LA Protests Escalate as Trump Deploys Military

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The president has deployed about 300 guardsmen in Los Angeles after protests erupted over a series of ICE immigration raids. READ MORE: https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/la-protests-live-latest-news-9958x33xz Protesters set a bin on fire and pushed it into the centre of a main road to the north of downtown Los Angeles. Within a matter of minutes a long line of police cars came racing around the corner, escorting two fire trucks to extinguish the blaze. Dozens of police stood watch as the firemen set to work while a group of protesters chanted further down in the street. “Move aside,” one policewoman told me. Most of the unrest has given way to small, isolated episodes like this. There are still dozens of demonstrators roaming the streets — and the occasional loud bang — but the night appears to be calming down. The Democrat governor of California previously mocked Trump for posting a congratulatory message to the National Guard on social media before troops had arrived in Los Angeles. Gavin Newsom had repeatedly insisted that the state authorities had the situation under control and told MSNBC that Trump never suggested deploying the Guard during a phone call on Friday, calling the president a “stone cold liar”. The admonishments did not deter the administration. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/ #la #protest #losangeles