Los Angeles erupts in protest: Thousands clash with National Guard, freeway blocked, self-driving cars torched. Following President Trump's controversial deployment of the National Guard, escalating tensions led to violent demonstrations in downtown LA, involving tear gas, rubber bullets, and widespread property damage
Los Angeles protests escalated Sunday night as police declared an unlawful assembly following clashes on the 101 Freeway. As crowds dispersed, some protesters hurled projectiles—including concrete, rocks, electric scooters, and fireworks—at officers and vehicles from a makeshift street barricade. CHP officers sought cover under a freeway overpass amidst the violence
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Amid rising tensions in Los Angeles, National Guard troops faced off against protesters. Lines of soldiers, armed with long guns and riot shields, confronted demonstrators shouting "shame" and "go home." As protesters approached, officers deployed smoke canisters to disperse the crowd
Los Angeles protests escalated Sunday as demonstrators, angered by the National Guard deployment, unlawfully blocked the 101 freeway. Police dispersed the crowd using crowd-control munitions, including tear gas and rubber bullets, after they refused to clear the highway. The freeway blockade followed days of clashes between protesters and law enforcement, highlighting rising tensions in the city
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Los Angeles erupts in protests following Trump's National Guard deployment. Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom condemn the move, blaming it for escalating tensions and urging peaceful demonstrations amid widespread unrest and clashes with law enforcement. Thousands took to the streets, blocking freeways and engaging in violent confrontations
Los Angeles erupts in chaos following Trump administration's National Guard deployment. Protests against immigration raids escalate, with demonstrators clashing with law enforcement, blocking freeways, and causing widespread damage. A city official denounced the deployment as a deliberate provocation unrelated to public safety
LAPD Chief McDonnell observed a predictable escalation pattern in the Los Angeles protests, mirroring typical civil unrest with heightened intensity on days two and three
LAPD Chief refutes Trump administration claims of inaction during Los Angeles immigration protest, citing lack of advance notice of raids, hindering proactive response and leading to overwhelmed officers during subsequent demonstrations
Newsom, meanwhile, has repeatedly said that California authorities had the situation under control. He mocked Trump for posting a congratulatory message to the Guard on social media before troops had even arrived in Los Angeles, and said on MSNBC that Trump never floated deploying the Guard during a Friday phone call. He called Trump a “stone cold liar.”
The admonishments did not deter the administration.
“It’s a bald-faced lie for Newsom to claim there was no problem in Los Angeles before President Trump got involved,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement.
The arrival of the National Guard followed two days of protests that began Friday in downtown Los Angeles before spreading on Saturday to Paramount, a heavily Latino city south of the city, and neighboring Compton.
Federal agents arrested immigrants in LA’s fashion district, in a Home Depot parking lot and at several other locations on Friday. The next day, they were staging at a Department of Homeland Security office near another Home Depot in Paramount, which drew out protesters who suspected another raid. Federal authorities later said there was no enforcement activity at that Home Depot.
The weeklong tally of immigrant arrests in the LA area climbed above 100, federal authorities said. Many more were arrested while protesting, including a prominent union leader who was accused of impeding law enforcement.
The protests did not reach the size of past demonstrations that brought the National Guard to Los Angeles, including the Watts and Rodney King riots, and the 2020 protests against police violence, in which Newsom requested the assistance of federal troops.
The last time the National Guard was activated without a governor’s permission was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to protect a civil rights march in Alabama, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
In a directive Saturday, Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is ”a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”
He said he had authorized the deployment of 2,000 members of the National Guard.
Trump told reporters as he prepared to board Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey, Sunday that there were “violent people” in Los Angeles “and they’re not gonna get away with it.”
Asked if he planned to send U.S. troops to Los Angeles, Trump replied: “We’re gonna have troops everywhere. We’re not going to let this happen to our country.” He didn’t elaborate.
About 500 Marines stationed at Twentynine Palms, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) east of Los Angeles were in a “prepared to deploy status” Sunday afternoon, according to the U.S. Northern Command.
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Offenhartz reported from New York. Associated Press writer Michelle Price contributed to this report from Bridgewater, New Jersey.
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