Los Angeles protests live: Protesters in tense standoff with National Guard
Security forces fire tear gas and rubber bullets in downtown Los Angeles after US President Donald Trump sent in National Guard troops to quell protests against immigration raids.The clashes come on the third day of Trump's immigration crackdown, with more than 100 undocumented migrants rounded up in raids across Los Angeles by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.Trump says his deployment of the National Guard is necessary, but his opponents, including California Governor Gavin Newson, says it's an overreaction that will only escalate tensions.
Update:
Date: 5m ago (00:10 GMT)
Title: Volatile situation in downtown Los Angeles
Content: The scene here can be a bit surreal sometimes.
We had tear gas and flash bangs in the past hour, and now there's a woman here selling hot dogs and bottles of water.
Another guy walked past with his dog, he's obviously come to see what's going on.
It's changing by the second.
We can hear police helicopters overheard. We understand there are some six or seven in the air, not directly overhead, but on deployment as the LA Police Department and the LA Sheriff's Department try to keep a handle on what's happening.
Police are still continuing to block roads here.
They had fired flash bangs and rubber bullets towards some people in the crowd. We saw one man who had been hit in the chest and he was bleeding. But he was showing it off to the cameras almost like a badge of honour.
We've seen organisers calling on the protesters to fill in the gaps in the crowds.
The National Guard is near the detention facility, holding off the crowd, making sure that federal property is not damaged. But this could change any second.
Update:
Date: 24h ago (00:03 GMT)
Title: National Guard arrives in LA to crush protests
Content: Police have fired tear gas at demonstrators and carried out arrests in Los Angeles after tensions escalated near the Metropolitan Detention Center, hours after Trump deployed National Guard soldiers there.
The Metropolitan Detention Center has been a flashpoint over the past two days.
Footage showed uniformed officers firing tear gas canisters as they moved into the street, scattering protesters. Pushing and shoving erupted when demonstrators approached a line of National Guard troops and began shouting at them.
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Update:
Date: 24h ago (00:00 GMT)
Title: Welcome to our coverage
Content: Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the standoff in Los Angeles as protests against Trump's immigration raids continue.
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