Mounted police disperse anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles
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President Trump has said the city would be burning without military intervention, but the protests have been confined to a relatively small area.
Demonstrators hit the streets again in L.A. after President Trump deployed the National Guard due to protests against ICE raids.
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NBC Los Angeles on MSN2 LA County men charged in Molotov cocktail attacks in downtown LA and ParamountTwo Los Angeles County men have been charged by federal authorities with possessing Molotov cocktails during recent immigration enforcement demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles and Paramount. One of the men is accused of throwing a flaming Molotov cocktail at Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies Saturday in Paramount,
If you listen to President Trump and members of his administration, you’d get the impression that Los Angeles is currently a city under siege, completely overrun with violent protests against recent immigration raids.
Here is what happened on each day the protests against immigration detention operations in the Los Angeles area.
6:30 p.m.: More than 100 people gathered at the immigration services building and detention center in downtown Los Angeles to protest the raids. DHS officers fired pepper balls at the protesters before the Los Angeles Police Department dispersed the crowd.
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LAist on MSNNational Guard troops remain staged in Paramount, a city thrust into political conflict.Protests began that morning outside Paramount Business Center, an office park at the 6400 block of Alondra Boulevard, which houses a Department of Homeland Security office that served as a staging point for federal forces. Protesters kicked and threw objects at agents, while officers used flashbang grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets.
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National Guard troops arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday after being ordered into the city by President Trump in response to a weekend of violent clashes between law enforcement officers and protesters triggered by immigration enforcement operations in the area on Friday.
Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have spread fear across their cities and sparked protests across the U.
Los Angeles broke out in violence over the weekend following protests across the city. Here's what travelers should know.
Tensions in Los Angeles escalated Sunday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard, blocking off a major freeway and setting autonomous vehicles on fire as local law enforcement used tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash bangs to control the crowd.
In Compton, with its strong oral culture (it’s the hometown of Kendrick Lamar), some protestors were profane and provocative. A few were anarchists, dressed in black and wearing masks, and threw things at the sheriffs.