Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a 10-hour curfew in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Bass said the curfew will run from 8pm Tuesday to 6am Wednesday to 6am Wednesday as the local emergency was declared. “We’ve reached a tipping point,” Bass said after 23 businesses were looted.
The curfew will be located in an area that covers just 2.5 square kilometres of downtown, including areas that have been raging protests since Friday. The city of Los Angeles includes approximately 2,295 square kilometers.
According to Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell, the curfew does not apply to residents living in designated areas, homeless people, qualified media or public safety and emergency staff.
McDonnell said “illegal and dangerous behavior” had escalated since Saturday, prompting the need to impose a curfew.
“Curors are necessary measures to protect and protect property over several consecutive days of growing across the city,” McDonnell said.
Newsom accuses Trump of destroying democracy
California Governor Gavin Newsom says US President Donald Trump is “tugging military locations” across Los Angeles.
The Democrats’ remarks come after Trump ordered the country’s second-largest city to deploy an army of about 5,000 people, including the National Guard and the Marines.
They were deployed to protect federal buildings, but are now protecting immigration agents when making arrests.
In a statement, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said the military is providing security to federal facilities and protecting federal officers.
Newsom said Trump’s immigrant crackdown not only garnering criminals, but “dishwashers, gardeners, day workers, tailors” are among those in detention.
He said Trump’s decision to deploy the California State Guard without his support should serve as a warning to other states regarding ignoring federal laws in which incumbent administrations are willing to engage in.
“California might be the first, but obviously it won’t end here,” warned Newsom.
Earlier Tuesday, Newsom had asked federal court to stop the Trump administration from using National Guard and Marines to help raid ice across Los Angeles.
The California governor argued that this only raises tensions and creates more uncertainty among the public.
Newsom filed an emergency request early Tuesday after Trump approved the deployment of 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines.
The Trump administration said it wanted an unprecedented and dangerous order that would hinder Newsom’s ability to carry out enforcement activities. The judge set up a hearing Thursday.
Trump is opened to call the rebellion law
Trump has kept the possibility of using rebellion laws open and allowed the president to deploy troops within the United States to curb rebellion and domestic violence and to enforce the law in certain circumstances.
This is one of the most extreme emergencies available to the US president.
“If there’s a riot, I’d certainly call it. We’ll see,” Trump told reporters in the oval office.
He later called the protesters “animals” and “foreign enemies” in a speech at the Fort Bragg Army facility in North Carolina, where he commemorated the 250th anniversary of the US military.
Trump explains the confusion in Los Angeles developments with the tragic words that Bass and Newsom say they are close to the truth. The US President has also pledged to “liberate” the city.
“We’ll release Los Angeles and make it free, clean and safe again,” Trump said.
Trump is under attack after the Pentagon reveals that it will cost $134 million (174 million euros) to deploy his National Guard and Marines.
Critics denounced him for reckless government spending after vowing to eliminate wasted spending with the creation of institutions such as Government Efficiency (DOGE).
However, the 47th US President argued that deployment was absolutely necessary, and said that Los Angeles would have been “completely wiped out” if it had not ordered it to.
Democrats on the California Legislature delegation accused Trump of creating a “manufactured crisis” to advance his personal agenda.
