The Los Angeles curfew said: “local emergency” declared in the middle of the current troubles
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, announced a curfew tonight for downtown Los Angeles after five days of demonstrations and minor clashes with the police.
“The curfew will be in place from 8 p.m. this evening at 6 am tomorrow,” said Bass, noting that it could last several days and would be reassessed tomorrow. “Everyone must respect this curfew.”
The limits of the affected area are relatively low: a square mile of Highway 5 in Highway 110 and from 10 to the point where the 110 and the 5 merger.
“Limited exceptions will apply to residents, people traveling to and since work and accredited media representatives,” said Bass.
“If you are in this curfew during restricted hours without legal exemption, you will be arrested,” said LAPD chief Jim McDonnell.
Bass also said that a “local emergency” had been declared and that the curfew was necessary after dozens of companies were looted last night.
The recent demonstrations, triggered by the federal efforts of the application of the Immigration Act to Los Angeles and, more recently, the order of President Trump so that the US Marines deploy in the city, led dozens of arrests today while the demonstrators gathered in front of the center of metropolitan detention in the city center and a group of strokes of Hollywood (101), briefly blocking the two directions of traffic.
The federal detention center on the streets Alameda and Aliso has been a common protest site in the last four days, as well as the federal building and the nearby federal courthouse. The federal building nearby on rue Los Angeles is home to the local American immigration office and customs application.
Hundreds of people finally gathered outside the MDC on Tuesday afternoon, but the troop of the National Guard formed a skirmish line to prevent them from entering the installation. In the early afternoon, the Los Angeles police service had ordered the crowd to disperse, and many demonstrators headed north or south on Alameda Street, far from the MDC.
A group of several hundred demonstrators walked east on Temple Street, then headed north to Highway 101, sank a gap in a chain link fence and walked on the highway, blocking traffic on both sides.
California road patrol officers, however, lost a short time and took aggressive measures to push the crowd of the road. At least two people were seen in police custody while they were fighting against CHP officers pushing them.
According to the Los Angeles police department, 96 people were arrested, suspected of non-dispersion during Monday evening demonstrations. One person was arrested for suspicion of aggression with a deadly weapon, another suspected of resisting arrest and a suspected vandalism. 14 other people were arrested for suspicion of looting.
Two officers were injured during Monday troubles. They were treated in a hospital and released, according to the LAPD. Many less lethal cycles were dismissed by LAPD officers and other partner agencies Monday evening and early Tuesday morning. The police finally demobilized around 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
Mayor Karen Bass has condemned looting, noting in an article on social networks that people who vandalize and burglaries the stores are not affiliated to people legitimately on behalf of immigrants.
Trump during the weekend, federalized 2,000 troops of the California National Guard and ordered them to be deployed in Los Angeles, despite the protests of Bass, Governor Gavin Newsom and other local officials who declared that such a decision would exacerbate tensions more and lead to more intense protests.
But Trump doubled in moving on Monday, commanding 2,000 additional custody troops in the city, while ordering 700 US navies to settle in Los Angeles and support the mission of the guard to protect federal and staff. Pentagon officials said on Tuesday that deployment is expected to cost around $ 134 million.
The state of California continued Trump on Monday to cancel the federalization of the national guard troops, and it filed an emergency request on Tuesday before the Federal Tribunal of Northern California to request a ban on a ban to block the deployment of the National Guard and the Marines. We did not know when an audience on the issue could be held.
Newsom also condemned this decision, saying that the Marines “should not be deployed on American soil in the face of their own compatriots to achieve the disturbed fantasy of a dictatorial president. It’s not American. “
LAPD chief Jim McDonnell, said that his agency had received no official notice on the marines deployed in the city, and he said that without better coordination, their arrival could present “an important logistical and operational challenge for those of us accused of safeguarding this city”.
City News Service contributed to this report.
