On Wednesday, the man admitted that he lit a Molotov cocktail and threw him to the deputies of the sheriff of the Los -Angeles district during protests against immigration repressions during the summer.
23 -year -old Emiliano Garduno Galvesa, who the authorities said, is a Mexican citizen in the country illegally, pleaded guilty in the federal court for having an unregistered destructive device and civil unrest related to his actions on the evening of June 7 in Paramount.
Galves will be sentenced by January 30, and he faces up to 15 years in prison.
On the morning of June 7, agents of the border patrol were discovered in Paramount, across the road from Home Depot. The word quickly spread on social networks. Passers -by -guided. Soon the protesters arrived.
Already intense tension was high, federal officials raided the retail trade warehouse and distribution in the center of Los -Ageles the day before, arresting dozens of workers and a senior trade union official.
According to the agreement on guilty, several people gathered near Hunseake -Avenue and the Alondra Boulevard in Paramount and began to accumulate around the staff of federal institutions, and then local law enforcement agencies. People threw stones or pieces of slag blocks, lit objects in fire and prepared a fireworks in the direction of law enforcement agencies, the Galvesus agreement said.
The authorities said that the protest intervened in the “coordination of personnel of federal agencies and preparation for immigration activities”, as well as “difficult, delayed and negatively affected trade”.
In particular, according to the guilt agreement, the home depot was temporarily closed in this place, ”and had products stolen during civil disorders, including slag blocks that were thrown into law enforcement agencies.”
Galves admitted that he was in Paramount that evening, and that he saw the deputies of the sheriff engaged in the control of the crowd. When the deputies tried to accelerate and move the crowd back, Galvest admitted in an agreement on the guilty to go behind the stone wall, lighting the wick inside Molotov’s cocktail, and then threw it to the wall to the place where he saw the deputies.
According to the agreement on guilty, Molotov cocktail landed in a grassy zone near the foot of the protester and about 15 feet from the deputies. Galvest admired that then he ran from the region.
Galves threw Molvesov Molobov, “intending to interfere, interfere with the LASD deputies, who legally engaged in the fulfillment of official duties,” according to the agreement.
