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Anti-ICE protest declared 'unlawful assembly,' Newsom dares Homan to arrest him
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The Los Angeles Police Department
declared an 'unlawful assembly' Sunday night as protesters failed to disperse in the downtown area.'
Agitators have splintered into and through out the Downtown Area," the LAPD's Central Division wrote on X.
"Residents, businesses and visitors to the Downtown Area should be alert and report any criminal activity. Officers are responding to several different locations to disperse crowds.'
"An UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY has been declared for the Downtown Los Angeles area," the department added.
Protesters marched into the L.A. Live area, an entertainment complex in the heart of downtown Los Angeles that sits adjacent to Arena and the Los Angeles Convention Center, and were blocking lanes on Figueroa and 11th streets, police said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is firing back at President Trump's border czar Tom Homan and vows he 'won't stop standing up for California.'
'Trump's border czar is threatening to arrest me for speaking out. Come and get me, tough guy. I don't give a damn,' Newsom vowed in a post on X.
'It won't stop me from standing up for California.'
Newsom added that Trump had overstepped his boundaries when he deployed the National Guard to help with the anti-ICE riots, claiming 'local law enforcement didn't need help.'
'Let's get this straight: 1) Local law enforcement didn't need help. 2) Trump sent troops anyway — to manufacture chaos and violence. 3) Trump succeeded. 4) Now things are destabilized, and we need to send in more law enforcement just to clean up Trump's mess,' Newsom wrote in a separate post on X.
Newsom arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday evening to oversee the response to the anti-ICE riots, meeting with state emergency officials.
'We're here to keep the peace — not play into Trump's political games,' Newsom wrote.
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