Downtown LA Set for Curfew as Newsom Condemns Troop Deployment
California Governor Gavin Newsom accused President Donald Trump of misusing his power and warned the rest of the country to prepare for similar unrest as Los Angeles imposed a nighttime downtown curfew and protests over immigration raids stretched into a fifth night.
More than 380 people have been arrested in the greater Los Angeles area since the weekend, amid clashes between police and demonstrators rallying in response to increasingly aggressive raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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