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.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    They have released several high profile people that they were ordered to release for starters. They are starting to lose more and more court cases.

    These are, in the big picture, momentary setbacks, and even then he only complies with these months after they’re made, when the damage is already done. Trump is deploying the military against American civilians and laying out the groundwork for declaring martial law (which he has effectively already declared in LA). ICE is arresting people off the street and threatening to arrest political opposition. The fascists are trying, and for the most part succeeding, in creating a situation where they don’t need to listen to court orders. No democratic system, and certainly not America’s, is capable of surviving when one half of it refuses to recognize that the other half is hopelessly compromised. The system cannot help you for the same reason it couldn’t help the Germans or Italians.

    The same is true of republicans who don’t like him but feel powerless to oppose him.

    You mean slightly more palatable fascists? There is only one word to describe a Republican in 2025: a fascist. Do you expect the fascists to cooperate with you against their great leader?