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.
Curfews are meant for children not for adults with constitutional rights and a free country. it’s just another tool they use to arrest more protesters.
The crackdown came after California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, filed an emergency request to block the Trump administration from using military forces to accompany Ice officers on raids throughout LA.
It could also be said that this is to protect them against military forces while that is being worked out. Lesser of two evils and all that. Better to be arrested locally than shot :shrug:
trump took control of the state national guard under false pretenses to send them to a city that was protesting against ICE agents illegally disappearing people, and the LAPD is PROTECTING the ICE agents and national guard instead of siding with the people of LA. No one is coming to save us. Curfew protects ICE, not the people.
Party of small government telling us we can’t go outside at night anymore.
Remind me which party removes rights.
There’s a curfew? Fucking hell.
This may be a bit heavy-handed, but it is done for a reason. Trump wants to use “lawlessness” as an excuse to send troops in.
By implementing this curfew and making these arrests, the LAPD can demonstrate that it has the situation under control, and there is no need for the Feds to get involved. If California’s lawsuit against the Feds ends up working, and the court finds the troop deployment unlawful, this curfew enforcement might very well be the reason.
This would be more convincing if they didn’t have over 1/2 dozen officers cornering and then shooting a pedestrian with a rubber bullet: https://lemmy.world/post/31196039
You can’t take away their hobbies that’s unfair. Just think of those poor officers
I’m okay with it. You can’t have roving mobs destroying your city every night. I think the cerfew itself is a bit heavy handed, but my understanding is that it covers a very small area. And it doesn’t affect the daytime peacful protests, so it isn’t squashing the protesting really, just trying to cut down on the damage.
You can’t have roving mobs destroying your city every night.
No, the curfews are for L.A. residents and civilians, not ICE and the L.A.P.D. The roving mobs are still out.
Now that’s funny. Lol.
