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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — A dense subject beingness was seen successful downtown Los Angeles aboriginal Sunday greeting aft unrest sparked by ICE raids successful the L.A. country and up of what is expected to beryllium a 3rd time of protests.
President Donald Trump ordered thousands of National Guard troops to beryllium deployed Saturday nighttime aft a raid successful Paramount earlier successful the time that acceptable disconnected a concatenation of destructive demonstrations. While Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said conscionable aft midnight Sunday that the National Guard had not been deployed successful the city, troops began arriving aboriginal that morning.
Military unit were seen astatine the Federal Building successful downtown astir 4 a.m. Sunday to guarantee that national agents are protected. More person been deployed to the Hall of Justice, adjacent to City Hall.
"It's 1 happening to spot a dense instrumentality enforcement presence, but it's a full different concern erstwhile we person [this many] subject unit successful downtown L.A.," Jennifer McGraw of Nexstar's KTLA said Sunday.
On Sunday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the National Guard would “keep bid and let radical to beryllium capable to protestation but besides to support instrumentality and order.”
A rally has been planned for 2 p.m., but impromptu demonstrations are expected to popular up connected Sunday morning.
A dense subject beingness was seen successful downtown Los Angeles aboriginal Sunday greeting aft unrest sparked by ICE raids successful the L.A. country and up of what is expected to beryllium a 3rd time of protests. (KTLA)
A dense subject beingness was seen successful downtown Los Angeles aboriginal Sunday greeting aft unrest sparked by ICE raids successful the L.A. country and up of what is expected to beryllium a 3rd time of protests. (KTLA)
Protests began connected Friday aft federal agents conducted raids successful downtown LA and the Westlake neighborhood, which resulted successful more than 40 radical being detained, including a section labour national president. The hostility continued the adjacent time erstwhile ICE officials were seen successful Paramount, and ample crowds rapidly gathered determination and successful neighboring Compton, wherever demonstrators acceptable a car connected fire.
The unrest dispersed to downtown by Saturday evening, wherever protesters clashed with ICE agents extracurricular the Federal Detention Center, wherever immoderate detainees are believed to beryllium held.
Immigrant advocates, ineligible representatives, and U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) attempted to participate the facility to spot those who had been detained during raids but said they were denied introduction aggregate times.
A protester places debris successful a occurrence arsenic Border Patrol unit successful riot cogwheel and state masks basal defender extracurricular an concern parkland successful Paramount, Calif., connected Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
In melodramatic footage captured by the stringer work Key News Network, a achromatic sedan is afloat engulfed by a blaze successful the mediate of the intersection of Atlantic and Alondra boulevards portion groups of onlookers, protestors – immoderate waving Mexican flags – and sheriff’s deputies successful riot cogwheel situation the flaming scene. June 2025. (KNN)
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a raid successful Paramount connected Saturday, June 7, 2025. (KTLA)
Protestors threw fireworks arsenic national officers created a skirmish enactment to propulsion backmost protestors gathered successful downtown Los Angeles connected Saturday nighttime implicit ICE raids happening successful SoCal. Gil Leyvas reports from Sky5 connected June 7, 2025. (KTLA)
Protestors threw fireworks arsenic national officers created a skirmish enactment to propulsion backmost protestors gathered successful downtown Los Angeles connected Saturday nighttime implicit ICE raids happening successful SoCal. Gil Leyvas reports from Sky5 connected June 7, 2025. (KTLA)
A demonstrator waves an American and Mexican emblem during a protestation successful Compton, Calif., Saturday, June 7, 2025, aft national migration authorities conducted operations. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Law enforcement analyse a car with a idiosyncratic wrong during a protestation successful Compton, Calif., Saturday, June 7, 2025, aft national migration authorities conducted operations. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Law enforcement analyse a car with a idiosyncratic wrong during a protestation successful Compton, Calif., Saturday, June 7, 2025, aft national migration authorities conducted operations. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
The concern has escalated tensions betwixt local, authorities and national leaders; President Trump has repeatedly called retired L.A. Mayor Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom for their handling of the protests.
Newsom called Trump’s determination to deploy the National Guard “purposefully inflammatory” and little than 10 minutes later, Trump put retired a societal media station that read: “If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t bash their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, past the Federal Government volition measurement successful and lick the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the mode it should beryllium solved!!!”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
