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Los Angeles mayor lifts curfew imposed last week

Companies in the center of Los Angeles hope that customers will return to Tuesday after Mayor Karen Bass raised the curfew that they imposed last week to prevent sabotage and fracture during the night protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration campaign.

The protests, which were concentrated in a few blocs from the city center where the buildings of the federal and local government are located, in response to the Immigration campaign for President Donald Trump in the city and the deployment of the National Guard and the subsequent navy.

The Democratic Mayor said that the curfew on June 10 was “success efforts to prevent and suppress crime”, protected shops, restaurants, companies and residents. A relatively small slice of the sprawling city was covered.

Little Tokio’s neighborhood was severely hit

On Tuesday afternoon, the influence of the days of protests can be seen in the independent windows lining up in the streets of Little Tokyo, a historical Japanese -Japanese area next to a federal detention building that is still being held by the military forces strongly.

A continuous stream of tourists in the neighborhood stopped taking pictures of the baseball star, Shuhai Utani, wearing a blue Dodgers in a huge mural on the side of the hotel.

Don Tuhara, owner of Far Bar, said that companies in the region were severely vandalized and some of the breaks.

On June 8, thousands of demonstrators moved to the streets in response to Trump’s deployment of the goalkeeper, which led to the removal of a major highway as the application of the law used tear gas, rubber bullets and flash strikes to control the crowd. Take pictures several Waymo Robotaxis set fire.

A day later, police officers used flash explosions and shot the projectile while pushing the demonstrators via Little Tokyo, where passers -by and restaurant workers rushed out of their way. Some demonstrators set out fireworks and threw water bottles at the officers, screaming, “shame!”

But Tahhara, the third generation of Japanese American immigrants, said that he was also aware of the reason for the need for protests, as he saw the similarities between the migration raids in the current administration and the registration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

“The problems faced by Tokyo, 75 years ago, the federal government was essentially to come and imprisoned them in detention camps,” said Tahhara. “They have been uprooted from their homes, companies, and churches … We see a repetition of that.”

Since people assumed that the curfew will remain in place on Tuesday, Bar Bar still has many cancels from reservations and events. They decided to open it early for lunch in the past few days, but the employees have lost hours of their salaries. Besides the ongoing effects of land fires in Los Angeles earlier this year, increases in the prices caused by customs tariffs and increased increasing costs, was a difficult climate for companies to move.

On Monday, Bass reduced the wandering hours from the beginning from 8 pm to 10 pm after a decrease in the arrests in the region. Bass erred in a relatively small group of “bad actors who do not care about the immigrant community”, a reference to thousands of demonstrators who practiced their rights safely. On Sunday, Trump directed Trump to give priority to the deportation of democratic cities, a step that comes after a weekend of major protests throughout the country against its administration.

Sindi Reyes, a header of Rakin’s head, said they completely closed the store for the protests on Saturday and closed early on Sunday. The curfew was particularly difficult for night transformation workers because the Ramin joint is usually open until midnight.

She said: “The transformation of dinner achieves the most money because we are the last restaurant to stand until people come to us in the end.”

Historical essence of the city of Los Angel

The historical nucleus in the center of Los Angeles, away from the place where the protests occurred and many night clubs and bars were shown from rest operations. Many closed throughout the curfew because their basic works occur in the evening.

The owner of the rhythm room, Vincent Fong, said that he lost tens of thousands of dollars from closing for a whole week, not only from losing business but also to continue to pay his employees.

“I must schedule people to attend because I need to push them somehow,” he said.

He wished that there was more support from the city and spreading law enforcement resources to protect the “most vulnerable areas”, noting that his street was often a target for sabotage and theft during the major demonstrations.

Even when the curfew is lifted, Fong said it would be difficult to return customers to an area that still ranked windows and feels “my crime”.

“I must multiply in showing that the center of Los Angeles is still a safe place to go to,” he said.

2025-06-18 09:33:00

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