Article 6Y03G Los Angeles police fire teargas to disperse crowds at Trump protest

Los Angeles police fire teargas to disperse crowds at Trump protest

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Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
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Officers on horseback clear area around federal building with batons and sticks and others fire foam rubber bullets

Los Angeles police moved aggressively to disperse the last of the crowds at Saturday's otherwise peaceful anti-Trump protest downtown, using officers on horseback to clear an area around a federal building with batons and wooden sticks. They fired tear canisters and foam rubber bullets when some of the demonstrators started to regroup.

Hours after the main part of the protest had concluded and most of the participants and organizers had left, a crowd of a few dozen people congregated outside a federal office building, away from the approved protest zone, and began shouting at a line of stone-faced US marines standing guard outside the plate-glass entrance.

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