according to a spokesperson for the labor union. Protesters spray-painted the center with messages such as “F— ICE,” “Burn Prisons” and “Abolish ICE.”
“What happened to me is not about me; This is about something much bigger,” he said in a statement from the hospital. “This is about how we as a community stand together and resist the injustice that’s happening. Hard-working people, and members of our family and our community, are being treated like criminals. We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice.”
The labor union said in a statement that Huerta was detained while “while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity.”
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-06/seiu-president-david-huerta-injured-arrested-during-l-a-ice-raids
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