Protests live updates: Marines on duty in Los Angeles 1 week into city's protests

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Saturday marks the first full day of Marines on duty in Los Angeles, one week after protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids ignited in LA and spread to other cities across the U.S., including New York City, San Francisco, Boston, and Austin, Texas.
President Donald Trump deployed about 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines to LA this week, against the wishes of LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
A federal appeals court Thursday delayed an order requiring the Trump administration to return control of the National Guard to Newsom, dealing the administration a temporary reprieve to what would have been a major reversal of its policy on the protests.
President Donald Trump has painted a bleak picture of Los Angeles since protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids broke out over the weekend.He has repeatedly said that the city was going to burn without the intervention of the military and that there were paid "insurrectionists" and "criminal invaders" seizing the city, which had devolved into "anarchy."Local leaders, however, present a more complex picture of the scene on the ground.Click here to read more.Marines began their deployment in Los Angeles on Friday, with some spotted guarding the Wilshire Federal Building.Thousands of "No Kings Day" protests are set to be held throughout the U.S. and abroad on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump's administration and to counterprogram the military parade.Ezra Levin, the co-executive director of progressive organizing group Indivisible, told ABC News on Thursday there are now more than 2,000 events planned "just about everywhere, everywhere but downtown D.C. -- intentionally so."According to Levin, the organizers did not want to give Trump a rationale to retaliate against peaceful protests in D.C. or to say that the protesters were protesting the military.Click here to read more.