Scuffles in Los Angeles as soldiers sent by Trump fan out

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LOS ANGELES: Protesters torched cars in Los Angeles on Sunday and clashed with security forces when police kept protesters away from the National Guard soldiers, President Donald Trump sent to the streets of another major US city.

On the third day, unrest broke out, protesters are angry at the operations of immigration officials, resulting in dozens of arrests concluded that officials say illegal immigrants and gang members are.

Raids – which began in a day -long light in a large Latin population – the liberal city always reacted to the public.

But opponents say, Trump, who has made an important plate of his second term on illegal migration, was deliberately suffering from the deployment of the California National Guard, which is generally controlled by the state governor of the state, GwenNewsom.

“We had no problem until Trump joined X,” Newsom wrote on X.

He added, “This is a serious violation of state sovereignty. Extracting the resources from where they are needed by promoting tensions. Recover the order. Return control to California.”

On Sunday afternoon, at least three self -driving Vemo cars were burning, two others were vandalized when protesters were revolving around a limited area in the city’s Los Angeles.

Traffic was stopped on a key freeway for more than an hour, while several people crowded the roadway. They were transferred by California Highway Patrolling Officers, who used Flash Bang and smoking grenades.

But after a preliminary clash between federal agents of the Department of Homeland Security and a few dozen protesters at a detention center, the clashes included local law enforcement.

Early in the morning, LAPD officers set up containing lines at some distance from federal buildings, which stopped the contacts between angry protesters and the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat team’s score of armed National Guards, which had gathered in helmets and holwarns gear.

Trump doubles double

Trump, asked about the use of soldiers, was invasive, instead indicates more widespread deployment to other parts of the country.

“You are violent people, and we will not allow them to go away,” he told reporters. “I think you’ll see some very strong peace and security.”

Responding to a question about requesting a rebellion act – which will allow the army to be used as a domestic police force – Trump said: “We are looking at the soldiers everywhere. We will not allow this to happen to our country.”

The US Northern Command, which is part of the National Defense Department, said, “About 500 500 Marines […] They are ready to deploy status if they “need to promote and support the ongoing federal operations.

The National Guard is often used in natural disasters, and occasionally in civil unrest, but always with the consent of local authorities.

The deployment of Trump’s force – the first of the state governor’s head since 1965 – has been criticized by the Democrats, including former vice president Kamla Harris, who called it a “a dangerous increase in chaos”.

Threatening tactics

But the Republican stood behind Trump to reject Pushback.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said, “I don’t worry about it at all, accusing him of” incompetence or dislike or disapproval of working “.

Demonstrators told AFP that the purpose of the soldiers is not to maintain the order.

“I think it’s a threatening tactic,” said Thomas Henning.

“These protests have been peaceful. No one is trying to do any harm yet, and you still have a national guard that has filled magazines and big guns that are trying to intimidate Americans to use our first amendment rights.”

Easter Craral said the protesters were angry that hard working immigrants who had done nothing were being snatched by masked immigration agents.

“This is our community, and we want to feel safe,” he told AFP.

“The deployment of the National Guard is ridiculous. I think he is growing, he is trying to make a show for his agenda.”

78 -year -old Marshall Goldberg told AFP that the deployment of the guards felt “so angry”.

“We hate what they have done to non -documentary workers, but it is moving to another level of protesting the right to protest and just the right to assemble calmly,” he said.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency raids in other US cities have launched a small scale protest in recent months, but unrest in Los Angeles is the largest and most prevalent against Trump’s immigration policies.

A CBS News survey shows that the minor majority of Americans have still approved an immigration crackdown.