June 10, 2025 – Los Angeles protest news

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Police enforce the curfew after it went into effect on Tuesday evening.

A curfew is currently in place in part of downtown Los Angeles, with police saying they have begun arresting dozens of protesters Tuesday evening. Scattered demonstrations have also popped up in multiple cities across the US, with Texas deploying the National Guard in response.

Here are the latest developments:

People march through downtown Austin, Texas, during a demonstration on Monday.

Inspired by demonstrations in Los Angeles, protesters in Texas have gathered in recent days to challenge the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.

Like California, the Lone Star State is home to one of the country’s largest immigrant populations. Over the past few days, demonstrators have said they are speaking out for members of their community, many who fear taking to the streets themselves.

“Immigrants are the backbone of our society. Once again, they are all of us. They are our family members. They are our community members,” Laiba Khan, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told CNN affiliate KEYE.

What began as a show of solidarity devolved into chaos in Austin on Monday, when police declared an unlawful gathering outside the J.J. Pickle Federal Building, later deploying tear gas on demonstrators, KEYE reported.

Another protest near the State Capitol building, also in Austin, ended with law enforcement deploying tear gas and pepper rounds, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

Thirteen people were arrested in the city, police said.

About 180 miles away in Dallas, video from a Monday demonstration shows a tense standoff unfolding between protesters and police in riot gear. Several demonstrators, their faces covered with bandanas and masks, were heard shouting expletives.

An observer told CNN that police used what he believes was mace on a person being restrained and another person attempting to intervene.

Hundreds gathered outside San Antonio’s City Hall on Sunday in a protest that remained peaceful, CNN affiliate KSAT reported. Ahead of more demonstrations in the southern Texas city, Mayor Ron Nirenberg urged residents to “exercise their rights…safely and responsibly.”

Nirenberg’s calls for calm come after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the deployment of the Texas National Guard, ahead of the planned protests.

“The reports of the Governor deploying the National Guard to our community underscore the need for us to remain peaceful and safe this weekend,” Nirenberg said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in April.

Members of the Texas National Guard will be deployed to various locations in the state ahead of planned protests this week, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday.

South Texas organizations are expected to hold anti-ICE rallies on Wednesday and Saturday, CNN affiliate KSAT reported. Among the demonstrations is a “No Kings” protest in San Antonio this Saturday.

Abbott’s announcement comes a day after authorities used tear gas and pepper ball projectiles to disperse demonstrators at Austin’s State Capitol Complex.

“Peaceful protest is legal,” Abbott said in a post on X. “Harming a person or property is illegal and will lead to arrest.”

The Republican governor said the Guard “will use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order.”

Photojournalist Toby Canham speaks with CNN on Tuesday.

Photojournalist Toby Canham was covering the protests in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday when he was caught in the crossfire – and shot by a rubber bullet to the head.

“I’m just standing there working, and then all of a sudden … I mean, I was sort of semi-conscious of the fact that the guy was aiming at me or aiming in my direction, and that thing traveled so quickly. Next thing I knew, I was just flattened, it struck me on the head and I was down,” he told CNN’s Laura Coates on Tuesday.

The rubber bullet left a large red mark on his forehead that was still visible on Tuesday. He went to the hospital afterward but wasn’t otherwise injured, he said.

The crowd of protesters on Sunday was large, he said, estimating it reached several thousand people at its peak.

“The initial response from law enforcement, you know, there was no standoff. It was almost like straight into it with the tools at their disposal to hold people back,” he said. “And there are obviously people in that crowd angry, lashing out at police, and objects being thrown and stuff like that.”

CNN has reached out to LAPD for comments.

The Los Angeles Police Department said late Tuesday it had begun carrying out “mass arrests” after several protest groups continued to gather in the designated curfew zone.

“Multiple groups continue to congregate on 1st St between Spring and Alameda,” the LAPD wrote on X.

In an earlier post about an hour before the curfew took effect, the LAPD said “dozens of arrests” had been made for failure to disperse.

Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly described arrests that were made after curfew. Police reported that “mass arrests” were taking place.

In this screengrab taken from a video, police begin to detain protesters.

Roughly 10 to 20 people were seen being apprehended in the curfew area, according to CNN’s team on the ground.

One person was seen being physically restrained and placed on the ground, hands zip-tied behind his back.

Most protesters have already left the curfew area, and police took their time to clear the vicinity, CNN’s Nick Watt said from the scene.

Meanwhile, a helicopter from the California Highway Patrol is flying roughly 1,000 feet above Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles, where the curfew is being enacted, according to flight tracking data.

