Los Angeles: DOJ Identifies Suspect Accused of Throwing Rocks at Officers
Elpidio Reyna, 40, faces charges of assault on a federal officer.
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli identified the man accused of throwing rocks at law enforcement vehicles in Los Angeles.
Elpidio Reyna, 40, faces charges of assault on a federal officer.
Reyna faces eight years in prison.
WANTED: Elpidio Reyna can run, but he can’t hide. He threw rocks at federal officers leaving a command post in Paramount on Saturday, a brazen attack caught on film and that could have resulted in deaths. Reyna, 40, is charged with assault on a federal officer, and faces up to… pic.twitter.com/YYgqRxo73a
— U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) June 10, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi told Sean Hannity that authorities executed a search warrant on Reyna’s house.
Authorities do not have Reyna in custody.
“So you can run, you can’t hide,” said Bondi. “We are coming after you federally if you assault a police officer, if you rob a store, if you loot, if you spit on a police officer, we’re coming after you.”
BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi announces the suspect accused of throwing cinderblocks at law enforcement has been identified:
“The FBI has identified the suspect. They are executing a search warrant at his residence as we speak. You can run, but you can’t hide—we are… pic.twitter.com/GFwjDlFW9v
— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) June 10, 2025
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Karen Bass says it’s all Trumps fault. The California man, as she calls him, wouldn’t have anything if Trump hadn’t sent out the National Guard. And anyway what did was no different than throwing a few marshmallows. It was all done in good fun.
I think sea Bass said that it’s President Trump’s fault because ICE was enforcing federal laws by rounding up criminal illegals. Sea Bass was essentially saying that laws should not be enforced. Taken to the extreme, the question is then, why is there an LAPD?
I thought Bass was in Africa. I believed that when things got tough in LA, Bass always headed back to the motherland until things cooled down.
He should be charged with attempted murder.
I am all for letting him stand out in the street and as he walks by, ICE and LAPD should be able to throw rocks at him.
Big question I have… If illegal invaders carry flags of another country while attacking federal and state law enforcement, aren’t they considered lawful combatants if they are under the flag of the country from which they are citizens?
If so, armed insurrection, and should be shot on sight as foreign enemies.
No. Flags are irrelevant. Anyone can fly a flag. They are not members of those countries’ armed forces, and are not wearing their uniforms.
Ah, that makes them SPIES!
Not if they’re not acting on any country’s behalf. Again, they are not members of those countries’ armed forces, they”re just individual criminals and must be treated like common criminals.
(That means, for instance, that if arrested they’re not prisoners of war. I was recently in a discussion of the difference between privateers and pirates. The difference was not just in the view of the country that issued the privateer’s letter of marque, but in that of all countries. Pirates who were captured could be hanged out of hand, but privateers had to be treated as prisoners of war.)
And hopefully beaten to a pulp once taken in.
I remember throwing rocks at fellow students in grade school because of a neighborhood fight. My parents harshly disciplined me, but nobody suggested that I should be charged with attempted murder and be sent to prison.
“I remember throwing rocks at fellow students in grade school because of a neighborhood fight.”
I’ll take Things That Never Occurred for $500, Alex.
Oh look, it’s the Daily Double!
Cinderblocks?
And yet you should have been. If you didn’t intend to kill anyone then it wouldn’t be attempted murder, but it would be reckless indifference to others’ lives. If someone did die, in many states that would make it murder rather than manslaughter.
I asked this on X this morning: “At what point is return fire justified?”
Ever since Cain murdered Abel with a rock the world has known these objects can be deadly. So, at what point is return fire justified? Bloody wound? ICU? Death?
Honestly, if these violent invaders hurled a rock/bottle/brick at me or my family, I’m returning fire center mass w/o hesitation. It’s better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6 – but I can’t forsee any other verdict except ‘not guilty by reason of self-defense.’
What say you?
