Curfew in LA as protests against Trump’s immigration crackdown continue

A nighttime curfew was successful unit successful Los Angeles arsenic section officials sought to get a grip connected protests that United States President Donald Trump claimed were an penetration by a “foreign enemy”.

“I person declared a section exigency and issued a curfew for cardinal Los Angeles to halt the vandalism, to halt the looting,” Mayor Karen Bass told reporters connected Tuesday.

One quadrate mile (2.5 quadrate kilometres) of the city’s much than 500-square-mile country volition beryllium out of bounds until 6am (13:00 GMT) for everyone isolated from residents, journalists and exigency services, she added.

Small-scale and mostly peaceful protests began connected Friday successful Los Angeles arsenic choler swelled implicit intensified arrests by migration authorities.

At their largest, a fewer 1000 radical person taken to the streets, but smaller groups person utilized the screen of acheronian to acceptable fires, daub graffiti and smash windows.

Overnight connected Monday, 23 businesses were looted, constabulary said, adding that much than 500 radical had been arrested successful caller days.

Protests person besides sprung up successful different cities astir the United States, including New York, Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco.

Trump has ordered 4,000 National Guard soldiers to Los Angeles, on with 700 active-duty Marines, successful what helium has claimed is simply a indispensable escalation to instrumentality backmost control, contempt the insistence of section instrumentality enforcement that they could grip matters.

The Pentagon said the deployment would outgo US taxpayers $134m.

“What you are witnessing successful California is simply a full-blown battle connected peace, connected nationalist order, and nationalist sovereignty,” Trump told troops astatine Fort Bragg, a subject basal successful North Carolina.

“This anarchy volition not stand. We volition not let an American metropolis to beryllium invaded and conquered by a overseas enemy.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom said Trump’s daze militarisation of the metropolis was the behaviour of “a tyrant, not a president”.

In a livestreamed address, Newsom called Trump a “president who wants to beryllium bound by nary instrumentality oregon constitution, perpetuating a unified battle connected American tradition”.

“California whitethorn beryllium first, but it intelligibly volition not extremity here.”

In a filing to the US District Court successful Northern California, Newsom asked for an injunction preventing the usage of troops for policing.

Trump’s usage of the subject is an “incredibly rare” determination for a US president, said Rachel VanLandingham, a prof astatine Southwestern Law School successful Los Angeles and a erstwhile US Air Force lieutenant colonel.

US instrumentality mostly prevents the usage of the subject arsenic a policing unit – absent the declaration of an insurrection, which Trump again mused astir connected Tuesday.

Trump “is trying to usage exigency declarations to warrant bringing successful archetypal the National Guard and past mobilising Marines,” said instrumentality prof Frank Bowman of the University of Missouri.