The Los Angeles Police Department has announced the arrest of ten people During the third day of protests against migratory raids taken to end by US authorities, which elevates almost 40 those arrested in the last 48 hours.
The head of the agency, Jim McDonnell, has indicated these figures in a press conference in which he has assured that “his work is not to divide the communities or politicize the application of the law”, but “to guarantee the safety of all.”
He has also assured that the Californian city’s police force is “committed to transparency, accountability and treatment to all angels with respect, regardless of their immigration status”, after protests unleashed last Friday after the 44 arrests by the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE, for its acronym in English) in several reades in the aforementioned locality.
Trump asks for the deployment of troops
Going to McDonell as “very respected”, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has expressed through his social social network that the chief of the Los Angeles Police should consider the deployment of troops “right now” so that “these thugs do not get out of their own.”
Hours before, the Police Department declared the center of Los Angeles as a “illegal assembly”, thus warning the population of leaving the area. Two agents were injured when two motorists, who were subsequently detained, tried to break the defensive line of security forces.
In parallel, Six cars have been registered and barricades with chairs, garbage cubes and traffic signs, In addition to painted contrary to ICE on a bus and the ignition of fireworks while mounted police officers tried to go back to the crowd.
Through a publication in the social network X, the Los Angeles Police has warned that “the use of incendiary devices against mounted police officers will be responded with the right force”, warning of the authorization of “less lethal” ammunition capable of “causing pain and discomfort.”
