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'Mass
arrests' after curfew issued for city's downtown area
Welcome
to the Guardian’s continued coverage of the protests in Los Angeles. If you are
just tuning in, here is a handy summary to bring you up to speed.
The LAPD
says it has made ‘mass arrests’ in downtown LA after the Los Angeles Mayor
Karen Bass issued a curfew for the city’s downtown area following several days
of intense protests against Ice raids. The protests have been marked by clashes
between demonstrators and law enforcement, widespread vandalism and some
looting. The curfew began at 8pm local time on Tuesday and will last until 6am
local time on Wednesday. It will apply to a one-square-mile area in downtown.
California
governor Gavin Newsom delivered a searing rebuke of the Trump administration on
Tuesday evening, accusing the government of “pulling a military dragnet” across
LA and warning democracy is “under assault before our eyes”. The Democratic
governor’s remarks come after Trump ordered the deployment of nearly 5,000
troops, including National Guard and Marines, to the nation’s second-largest
city.
Protests
against the Trump administration’s newly intensified immigration raids, centred
on Los Angeles, spread across the country on Tuesday, with demonstrations in
New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Omaha and Seattle. Thousands attended a protest
against the federal government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in
New York City’s Foley Square.
A federal
district court judge declined California’s request to issue an immediate
temporary restraining order that would bar Marines and National Guard troops
dispatched to Los Angeles from doing anything other than guarding federal
buildings. The judge instead scheduled a hearing for Thursday on the state’s
request for a restraining order.
Trump
delivered a deeply partisan, political speech to the avowedly non-partisan US
army at Fort Bragg, where he called Los Angeles “a trash heap”, repeated
baseless conspiracy theories and announced he was not yet done changing the
names of military bases back to honour confederates. Trump said he would
“liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean, and safe again”.
Trump
denied accusing California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, and the mayor of Los
Angeles, Karen Bass, of paying agitators to turn the protests in the city
violent. Video footage from his speech at Fort Bragg just hours earlier, shows
him clearly making the accusation.
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