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US news: Violent protests erupt in Los Angeles due to…, Trump takes action, sends 2000…
The security agents confronted around 100 protesters, where some demonstrators displayed Mexican flags and others covered their mouths with respiratory masks.
Updated: June 8, 2025 3:06 PM IST 
Los Angeles: In a significant turn of events from the United States of America, fireworks exploded outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on June 7) and law enforcement personnel fired less lethal rounds at protesters as the city entered a second straight night of demonstrations against immigration raids, as per a report by news agency Reuters.
The security agents confronted around 100 protesters, where some demonstrators displayed Mexican flags and others covered their mouths with respiratory masks.
President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, told Fox News that the National Guard would be deployed in Los Angeles on Saturday evening. As a result of the action, President Donald Trump has sent 2000 National Guards to control the situation.
California Governor Gavin Newsom called the decision “purposefully inflammatory.”
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“If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
The protests pit Democratic-run Los Angeles, where census data suggests a significant portion of the population is Hispanic and foreign-born, against Trump’s Republican White House, which has made cracking down on immigration a hallmark of his second term.
(With inputs from agencies)