LOS ANGELES – The voltages in Los Angeles escalated on Sunday when thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in response to the extraordinary deployment of President Donald Trump of the National Guard, who blocked a large highway and set fire to autonomous vehicles because the local laws of tears, rubber debts and flashes and flashes.
Some police patrol the streets on horseback, while others with rioting equipment behind the watch troops were deployed to protect federal facilities, including a detention center where some immigrants have been taken in recent days.
The collisions came on the third day of demonstrations against Trump's immigration performance in the region, because the arrival of around 300 federal troops encouraged anger and fear to some residents.
By noon, hundreds had gathered outside the metropolitan detention center in the center of Los Angeles, where people were held after previous immigration raids. Demonstrators directed songs of “shame” and “home” with members of the National Guard, who stood shoulder to shoulder, with long weapons and riotes.
After some demonstrators closely approached the guard members, another set moved up to the group and shoot with smoke -filled buses on the street.
The arrival of the National Guard followed two days of protests that started on Friday in the center of Los Angeles before he spread to Paramount on Saturday, a heavy Latino city south of the city, and the neighboring Compton.
While federal agents set up an index space in the vicinity of a home depot in Paramount on Saturday, protesters tried to block border pattern vehicles, with some winding rocks and chunks of cement. In response, agents in riot equipment unleash tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepperballs.
Tensions were high after a series of sweeps due to immigration authorities the previous day, while the week of the arrests of immigrants in the city climbed over 100. A prominent trade union leader was arrested as he protested and accused of obstructing law enforcement.
The recent protests remain much smaller than events from the past that the National Guard brought to Los Angeles, including the Watts and Rodney King Riots, and the 2020 protests against police violence, in which Gov. Gavin Newsom requested the help of federal troops.
Minutes later, the police of Los Angeles rounds of Crowd Control was shot to spread the protesters, they said they were collected illegally. A large part of the group then moved to blocking the traffic on the 101 highway until California Highway Patrol officers made them from the roadway at the end of the afternoon.