A curfew is in place for parts of downtown Los Angeles until 6 a.m. Pacific Time. It only applies to a small patch of the city - an area of about 1 square mile - but, according to retired Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, it may play an important role in de-escalating protests and allowing peaceful demonstrators to go home.

“I think it gives officers a time to rest a little bit,” said Johnson, who led the response to the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in 2014.

LAPD officers, he added, will “give them several opportunities to disperse … But then at some point they will say, ‘This is our final order,’ and they will have to go through with that.”

Police stand off against protestors marching against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Denver, Colorado, on Tuesday.

Anti-ICE protesters gathered in Denver on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported, carrying cardboard signs including one that read “Show your faces. ICE cowards.”

The group marched through different thoroughfares and disrupted traffic, with police arriving to block streets behind the marchers, according to AP.

A spokesperson from the Denver Police Department told CNN they had not deployed any tear gas, contrary to some reports.

Police line a street in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening.

A curfew has been enacted in a pocket of downtown Los Angeles, where demonstrations in the city have been concentrated. It is set to expire at 6 a.m. Pacific Time.

The area is roughly 1 square mile, Mayor Karen Bass said. A law enforcement source familiar with the situation told CNN fewer than 100,000 of LA’s 4 million residents will be affected, .

“Any person who remains engaged in unlawful assembly or criminal activity will be detained and arrested,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a recent post on X.

Multiple lines of law enforcement including National Guardsmen and Homeland Security agents were seen stationed outside a detention facility in the curfew area, according to CNN’s Nick Watt, who is on the ground.

Nearly 200 people were arrested on Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell told press today.

Watch a helicopter searchlight on the crowd in downtown LA after the curfew went into effect:

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Helicopter searchlight on crowd as curfew begins

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Helicopter searchlight on crowd as curfew begins

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The White House, seen in late May.

Members of the Trump administration reacted to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Tuesday night address, in which he warned the American people that “democracy is under attack.”

In response, White House Director of Communications Steven Chung rebutted “NewScum must’ve hired Kamala and Biden’s loser campaign team because he saying this is a ‘threat to democracy,’ in a post on X.

Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller chimed in on X stating, “The entire Democrat Party is committed to the singular proposition of migrant flooding every city in the USA.”

In a post on X, White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson called such a response “Newsom playbook 101: blaming his own incompetence on President Trump. Lame and predictable!”

Some context: After the governor’s address was plagued by technical issues, Newsom’s team apologized for a momentary silence, jokingly attributing “Trump-era transparency rules” for the delay in broadcast.

Dozens of police in riot gear, holding batons, have surrounded a federal building in downtown Chicago, where a small group of protesters continue to honk and shout at officers.

The scene remains tense but is much calmer compared to some hours ago, when Chicago police were in physical interactions with protesters at an intersection.

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Anti-ICE protesters in Chicago clash with police

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Anti-ICE protesters in Chicago clash with police

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Earlier video from CNN affiliate WBBM showed a car plowing through protesters on Monroe Street and Wabash Avenue during a large and mostly peaceful protest.

The car appeared to clip pedestrians holding signs and a bicyclist.

CNN is working to determine whether any arrests have been made throughout the day.

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Video shows car plow through protesters in Chicago

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Video shows car plow through protesters in Chicago

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Dozens of demonstrators surrounded Foley Square in downtown Manhattan, near a government building that houses the city’s Immigration Customs and Enforcement office and main immigration court.

At roughly 10:30 p.m. ET, a small group of protesters was seen surging toward police who appeared to be making arrests while blocking demonstrators off with metal barricades.

The scene was relatively tame compared to just over an hour earlier, when clashes between police and protesters led to several arrests in the same area.

Roughly 45 arrests have been made in New York City this evening, a law enforcement source told CNN.

In his address to Californians Tuesday evening, Gov. Gavin Newsom warned of the danger to America’s democracy and accused Congress of bowing to President Donald Trump.

“Democracy is under assault before our eyes, this moment we have feared has arrived,” he said. Trump is “taking a wrecking ball, a wrecking ball to our Founding Fathers’ historic project – three co-equal branches of independent government. There are no longer any checks and balances.”

He urged the public to stand up for their democracy, but cautioned: “If you exercise your first amendment rights, please do it peacefully.”

Johnson told reporters Tuesday that Newsom — who has aggressively criticized the Trump administration’s moves — “ought to be tarred and feathered.”

As protests continue in Los Angeles, about 700 Marines have been activated to help protect federal personnel and property. CNN speaks with LA residents to get their reactions.

“Having troops in a civilian American neighborhood does not make anyone safer at all,” said resident Daniel Fabiano.

Another resident, Priscilla Martinez, said: “I feel safe around the protests. I don’t feel safe around the military at the moment.”

