California: The curfew will be in effect from Tuesday at 8 p.m. to Wednesday at 6 a.m. (LA local time), the mayor said. The curfew, she said, would apply to a one-square-mile (2.59 square kilometer) region of downtown, which includes the area where demonstrations have been taking place since Friday.
Following the looting of 23 establishments, Bass said, “We reached a tipping point.” President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of around 700 Marines and 4,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles on Monday amid violent demonstrations against the President’s increased enforcement of immigration rules.
Law enforcement would eventually make any arrests, but the Guard has the power to briefly hold anyone who assaults police. On the fifth day of street protests, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked a federal court to prevent the Trump administration from using the National Guard and Marines to support immigration raids in Los Angeles, claiming that doing so would only increase tensions and incite civil unrest, even as police arrested 197 people.
Trump’s approach to mostly nonviolent protests was also criticized by state and municipal leaders as an inappropriate overreaction. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, the two senators from California, said in a joint statement that domestic mobilization of active-duty military members should only occur “during the most extreme circumstances, and these are not them.”
In an address to soldiers at the Army base in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Trump, who has made the immigration crackdown his signature issue, defended his choice by saying to the soldiers, “Generations of Army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and third-world lawlessness.”
At least two protesters were handcuffed by police during a violent march through downtown Chicago, but protests also occurred in other locations. Other protestors yelled, “Shame! Shame!” as police removed activists who had been arrested.
According to Reuters, hundreds of people showed up for the demonstration that evening, holding posters that said, “Immigrants made America” and “The people say ICE out.”
