Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong tells ICE to “fuck off” in LA protest video

Green Day’s lead singer Bil­lie Joe Arm­strong has shared a video show­ing sol­i­dar­i­ty with Los Ange­les pro­tes­tors, after demon­stra­tions broke out in the wake of Immi­gra­tion Cus­toms Enforce­ment (ICE) immi­gra­tion raids on Sat­ur­day, June 7.

Cap­tioned sim­ply with two emo­jis – a mid­dle fin­ger and an ice cube – the video shows footage from the protests, includ­ing a self-dri­ving Way­mo taxi set on fire tagged with ​“FUCK ICE”, as well as peo­ple appear­ing to be arrest­ed and led away by authorities.

It’s sound­tracked by Green Day’s recent­ly released song ​‘Fuck Off’, which was released last month as part of three new songs on Sav­iors (édi­tion de luxe), an extend­ed ver­sion of the band’s 2024 LP Sav­iors.

Its lyrics include: ​“Suck­er, you’re a suck­er / You’ve been suck­ered by hus­tlers and liars / You’re a liar / You’re so tired, so kind­ly just / Fuck off”.

The protests, which have most­ly been cen­tred around the city’s Down­town area, have led to US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump deploy 2,000 Nation­al Guard troops, which has been opposed by Cal­i­for­nia Gov­er­nor Gavin New­som and LA May­or Karen Bass.

New­som called on Trump to ​“stop fan­ning the flames” and accused the Pres­i­dent of ​“man­u­fac­tur­ing a cri­sis”, as ten­sions flared amid ​“most­ly peace­ful” protests, accord­ing to Guardian report­ing.

Pro­tes­tors car­ried plac­ards marked with slo­gans includ­ing: ​“Fuck ICE”, ​“Nation­al Guard LOL” and ​“No one’s ille­gal on stolen land”.

Tear gas was alleged­ly used against pro­tes­tors, with singer and pro­duc­er FINNEAS, who pro­duces music with his sis­ter Bil­lie Eil­ish, say­ing that he was hit with tear gas while attend­ing a protest on Sat­ur­day. On Sun­day, he post­ed on his Insta­gram Sto­ries: ​“Tear gassed almost imme­di­ate­ly at the very peace­ful protest down­town – they’re incit­ing this.”

Los Ange­les Police Depart­ment (LAPD) Chief Jim McDon­nell claimed that police had been hit by rocks and shot towards with fire­works by protestors.

Accord­ing to CBS News, over 2,000 arrests by ICE took place on Tues­day and Wednes­day last week, as Trump’s crack­down efforts on undoc­u­ment­ed migrants inten­si­fied, with over 100,000 detainees report­ed since the begin­ning of the President’s sec­ond term.

Isaac Muk is Huck’s dig­i­tal edi­tor. Fol­low him on Bluesky.

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