After 4 days of protests towards ICE raids, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass introduced {that a} one sq. mile space of downtown might be underneath curfew beginning at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

“I’ve declared an area emergency,” Bass mentioned, “and declared a curfew to cease the vandalism, to cease the looting.”

“Final night time there have been 23 companies that had been looted,” she continued. “If you don’t stay or work in downtown L.A., keep away from the world.

Bass mentioned she anticipated the curfew, which lasts till 6 a.m., to final a number of days.

However she emphasised that the vandalism was not widespread. “This can be very essential to know that what is going on on this one sq. mile is just not affecting the town. A few of the imagery of the protests provides the looks that this can be a citywide disaster, and it’s not.”

The curfew space covers the central a part of the downtown space from the 110 freeway to the 5 freeway, stretching to the ten freeway to the south.

Final week, immigration brokers descended on Los Angeles and commenced detaining people they suspected of being undocumented. Numerous principally peaceable protests had been held over the weekend, however directed by President Trump, the Nationwide Guard arrived in Los Angeles to take care of order. Mayor Bass, Governor Newsom and the LAPD repeatedly emphasised that the Los Angeles Police Division had the state of affairs in hand, however the arrival of the Nationwide Guard solely infected tensions extra, and 50 arrests had been remodeled the weekend.