LOS ANGELES − Crews cleaned up graffiti Tuesday after four nights of volatile protests that have prompted alegal and social media standoff between California leaders and the Trump administration. The conflict centers around PresidentDonald Trump's move to deploy Marines and the National Guard in California in response to protests that have sprung up against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps. Those sweeps are part of a directive from President Trump to find immigrants living in the United States without legal status. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at a Tuesday news conference said a rally is planned for Tuesday night but that it is not expected to be as large as the protests in recent days, which have been marred by violent clashes, vandalism and looting. A judge on Tuesday set a hearing for Thursday on an emergency request from California that aimed to limit the use of the state's National Guard and Marines. Gov. Gavin Newsom accused Trump and Secretary of DefensePete Hegsethof trying to use the assets to help ICE conduct raids. "The federal government is turning the military against American citizens," Newsomsaid in a post on X. The motion said it does not seek to prevent troops from protecting federal buildings or other property, which they were tasked with upon deployment. It seeks to prevent them from enforcing immigration laws. Newsom's efforts to block federal incursion in California comes a day after Trump doubled the National Guard presence in Los Angeles to 4,000 and deployed 700 Marines, an escalation that is estimated to cost about $134 million, according to a Pentagon official. Trump remained all-in on his decisions, posting TuesdayTruth Socialthat "if we didn't send out the National Guard—Los Angeles would be burning right now!" Since Friday, officers have had confrontations with protesters, leading to the use of pepper spray and flash bangs as officials announced more than 150 arrests amid flare ups of vandalism and violence. Bass on Tuesday said damage was limited to a small area downtown, but noted that the graffiti was "extensive" – requiring a large response as the city prepares to host the 2026 World Cup. CHICAGO — Hundreds of people gathered in the city's iconic Loop neighborhood on Tuesday to protest ICE and the immigration enforcement raids that sparked widespread demonstrations in Los Angeles. Marchers gathered at Daley Plaza near the federal courthouse, marched under the tracks of the El train and down Michigan Avenue. Demonstrators carried Mexican flags, signs reading "none of us are free unless all of us are free" and chanted a slogan in Spanish insulting immigration authorities. Protesters marched through Chicago at the same time that people took to the streets in Los Angeles. Similar protests were planned inAtlanta,Dallas,Columbus, Ohio,New York Cityand Washington, D.C. Watchthe protests here. --Contributing: Reuters Judge Charles Breyer balked at Gov. Gavin Newsom's request to block the Trump administration's use of the National Guard and Marines on Tuesday. Instead Breyer ordered a briefing Wednesday and a hearing Thursday. Earlier in the day, the Trump administration called Newsom's motion for an emergency temporary restraining order "legally meritless," in pursuit of "an extraordinary, unprecedented, and dangerous court order," and claimed the court has no authority to weigh in. - Sarah Wire President Donald Trump said in remarks from Fort Bragg in North Carolina that service members deployed to California are "defending the republic itself" and helping the administration "liberate" the city of Los Angeles. "They're stopping an invasion," Trump said, in late afternoon remarks. The Republican president said California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats, are "incompetent" and suggested without evidence that "troublemakers, agitators and insurrectionists" were being paid to undermine federal immigration law. Asked by a reporter if he was accusing Newsom and Bass of paying demonstrators, Trump said "somebody" was but not necessarily the Democratic politicians. "He was just asked by reporters about this remark and he said "somebody" is paying for it, without specifiying who. "And if they're not, they're just troublemakers," he said. "I believe someboyd is paying them." Trump said: "As the entire world can now see, uncontrolled migration leads to chaos, dysfunction and disorder." - Francesca Chambers The motion says the state on June 9 became aware that the National Guard units in California "would be providing support for counter-immigration operations and not only at federal buildings." "Specifically, these activities—scheduled to begin today, June 10, 2025—will include 'holding a secure perimeter in communities around areas where immigration enforcement activities would take place, and securing routes over public streets where immigration enforcement officers would travel,'" the motion said. The filing did not say how the state received word about the alleged change in operations. The 4,000 California National Guard members called in by the president were originally tasked with protecting federal buildings and other property of the federal government. The Trump administration has not responded to the motion or Newsom's allegation's that the troops were going to used for immigration enforcement. Mayor Karen Bass, asked why Los Angeles would be targeted, said she believes her city is "an experiment." "If you can do this to the nation's second largest city, maybe the administration is hoping this will be a signal to everybody everywhere to fear them—that you federal government that historically has protected you can come in and take over," she told reporters in a news conference Tuesday. Bass said she would be reaching out to President Trump. Asked what she would tell him, she said, "I want to tell him to stop the raids. I want to tell him that this is a city of immigrants. I want to tell him that if you want to devastate the economy of the City of Los Angeles, attack immigrants." − Phaedra Trethan The number of arrests in connection with the demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles shot up Monday evening, according to the city's police department. Policereported on Tuesdaythat officers made at least 113 arrests. 