Police arrest more than 20 people on first night of curfew aimed at protests in downtown Los Angeles

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police arrested more than 20 people, mostly on curfew violations, on the first night of restrictions in downtown Los Angeles and used crowd-control projectiles to break up hundreds of protesters demonstrating against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, officials said Wednesday.

But there were fewer clashes between police and demonstrators than on previous nights, and by daybreak the downtown streets were bustling with residents walking dogs and commuters clutching coffee cups.

Officials said the curfew was necessary to stop vandalism and theft by agitators looking to cause trouble after five days of protests, which have mostly been concentrated downtown.

The curfew covers a 1-square-mile (2.5-square-kilometer) section that includes an area where protests have occurred since Friday in the sprawling city of 4 million. The city of Los Angeles encompasses roughly 500 square miles (1,295 square kilometers).

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-protests-ice-national-guard-f39ba39287f628ce8c8be47c92ea6147

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Only 20? Cuckhold Miller wanted 20,000.

[Wingus Dingus]

1. Curfew should have been started by Sunday night.

It was clear that things were being prodded and engineered for max spectacle.

[Grins]

2. 12,700 cops & military, $134 million - and only 20 arrests?

That works out to 635 cops/military personnel per arrestee.

“Heckofajob!” someone once said.

[EX500rider]

9. Not 20

In Los Angeles, nearly 400 people have so far been arrested, including 330 undocumented migrants and 157 people arrested for assault and obstruction, including one for the attempted murder of a police officer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7z45pyrvvo

[Torchlight]

3. Sceners of strollers picking up dog poop the morning after

a riot scheduled by the Admin failed to materialize doesn't quite give them the narrative they were looking for.

Poor ICE, bless their little hearts.

[maxsolomon]

4. OMG MORE THAN TWENTY?

Its an Insurrection!

[doc03]

5. In a city as big as LA 20 people is probably

a slow night.

[Strelnikov_]

6. Mein Gott!!!! (more than) Twenty people!!

We've lost it . . the middle did not hold . . have to nuke it from space, only way to be sure.

++++

More like a football weekend at a BCS school.

[LauraInLA]

8. "Nuke it from space".... Don't give them any ideas....

[Retrograde]

7. Wow! More than 20 people

lessee - population of Los Angeles county is ~10 million, so that's, um, a very small percent.