Los Angeles mayor puts parts of city under curfew in push to quell protests

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Los Angeles mayor has announced a curfew in the downtown area, which was the four -day protest center, which was characterized by conflicts with the police and sabotage.

Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, said that she declared a local emergency and issued a curfew “to stop sabotage, to stop the looting.”

Her order comes after her administration, and California Governor Gavin New Roiri pushed against the deployment of US President Donald Trump to the National Guard and the Marine Corps to the city.

In a speech on Tuesday, Newsom condemned what Trump has been called “illegal militarization in Los Angeles.”

“What we are witnessing is not the application of the law, it is tyranny,” said New Nooring.

Trump said earlier on Tuesday that his administration was “liberating” Los Angeles, as he defended the deployment of 700 naval infantry to address the protests against the immigration campaign in the largest city in California. Critics condemned the publication as an extra period of the executive authority.

Speaking to the soldiers in Fort Prague, North Carolina, Trump described the turmoil as “a full peace attack, public order and national sovereignty, which is carried out by rioters who carry foreign flags.”

He said that within a few decades, Los Angeles moved from being “one of the cleanest, most beautiful and most beautiful cities on the face of the earth as a garbage pile, with entire neighborhoods under the control of gangs through patriotism and criminal networks.”

He said: “Simply, we will liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean and safe again.”

In this event to celebrate the birthday of the US Army 250, Trump expected a challenge about his decision to deploy the naval infantry, as well as 4,200 national guards, on Los Angeles on news objections.

On Tuesday afternoon, California asked a federal judge to prevent members of the National Guard and the Marine Corpients for the temporary assistance in immigration raids or federal law enforcement.

Los Angeles has been tense since thousands of people moved to the streets to protest against an immigration campaign by immigration and customs enforcement agents in the United States last week, which led to dozens of protest.

Trump said that the National Guard and Marine Corps were deployed “to protect federal law enforcement from evil mob attacks and violence.”

He accused the demonstrators of throwing bricks and Cmond blocks in law enforcement officers and the situation of burning vehicles, as well as trying to infiltrate and occupy federal buildings.

“Under the Trump administration, this chaos will not stop,” he said.

Earlier in the day, the correspondents told that if necessary, it will definitely evoke the “rebellion law for the year 1807, a law that would enable it to deploy the American army and the National Guard units locally to suppress civil turmoil, rebellion or armed rebellion.

Meanwhile, US Defense Secretary Beit Higseth faced hostile interrogation from Democratic lawmakers in Capitol Hill on Tuesday due to the deployment of forces.

Higseth was witnessing before the sub -committee of the parliament’s credits about defending the Pentagon’s budget request for 2026.

He said: “In Los Angeles, we believe that the ice is entitled to carry out safely in any state and any judicial state in the country.”

Betty Mcalum, a member of the Democratic Committee, told Higseth that she saw “no need to spread Marines.”

Mcalum said that the turmoil “does not seem like George Floyd’s protests [in 2020] Or Rodney King’s riots in Los Angeles in 1992.

Aguilar, a Democrat from California, asked Higseth about what was justified for the army’s use for civil law enforcement.

He pointed out that the administration has acquired the law, 10 USC 12406, which allows the president only to contact the members of the National Guard and the units in the federal service under certain circumstances – such as the invasion by a foreign state, or a rebellion against the authority of the government or when the president is not able to implement American laws with the regular forces.

Higseth said that the American authorities are facing the “three” scenarios in Los Angeles. He said: “If you have millions of illegitimately referred and you do not know where they came from, they are waving flags from foreign countries and the attack of police officers, it is a problem.” The Minister of Defense said that Aguar asked her about the period in which maritime publishing will continue.