LA mayor announces curfew for part of downtown
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Bass announced the curfew while many people in the city were out marching through the streets and protesting against the ICE raids. The curfew was announced to "stop bad actors who are taking advantage of the President's chaotic escalation,
There will be “limited exceptions” to the curfew — residents of the area, “people traveling to and from work and credentialed media representatives,” according to Mayor
A curfew for downtown Los Angeles is now in effect. It began at 8 p.m. local time and will last until 6 a.m. The curfew applies to an area about one square mile in downtown LA, which has been the site of clashes between police and protesters over the past several days.
Impact Social data shared with Newsweek showed a plurality—32 percent—of swing voters are responding positively to Trump's response, while 19 percent are responding negatively. Forty-nine percent are responding neutrally to Trump's approach, sharing mostly "emotionless" reaction or news articles about the protests.
Calling President Trump a threat to the American way of life, Governor Gavin Newsom depicted the federal military intervention in Los Angeles as the onset of a much broader effort by Trump to overturn political and cultural norms at the heart of the nation’s democracy.
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Jacob Soboroff, NBC News Correspondent is joined by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Deadline White House in the wake of Donald Trump sending thousands of national guard troops into her city in response to protests in the streets over ICE arrests and raids.
The ongoing protests in Los Angeles began with small demonstrations against immigration raids in the nation's second largest city.
California Governor Gavin Newsom blasts the federal government's response to anti-immigration raid protests as "purposefully inflammatory".
Unlike the 1992 riots, protests have mainly been peaceful and been confined to a roughly five-block stretch of downtown LA, a tiny patch in the sprawling city of nearly 4 million people. No one has died. There’s been vandalism and some cars set on fire but no homes or buildings have burned.