How L.A. law enforcement got pulled into Trump’s immigration fight

A phalanx of police officers on horseback is surrounding a person who was hit on the ground and again and again full of batons.

An Australian TV news reporter suffers from a lively broadcast while being shot with a tire bullet.

A crowded concrete and concrete pieces on the rocks and concrete pieces of 101 highway lobes and concrete pieces of 101 motorway lobes that detain protesters and direct a flash-bang bomb volley.

As the immigration protests reached the boiling point in Los Angeles, recently caught in the video and others have become viral.

Leaders in the Lapd and Los Angeles County Sheriff Department claimed that they have not been involved in civil immigration for a long time. Nevertheless, the two largest police organizations in the region are suddenly at the forefront of the pressure of the Trump administration and clash with the demonstrators on the street – the most peaceful and some intend to cause turmoil.

LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell condemned the actions of those who use “disgusting” violence.

Mc This thing out of control, Mc McDonnell said at a press conference on Sunday when he asked Trump’s deployment of the national guard troops. On Monday, after reporting that the President had sent hundreds of maritime to the city, McDonnell said that adding more troops to the mixture without net coordination ”, creat an important logistics and operational challenge for those who are responsible for protecting this city”.

Şerif Robert Luna told Times that MPs were ready to support federal agents in certain cases – even if the department maintains his official policy to help immigration operations.

Luna said, “They are starting to be attacked and they want help and ask for help, we will answer.”

Both the public and behind the scenes, the situation, the local law enforcement officers have passed the line with aggressive crowded control tactics, or the LAPD chief and for the others for a loss-lose, which has been accused of not having sufficiently caused tensions.

“The Federal Government put everyone in the city and especially law enforcement officers in a really messy situation, Makk They started a rebellion and then said, ‘Well, you can’t cope with the rebellion, so we send it to the army’. ”

Los Angeles police officers pushed protesters back on Monday near a federal building in the city center of Los Angeles.

(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

LAPD said in a statement, on Saturdays and Sundays, he said that he mostly made 50 arrests because he did not comply with a disintegration order. They also arrested a man who allegedly hit a motorcycle series of collision officers, one of them for murder at an attempt with one Molotov cocktail.

The department said that five officers were injured while the protests were policing and five police horses were slightly injured. The department said that civil servants took more than 600 deadly rounds to suppress enemy crowds.

Although LAPD has changed the way of handling protests in recent years, it is to get away from some heavy tactics that have widespread criticism in the past-the city still pays millions of money for crowded control every year.

On Monday, the Interior, including the withdrawal of the Australian TV news correspondent, said that he had launched an investigation into the complaint of abuse.

In addition, the department of the department, which reviewed all the serious power uses of the department, said that two incidents investigated two incidents because of “possible significant injury, and that a protester was investigated in an event where a rubber bullet was hit with a rubber bullet.

“We continue to examine the video and follow the situation,” he said.

Combined with mixed messaging by the high-profile events caught in the video, he created opportunities to control the narrative.

On Saturday, Mayor Karen Bass told reporters that the protests were under control, and the LAPD chief, the department was overwhelmed by the explosions of violence. Trump seized these comments, and he wrote on Social that the situation in Los Angeles “really looks really bad”.

Trump said on Monday after midnight on the right -wing social media platform, “Jim McDonnell, a very reputable LAPD chief, said that protesters have become much more aggressive and that they should ‘re -evaluate the situation’ about bringing the troops. Don’t let these bandits escape from it. Make America wonder again !!! “

Protesters clash with the police city center near the va outpatient clinic in Los Angeles on Sunday.

(Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times)

At the weekend, the local policemen usually found themselves playing themselves as they were confronting the rebellious crowds.

Cmdr. The Oscar Barragan in the Special Operations Department of the La District Special Operations announced the scene where the unit responded to a protest near a home tank in Paramount. The migrant workers in the store, a raid rumors spread on social media, Barragan, the real problem is a federal immigration office used as an nearby staging area, he said.

“Social media took over and a wrong narrative began to grow and just out of control,” he said.

Barragan, Scrum in the west 710 highways and Compton border, while moving towards the border, “the people who threw mortar, rocks and things,” he said. Some people said that they put nails and slag blocks on the street trying to prevent the reaction of the police.

“It was quite hairy, Bar Barragan said. “They continued to start all kinds of fireworks that you could just imagine and was consistent.”

He said that local law enforcement officers had tolerate protests – but he should take steps to restore the order when things started to get out of control.

“The sheriff has made it clear that we allow peaceful protests to take place, but we will not tolerate it after violence occurred,” he said.

Apart from the Metropolitan Detention Center on Sunday, a group of approximately 100 protesters spent hours by calling the members of the California National Guard and internal security department officials near the entrance to the immigrant prison, calling them the “Nazis ve and inviting them to defend the people instead of a building.

At one point, an internal security guard approached one of the vocal demonstrators and called on the protesters to stay away from the federal property and to clean a path for vehicles that need to enter, and said that the violence on Saturday did not want to be repeated. However, at around 13.00 on Sunday, Riot Shields and the guards moved in front of Phalanx in Alameda, and entered the protest crowd and shouted “pushed” while hitting people. They started tear gas tin boxes and smoke bombs and left a toxic cloud in the air.

On Sunday, a protestist was injured near the 101 highway in clashes with law enforcement officers in Los Angeles city center.

(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

He left an angry protester crowd all the morning to fight Lapd all morning.

After the National Guard Unites and Internal Security Officers were drawn to the loading, LAPD officers found themselves back and forth with the protesters in Alameda. Officers used a truncheon, less deadly launcher and tear gas to gradually force hundreds of crowds towards Temple Street.

LAPD has repeatedly ordered disintegration from a helicopter and patrol car speaker. Some members of the crowd threw water bottles and glass bottles to the officers, and the windshield of a department vehicle was shattered after being shot by a bullet.

A officer broke in half, standing next to a conflict line, and then shook a baton on the demonstrator’s legs. Another officer once over again by the correspondent raised his launcher and targeted the presidents of the demonstrators.

Especially at a brutal moment, two people who driving motorcycles moved towards the crowd of protests, returned their engines and cheered. At one point, they approached the LAPD’s collision line and shifted.

Both were handcuffed and taken, and his feet were shattered along the asphalt and spent rubber bullets. Lapd then claimed that at least one of the motorcyclists broke the officers.

The tensions spilled on Monday.

City workers repair the broken windows in Spring Street in the police station.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

In the police station, where city workers were identified as riding on ground -level windows, a series of officers in the rebellion equipment began to gather outside. Some government offices inviting employees to work from home and the surrounding streets were more empty than usual. Those who came to the city center now hold their heads below as they crossed the secondary “F-F-Buz” graffiti.

Government Gavin Newsom said that Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guard Union to the city in the afternoon and doubled the previous sum. On the other hand, the governor said that together with other law enforcement officers, 800 states and local law enforcement officers are working on the increase in the increase in the security of our communities ”.

At a press conference, McDonnell said that the episode was trying to establish a balance between civil unrest on the streets. [while] He is also trying to protect peaceful protests. ”

Some community leaders were deeply satisfied with the police reaction.

Eddie Anderson, a priest at the Church of McCarty Memorial Christian in Jefferson Park, argued that Lapd was doing Trump’s protection of immigration agents effectively.

“We asked them to choose a party: will they choose the side of the federal government, and are they trying to break the families?” Anderson said. “Donald Trump does not want anything else to resort to violence to fight against the federal government, because the whole plan is to try to show that La is an unlawful place.”

Times personnel writers David Zahniser and Matthew Omseth contributed to this report.