Did Wyatt Russell attend LA anti-ICE protests and call out troops? Viral video debunked
A recent video claimed that actor and former hockey player Wyatt Russell joined anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles and spoke out against the National Guard. The clip, posted by TikToker @only_loo on June 9, 2025, shows a man believed to be Russell giving a long speech in Downtown LA.
“You should be standing here with us! You’re on the wrong side of history. We know you got a job to do. But you took an oath to the Constitution, not the fascists in the White House! Think about what you’re doing now, think about what this means,” the man was heard saying.
The TikTok video post amassed millions of views in less than 24 hours and circulated across other social media platforms, including Instagram and X.
However, the man in the viral video is not Wyatt Russell. It is instead an entrepreneur named Aaron Fisher, as confirmed by Yahoo! News. Fisher is a partner at Statecraft Media, a liberal digital media campaign organizer.
Additionally, Wyatt Russell’s publicist, Bryna Rifkin of Narrative PR, told Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly that the man in the video isn’t him.
“This is indeed not Wyatt Russell, and we have been working to try and correct the mis-identification,” the representative stated.
While Russell himself hasn’t addressed the misidentification yet, Fisher told EW that he found it “pretty humorous.”
Wyatt Russell did not attend anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles
On Monday, a video surfaced online misidentifying Wyatt Russell, the son of actors Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, as the man criticizing the National Guard troops outside the Veterans Affairs building in Los Angeles, as part of the anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests.
However, several outlets, including Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Yahoo! News, Hindustan Times, and Distractify, have now correctly identified the protester as Aaron Fisher.
“Coming into our community, peaceful f**king community, people working their jobs. They send in men in military fatigues, weapons of war, into our community. And you stand here and you allow it. I’m sick and tired of it. You should be sick and tired of it,” he stated in the clip.
The bearded man with long hair, dressed in a black Los Angeles Kings hoodie and baseball cap, was heard yelling slogans in the footage.
“Do you think any of these people in the White House sending you these commands give a f**k about you?... Think about your place in history,” Fisher implored the armed forces.
While Wyatt Russell’s team has been trying to tackle the misidentification, Aaron Fisher addressed the mix-up to Entertainment Weekly in a statement.
"I found the mix-up to be pretty humorous, and glad it helped to amplify the message. The proliferation of the words themselves and the movement behind it is what matters most. The deployment of the National Guard against the wishes of our Governor is dangerously un-American, and I will continue to peacefully protest in my community," Fisher shared.
While Wyatt Russell may not have participated in the protests, there were celebrities who took to the streets in LA, including Billie Joe Armstrong and Finneas O’Connell. The latter is a Grammy and Oscar-winning musician and the older brother of Billie Eilish.
O’Connell wrote on his Instagram Story that he was “tear-gassed almost immediately at the very peaceful protests,” and called out the armed forces for “inciting” tensions in the city.
Meanwhile, A-listers like Mark Ruffalo, Chrissy Teigen, Eva Longoria, and Tyler the Creator condemned the ICE raids in LA via social media over the weekend.
The ICE raids began in Downtown LA on Friday and continued until Sunday, as did the protests.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass have denounced the raids. Newsom shared his intention to sue the Trump administration and accused them of “inflaming tensions” and labelled the raids “a serious breach of state sovereignty.”