96 were for failure to follow orders to leave the area. 14 people were arrested for looting. One person each was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest and vandalism. Two officers were brought to a hospital for their injuries and released. Several businesses were looted, police said. The crowds of people left around 3 a.m., officials said. LAPD acknowledged the hectic night in astatement: "Unfortunately, as demonstrators were being disbursed, agitators and miscreants within the crowd looted businesses and vandalized property," police said. "We are asking that all residents and businesses continue to report any crimes… Please document with photographs or video before clean up." The number of arrests was more than double what LAPD reported for Saturday and Sunday when 50 people were arrested. Most were also for failure to follow dispersal orders although among the charges was attempted murder with a Molotov cocktail and assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, according to police. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told reporters she is considering a curfew to restore calm to the city. "We're looking at things like a curfew," she said June 10, and she planned to meet with Police Chief Jim McDonnell later in the day to discuss it. She said a curfew wouldn't need to be citywide, but likely focused on the downtown area. −Bart Jansen Authorities have dispatched painters, cleaners, and other workers to scrub away, cover up or fade out widespread spraypaint graffiti around downtown. While the vast majority of protesters have been peaceful, a small number have defaced buildings, sidewalks and streets with anti-Trump slogans, criticism of ICE and police, and exhortations to resist fascism. Federal buildings are among the hardest hit, and there was no sign of the National Guard or Marines protecting those facilities Tuesday. On North Los Angeles Street, contractors were paying particular attention to the asphalt where five Waymo self-driving electric vehicles were burned by protesters, releasing rare Earth materials that can be hazardous. Around the corner, painter's apprentice Tim Brevard, 53, covered up graffiti on a wall with grey paint shot from a sprayer. Under normal circumstances, Brevard's team removes gang graffiti from the same area daily. Now it is political graffiti. City policy calls for removing it within 72 hours of being reported, and the city spends about $14 million annually on graffiti removal, according to its annual budget. "Down here it's tough because there's fresh graffiti every day," Brevard said as he paused to wipe sweat from his face with a gloved hand. "There's always gang graffiti. Every day we do this." The protests in Los Angeles County began as a reaction to a handful of immigration raids, including one outside a Home Depot and another at a clothing manufacturer in the city's garment district. The raids and subsequent outrage came as the Trump administration stepped up its detention and deportation of immigrants including atworkplaces,traffic stopsandroutine legal check-ins. Protests against these moves have increased, too. While most have remained peaceful, the Department of Homeland Security reported a more than400% surge in assaultson agents. After small protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles on June 6, Trump took several swift actions, calling in the 4,000 California National Guard troops and 700 Marines, drawing ire – and at least one lawsuit – from California officials who accuse the president of stoking tension and escalating unrest. Trump has stood by his actions, saying the deployments were necessary to contain what he described as "violent, instigated riots." About 150 people have been arrested at the protests, which have included flareups of unruly clashes, vandalism and looting, but have remained limited to a few blocks in the city's downtown area. As authorities brace for another day of protests and Los Angelenos ready themselves for the increased military presence,read moreabout how the protests began. Trump said he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act, which would give him more leeway to use the military for domestic purposes as he deploys troops to Los Angeles in response to violent protests. "If there's an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it," Trump said Tuesday during an event in the White House. "We'll see. But I can tell you, last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible." Trump deployed the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Newsom, sparking the lawsuit from the state. Marines also were sent to help the guard after protests erupted over federal immigration enforcement efforts. The troops currently are limited to protecting federal property and law enforcement officers. The Insurrection Act would give Trump authority to use them more broadly. Trump said some areas of Los Angeles, during the protests, where "you could have called it an insurrection. It was terrible." − Zac Anderson U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, asked Tuesday whether Newsom should be arrested, said the governor should be "tarred and feathered." "That's not my lane. I'm not gonna give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested. But he ought to be tarred and feathered," Johnson, R-LA., said in a weekly press conference. Johnson said Newsom is keeping the administration from implementing federal law. Newsom quickly respondedon social media. "Good to know we're skipping the arrest and going straight for the 1700's style forms of punishment. A fitting threat given the (Republicans) want to bring our country back to the 18th Century." −Sarah D. Wire Most of the unrest is taking place across a few square miles in a mostly commercial area downtown. The city is sprawled across hundreds of square miles and the county covers thousands of square miles. The vast majority of the metropolitan area has been quiet, with people able to continue their daily routines. Trump has insisted that he had no choice but to increase the level of force in response togrowing unrest over his immigration crackdown. 