Posted on 06/08/25
| News Source: The Hill
Tensions mounted in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon as police clashed with protesters on a freeway and declared another protest outside the Metropolitan Detention Center “unlawful.”
Dozens of protesters were arrested throughout the day. About 300 National Guard members were deployed in the city, after President Trump made the extraordinary decision to send members of the military to counter what he called “insurrectionist mobs.”
The protesters, responding to the Trump administration’s immigration raids in the city, blocked the 101 freeway starting at about 3:30 p.m. in Los Angeles. Police officers, firing tear gas canisters and other projectiles into the crowds, managed to clear the highway by 5 p.m. Hundreds of people continued to line the surrounding streets.
Shortly after 3 p.m., the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) announced that a separate pocket of protesters outside the city’s prison in Alameda was illegal and that arrests were underway.
“An UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY has been declared for the area of Alameda between 2nd St and Aliso St. A DISPERSAL ORDER has been issued. Arrests are being made,” the LAPD wrote on the social platform X.
CNN reported that police officers were seen striking and pushing protesters and deploying flash-bangs and tear gas into the crowd.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D), who slammed Trump’s decision to send the National Guard into the city, issued a warning to protesters who did not remain peaceful.