CNN senior investigative reporter Kyung Lah was apparently accosted by a police officer who accused her of grabbing him during her coverage of the ongoing protests in Los Angeles.
“What you’re seeing here are the advancing LAPD. These are officers who have been called to clear this street,” reported Lah on “The Lead” as a throng of police officers could be seen approaching. “There’s been a dispersal order issued. They’re trying to clear the street.”
“Okay, we’re being asked to go behind the police,” Lah added as the CNN crew moved toward the line of officers.
“Press. Press. He’s press, he’s with me. He’s with me. He’s with me,” Lah was heard informing officers. Another CNN staffer then said, “Sir, I’m with CNN. I have my verification. I have my verification right here.”
At that point, an officer stated, “He doesn’t come through. You do.” Then, as a group of officers appeared to surround Lah, she tried pushing through an opening to escape.
“Are you grabbing me?” one officer then demanded of Lah. “No! I didn’t touch you!” she shouted in response, as the officer then declared, “Get away from me!”
At that point, another officer told the CNN crew, “We need you guys to go over there. Come on.”
“See Jake, it’s a little chaotic,” Lah told CNN host Jake Tapper, who was viewing the situation from CNN studios.
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Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s polling numbers regarding his policies of strict immigration enforcement and mass deportations, beginning with criminal aliens, remain very popular with Americans — and that includes immigrant voters, according to CNN data analyst Harry Enten.
At the end of the 8 a.m. ET hour on CNN News Central on Tuesday, anchor Kate Bolduan introduced Enten to discuss the ongoing protests in Los Angeles and other cities in response to the Trump administration’s ICE raids.
Bolduan noted that Enten had examined public opinion on the issue, with a particular focus on how immigrant voters view immigration policy and the recent enforcement actions.
“Immigrant citizens, immigrant voters, foreign-born voters have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020,” said Enten.
“Jump forward to 2024 and 2025, look at that shift — a 40-point shift to the right among immigrant voters! Republicans now lead on this issue by 8 points over Democrats on this issue. More so than any other group that I could find,” he continued. “The group of voters who became more hawkish on immigration were in fact immigrants themselves, immigrants who were registered to vote in this country.”
The host then asked Enten how these voters viewed Trump.
When Trump ran for his first term in 2016, Enten replied, “immigrant voters were one of his weakest spots. But look at this — Trump’s vote share in presidential elections among immigrant citizens, those who are registered to vote — look at this 2016. He got 36% of the vote. You go to 2020, 39% of the vote. Look at this in 2024, all the way up to 47% of the vote. Some polls I looked at had him barely losing that vote. Some polls I looked at had him barely winning that vote.”
“There is no bloc of voters that shifted more to the right from 2020 to 2024 than immigrant voters, and Donald Trump, at least in some surveys, actually won that vote,” Enten pointed out.
Immigrant citizens “have become increasingly unfavorable in their views of those immigrants who are here illegally,” Enten added, going from plus-23 points in 2020 to minus six points underwater last year.
“And so, again, when we’re talking about this, at least from a political angle, this is why Donald Trump feels so comfortable, because, in fact, amongst the group that you would think that would be most opposed to this, in fact, they become increasingly favorable, not just towards Donald Trump, but towards the Republican point of view on immigration,” Enten said.