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Trump is "unhinged right now," Gov. Gavin Newsom said, accusing the president of making the situation in LA worse by federalizing National Guard troops.
President Donald Trump ordered thousands of troops after large protests in LA targeted the administration's crackdown on immigration enforcement
In a move that has prompted division, Trump ordered the California National Guard to quell the immigration protests, moving to deploy 2,000 soldiers to the Los Angeles area. “Great job by the National Guard in Los Angeles after two days of violence,
Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said on Monday that the Trump administration and its immigration raids were to blame for inflaming tensions in the city. In a televised interview, Ms. Bass sought to downplay the protests of the last few days. “This is not citywide civil unrest,” she said on CNN. “A few streets downtown, it looks horrible.”
Lauren Tomasi, a 9News correspondent, was reporting live when an officer behind her suddenly raised their firearm and fired a nonlethal round at close range.
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The company said it doesn't think the vehicles were intentionally targeted, but that it had paused rides in downtown LA.
Protestors in over a dozen cities are set to demonstrate their solidarity with those arrested by federal agents in California over the weekend.
California officials have continued to maintain the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members is "unnecessary".