Los Angeles curfew to continue for 'couple more days'
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Protesters gathered in the area outside of the curfew zone, but there were still some confrontations when police moved to break up a crowd of several hundred people. An unlawful assembly was declared around 6:30 p.m. and according to the Los Angeles Police Department, 71 people were arrested on suspicion of failure to disperse.
The downtown Los Angeles curfew is still in effect more than a week after ICE protests began. Laurie Perez reports.
Since immigration agents launched a campaign in L.A. to find and capture unauthorized workers wherever else they could find them, tension across the city has been palpable.
Newsom continued to condemn Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard and Marines to L.A., saying Trump "chose theatrics over public safety."
Santa Fe Springs is a historically Latino city in south Los Angeles County that borders Whittier, Norwalk, Downey, and Pico Rivera. ABC-7 spoke to witnesses who saw ICE agents asking questions to the crowds while walking through the swap meet crowds.
Council members are scheduled to meet on Tuesday to consider extending the curfew covering a one-square-mile zone that Bass enacted in response to vandalism and looting during protests over the
The one-mile-radius curfew covers a portion of downtown Los Angeles. Parts of Chinatown, Little Tokyo, the Fashion District, and the Arts District are within or near the curfew's boundaries. You can see the curfew's parameters in full, below:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a statewide address on Tuesday in the wake of immigration operations that sparked days of protest in Los Angeles and the deployment of hundreds of National Guard and U.S. Marines troops to the area by President Trump.