Mass arrests in LA after protesters defied overnight curfew
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Police say groups congregated in downtown curfew area amid anger over aggressive immigration raids

Los Angeles police have announced they are making mass arrests in the city’s downtown area, as people gathered in defiance of an overnight curfew imposed after days of protests against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and military deployment.

Late on Tuesday night local time, the LAPD wrote on X that “multiple groups” continued to congregate within the designated downtown curfew area. “Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated,” it said.

The mayor, Karen Bass, had announced a 10-hour curfew for the area of downtown, where demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have continued. The curfew was to run from 8pm to 6am, Bass said.

  • Saleh@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Arbitrarily restricting the freedom of people, which of course provokes people to respond to it, to appease a Fascist government is not “having the situation under control”. It is siding with the Fascists against the people.

    If they are certain about the unlawfulness of ICE attacks, they could arrest those thugs, especially when they roam around unidentified and behind masks.

    If they are concerned with the safety of protestors and want to show that they have the situation under control, they could organize with protest organizers to protect the protests against Trumps national guard or marine goons.

    Instead they beat up and arrest the people.

    Remember it was only this weekend that LAPD shot journalists covering the protests completely unprovoked and with the journalists being clearly recognizable as they were live broadcasting into a camera being pointed at their face. LAPD is absolutely on the side of Trump and happy to crack down on people.