Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Gives Update On ICE Protests
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President Donald Trump has deployed 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines to LA. But California Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta are suing the Trump administration, saying they unlawfully "trampled over" California’s sovereignty when they federalized the California National Guard.
Tensions flared in Los Angeles late Monday after Trump escalated military presence in the region against the wishes of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
About 700 Marines from the Marine Corps base in Twentynine Palms, California, will deploy to Los Angeles to support the roughly 300 National Guard members already
During Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s testimony on Capitol Hill, Rep. Betty McCollum, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, asked the cost of sending Marines and the National Guard to Los Angeles and what resources were being taken away by the move, but Hegseth repeatedly did not answer the question.
A CNN reporter was detained on live TV during the protests in Los Angeles. Click to watch the interaction with police.
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.
An Australian television journalist was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet Sunday while reporting live from downtown Los Angeles on the large-scale protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and subsequent deployment of California National Guard troops to the city.
Tear gas was used against protesters outside a federal detention center in Los Angeles on Sunday, creating a tense moment during an otherwise largely peaceful day of immigration raid demonstrations.