This map released by the Los Angeles Mayor's Office on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 shows the area affected by the curfew.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ office shared a graphic of the borders of area impacted by the curfew in downtown Los Angeles.

It will be in place from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. local time. Only limited groups don’t have to abide by the curfew, including law enforcement, emergency and medical personnel, people traveling to and from work and credentialed media, according to the mayor’s office.

NYC protesters attempt to throw water on NYPD officers as arrests continue during anti-ICE rally

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NYC protesters attempt to throw water on NYPD officers as arrests continue during anti-ICE rally

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Video from the anti-ICE protest tonight in New York City shows NYPD detaining multiple individuals. Several protesters can be seen on the ground as officers attempt to handcuff them.

Protesters can be heard calling the officers “terrorists” as the arrests happen.

Protesters face members of the California National Guard outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump in his response to protests invoked a rarely used law to federalize the National Guard over the objection of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and local officials.

This law cites three reasons for that extraordinary step to be taken: the US, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions, is invaded or in danger of invasion by a foreign nation; there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the US government; or the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the US. In citing all three, the White House indicates that these protests are the equivalent of invasion, rebellion and something the US government doesn’t feel like it can handle without the military. Read CNN’s Zachary B. Wolf’s analysis on whether Trump can lawfully take control of California’s national guard.

Perception vs. reality: The National Guard and the Marines aren’t actually allowed to conduct law enforcement. Unless Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, the guard is restricted to protecting federal property and personnel. The Marines, while mobilized, haven’t yet been called in to respond. But to hear Trump tell it, his decision to call in the troops has made all the difference in putting down violent demonstrations. In a social media post, he said “If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now.” Read CNN’s Aaron Blake’s analysis of Trump’s messaging on the protests.

Democrats in a bind: Democrats are forced back onto politically perilous turf, as they look for ways to condemn his actions without being drawn into a broad debate over immigration or tying themselves to the chaotic scenes emerging from Los Angeles.

Misinformation is rife: Offline, in real-world Los Angeles, most Angelenos are having a perfectly normal day. But online, the fires and riots are still raging. The powerful algorithms that fuel social media platforms are feeding users days-old and sometimes completely fake content about the recent unrest in L.A.

Trump defends decision: During a visit to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Trump defended sending the National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles. “We will use every asset at our disposal to quell the violence and restore law and order right away,” Trump said. “We’re not going … to wait for a governor that’s never going to call and watch cities burn,” he added.

David Huerta: A revered California labor leader, Huerta was arrested on Friday for his involvement in protests decrying immigration raids in Los Angeles. Demonstrators came out nationwide Monday to demand his release and after three nights of detention, Huerta was released on a $50,000 bond Monday afternoon. He remains charged with conspiracy to impede an officer, a felony that could result in up to six years in prison, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted images on X today of officers detaining individuals in Los Angeles while surrounded by National Guard troops, in what appears to be the first photos marking the Guard involved in ICE operations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted images on X today of officers detaining individuals in Los Angeles while surrounded by National Guard troops, in what appears to be the first photos marking the Guard involved in ICE operations.

The Trump administration deployed thousands of National Guard troops to California, casting it as a necessary move to quell protests in Los Angeles that erupted in a section of the city over ICE enforcement actions.

Multiple sources told CNN the National Guard’s focus while in Los Angeles was to protect property and personnel. They do not have authority to arrest.

Images shared by ICE on X show authorities arresting individuals, as troops stand by, appearing to guard the area around the operation — in other words, serving as security perimeter. ICE dubbed the image: “Photos from today’s ICE Los Angeles immigration enforcement operation.”

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that troops are on the ground to provide protection from federal law enforcement officers and property.

“If any rioters attack ICE law enforcement officers, military personnel have the authority to temporarily detain them until law enforcement makes the arrest. The violence against ICE law enforcement must end,” she said.

Former senior ICE officials who spoke to CNN couldn’t recall any time the National Guard had been involved in an ICE interior operation.

“Even if lawful, however, the idea of the National Guard supplementing ICE officers on interior enforcement is almost certainly a first,” John Sandweg, former acting ICE director during the Obama administration, said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth celebrated the move on X, posting one of the images and saying: “This We’ll Defend.”

Officials who enacted a curfew in parts of downtown Los Angeles assess that fewer than 100,000 of the city’s nearly 4 million residents actually live within the zoned off area, a law enforcement source familiar said.

While numerous corporations and other businesses are based in the downtown area, the source said officials believe the 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew will affect only a relatively small number of residents, which was a factor in determining the start and end time of the order.

LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said residents of the impact area will be exempt from the curfew.

Officials have stressed that nightly LA protests, which have at times turned violent, are typically relegated to a small portion of the downtown area.