Los Angeles protests: mayor says unrest ‘provoked by White House’ after more than 200 arrested during curfew – live | Los Angeles Ice protests

June 11, 2025
, 12:46 pm

More than 200 arrested for failure to disperse after curfew, says LAPD

More than 200 people were arrested after police said they failed to leave the downtown area in compliance with the mayor’s curfew, the Los Angeles police department said in a post on X. They face a charge of failure to disperse.

In addition, 17 people were arrested on a charge of curfew violation. Others were taken into custody on charges of possessing a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, and discharging a laser at a police airship.

Police said that two officers were injured and received medical treatment, but did not say what caused their injuries.

Key events

More US troops are in LA than in Iraq and Syria

There are now more US troops deployed to Los Angeles than in Iraq and Syria combined, ABC News reports.

There are 4,800 activated national guard and marine personnel in LA, compared to the 2,500 troops in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria.

Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass also just highlighted this during her press conference.

Bass says the unrest is “isolated to several streets” of downtown LA, taking aim at the Trump administration’s “lie” that the whole city is in chaos.

Bass highlights that, despite the Trump administration’s touting of the number of arrests made during the unrest, most of those arrests have been for “failure to disperse” and curfew violation – and not for looting or vandalism, she says.

‘I want to speak to the president,’ says LA mayor

Bass says that she wants to speak with Donald Trump following days of anti-Ice protests in Los Angeles and the deployment of national guard troops and marines.

I want to speak to the president, and I want him to understand the significance of what is happening here.

Yesterday, Bass said she was going to “put out a call” to the president, but had not spoken to him yet.

She says that she has a “call in the next few minutes”, not with Trump, “but to get that call set up”.

‘Please remember you are dealing with Americans’: mayor and former marine’s plea to marines deployed to LA

Lauren Gambino

Arturo Flores, the mayor of Huntington Park and a combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a marine, appealed directly to his active duty “brothers” deployed to Los Angeles:

These are Americans.

Whether they have a document or they don’t, you’re dealing with Americans.

So please remember that if you’re ever put in a situation or asked to do something, remember, you are dealing with Americans.

On Monday, federal immigration agents raided a Home Depot in Huntington Park, a predominantly Hispanic city south of LA. Several day laborers were detained and residents have remained on edge, fearful of attending work, school and graduation celebrations.

Flores goes on:

When we lifted our hands and we swore the oath to defend the Constitution and to defend this country, that oath was to the American people.

It was not to a dictator, it was not to a tyrant, it was not the president. It was to the American people.

Cynthia Gonzalez, vice-mayor for the city of Cudahy, addresses Americans whom the Trump administration has made “feel like their American dream hasn’t happened because of us”.

“Our community has been the scapegoat for this administration,” she says. If anything, her neighbors, documented or undocumented, helped her achieve the American Dream, she says.

If you should have anger, it should be for the gutting of Medicaid. It should be for the gutting of your Social Security. And it should be for corporate greed.

They’re using our brown bodies to avoid the conversation that this administration is a failure.

Jeannette Sanchez-Palacios, mayor of the city of Ventura, says she is “outraged and heartbroken by Ice activities targeting of immigrant families in our area”.

She calls the raids “inhumane” and “an affront to the values we uphold throughout the state of California”.

She highlights immigrant labor that sustains agriculture in the region. “Every American who relies on the labor of these individuals will be affected,” she says.

She notes that these individuals made up much of the “essential” workforce who kept the state running during the Covid pandemic.

“These people are also human, at the basic level,” she says.

“We condemn the separation of immigrant families. No-one deserves to live in fear simply for seeking a better life for themselves or for there loved ones,” she says.

“We call on our fellow leaders to centre humanity at every decision they make,” she says.

Deploying federalized troops to LA was ‘drastic, chaotic and completely unnecessary’, says mayor

“When you raid Home Depot and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets – you’re not trying to keep anyone safe, you’re trying to cause fear and panic,” says Bass.

Deploying federalized troops on the heels of the immigration raids, was a “drastic and chaotic escalation and completely unnecessary”, she says.

Unrest in LA was ‘provoked by the White House’, says LA mayor

The cause of the problems in the city of Los Angeles started on Friday with Ice immigration raids, says Bass.

“This was provoked by the White House,” she says, positing that “maybe we are part of a national experiment to determine how far the federal government can go in reaching in and taking power from a local governor, local jurisdiction and leaving our residents in fear.”

She is joined by more than 30 mayors from across the region. “All of us represent cities in this region where immigrants are key. And if in some cases, not the majority of the population,” Bass says.

She accuses the Trump administration of creating “fear and panic” by raiding workplaces and going after “mothers and fathers, restaurant workers, seamstress, home care workers, everyday Angelenos trying to make a living”.

“The individuals that are here with me today are all leaders in their area and we all stand in support and solidarity and call for the raids to end,” Bass says.

LA mayor Karen Bass to hold news conference

Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass is about to hold a press conference after a 10-hour curfew was imposed for parts of downtown LA last night. I’ll bring you all the key lines here.

Leavitt says “of course” peaceful protests would be allowed to go ahead on Saturday for the military parade.

“Of course the president supports peaceful protests. What a stupid question,” she says.

Musk called Trump before posting ‘regret’ message on X – NYT

Donald Trump received a phone call from Elon Musk late on Monday before the billionaire expressed regret over some of the posts he made on social media last week, according to the New York Times (paywall), citing three people briefed on the call.

White House declines to weigh in on Noem’s request to have military arrest LA protesters

Leavitt dodges a question asking what the president makes of homeland security secretary Kristi Noem’s memo to the Pentagon asking it to direct members of the military to arrest or detain “lawbreakers” inside the United States.

Pressed to comment on the fact that the military is not authorized to arrest people unless the president invoked the Insurrection Act, Leavitt says “the president understands the legal authority that he invoked [in federalizing California’s national guard]”.

Leavitt says California governor Gavin Newsom and LA mayor Karen Bass “need to actually do more”.

Referring to Newsom’s address last night and hinting at “his future political ambitions”, Leavitt says “he spoke a lot of words, we haven’t seen action”.

Trump reviewing China trade deal details, White House says

Donald Trump is reviewing the details of the China trade deal with his team, Leavitt says, adding that the president likes what he has learned about it so far.

Leavitt says the administration agreed to comply with the terms of the Geneva agreement it reached last month with officials from Beijing.

Source link