See how Los Angeles protests intensified over one weekend
What started as a small protest over immigration raids on Friday ballooned into large demonstrations throughout the weekend. Here’s what happened.
As cities across the country braced for hundreds of protests planned for the weekend, California leaders and President Donald Trump remain in an intense showdown on Friday after an appeals court allowed the president to maintain his deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that required Trump to return control of California’s National Guard to the state. The court’s decision followed U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer’s ruling that the president’s deployment of the Guard was unlawful.
The appeals court’s decision does not mean it will ultimately side with Trump, but it leaves control of the Guard in Trump’s hands for the time being. The move comes as 700 members of the Marine Corps are expected to arrive in the city on Friday, adding to a growing military presence on the streets.
Breyer’s earlier ruling was a short victory for California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who filed a lawsuit over the president’s move to deploy members of the Guard without Newsom’s authorization. Breyer wrote in his ruling that the presence of the National Guard was adding to the tensions with protesters. The judge’s order was to take effect at noon on Friday.
In a post to social media early on Friday, Trump thanked the appeals court and said his decision to send the National Guard to the city “saved L.A.”
“If I didn’t send the Military into Los Angeles, that city would be burning to the ground right now,” Trump said.
Meanwhile, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and other national Latino organizations condemned the forceful removal of Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday. LULAC, which is the oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization in the United States, has demanded an immediate investigation into the incident.
Videos showed Padilla being forced to the ground and handcuffed after trying to ask a question during the news conference, where Noem was discussing the protests over federal immigration raids. In a video statement released Thursday night, Padilla said he had been escorted to the news conference by a National Guardsman and an FBI agent after waiting for another scheduled briefing.
“Now, I’m OK for people who are wondering how I’m doing,” Padilla, who is from California, added. “But the big lesson here is if they can do that to me … what are they doing to a lot of the folks that are out there when the cameras are not on?”
Following days of protests in Los Angeles, which were mostly confined to parts of the city’s downtown area, a partial curfew remained in effect for the third consecutive night. The curfew, lasting from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. PT for pockets of downtown Los Angeles, was implemented on Tuesday.
“My hope is after continuing it a few more days, that people will get the message that we are serious,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said at a Thursday news conference.
Shortly before the curfew went into effect on Thursday night, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division reported people in a crowd throwing bricks, concrete, and commercial-grade fireworks.
“Less lethal munitions have been authorized,” LAPD said in a post on X at about 7:55 p.m. local time.
“No Kings” Day organizers say it is more important than ever to have a “national day of peaceful protest” on June 14, following the decision by Trump to send 700 Marines and 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
“I think we will see the largest peaceful single day protests that this country has seen certainly since the first Trump term,” said Indivisible cofounder Ezra Levin, one of the organizers.
Now, about 2,000 protests and rallies named “No Kings” Day are planned to oppose what they see as Trump’s power grab, nearly double that of the April 5 “Hands Off” protest that saw millions of Americans turn out in big and small cities nationwide. Organizers expect millions of Americans to turn out across the country on June 14.
Contributing: Reuters
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