LA police enforce curfew as Trump vows to 'liberate' city

Los Angeles constabulary accidental they person made "mass arrests" aft a 5th time of protests implicit US President Donald Trump's migration raids.

Mayor Karen Bass declared an overnight curfew wrong a comparatively tiny country of the city's downtown district, saying businesses were being vandalised and looted.

Elsewhere, the migration raids that triggered the protests past Friday person continued, with deployed National Guard troops present protecting borderline power agents connected enforcement operations.

Trump's enactment with authorities officials ramped up aft helium deployed troops to LA. The president has present vowed to "liberate" the city, but has been accused by California Governor Gavin Newsom of an "assault" connected democracy.

On Tuesday, Trump defended his determination to nonstop 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines, saying it was to forestall the metropolis being "conquered by a overseas enemy".

These troops deficiency the authorization to marque arrests, and person alternatively been tasked lone with protecting national spot and personnel.

Newsom deed backmost astatine the president: "He again chose escalation; helium chose much force." The California governor, who is seen arsenic a imaginable statesmanlike contender for the Democratic Party, warned that "other states are next".

After the LA curfew entered unit astatine 20:00 section clip connected Tuesday (03:00 GMT connected Wednesday), constabulary moved done downtown areas, firing rubber bullets to effort to disperse crowds.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) aboriginal said "multiple groups" were inactive congregating successful the district.

Officers did not corroborate successful their evening update however galore radical had been detained. The politician earlier said astir 200 radical had truthful acold been arrested connected Tuesday, successful summation to the dozens of others successful erstwhile days.

Explaining the curfew, Bass said she wanted "to halt the vandalism, to halt the looting". She added: "We reached a tipping point."

The bid affects an country of astir 1 quadrate mile successful America's second-largest city.

Chaotic protests besides sprung up connected Tuesday successful respective different US cities:

• In Atlanta, Georgia, riot constabulary utilized teardrop state connected protesters who fired fireworks towards officers astatine a objection attended by hundreds
• Police successful New York told the BBC dozens were arrested for blocking vehicular postulation aft respective 1000 marched into little Manhattan
• Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent National Guard troops to San Antonio, wherever migration rallies are planned

LA's politician said 23 businesses had been looted connected Monday night, though she did not supply an estimation of fiscal losses to the metropolis from the at-times convulsive disorder.

Elsewhere successful the sprawling city, it was a mean Tuesday, arsenic tens of thousands of children went to school, commuter postulation choked the streets and tourists strolled Hollywood Boulevard.

LA constabulary main Jim McDonnell said the curfew was "not astir silencing voices", but was a indispensable measurement to prevention lives and safeguard property.

Bass besides said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had provoked the unrest by conducting raids connected Latino areas successful the metropolis successful caller days.

"If [the raids are] going to spell connected for 30 days, and that's what the rumour is, and, if we privation to spot our metropolis peaceful again, I volition telephone upon the medication 1 much clip to extremity the raids," she said.

On Tuesday, National Guard troops, who were antecedently guarding national buildings, began assisting ICE agents with their "daily enforcement operations", a spokesperson for the borderline bureau told the BBC.

Marines were guarding national officials and spot connected Tuesday, Marines Corps General Eric Smith said. They bash not person apprehension authority.

The subject deployment to the LA country volition outgo $134m (£99m), the Pentagon said.

Addressing troops astatine Fort Bragg successful North Carolina, Trump described the protests arsenic a "full-blown battle connected bid and nationalist order".

The Republican president said helium plans to usage "every plus astatine our disposal to quell the violence".

Meanwhile, Trump's governmental enactment with authorities officials has intensified. The president has described the protesters arsenic "animals" and vowed that "this anarchy volition not stand".

During a code astatine the Fort Bragg subject base, helium urged troops to boo the names of Newsom and Joe Biden, his statesmanlike predecessor.

In televised remarks of his ain connected Tuesday night, California's Governor Gavin Newsom again criticised the president's uncommon deployment of the American subject without a petition from authorities officials. He accused Trump of a "brazen maltreatment of power".

"California whitethorn beryllium archetypal – but it intelligibly won't extremity here," helium said. "Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is nether battle close earlier our eyes."

Earlier successful the time a national tribunal denied an exigency petition from California to artifact the usage of troops sent to Los Angeles.

District Judge Charles Breyer scheduled a proceeding connected the question for Thursday.

Trump has acceptable a extremity for borderline agents of astatine slightest 3,000 regular arrests arsenic helium seeks to ramp up wide deportations, a signature pledge of his re-election campaign.

Since assuming office, the president has drastically reduced amerciable crossings astatine the US-Mexico borderline to historically debased levels.

A CBS News/YouGov canvass conducted successful aboriginal June, earlier the protests kicked off, recovered 54% of Americans saying they approved of Trump's deportation policy, and 50% approved of however helium was handling immigration.

That compares with smaller numbers of 42% who gave support to his economical argumentation and 39% for his argumentation connected tackling inflation.