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When President Donald Trump won the White House last year for the second time, many Democrats concluded they would need to moderate on a cluster of issues on which they were on the wrong side of public opinion.
Demonstrators hit the streets again in L.A. after President Trump deployed the National Guard due to protests against ICE raids.
Hong says protests in LA can change very quickly — one moment peaceful, the next chaotic. But he always tries to stay safe while telling the story through his images.
AP’s visual journalists led global news coverage over the weekend with standout reporting from the ground during protests in Southern California sparked
California Gov. Gavin Newsom had sued Trump in an attempt to block the deployment of federal troops in the city, which Newsom has called a “serious breach of state sovereignty.”
A tense moment played out on CNN’s air Tuesday when a police officer trying to clear an area where demonstrators had been protesting immigration raids in Los Angeles confronted a reporter for the network seemingly caught in the chaos. As CNN’s Kyung Lah was reporting live from the demonstrations, the camera caught Los Angeles Police…
Newsom filed a lawsuit Monday in response to Trump ordering the deployment of roughly 4,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles following protests over his stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws. They were originally called in to protect federal buildings, and the president later ordered the deployment of 700 Marines.
Los Angeles County residents can support local and regional organizations that are directly supporting families who were affected by recent ICE raids and immigrant communities in need.