Sergio Espejo didn’t come to Los Angeles with activism in mind. He planned to visit a friend as he had done many times in the past. Except, this summer the city was engulfed in protests, sparked by a series of ICE raids in early June.
This time, he said, he came “to support my fellow immigrants. “I don’t think it’s right that we’re being targeted in places where we should be safe.”
Espejo was one of the estimated 200,000 people who attended the “No Kings” protest in downtown L.A. on June 14. He described the protesters as being largely peaceful. People were dancing, playing music, waving Mexican and American flags, he said, and “exercising their 1st Amendment rights as Americans.”…