At least one person was arrested after a largely peaceful \u201cNo Kings Day\u201d demonstration in downtown Los Angeles morphed into a raucous rally against Trump administration immigration policies outside the Metropolitan Detention Center on Alameda Street that was ultimately declared an unlawful gathering, according to media reports.<\/p>\n
A group of about two dozen people could be seen on broadcast video as officers first pushed them away from the detention center into Chinatown, then backed off to encourage them to disperse.<\/p>\n
LAPD Officer Drake Madison told City News Service some \u201cprojectiles\u201d were initially thrown. ABC7 reported at least one person was arrested.<\/p>\n
Police on horseback and teargas were ultimately used to clear the crowd after multiple dispersal orders were ignored.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department subsequently closed Alameda Street, between Aliso and Temple streets, until further notice..<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter thousands of people gathered to express their constitutional 1st Amendment rights peacefully earlier in the day, nearly a hundred agitators marched over to Aliso and Alameda,\u201d LAPD officials posted on X. \u201cDuring the demonstration at that specific location, lasers and industrial size flashing lights (constant and strobe) were used against officers and the pilot of an LAPD Airship.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was clear how many people were arrested. <\/p>\n
The clashes outside the Detention Center marred an otherwise problem-free series of anti-Trump demonstrations that drew thousands of people throughout the Southland as part of a nationwide day of action.<\/p>\n
The demonstration in downtown Los Angeles began around 2 p.m. Saturday, and featured a march down a nearly two-mile stretch of Spring Street, followed by a rally outside City Hall and Gloria Molina Grand Park. Speakers included podcaster and MSNow (formerly MSNBC) contributor Brian Tyler Cohen, Assemblyman Issac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, and ex-Trump staffer Jessica Denson.<\/p>\n
Traffic was severely impacted in the area, with a section of Spring Street closed and motorists advised to avoid the Civic Center area. Alameda Street between Aliso and Temple streets was also closed, along with a handful of off-ramps from the Hollywood (101) Freeway, and bus routes were also being detoured.<\/p>\n
The L.A. protest was organized by 50501 SoCal and Service Employees International Union Local 721, in partnership with Black Lives Matter Grassroots \u2013 Los Angeles, the Removal Coalition, Working Families Party, Black Women for Wellness, Clergy Laity United for Economic Justice, the TransLatin@ Coalition, Democracy Action Network and the Human Liberation Coalition, among others.<\/p>\n
SoCal 50501 is the Los Angeles chapter of 50501, which bills itself as \u201ca peaceful, decentralized grassroots political movement with a mission to uphold democracy and constitutional governance.\u201d Its name stems from \u201c50 protests. 50 states. 1 Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s events were a follow up to the first \u201cNo Kings Day,\u201d held on June 14, which had more than 5 million people nationwide, according to organizers.<\/p>\n
Another round of \u201cNo Kings Day\u201d demonstrations is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 5, organizers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica has no kings and working Americans will not stand by as a wannabe dictator wages war on our rights and our democracy,\u201d said David Green, president and executive director of SEIU Local 721, which represents more than 100,000 workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough is enough. We will stop this authoritarianism in its tracks and work to revitalize and enhance our democracy, our rights, and our nation. We will not accept a regime that aims to put the interests of billionaires ahead of our families, workers and communities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Republicans have criticized the protests, describing them as \u201chate America\u201d rallies and claim they\u2019re exacerbating the federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1976, I landed in the United States of America as a legal immigrant,\u201d Roxanne Hoge, chairperson of the Los Angeles County Republican Party, said in a statement. \u201cIt was America\u2019s 200th birthday, a celebration of our original No Kings protest. It worked. The USA has no king. On Saturday, Republicans across the state will be working hard, enjoying their families, and taking time to stop the corrupt and unconstitutional power grab that is Proposition 50.\u201d<\/p>\n
Proposition 50, also known as the Election Rigging Response Act, is a proposed constitutional amendment that would temporarily set aside the state\u2019s Citizens Redistricting Commission and redraw the boundaries of California\u2019s Congressional districts to potentially create up to five new Democrat-held seats and counter a Republican-led push in Texas that could add five GOP seats. A statewide vote on the measure is set for a special election on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir boring, predictable tantrums are now part of the L.A. landscape, much like the dilapidated RVs and dangerous encampments that their policies result in,\u201d Hoge added. \u201cWe are interested in good governance and public safety, and wish our Democrat friends would join us in advocating for both.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person was arrested after a largely peaceful \u201cNo Kings Day\u201d demonstration in downtown Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[237,8010,217,13443,6858,6706,48,52,51,13444,47,50,49,13445,2058],"class_list":{"0":"post-15638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-center","10":"tag-day","11":"tag-detention","12":"tag-dtla","13":"tag-kings","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-headlines","16":"tag-la-news","17":"tag-least","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-post-no","22":"tag-protest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}