Updated
June 9,
2025, 2:36 a.m. ET43 minutes ago
Rick
Rojas Livia Albeck-Ripka Shawn Hubler Jesus Jiménez and Yan Zhuang
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/08/us/la-protests-national-guard
Here’s
the latest.
Law
enforcement officers in Los Angeles clashed for a third day on Sunday with
crowds of people demonstrating against the Trump administration’s crackdown on
immigration. But even as tear gas wafted over pockets of downtown, the rest of
the sprawling city kept to its usual sunlit rhythms.
As night
fell, California leaders urged protesters to be peaceful and Jim McDonnell, the
chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, warned that clashes on the streets
were “getting increasingly worse and more violent.” He blamed that on “people
who do this all the time,” not people protesting immigration raids.
California
leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles, have
said that the Trump administration overstepped its authority by deploying
hundreds of National Guard troops to the city on Sunday. But Chief McDonnell
sent a different message.
Although
the department would not have initially requested assistance from the National
Guard, he told reporters, “looking at the violence today, I think we’ve got to
make a reassessment.”
Confrontations
on Sunday afternoon near a downtown detention center were largely peaceful.
Some protesters later spilled onto the nearby 101 freeway, briefly blocking
traffic California Highway Patrol officers corralled them and ushered them
away. For the next few hours before nightfall, protesters and police, taking
cover under the overpass, clashed. Officers fired gas and other munitions,
while protesters tossed scooters and aimed fireworks and stones at police
vehicles. At least one vehicle started burning and three officers were injured.
As of
about 9 p.m. local time, the darkened streets near City Hall bore evidence of a
tumultuous day: burned cars, including five Waymo vehicles, broken barricades,
crushed water bottles and other trash, and graffiti scrawled across government
buildings.
Here’s
what else to know:
Normal
life: Most of Los Angeles operated as usual on Sunday. There was a Pride parade
and music at the Hollywood Bowl, plus traffic jams and swim meets. Read more ›
Newsom
and Trump: For most of this year, Governor Newsom has chosen conciliation over
confrontation in dealings with the president. On Friday, he spent 40 minutes on
the phone with Mr. Trump to discuss the immigration protests. But the
president’s decision to send in National Guard troops seemed likely to shatter
whatever delicate balance the governor was trying to maintain. Read more ›
Mexican
flags: Throughout this weekend’s protests, Mexican and other Latin American
flags have emerged as protest emblems. Trump officials have cast flag wavers as
insurrectionists and seemed to assume that they are not U.S. citizens. But for
many protesters who are American citizens, the flag signifies pride in their
roots, as well as solidarity with immigrants who are being targeted for
deportation. Read more ›
A rare
decision: One expert said Mr. Trump’s order for the troops was the first time
since 1965 that a president had activated a state’s National Guard force for a
domestic operation without a state governor’s request for the purposes of
quelling unrest or enforcing the law. That year, President Lyndon B. Johnson
sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators. Read more ›
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