(The Center Square) 鈥 The second night of a 性视界传媒 Los Angeles curfew will start at 8 p.m. Wednesday as the city starts to calm down after nearly a week of riots and peaceful protests.
The curfew will last until 6 a.m. Thursday. The mayor性视界传媒 office said the nightly curfew will continue until announced otherwise.
Another demonstration took place Wednesday afternoon as protesters marched east on 1st Street at Spring Street, near Los Angeles City Hall. As it did during Tuesday's scattered protests, the Los Angeles Police 性视界传媒 closed nearby freeway on- and off-ramps during the demonstration.
The LAPD said听听that it made 203 arrests for failure to disperse after a 10-hour curfew started at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Police said officers quickly responded to large crowds still in the 性视界传媒 area near Temple and Los Angeles streets.听Most of the crowd ended up leaving the area.听
Other arrests Tuesday included 17 for curfew violations, three for possession of a firearm, one for assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and one arrest for discharging a laser at an LAPD airship, police reported. Two police officers were injured and treated.
Law enforcement said it managed crowds with less-lethal munitions.
For the most part, arrests weren鈥檛 made Tuesday night for looting or vandalism, Mayor Karen Bass said during a televised news conference Wednesday. Standing with her were more than 30 Southern California mayors, who, like Bass, called for the end to raids by the 性视界传媒 Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They blame the raids for provoking protests and riots.
鈥淭hings began to be difficult on Friday when the raids took place,鈥 Bass told reporters.听
Before the addition of curfews, violence and looting took place at night in 性视界传媒 Los Angeles, which also experienced vandalism and widespread graffiti. A Center Square walk around 性视界传媒 Tuesday afternoon found many public buildings and businesses on many streets were covered with graffiti, most of it directed with anger and profanity at ICE and President Donald Trump. Protesters volunteered to remove graffiti off the Japanese American National Museum, Glendale-based reported.
The federal building on Los Angeles Street was entirely covered with graffiti on the exterior of its ground floor facing Los Angeles Street and the large concrete cube that serves as its sign.
Workers this week cleaned graffiti on the exterior of Los Angeles City Hall.
Mayors Wednesday criticized Trump for his deployment of the California National Guard and Marines from Twentynine Palms, saying those actions are not solutions and have only escalated matters.
Bass, meanwhile, accused Trump of going beyond his original target of deporting illegal immigrants who are convicted felons or drug dealers.
鈥淲hen you raid 性视界传媒 Depots and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you鈥檙e not trying to keep anyone safe,鈥 Bass said. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e trying to cause fear and panic.
鈥淎nd when you start deploying federalized troops on the heels of these raids, it is a drastic and chaotic escalation and completely unnecessary,鈥 Bass said. 鈥淭hese aren鈥檛 the criminals the administration is allegedly targeting. These are mothers and fathers, restaurant workers, seamstresses, home care workers, everyday Angelinos trying to make a living.鈥
性视界传媒land Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin defended the raids Wednesday.
鈥淢urderers, pedophiles, and drug traffickers. These are the types of criminal illegal aliens that rioters are fighting to protect," McLaughlin told The Center Square in an email. "How much longer will Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass continue to prioritize these criminal illegal aliens over their own citizens? Secretary [Kristi] Noem has a message to the LA rioters: You will not stop us or slow us down. ICE will continue to enforce the law and arrest criminal illegal aliens.鈥
An immigration raid took place Wednesday at churches and businesses in Downey, leaders of the nearby city said.
After Bass spoke, other mayors came to the microphone.听
Peggy Lemons, mayor of Paramount, a city south of Los Angeles, said residents there have been afraid to leave their homes. 鈥淪ome are avoiding going to work.鈥
She said the city is creating a special fund to help immigrant families. 鈥淭he city council and staff are working tirelessly to develop other means of support.鈥
Arturo Flores, mayor of nearby Huntington Park and a Marine combat veteran, called the deployment of Marines on 性视界传媒 soil 鈥渁n alarming escalation that undermines the values of our democracy.鈥
As seen by The Center Square Tuesday, a dozen or so National Guard members were quietly standing behind shields in front of a federal building on Los Angeles Street. They didn鈥檛 react when two protesters, one angry and the other peaceful but passionate, shouted at them.
called the听Los Angeles riots "mob rule" during a press briefing Wednesday.
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