i can't even enjoy this podium because the biased judging of this event completely fucked the relative placements here. i love alysa so goddamn much but she should absolutely not be in 1st, that combo needed to be called
Despite a curfew, protests against immigration arrests have started up again in areas of the city's downtown.
Protests against immigrations raids continued in Los Angeles on Wednesday, entering their sixth day despite a curfew.
Thousands of troops and hundreds of US Marines have been deployed to the city by US President Donald Trump to quell the demonstrations. Nearly 400 people have so far been arrested, including 330 undocumented migrants and 157 people arrested for assault and obstruction, including one for the attempted murder of a police officer.
As protests continued, National Guard troops trained near the city.
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The city’s crackdown came after Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, filed an emergency request to block the Trump administration from using military forces to accompany Ice officers on raids throughout LA.
Trump has ordered the deployment of 4,000 national guard members and 700 marines to LA after days of protests driven by anger over aggressive Ice raids that have targeted garment workers, day laborers, car washes and immigrant communities across the US’s second-largest city.
What has Newsom said? Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard in LA was “a brazen abuse of power”, that has “inflamed a combustible situation”, Newsom said in a searing rebuke of the administration.
What about Trump? In an address to troops at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina yesterday, Trump spread conspiracy theories, maligned California’s Democratic leaders and misleadingly portrayed protesters as part of a “foreign invasion”.