700 Marines heading to LAfor riot assistance; Newsom calls move 'deranged fantasy' of Trump Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a House committee Tuesday the United States was entering a new phase in which the National Guard would "become a critical component of how we secure that homeland." "The National Guard is a huge component of how we see the future," he told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. Bryn MacDonnell, a special assistant to the secretary of defense, said the Pentagon is spending $134 million of deploying 4,000 National Guard troops and700 Marines. Funding is coming from operations and maintenance accounts, he said. −Mayes-Osterman, Cybele Newsom criticizedTrump on XTuesday after Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy, blasted the governor on the samesocial media sitehours earlier. Miller wrote that "when the rioters swarmed, you handed over your streets, willingly. You still refuse to arrest and prosecute the arsonists, seditionists and insurrectionists." Newsom made reference to Trump's decision to pardon or commute the sentences of hundreds of people in connection with the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. "The only people defending insurrectionists are you and@realDonaldTrump," Newsom wrote. "Or, are we pretending like you didn't pardon 1500 of them?" Several national civil rights groups described the Trump administration's National Guard deployment as an overreach of power that was "deeply disturbing" and "reckless." "It is not lost on us that no such show of force was deployed in advance of the January 6 insurrection at our nation's capital despite the clear threat to democracy. The contrast is alarming," leaders wrote in a statement released Monday night. "Peaceful protesters in Los Angeles are met with military presence, while violent actors in Washington, D.C. were allowed to breach the heart of our government with little resistance. This inconsistency amplifies questions about how power is used and against whom." The right to protest the Trump administration's "unjust policies targeting Black and Brown communities must be protected," they wrote. The groups include the NAACP, the National Urban League, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, the National Action Network, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Leadership Conference, the National Council of Negro Women and the Legal Defense Fund. Separately, Judith LeBlanc, executive director of Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund, called the administration's decision to call in the National Guard and the Marines "an act of violence meant to silence organizers who are taking a righteous stand against the illegal and brutal ICE raids happening everyday." −Deborah Barfield Berry Multiple members of the media have reported beingcaught in the crossfire or targetedby authorities using tear gas or rubber bullets. The incidents included Australian journalistLauren Tomasi, who was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet on camera in a video that shows an officer appearing to aim at her. ANew York Post photographer, Toby Canham, also said he was shot in the forehead with a nonlethal round. British freelance photographer Nick Stern told theBBChe underwent emergency surgery after he was hit in the leg by a plastic bullet. The Committee to Protect Journalists has sounded the alarm over the incidents, warning against the intimidation of journalists. "Any attempt to discourage or silence media coverage by intimidating or injuring journalists should not be tolerated," Katherine Jacobsen, program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, said in astatement. "It is incumbent upon authorities to respect the media's role of documenting issues of public interest." National Press Club President Mike Balsamo warned that law enforcement "cannot pick and choose when the First Amendment applies. Journalists in Los Angeles were not caught in the crossfire — they were targeted. " -Jeanine Santucci Multiple journalists injured by policenonlethal rounds while covering LA protests Police briefly detainedCNNcorrespondent Jason Carroll while on air Monday night during thenetwork's coverageof theprotests. CNN was covering the protests live when in-studio anchors briefly lost contact with Carroll,who could be seenbeing led away from the protests by LAPD officers with his hands behind his back. Carroll returned to the mic, informing the anchors: "I am being detained." An officer then can be heard telling Carroll: "We're letting you go. You can't come back. If you come back, you will be arrested." CNN issued a statement saying "we are pleased the situation resolved quickly once the reporting team presented law enforcement with their CNN credentials. CNN will continue to report out the news unfolding in Los Angeles."Read more here. −Taijuan Moorman On Monday, California sued the Trump administration, alleging that the president's deployment of Guard troops was unnecessary and unlawful. Newsom later indicated that he willtake similar actionto prevent the Marines from being deployed, describing the order as a "blatant abuse of power." "It makes me feel like our city is actually a test case," Bass said at a news conference. "A test case for what happens when the federal government moves in and takes the authority away from the state or away from local government." 