Curfew in downtown LA for Second night
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Tensions flared in Los Angeles late Monday after Trump escalated military presence in the region against the wishes of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Here is what happened on each day the protests against immigration detention operations in the Los Angeles area.
UPDATED, with additional comments: Donald Trump responded to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s dare to administration officials to arrest him, with the president suggesting that he would support such a move by his border czar, Tom Homan. “I would do it if I were Tom. I think it’s great,” Trump told reporters at the White House …
LOS ANGELES − Two people have been charged with throwing firebombs during five days of protests that have rocked a downtown section of the city and prompted President Trump' controversial decision to send 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines here, authorities said Wednesday.
The curfew was instated on Tuesday after days of protests against a string of immigration enforcement operations throughout Southern California. Bass said the curfew will be enacted daily until it's no longer deemed necessary.
The Trump administration faces a legal challenge to its deployment of the military to protests. Tensions flared after President Trump sent troops, and protests spread to other U.S. cities.
Demonstrators clashed with police on a freeway off-ramp in LA for a fifth day. President Trump called them a national security risk.
Unlike the riots, the ongoing protests in Los Angeles have largely been peaceful, with isolated clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers. Wilson and then-President George HW Bush ...