{"id":10178,"date":"2025-06-12T03:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2025-06-12T03:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:04:02","slug":"curfew-in-la-as-trump-vows-to-liberate-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10178","title":{"rendered":"Curfew in LA as Trump vows to ‘liberate’ city"},"content":{"rendered":"
A nighttime curfew was declared in Los Angeles on Tuesday as local officials sought to get a handle on protests that Donald Trump claimed were an invasion by a “foreign enemy.”<\/p>\n

Looting and vandalism has scarred the heart of America’s second biggest city as largely peaceful protests over immigration arrests turned ugly after dark. “I have declared a local emergency and issued a curfew for downtown Los Angeles to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting,” Mayor Karen Bass told reporters.<\/p>\n

One square mile (2.5 square kilometers) of the city’s more-than-500 square mile area will be off-limits between 8pm and 6am for everyone apart from residents, journalists and emergency services, she added.<\/p>\n

One protester told AFP the arrest of migrants in a city with large foreign-born and Latino populations was the root of the unrest.<\/p>\n

“I think that obviously they’re doing it for safety,” she said of the curfew.<\/p>\n

“But I don’t think that part of the problem is the peaceful protests. It’s whatever else is happening on the other side that is inciting violence.”<\/p>\n

Small-scale and largely peaceful protests \u2014\u00a0marred by eye-catching acts of violence \u2014\u00a0began Friday in Los Angeles as anger swelled over ramped up arrests by immigration authorities.<\/p>\n

At their largest, a few thousand people have taken to the streets, but smaller mobs have used the cover of darkness to set fires, daub graffiti and smash windows.<\/p>\n

Overnight Monday 23 businesses were looted, police said, adding that more than 500 people had been arrested over recent days.<\/p>\n

Protests have also sprung up in cities around the country, including New York, Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nighttime curfew was declared in Los Angeles on Tuesday as local officials sought to get a handle on protests that Donald Trump claimed were an invasion by a “foreign enemy.” Looting and vandalism has scarred the heart of America’s second biggest city as largely peaceful protests over immigration arrests turned ugly after dark. “I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}