Marines arrive in Westwood as U.S. cities brace for ‘No Kings' protests
L.A. braces for multiple 'No Kings' demonstrations across the city Saturday Demonstrators carry signs and banners protesting immigration enforcement raids while outside the federal building on Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles and other major cities across the nation are girding for widespread demonstrations against the Trump administration Saturday as the federal government expands its aggressive immigration enforcement crackdown beyond Southern California.
In Washington, the Army will celebrate 250 years of service, as well as President Trump's 79th birthday, with an unprecedented military parade. In response, many around the country will be gathering for 'No Kings' demonstrations to voice their opposition to the Trump administration's policies.
Grand Central Market, an embodiment of immigrant L.A., confronts new climate of fear A nearly empty Grand Central Market pictured Thursday afternoon.
Most weekdays the foot traffic and the din of business are constant in Grand Central Market, a food hall and staple of downtown's historic core since 1917. In a way, the market, with its oldest stalls ranging from Mexican to Chinese to Salvadoran cuisines, is an embodiment of the immigrant experience in Los Angeles.
But this week, even at what are typically its peak hours, tables sat empty. The legendary market, like so many other restaurants and businesses across downtown, is losing business due to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and the neighborhood's anti-ICE protests.
MacArthur Park goes quiet amid ICE sweeps. 'They're targeting people that look like me' A man hands out ice cream at MacArthur Park in 2024.
On Friday morning, the area around MacArthur Park, a longtime immigrant hub west of downtown, was noticeably quieter than usual.
Gone were many of the vendors who once lined South Alvarado Street at all times of day, selling everything from baby formula to Lionel Messi jerseys.
Video shows immigration agents interrogating a Latino U.S. citizen: 'I'm American, bro!' Brian Gavidia stands in a parking lot next to East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park on Friday. Gavidia's business was recently hit by ICE; he said he had his arm twisted and held by an officer against a wall despite being a US citizen.
Brian Gavidia was at work on West Olympic Boulevard in Montebello at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday when he was told immigration agents were outside of his workplace.
Gavidia, 29, was born and raised in East Los Angeles and fixes and sells cars for a living. He said he stepped outside. And saw four to six agents.
The Alex Padilla altercation was captured on video but still seen through a political lens Sen. Alex Padilla speaks during a news conference Thursday at the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.
A day after federal agents forcibly restrained and handcuffed U.S. Sen Alex Padilla at a Los Angeles news conference, leaders of the country's two political parties responded in what has become a predictable fashion — with diametrically opposed takes on the incident.
Padilla's fellow Democrats called for an investigation and perhaps even the resignation of the senator's nemesis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, for what they described as the unprecedented manhandling of a U.S. senator who was merely attempting to ask a question of a fellow public official.
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