'I hate it':LA residents who surveyed vandalism fear more violence in future protests Some day laborers and other community members in Los Angeles County arewarily watching federal troops, bracing for more raids and trying to look to the future while looking out for each other. Some are still searching for detained family members. Some say they've seen worse. Jose Luis Valencia, 54, is an undocumented immigrant who was born in the Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City. This week he was looking for work outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles County. "We're a little nervous, but we're here looking for work to survive," Valencia told USA TODAY. "We need money to put food on the table and support our family."Read more here. −Pamela Avila and Trevor Hughes The California governor, in apost to social mediablasting Trump's decision to send the military members to California, said Marines are "not political pawns." Newsom said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was "illegally" deploying the Marines and argued it was a stunt so Trump could have a "talking point" at a planned parade in Washington on Saturday to celebrate the 250thbirthday of the Army, also the day of Trump's 79thbirthday. "The Courts and Congress must act. Checks and balances are crumbling," Newsom added. -Jeanine Santucci Officials at the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday that despite violent demonstrations, localpolice can handle whatever protesters throw at themand that federal help is unnecessary and could become a hindrance. "The possible arrival of federal military forces in Los Angeles - absent clear coordination - presents a significant logistical and operational challenge for those of us charged with safeguarding this city," Police Chief Jim McDonnell said in a statement. "The Los Angeles Police Department, alongside our mutual aid partners, have decades of experience managing large-scale public demonstrations, and we remain confident in our ability to do so professionally and effectively." LAPD said officers have fired over 600 non-lethal bullets and used tear gas on the "hostile crowd." Among those hit was anAustralian journalistcovering the protests. At least five officers received minor injuries, according to police. Five police horses also "were targeted and sustained minor injuries," police said. Read more here. The protests began Friday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps near Los Angeles resulted in more than 40 arrests. The protests had largely been peaceful but flared up when heavily armed, masked agents raided Los Angeles businesses. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, defended the raids and said those arrested by ICE included a Vietnamese man convicted of second-degree murder, an Ecuadoran man convicted of possession of five kilograms of cocaine, and a Filipino man convicted of sexual offenses. On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said local immigrant rights groups had confirmed at least five ICE raids in the Los Angeles region. The mayor said officials were still working to compile more information on the raids but noted that in some cases, ICE targeted day laborers and detained people who appeared for scheduled immigration appointments. "As you know, ICE does not tell anybody where they're going to go or when they're going to be there," Bass said at the Monday news conference. Protests also sprang up in at least nine other cities across the U.S. on Monday, including New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, according to Reuters. Protests in Los Angeles were relatively peaceful when they began on Friday, but escalated into scenes of chaos, with electric vehicles lit aflame, large clouds of tear gas andclashes between law enforcement and demonstrators. Trump has backed his move to send in troops, calling the protests "violent, insurrectionist mobs" and "lawless riots." But Newsom said it was Trump who "instigated violence." Experts say while there arelegal definitions for a riot, the term has become increasingly politicized and encapsulates a wide variety of incidents. In most states including California, the key determinator lies in whether multiple people are involved and whether they are committing acts of violence, Brian Higgins, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said. "One person is not a riot and neither is a group that is nonviolent," he said. "They can even be breaking the law, like refusing to disperse. It's when you add in the factor of violence that it becomes a riot." There are some gray areas, he said. Experts also said while violence is a defining factor in a riot, such violence could be incited by law enforcement.Read more. Waymo hastemporarily suspended its ride hailing service in downtown Los Angelesafter several of the company's self-driving cars were set on fire in the weekend's protests. A Waymo spokesperson told USA TODAY on Monday the company has removed its vehicles from downtown Los Angeles and is currently not serving the area "out of an abundance of caution." The spokesperson said the company is still operating in Los Angeles and is working in coordination with the Los Angeles Police Department. Footage shared on social media captured several Waymo driverless taxis engulfed in flames in the June 8 protests. Others were vandalized with messages against Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, videos show. Waymo cars are self-driving taxis operated by computers instead of humans. The company uses electric Jaguar I-PACE cars. -Melina Khan Contributing: Jeanine Santucci and Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY; Reuters This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:LA protests live updates: Newsom files motion to limit Marines, Guards
