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10-06-2025
LOS ANGELES: Protests have flared up again in Los Angeles, as demonstrators against immigration raids face off with law enforcement for a third day. Watch live coverage at the top of this page.
National Guard units deployed by President Donald Trump use tear gas to force back protesters downtown.
Law enforcement move in to clear demonstrators as they block the major 101 freeway in the city.
Trump defends his move to send in the National Guard, saying they will “make sure there’s law and order.”
California’s governor urges Trump to revoke the troop deployment, which other Democratic governors call an “alarming abuse of power.”
Demonstrators have “ignited” self-driving vehicles in downtown Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
101 Freeway closes again
The LAPD have closed a major road again, shortly after it reopened, posting on social media, “due to demonstrators throwing objects onto the (San Bernadino) lanes of the 101 Freeway and damaging multiple police vehicles, the 101 SB Freeway will remain closed until further notice.”
There is some uncertainty among people in Paramount, in the south of LA County, over how the protests and clashes with law enforcement started on Saturday. Many who live in the community told media they saw immigration enforcement vehicles in the area.
It caused instant fear and panic, then came reports about raids and the arrests of day laborers at Home Depot, a place where many undocumented migrants across the US go to find work.
Typically, the Home Depot’s parking lot is filled with dozens of day laborers looking for work, people gathered there today told me.
“No one really knows what happened, “a man named Juan told me, as he and two friends gathered around a small pickup in the parking lot. He used to be among the men looking for work there. He still meets with them here on weekends to chit-chat and catch up with old friends in the community.
“No one is here today. Everyone is too scared to be here,” he says of the workers.
While dozens of migrants have been detained by authorities elsewhere in the area, the rumors of raids at the store were misinformation, according to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“Despite false reports, there was no ICE ‘raid’ at a Home Depot in LA,” the DHS told media.
US president Donald Trump has posted, without providing evidence, the words ‘Paid Insurrectionists!’ on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns.
The post came shortly after Trump wrote, “Governor Gavin Newscum and Mayor Bass should apologize to the people of Los Angeles for the absolutely horrible job that they have done, and this now includes the ongoing LA riots. These are not protesters, they are troublemakers and insurrectionists. Remember, NO MASKS!”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass urged protests earlier to keep their demonstrations peaceful and said ‘We stand with all Angelinos’.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said that Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to demonstrations was “purposefully inflammatory”.
On the other side of town, there’s a very different scene unfolding.
Multiple streets are blocked by authorities, but not for protest, for the LA Pride parade. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
