LA protests: LAPD says it has made ‘mass arrests' after mayor issued curfew for downtown
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Date: 2025-06-11T06:17:49.000Z
Title: 'Mass arrests' after curfew issued for city's downtown area
Content: Welcome to the Guardian's continued coverage of the protests in Los Angeles. If you are just tuning in, here is a handy summary to bring you up to speed.
The LAPD says it has made 'mass arrests' in downtown LA after the Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a curfew for the city's downtown area following several days of intense protests against Ice raids. The protests have been marked by clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement, widespread vandalism and some looting. The curfew began at 8pm local time on Tuesday and will last until 6am local time on Wednesday. It will apply to a one-square-mile area in downtown.
California governor Gavin Newsom delivered a searing rebuke of the Trump administration on Tuesday evening, accusing the government of 'pulling a military dragnet' across LA and warning democracy is 'under assault before our eyes'. The Democratic governor's remarks come after Trump ordered the deployment of nearly 5,000 troops, including National Guard and Marines, to the nation's second-largest city.
Protests against the Trump administration's newly intensified immigration raids, centred on Los Angeles, spread across the country on Tuesday, with demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Omaha and Seattle. Thousands attended a protest against the federal government's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in New York City's Foley Square.
A federal district court judge declined California's request to issue an immediate temporary restraining order that would bar Marines and National Guard troops dispatched to Los Angeles from doing anything other than guarding federal buildings. The judge instead scheduled a hearing for Thursday on the state's request for a restraining order.
Trump delivered a deeply partisan, political speech to the avowedly non-partisan US army at Fort Bragg, where he called Los Angeles 'a trash heap', repeated baseless conspiracy theories and announced he was not yet done changing the names of military bases back to honour confederates. Trump said he would 'liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean, and safe again'.
Trump denied accusing California's governor, Gavin Newsom, and the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, of paying agitators to turn the protests in the city violent. Video footage from his speech at Fort Bragg just hours earlier, shows him clearly making the accusation.
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