(Los Angeles) The situation remained tense on Sunday to Monday to Los Angeles after three days of clashes between police forces and demonstrators against the migration policy of Donald Trump, who says that the situation continues to deteriorate in the democratic megalopolis and requests the sending of troops.
“It seems to be really going to send it the troop!” ! ! “Posted Donald Trump on Monday morning on his social social network on Monday morning, also launching:” Stop masked people now “.
Los Angeles police (LAPD) announced overnight on X that the city center was declared a prohibited gathering area. “You must leave the city center immediately”, the area where demonstrators circulated on Sunday evening. An area in the business district, Civic Center, has also been declared the prohibited area of gathering.
Aerial images broadcast by television showed many police cars rolling in procession in deserted streets in the city center and the police positioned at the crossroads, but also a few face to face with small groups of demonstrators, dispersed in different small mobile groups, according to the ABC7 journalist flying over the city by helicopter.
Photo Ringo Chiu, Agency France-Presse
Protesters come up against the police in the streets of Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2025.
Sunday afternoon, dozens of demonstrators blocked a highway for more than an hour, in a stretched face-to-face with the police.
At least three cars were set on fire and two other vandalized, and the evening started with clashes between the security forces and small groups of individuals for many masked.
In the other major Californian city, San Francisco, the police announced that they had arrested sixty people after a demonstration degenerated.
“Do not bite the hook”
Los Angeles police said the police arrested at least 56 people in two days, and that three of its members were slightly injured.
At the beginning of the afternoon, the Los Angeles police completed the surroundings of federal buildings, preventing any contact between the demonstrators and the Camouflage Camouflage Casked Soldiers, raised AFP journalists.
Donald Trump deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard to try to contain these demonstrations, multiplying the attacks against the Democratic California authorities, accused of incompetence.
California Governor Gavin Newsom called on demonstrators not to fall into what he deems being a trap tense by the Republican President, who would politically exploit a crisis in a democratic bastion on one of his main action themes: the fight against important illegal immigration.
“Don’t bite Trump’s hook. Trump wants chaos and prompted violence, “he said on X.” Stay calm. Stay focused. Do not give him the excuse he is looking for, ”he asked.
“We had no problem until Trump gets involved,” he said before.
These clashes began on Friday in this city where a large Hispanic population resides, residents trying to intervene in the face of the muscular arrests of immigrants led by the Federal Immigration Police (ICE). About 300 guards arrived on Sunday morning.
The National Guard, reserve armed force, is most often mobilized during natural disasters.
Its deployment without consultation with the local democratic authorities and more broadly the action of the federal government were denounced by the opponents of Donald Trump.
The director of the Federal Police (FBI), Kash Patel, swept away the political opposition with the intervention of his services: “For things to be clear, the FBI does not need anyone to enforce the Constitution. I realize the American people, not to politicians who launch shock sentences. Los Angeles is besieged by marauding criminals, and we will restore public order. I don’t ask you, I tell you. ”
Mexican
Mexican nationals were arrested in recent operations, Mexico President, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced on Sunday, calling on the United States to treat them with dignity.
Evoking an “invasion” of the United States by “criminals from abroad”, Donald Trump erected the fight against illegal immigration in absolute priority, and communicates abundantly on the arrests and expulsions of immigrants.
In Los Angeles, important operations Friday and Saturday agents of the ICE, sometimes in civilian clothes, gave rise to first opposition rallies and violent clashes between demonstrators and police.
“We must defend our people,” a woman told AFP, herself a daughter of immigrants, refusing to give her name.
On the spot, the presence of the military worries more than it reassures Jason Garcia, 39, resident of Los Angeles and former soldier, who says he fears a “escalation”.
The strength of all these soldiers in trellis, “it is more an intimidation tactic,” said Thomas Henning, a protester.
The China Consulate in Los Angeles called on its nationals on the spot on Monday to be vigilant and “refrain from moving the night or alone”.
