Mayor Karen Bass reports that a curfew for a portion of downtown LA is in place from 8 pm Tuesday to 6 am Wednesday. Los Angeles police have arrested individuals as a curfew went into effect within a portion of the United States’s second-largest city during ongoing protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Late on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) announced that “mass arrests” were underway as individuals congregated within the imposed downtown curfew zone. Multiple groups remain to gather on 1st St between Spring and Alameda,” the LAPD posted on X. “Those groups are being handled and mass arrests are being made. Curfew is in effect.”
Subsequently, most of the demonstrators had left, though scattered clashes persisted. Officials claimed the curfew was required to prevent vandalism and looting by troublemakers seeking to cause nuisance.
The curfew will be imposed on 1sq mile (2.6sq km) of downtown LA and will run from 8 pm Tuesday to 6 am Wednesday (03:00 GMT to 13:00 GMT Wednesday), according to LA Mayor Karen Bass.
Bass added that she anticipated that the curfew would last for a few days, but emphasized that it was limited to only a small segment of the city, which spans 502sq miles (1,300sq km). The curfew was imposed on the fifth night of demonstrations against the Trump administration’s raids on suspected illegal immigrants in Los Angeles, and as protests cropped up in dozens of other US cities, including New York, Chicago and Atlanta.
