Demonstrations in the United States: LA imposes the output lock in downtown due to protests

In view of days against the migration policy of US President Donald Trump in Los Angeles, a temporary lock for a small area in the center of the city will apply from this evening (local time). The regulation initially reached until early Wednesday morning, the mayor of La, Karen Bass, said. The situation will be re -evaluated on Wednesday. However, she expected that the nightly lock will be maintained for several days, said Bass.

She emphasized that only a fraction of the entire city area was affected. “Some pictures of the protests and violence appear that it was a city -wide crisis,” said Bass. That is not the case. There are also exceptions for residents, people on the way to work as well as for media representatives in the affected area in the city center. The police in La said that those who were not excluded from the output lock and still stay outside in the designated area was arrested.

Trump’s controversial posting of soldiers

In Los Angeles, people have been demonstrating to Trump’s hard migration course for days. The US government has therefore now mobilized 4,000 soldiers from the National Guard and 700 marine fans of the regular armed forces for use in Los Angeles – against the will of the governor of the state of California, Gavin Newsom.

The soldiers gradually arrive and, according to Trump’s will, should stay in the city until there is no danger. So far, an assignment has been scheduled for a maximum of 60 days. The US Department of Defense estimates the costs of sending soldiers from the National Guard and from Marine Interpreter to LA to $ 134 million ($ 117 million).

Demonstrations stop at

In Los Angeles there were protests and arrests again, but continued to be manageable. On Tuesday afternoon local time, hundreds of people gathered at various locations in the west coast metropolis to protest against Trump’s deportation policy. They face a growing number of police officers – and soldiers who protect the federal buildings in the city.

Trump’s decision to send members of the National Guard and the regular armed forces to LA against the will of the responsible governor is a significant escalation and demonstration of power by the Republican President. His approach is extremely unusual and controversial.

Trump: Demonstrators are “animals”

Trump described the protests as “fully developed attack on peace, public order and our national sovereignty”. The demonstrators are “rioters with foreign flags, with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion in our country,” Trump said at the Fort Bragg military base in the US state of North Carolina. “We will use all the funds available to us to end violence and to restore law and order immediately.”

Generations of soldiers would not have shed their blood on distant coasts, in order to see how their own country was destroyed by “an invasion and lawlessness of the Third World”, the Republican said. “I will never let it happen.” The demonstrators in Los Angeles are “animals” and would be paid. He provided no evidence for this claim. When asked by the press, the Republican replied who pays the demonstrators: “Someone pays that.”