‘We’re not afraid of you’: LA protesters, enraged by Trump, flood the streets
by Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles from US news | The Guardian on (#6XVC7)
Traffic stopped, signs were brandished, insults were hurled - and the size of the protest seemed to take police by surprise
Thousands of Angelenos enraged by Donald Trump's decision to commandeer their state national guard swamped the downtown streets on Sunday, bringing a major freeway to a standstill. But the national guard, hemmed in by the protesters and by dozens of Los Angeles police cruisers, played almost no role in any of it.
A vocal, boisterous but largely peaceful sea of protesters engulfed the north-eastern corner of downtown Los Angeles around city hall and the federal courthouse. They hurled insults at Trump and at the immigration enforcement teams who had conducted mass arrests of undocumented migrants in the area on Friday.
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