June 11, 2025
The curfew doesn’t apply to individuals residing inside the curfew’s focused space, individuals experiencing homelessness, media, public security, and emergency personnel.
It’s no secret that anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protests have taken over the streets of Los Angeles, however residents are seemingly extra upset that Mayor Karen Bass has set a curfew towards them and never the Nationwide Guard troops despatched in by President Donald Trump.
In an announcement, Bass carried out a curfew between the hours of 8 p.m. to six a.m. for the downtown space starting from the 5 Freeway to the 110 Freeway and from the ten Freeway to the place the 110 Freeway and the 5 Freeway mix.
Bass mentioned the curfew will cease violent rooting and vandalism from happening. “I wished to let the town know that I’ve declared an area emergency and issued a curfew for downtown Los Angeles to cease the vandalism, to cease the looting,” the mayor mentioned in the course of the June 10 press convention, based on the Los Angeles Instances.
Whereas Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell mentioned the curfew doesn’t apply to individuals residing inside the curfew’s focused space, individuals experiencing homelessness, media, public security, and emergency personnel
Bass has acquired grief in regards to the determination because it limits peaceable protestors.
One person on X mentioned Bass made a “dangerous alternative” and claims it solely encourages legislation enforcement to hurt residents. “The Mayor of LA instituting a curfew tonight is a foul alternative, one which many Dem Mayors made in 2020. That included Richmond VA Mayor Levar Stoney, who then gave cops much more encouragement to brutalize metropolis residents,” @brerva wrote.
“I’ll always remember the enablers of police brutality.”
One other person known as for protests to transition from downtown LA to the place ICE arrests are taking place in areas like Huntington Park and East Los Angeles. “GO PROTEST WHERE THE RAIDS ARE HAPPENING!!! DO NOT LET THE DTLA CURFEW MINIMIZE YOU!!!,” @stacy_stace7 mentioned.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has supported the protestors whereas blaming Trump for “destroying democracy.” He claims the Trump administration is tying collectively undocumented immigrants with violent methods and “hard-working immigrant households” for mass deportations.
“This brazen abuse of energy by a sitting President infected a flamable scenario, placing our individuals, our officers, and the Nationwide Guard in danger,” he mentioned. “…What Donald Trump desires most is your fealty, your silence to be complicit on this second; don’t give in to him.”
Newsom’s fixed feud with Trump has given him the label of being a “badass” whereas Trump has known as for the Democratic governor to be arrested within the identify of immigration. In response to what’s occurring within the Metropolis of Angels, protests have taken place in numerous metro cities throughout the U.S., together with Chicago, the place a automobile drove by means of protestors on the street, based on Fox Information.
As protests in San Antonio started, Republican governor and Trump loyalist Greg Abbott threatened to deploy members of the Nationwide Guard.
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