Overview
- Organizers estimated more than 200,000 participants in what began as a peaceful demonstration against President Trump’s immigration policies.
- Violence erupted when a faction of protesters on a pedestrian overpass rained rocks, bottles and fireworks down on officers.
- Police issued a dispersal order, declared an unlawful assembly and imposed an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew across a roughly one-square-mile section of downtown.
- LA County Sheriff Robert Luna confirmed at least one deputy and a mounted enforcement horse were injured during the clashes.
- Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom denounced the chaos, which followed earlier protests that saw National Guard deployment in the city.