Man may face prison after books tossed onto U.S. 101 during immigration policy protest
LA TimesA Los Angeles man was charged with felony vandalism Monday after he allegedly threw books at cars on the freeway downtown during recent protests against President Trump’s immigration and deportation policies. When marchers crossed overpasses of U.S. 101, prosecutors say Martin Richard Torres, 42, climbed onto a freeway sign near Spring Street, vandalized it and threw two books at traffic below. “To all those who want to protest here in Los Angeles County, that if you want to do it lawfully, if you want to comply with the various laws and ordinances that are applicable to such protests, we will not only allow that to happen, we will protect to right to do it,” Hochman said. “However, for the people who basically want to use the protest as a cover to commit criminal activity, when people’s words or actions cross that line into criminal behavior, we will go after that criminal behavior,” Hochman said.
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