Before the tension in the streets of Los Angeles For five consecutive days, the mayor of the second most populous city in the United States (USA), Karen Bass, has declared the entry into force of an emergency curfew in the center of the from its 20:00 in the afternoon until its 6:00 p.m. A decision that is justified in the increase in disturbances in the demonstrations against the massive raids as migrants of Donald Trump, who has deployed thousands of military from the National Guard in the area, to which a 700 Marines Battalion.
The measure that affects approximately one area of more than two square kilometers, will be active for an indeterminate time although it is expected to be extended for several days, according to Mayor Angelina. Specifically, the authorities have been dedicated to imposing this restriction before the Disturbances and acts vandalism that have followed each other for five days by groups of protesters who refuse to disperse.
“The curfew has been considered for several days, but clearly, after the violence that took place last night (in reference to this Tuesday), 23 businesses lootedand only before the extensive and generalized nature of vandalism, we reach a turning point and declare the state of emergency and ask for the curfew, “said the mayor at a press conference.
For his part, the head of the Los Angeles Police Department, Jim McDonnell, explained that The only exempt The remaining touch will be the residents of the designated area, people in street situations, accredited media personnel, as well as public security workers and emergency services.
Vandalism and riots
In addition, he also pointed out that on Tuesday up to 67 people were arrested for Block “Highway 101 illegally”adding a total of 197 arrests during the day, while on the eve 114; On Sunday 40 and Saturday 27. “We have attended a worrying escalation and an illegal and dangerous behavior,” the police authority warned.
“Let me make it clear that this behavior, blocking highways, city streets and ramps, refusing to comply with the legal dispersion orders and interfering with public security operations, it is dangerous, illegal and will not be tolerated,” McDonnell said, with respect to the growing disturbances developed in the framework of the protests.
Although the tension that occupies the streets of Los Angeles since Friday, following the migratory raids From the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), the US president far from calming the waters has chosen to cloud them even more if the deployment of thousands of soldiers of the National Guard fits.
The political war, unleashed
An operation that local authorities did not request triggering an entire open war with the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, whose arrest has not hesitated to raise. In fact, in one of his interventions, the Democrat has not hesitated to accuse the Republican of “inflaming a potentially explosive situation” that has led to the imposition of the curfew.
For his part, the Democrat valued that he will stop with his state by deciding to deploy the National Guard to quell protests against his immigration policies, but that “democracy will be the following”, accusing him of destroying the rule of law. “This is not just about the protests here in Los Angeles. History will clearly not end here. Other states are the following. Democracy is the following. Democracy is being assaulted before our eyes,” he said in a speech addressed to the Californians and spread in their social networks.
The Democrat has reiterated his complaint of the deployment of the National Guard ordered by Washington in what he has considered as a “shameless abuse of power” and in particular, “the use of tear gas, rumble grenades, rubber bullets, federal agents stopping people and undermining their rights to due process”, while he has rejected that “Our own armed forces military our streets, neither in Los Angeles, nor in California, nor anywhere”.
Meanwhile, the American president insists that “Los Angeles has gone from being one of the cleanest, safe and beautiful cities in the world to being a dump with whole neighborhoods under the control of transnational bands and criminal networks. It is horrible what has happened so fast.” Consideration that leads him to continue with a multitude of raids against migrants.
