Protesters or instigators: Who drives chaos during the Los Angeles demonstrations?

Crowds near Los Angeles City Hall arrived at an uneasy replacement by Sunday evening, a group of people facing grim police.

The LAPD officer grabbed the “less deadly” riot gun, and the fire foam popped out red fur and ugly bruises. The protesters were held in downtown Los Angeles for the third consecutive day. Some were there to protest the countywide federal immigration sweep – others seemed to have suffered damage.

Several young men crawled over the crowd, bent over, and hid their things in their hands. They reached the front line and threw eggs at the officers, who fired at the fleeing crowd with riot guns.

LAPD chief Jim McDonnell, who made a distinction between protesters and masked “anarchists”, said they tend to exploit the unrest in property destruction and attack police.

Jonas March, who filmed the protests as an independent journalist, fell to the floor and tried to escape from the army.

“I stood up and they shot me in the A,” the 21-year-old said.

“When I look at the people who are violent there, that’s not the people we’re seeing here that day who legally exercise their First Amendment rights,” MacDonald said Sunday. “These people are wearing hats — they wear hoodies and masks.”

“They always do this,” he said. “They do everything they can. From one civil strife to another, often using the same or similar strategies. They are connected.”

The violence and widespread property damage from the protests in downtown Los Angeles shifted public attention from the focus of the demonstrations to the focus of the demonstrations – large-scale immigration has swept through mass immigrants in mainly Latino cities such as the Perapai, Huntington Park and Whittier.

Instead, the unrest has trained the attention of the narrow segment of the area (citizens of Los Angeles), where protests clashed with police and chaotic TV scenes: Waymo taxi is on fire. Vandalists use anti-police graffiti to destroy city buildings. Masked man police officers on the California Highway Patrol drove protesters off Highway 101.

CHP officers on Highway 101.

(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

McDonald said some agitators broke cinder blocks with hammers to create projectiles to throw projectiles at police, while others popped up “commercial-grade fireworks” at the police station.

“That will kill you,” he said.

LAPD arrested 50 people over the weekend. Captain Raul Jovel, who oversees the department’s response to the protests, said the arrested included a man accused of crashing his motorcycle into a group of officers and another suspect who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail.

The California National Guard watched protesters clash with law enforcement officers in downtown Los Angeles.

(Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)

McDonald said investigators will shoot videos from videos posted on police station cameras and social media to identify more suspects.

“The number of arrests we will be pale compared to the number of people we are about to arrest,” McDonald said.

The city of Los Angeles prosecutors and representatives of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office were unable to immediately disclose whether any cases were being reviewed to prosecute. district. Atti. Nathan Hochman said it would be charged with those who “thrown into cinder blocks, burn light vehicles, destroy property and attack law enforcement officers.”

On Sunday, LAPD responded to a chaotic scene that began with protesters joining National Guard Forces and Department of Homeland Security officials outside the Metropolitan Detention Center.

At about 1 p.m., a National Guard lawsuit was rushing into the crowd and shouting “push” when hitting people with a riot shield. Forces and federal officers used pepper balls, tear gas cans, flash explosions and smoking grenades to break down the crowd.

So far, no one in the crowd has committed violence against federal deployments. The purpose of the surge appears to be to clear space for fleets approaching federal vehicles.

Department of Homeland Security police have asked protesters to clear the road of vehicles in the early morning, but their orders to speakers are often drowned out by protesters’ odes. They don’t offer any warnings before charging the crowd.

The California National Guard stands a guard at the Metropolitan Detention Center.

(Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)

Some people in LAPD blow bottles and fireworks out in the crowd. Two people rode their motorcycles to the front of the crowd, vibrating the engine and drawing cheers from bystanders. Police accused them of hitting a skirmish, and the motorcycle could then be seen landing on both sides of them. The driver was taken away by police, their feet dragged onto the asphalt lined with broken glass and rubber bullets.

On the other side of 101, the destroyer puts the fire on a row of Waymos. Stimulating smoke emerges from autonomous taxis as people smash windows with skateboards. Others pose for photos of standing on the roof of a burning white SUV.

After California Highway Patrol personnel drove protesters out of Highway 101, people wearing masks covered up large pieces of concrete and even some electric scooters after officials sheltered under the overpass. A piece of concrete hit a CHP car, attracting cheers from the crowd.

Los Angeles Police Department police shot tear gas at protesters with temporary obstacles.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

LAPD approaches the town hall and pushes demonstrators toward Gloria Molina Grand Park, where some of the crowd twists the pink park bench from the concrete mount and piles it up in temporary roadblocks in the middle of Spring Street.

The crowd included a woman in a Catholic priest wearing a robe and a feathered Aztec headdress, milling behind a barricade until the LAPD officer on the horse pushed them back, waving long sticks at several people who refused to retreat. Video footage circulating online shows a woman being trampled.

The crowd moved south into the corridor on Broadway, and LAPD said the business reported being robbed at around 11 p.m., photographed by the ABC-7 helicopter, showing people breaking into the shoe store wearing masks and hooded sweatshirts.

McDonald said the scenes of the violation dislike him and “every good guy in this city.”

Before any chaos broke out on Sunday, Julie Solis walked along Alameda Street holding the California flag, warning protesters not to engage in such behavior later that day.

Solis, 50, said she believes the National Guard was just for a provocative response, which would justify further aggression by federal law enforcement.

“They want to arrest. They want us to fail,” she said. “We need peace. We need eloquence.”