
Los Angeles Sheriff´s Department deputies bearing shields and less-lethal weapons push protestors back during a demonstration following federal immigration operations in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025. — AFP
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On Tuesday, the curfew was imposed in Los Angeles at night when local officials tried to overcome the protest, which US President Donald Trump claimed was attacks by “foreign enemies”.
The looting and vandalism have tarnished the hearts of the second largest city in the United States as massive peaceful protests over immigration arrests have become ugly after the darkness.
Mayor Karen Boss told reporters, “I have announced a local emergency and issued a curfew to stop looting for the city’s Los Angeles, to stop the looting.”
He added that a square mile of more than 500 square miles of the city (2.5 square kilometers) from 8am to 6pm will be limited to residents, journalists and emergency services to each evening.
A protesters told AFP that the arrest of migrants in a large foreign -born and Latin -populated city was the root of unrest.
He said of the curfew, “I think they are doing this for safety.”
“But I don’t think a part of this problem is a peaceful protest. On the other hand, everything that is happening is provoking violence.”
Small-scale and massive peaceful protests-which were affected by the violent acts of violence-started in Los Angeles when the arrests of immigration authorities were furious.
On its biggest, a few thousand people have gone to the streets, but the small crowd has used the darkness to fire the darkness.
Police said 23 businesses were robbed on Monday night, police said, adding that more than 500 people have been arrested in recent days.
Protests have also spread in cities across the country, including New York, Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco.
‘Provide protection’
Trump, along with Los Angeles, along with 700 active duty marines, which claimed to be, despite local law enforcement agencies insisted that they could handle matters.
A military spokesman said soldiers are expected to be on the streets at the end of Tuesday or Wednesday.
Their mission is to protect and protect federal facilities “with federal officers in immigration enforcement operations.”
Demonstrators told AFP that the soldiers should “be respected” because they did not choose to live in the LA, but Lisa andman called it “ridiculous”.
“I was here for the Dodge Parade, citing the LA team’s World Series victory,” he said.
“It was 100 times bigger. So the idea that Marines here, this is a big show. The president wants a big show.”
The deployment will cost US taxpayers $ 134 million, the Pentagon said.
Photos released by the Marine Corps show men in combat fatigue using riot shields to implement the crowded techniques at the Navy Weapon Station Cell Beach.
‘Behaved like a tyrant’
Two dozen miles (40 km) north, the vast city of Los Angeles spent most of the day as it usually happens: Tourists killed Hollywood’s Bolivar, tens of thousands of children went to school and passenger traffic strangled the streets.
But at a military base in North Carolina, Trump was painting a very deep picture.
“What you are witnessing in California is a complete attack on public discipline and national sovereignty,” he told soldiers in Fort Brig.
“This chaos will not stand. We will not allow an American city to attack and conquer through a foreign enemy.”
California Governor Gwen Newsome, a Democrat, who has previously been hit by a president, said Trump’s trauma on the city is a “tyrannical, not president” behavior.
“Sending trained fighters on the streets is unprecedented and the main threat of our democracy,” he said.
In a lively addressed address, Newsom called Trump a “president who does not want to be a law or constitution, which maintains a unanimous attack on the US tradition.”
“California may be the first, but it will not clearly end here.”
In entering a US district court in northern California, Newsom demanded a stay order to stop the use of troops for policing.
‘Surprisingly rare’
The use of Trump’s military, a professor of South Western Law School in Los Angeles, and a former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel told AFP, saying that the US President, Rachel Van Landingham, is an “incredibly rare” move.
The US law largely prevents the military from using the military as a policing force, and absent the announcement of the uprising, which Trump has gathered once again on Tuesday.
Trump is trying to use emergency announcements to justify bringing the National Guard first and then justifying the Marines, said Frank Boman, a law professor at the University of Missouri University.