About 2,000 National Guard troops have been deployed in Los Angeles by the federal government, against the wishes of California Governor Gavin Newsom. US President Donald Trump has also suggested that he could deploy the Marine Corps to respond to the protests.

The last time the National Guard was activated without a governor’s permission was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to protect a civil rights march in Alabama.

U.S. officials said about 1,000 National Guard members were in the city under federal orders by midday Monday.