The curfew began at 8pm local time on Tuesday and will last until 6am local time on Wednesday and apply to a 1-sqaure-mile area in downtown.
It came as hundreds of US Marines arrived in the Los Angeles area under orders from Donald Trump, ratcheting up tensions in America’s second largest city, as California’s Democratic governor warned “democracy is under assault.”
Caption: A woman holding a Mexican flag stands on Sixth Street Bridge, after a curfew for downtown Los Angeles was issued (Photo: David Swanson/Reuters)Police officers enforce a curfew (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)
Gavin Newsom, widely seen as preparing for a presidential run in 2028, has called the deployments an illegal waste of resources.
In an a video address, Newsom said: “This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk. That’s when the downward spiral began.
LA’s mayor said the protests were limited to about five downtown streets, but declared a curfew for parts of the downtown area due to violence and looting.
Trump, voted back into office last year largely for his promise to deport undocumented immigrants, used a speech honoring soldiers on Tuesday to defend his decision.
“What you’re witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order and on national sovereignty, carried out by rioters bearing foreign flags,” Trump said, adding his administration would “liberate Los Angeles.”
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