Protests against deportation
Soldiers in Los Angeles proceed against demonstrators
There is largely tense calm in the city of Los Angeles. Now there is a first incident between the national guard and demonstrators.
After the start of the National Guard in the Los Angeles area, media reports have been confronted with the first confrontation between soldiers and demonstrators. At a federal prison in the city, the federal soldiers and security forces were partly with tear gas to push dozens of demonstrators back, as photos and television pictures showed. Smoke grenades and pepper spray were also used, the “Los Angeles Times” reported. At first it was not clear what triggered the incident.
A little later, dozens of local police officers nearby, partly with troublemakers against demonstrators to drive them out of the surrounding area of the federal prison, as live images of the broadcaster CNN showed. The police said on platform X that there were occasional bottles and stones towards the security forces, there were arrested. The demonstration near the federal building in the city center was banned and had to be dissolved.
A CNN reporter said on site that the police are concerned with suppressing the several hundred demonstrators in order to avoid collapse with the National Guard on the prison building.
Trump speaks of “violent, insurgent muten”
In the rest of the city of Los Angeles and the neighboring areas seemed to be largely tense calm on Sunday. The Federal Government’s rhetoric is completely different: US President Donald Trump, for example, spoke on his platform Truth Social of “Violent, Insidy Mies”, who tried to prevent deportations from federal civil servants.
Due to protests in the Los Angeles area against officials from the US immigration authority ICE, which is also responsible for deportation, Trump ordered the mobilization of at least 2,000 soldiers in the national guard on Saturday evening (local time). According to the US military, around 300 soldiers were already working there by Sunday morning.
California’s democratic governor Gavin Newsom and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, saw no reason for mobilizing the national guard. There are enough local security forces that militarization will only lead to more tensions, they said. Both asked the demonstrators to protest peacefully.
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Source: Stern
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