Absolutely. And the same is true of those “Palestinians” (including minors) who throw rocks at Jewish cars passing by, and at IDF soldiers. It ought to be lawful and standard to respond to such attacks with deadly force, and it’s unfortunately that Israeli law seems not to allow this.
I would agree. However, these situations are more about narrative/optics than logic and reality.
These “protesters” are pawns in a publicity fight and should a federal officer shoot one without clear, serious provocation (that can’t be twisted like being shot at first) the media and marxists will have a field day making a martyr of him, from their cushy offices.
This is very true. Unfortunately, public relations and political considerations/”optics” are undeniably as much a part of the equation as legal standards of self-defense.
A dead martyr. But a martyr just the same.
The sainted George Floyd the First is a martyr. A dead martyr just the same.
Neither will be remembered throughout history.
I prefer them to be martyrs. Dead martyrs.
The legal standard for the lawful use of deadly force in response to an attack is the actor reasonably fearing imminent, serious bodily harm and/or death to himself/herself or to others.
Being on the receiving end of rocks thrown at one’s head would qualify to meet that standard.
“I can’t forsee any other verdict except ‘not guilty by reason of self-defense.’”
Have you ever lived anywhere like California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, or DC?
It broke the hearts of Cod Curtain Democrats in power that not even a Massachusetts jury would ever find veteran Scott Hayes guilty for defending himself against a pro-Palestinian nutbag who tackled him to the ground from across the street. So they mollified themselves by forcing him into a “pre-trial probation” regimen including onerous conditions:
1. No carrying a gun (i.e., next time the nutbag sees Scott, he gets a free-throw)
2. Mandatory “re-education” program (like Jordan Peterson)
3. Got trespassed from an entire town.
In other states, they put a leg monitor on you, tell you not to go outside your county, and then drag you into court every three weeks for five years while they “work” your case.
They always get their pound of flesh.
why it looks like a cross between
gavin newsom and karen bass
arrest them!!
Ahh actually it was Laura Loomer who first identified this guy
She has amazing resources
I live in California. Relax. Chances are we never hear about Reyna again. Or, he pleads to something minor.
Not as if he was wearing a MAGA hat or something.
Might be a bit more vigorous enforcement by Federal Government rather than the lax attitude towards criminality that State/Local officials in CA seem to prefer.
This clown with be tried in a federal court in CA, That means a CA judge, Case will be dismissed,
Is he here illegally? Who is he associated with?
That may be true. But cooling one’s criminal ass in the federal lockup for years on end is acceptable. The process is the punishment.
They have been levying war against the United States for decades. I wonder what colossal act of treason it would take for us to finally acknowledge this. And actually do something about it?
Decades of nothing. No response. Apparently we will just sit back and take whatever they want to dish out forever.
over and over
they get away with it b/c rinos run the gop and they mix well with their leftist counterparts
and the left run by the communistnazi agenda…the rinos and “moderates” squeeze down our throats slowly as to not rile us up too much
Yes, and all you ever do is post rants on LI and the Internet. Thank you for contributing to the problem, and absolutely nothing to the solution.
“Thank you for contributing to the problem, and absolutely nothing to the solution.”
… he posts, without a single shred of irony or self-awareness.
By the way, this is you, posting as “lonejustice,” on Althouse.
Again, posted by you without a single shred of irony or self-awareness.
For a troll, you’re pathetic.
lonejustice said…
gspenser, who posts on this blog, is the same person as fscarn, who also posts on Legal Insurrection blog. His comments are identical. I have little respect for someone who just copies and pastes the very same comment on multiple blogs under multiple pseudonyms. Others here also do it. It’s lazy, and it often has little to do with the actual discussion going on here.
3/11/23, 8:47 AM
I may have missed it, but is Reyna here legally? A US citizen? A hostile foreign invader? If he is the last, you can expect that the resources of the state of California will be used to keep him out of Federal custody.
Subotai Bahadur
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