Inexperienced Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has taken to social media to indicate solidarity with the Los Angeles residents protesting ongoing the continued ICE operations within the metropolis.
The protests in opposition to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division’s operations started on Friday (June 6) and carried on via Sunday (8). They noticed quite a few individuals stage a peaceable demonstration, campaigning in opposition to ICE’s raids of a number of workplaces in Los Angeles for alleged immigration violations.
President Donald Trump authorised the deployment of the Nationwide Guard in response, with the Nationwide Guard being allowed to hold out anti-protest operations over the following 60 days.
In an Instagram publish shared Sunday (June 8), Armstrong shared clips of the protests, together with a burning self-driving automotive. Soundtracking the footage to Inexperienced Day’s ‘Fuck Off’, his caption embrace two emojis, a center finger subsequent to an ice dice.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Inexperienced Day) says “Fuck ICE” in new Instagram publish. pic.twitter.com/LD9YtmXNc9
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Followers mentioned the 2024 observe it was the “good music for what’s happening proper now”, with one commenting beneath the publish: “Thanks a lot for persistently being on the best aspect of historical past, Billie Joe Armstrong!”
He joins Finneas in publicly decrying ICE, after the singer additionally took to Instagram to say: “Fuck ICE.” A follow-up publish noticed him repost a message to Nationwide Guard and army personnel who don’t want to partake in Trump’s order. “If you’re Nationwide Guard or Lively Obligation army and you’re being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US residents then that is the quantity to the GI Rights Hotline. There’s help, you don’t should undergo with it,” he wrote.
Afterward, he posted the next on his story: “Tear gassed nearly instantly on the very peaceable protest downtown – they’re inciting this.” He additionally shared a publish from Tim Heidecker that reads: “If you’re into this fascist shit you’re small and weak and can lose.”
The initially peaceable protests have turned extra intense and violent following the Nationwide Guard’s involvement, with police automobiles being set on fireplace, and rocks and extra being thrown. This morning (June 9), CNN reported that round 60 individuals have been arrested in San Francisco after protests outdoors an Immigration Providers constructing turned violent.
As for Inexperienced Day, Armstrong and co. have lengthy been vocal critics of Trump and his insurance policies. Again on the American Music Awards (AMA) in 2016, the band led a chant of “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA”, and went on to announce a limited-time sale of a t-shirt that includes Trump‘s mugshot for charity in 2023.
Within the lead-up to final yr’s US Presidential elections, Armstrong had urgently inspired followers to vote for Kamala Harris as an alternative: “Vote for Harris. I believe there’s most likely numerous issues that individuals disagree with, however the one factor that we do agree on, is Trump has obtained to go and we have to flip the web page.”
Throughout dwell units, ‘American Fool’ has usually been used to referred to as out Donald Trump’s administration by swapping out the lyric “I’m not part of the redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda“. The band have performed this quite a few instances, courting again to late 2023.
