Los Angeles mayor sets curfew as Newsom intensifies criticism of Trump
by Dani Anguiano, Edward Helmore, and Lois Beckett , from US news | The Guardian on (#6XWM7)
Karen Bass institutes 8pm-6am curfew for downtown LA as California governor urges people to not give in' to president
The city of Los Angeles is instituting a curfew in downtown on Tuesday night as tensions between the Trump administration and California escalate over immigration raids and the federal deployment of military forces in response to protests.
Mayor Karen Bass announced a 10-hour curfew for a one-square mile area of downtown, where demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have continued, while the LA police department said it had carried out more than 300 arrests of protesters in the last two days. The curfew is from 8pm to 6 am, Bass said.
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