(Los Angeles) Los Angeles remains in Cran on Monday after three days of sometimes violent clashes between demonstrators opposed to the migration policy of Donald Trump and the police, the American president rejecting the fault of “professional agitators”.
The clashes began on Friday in the Californian megalopolis, where a large Hispanic population resides, when people tried to intervene in the face of the muscular arrests of immigrants led by the Federal Immigration Police (ICE).
“All we are asking for is that people are not torn from their work or from the graduation of their children, whether they are not separated from their family in a very traumatic and scary manner,” said Estrella Corral on Sunday.
Monday morning, several carcasses of burned car the day before are visible in an artery of the city, as well as many messages hostile to the ICE, the police and the president tagged on federal buildings.
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Rate of cars having been burned in the streets of Los Angeles on June 9, 2025.
The Los Angeles police are custody at crossroads and patrol in the deserted city center and declared in the night of gathering prohibited, after clashes on Sunday evening.
Monday morning, aerial images broadcast by the ABC7 channel also showed some face-to-face with small mobile groups of demonstrators.
“People who cause problems are professional agitators and insurgents,” the American president said on Monday, without saying if he was going to declare a state of insurrection, which would give him extremely extensive powers.
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Protesters come up against the police in the streets of Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2025.
The Democrat mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, assured that the perimeter of the clashes concerned only “a few streets” of the city center, and not the whole city, contrary to what Donald Trump insinuated.
“The people who set fire to cars and committed acts of vandalism will be prosecuted,” she warned. “It’s unacceptable”.
“Tactics of intimidation”
Donald Trump welcomed an “excellent decision” by deploying soldiers of the National Guard in Los Angeles, an initiative criticized by civil rights activists and the authorities of California, in particular his Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.
Image taken from Donald Trump’s social social account
The president “set fire to the powder and illegally acted by mobilizing the National Guard” without consultation with the local authorities – a first for sixty years – denounced Mr. Newsom on Monday, who promised judicial follow -up against this decision.
Asked Monday about a possible arrest of the Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom, one of his black animals, Donald Trump had launched that it would be “great”. “Go ahead, stop me,” said Gavin Newsom on Sunday on the MSNBC channel, for Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s main adviser in immigration and the architect of his massive expulsion policy of migrants in an irregular situation.
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President Donald Trump addresses the media about clashes in Los Angeles, on the White House field.
“I think it would be great. He did a horrible job, “insisted Donald Trump, in reference to the governor of this Democratic bastion that is California.
About 300 of these 2000 members of the National Guard, a reserve armed force which is often mobilized during natural disasters for example, arrived on Sunday morning.
“We do not want to see more militarization of the situation,” asked the UN on Monday.
Mexican authorities explained that forty Mexican nationals were arrested on Friday and Saturday during the ICE muscular operations, which aroused the demonstrations.
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Police attack demonstrators who block a street with a barricade in the center of Los Angeles, on June 8, 2025.
Los Angeles and former soldier, Jason Garcia, 39, fears a “climbing”.
For Estrella Corral, this military deployment is “ridiculous”. “Trump is overbidding. He tries to make a show in his political interest, ”she says
Another demonstrator, Thomas Henning, sees it as a “intimidation tactic”, while “these demonstrations were peaceful”.
In a stretched face-to-face with the police, dozens of people blocked a highway for more than an hour on Sunday.
According to Los Angeles police, at least 56 people were arrested in two days and three of its members were slightly injured.
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A man goes by bike in front of a Waymo Fire vehicle in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025.
In the other major Californian city, San Francisco, the police announced that they had arrested sixty people after a demonstration against the anti-immigration policy of the government degenerated.
Referring to an “invasion” of the United States by “criminals from abroad”, Donald Trump erected the fight against illegal immigration in absolute priority of his second mandate and communicates abundantly on the arrests and expulsions of immigrants.
