(Los Angeles) The police carried out first arrests of people violating the curfew established Tuesday in Los Angeles, on the fifth day of sometimes violent demonstrations against the migration policy of the Trump administration, while Texas, another state with a large Latin American population, announced to deploy the National Guard.
“Multiple groups continue to come together … and massive arrests are underway. The curfew is in force, “said the Californian megapole police. According to the Los Angeles Times25 people were arrested.
A few hours earlier, the Democratic mayor of the city Karen Bass had announced to establish “a curfew in the center of Los Angeles to end acts of vandalism and looting”, from 8 pm local (11 pm (east time) on Wednesday) at 6 am.
“Last night, 23 businesses were looted, and I think that if you cross the center of Los Angeles, the graffiti are omnipresent and cause significant damage to shops and a number of properties,” she added.
Since Friday, the second largest American city, with a large population of Hispanic origin, has been the scene of clashes between protesters denouncing raids from the Federal Immigration Police (ICE) against the illegal immigrants and the police in anti -rose. These clashes have nevertheless remained sporadic and localized.
The streets remained relatively calm on Tuesday in the city center, including in the district of Little Tokyo, after a night face-to-face between demonstrators pulling fireworks towards police officers and the latter retaluating with tear gas.
However, Los Angeles police officers (LAPD) intervened to arrests among a few hundred demonstrators in court.
A little further, a hundred people went briefly on a highway, interrupting traffic.
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The police close the bridges and access to highway 101 after the entry into force of the curfew in Los Angeles, on June 10, 2025.
“Anarchy”
In this episode that has become the object of intense political rivalry between the Trump administration and the leaders of the Democratic Party, the Republican heavy goods vehicle Gregg Abbott, Governor of Texas, a great southern state, frontier of Mexico, where a strong Latin American population lives, announced Tuesday evening that it ordered the deployment of the National Guard.
“Manifest in calm is legal. Taking people or property is illegal and will trigger arrests, “he said, while over the days, some demonstrations and clashes have broken out in other points in the United States, without spreading like a trail of powder.
Photo Joel Angel Juarez, Reuters archives
Protesters displayed placards in front of police officers during a solidarity rally with the Los Angeles demonstrations in Austin, Texas, on June 9, 2025.
At the start of the evening Tuesday, a few thousand people walked in southern Manhattan in New York.
On the other side of the political spectrum, the Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom, who became the ambitious figurehead of the opposition, shoots red balls against Donald Trump and wants to challenge his decision to deploy the army in his state, a democratic bastion.
In a television address on Tuesday evening, he denounced an “abuse of shameless power”.
“Deploying in the street of combatants trained for war is unprecedented and threatens the very foundation of our democracy,” said Gavin Newsom, considered a potential candidate for the White House for 2028. “Donald Trump behaves like a tyrant, not as a president. »»
The Republican President, who regularly agonizes insults and jibes M. Newsom, has already deployed in California the National Guard, reserve force, against the will of the local authorities and the hundreds of Marines are expected in reinforcement.
“This anarchy will not continue. We will not allow federal agents to be attacked and will not let an American city be invaded and conquered by foreign enemies, “Donald Trump on Tuesday launched on a speech on a military base.
He threatened to resort to the ACT insurrection, a state of emergency regime which gives the president the power to use the armed forces in control missions on American territory.
Some 700 navies, an elite body normally used as an external projection force, must join 4,000 soldiers of the National Guard already mobilized by Donald Trump, which he is accused of having taken disproportionate measures.
Until when this deployment of soldiers-whose cost is estimated at $ 134 million by the Pentagon-will he last? “Until there is no more danger,” said Donald Trump.
