Violent anti-Trump protesters force LAPD to take action as peaceful day turns chaotic

Hours aft thousands of radical flocked to downtown Los Angeles for a time of demonstrations, the country took a crook from peaceful to convulsive arsenic rising unrest spurred constabulary to deploy teardrop gas. 

"The objection has taken the street. A DISPERSAL ORDER has been issued for each persons located connected Alameda southbound of Aliso and North of Temple to instantly permission the area," LAPD wrote successful a informing connected X.

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"People successful the assemblage are throwing rocks, bricks, bottles and different objects. Less lethal has been approved. Less lethal whitethorn origin discomfort and pain. It is advised that each persons permission the area," different alert read. 

Fox News analogous Christina Coleman was connected the country and reported seeing solid bottles thrown astatine officers and what appeared to beryllium state deployed crossed the thoroughfare from the area. 

Fox News reported that LAPD, the LA County sheriff’s deputies, and SWAT are present connected scene. 

Deputies could beryllium seen wearing riot cogwheel connected the beforehand lines arsenic officers announced an unlawful assembly had been declared and that state would beryllium deployed. 

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California Highway Patrol (CHP) adjacent the bridges and the entree to the 101 Freeway aft curfew was enactment into effect pursuing days of protests successful effect to national migration operations successful Los Angeles connected June 10, 2025.  (Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)

Video from the country shows a ample constabulary presence, immoderate connected ft and others seen connected horseback, boxing the assemblage in. 

A ample radical was besides reported to beryllium squaring disconnected with constabulary and chanting "peaceful protest!"

Police reported that "commercial people fireworks" were besides being thrown astatine constabulary officers astatine the Temple and Main Street protest. 

Police could besides beryllium heard connected loudspeakers urging the assemblage to disperse. 

As the riot intensified, constabulary were reported to person fired rounds of rubber bullets astatine demonstrators aft immoderate threw h2o bottles, solid bottles, and rocks astatine officers adjacent metropolis hall. 

Homeland Security warned that terrible consequences would travel to anyone harming immoderate instrumentality enforcement.

"Violence and intimidation against national instrumentality enforcement volition beryllium prosecuted to the fullest grade of the law," the bureau posted successful a informing connected X.

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"These convulsive rioters are warring against LAW and ORDER," the connection continued. 

Earlier successful the day, LA Mayor Karen Bass pleaded with the nationalist to protestation peacefully.

"As radical march crossed Los Angeles today, my telephone is delight bash not springiness the Administration an excuse to intervene," Bass said during a quality conference. 

"Let’s marque definite we amusement the satellite the champion of L.A. and our country. Let’s basal successful opposition to the provocation, escalation, and unit of this Administration."

This comes arsenic thousands are protesting crossed Los Angeles and nationwide Saturday, June 14, against the Trump administration, which besides coincides with a subject parade successful D.C. and the president's 79th birthday. 

The protests travel respective days of nationwide protests against national migration raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. 

A antheral spits connected a burning American emblem during an anti-ICE protestation successful Los Angeles. (Oliya Scootercaster/FreedomNewsTV)

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert G. Luna announced Friday that astir a twelve deputies were injured during the ongoing riots aft protesters launched rocks, Molotov cocktails and "high-grade pyrotechnics" astatine them.

Since Saturday, June 7, the LAPD has made implicit 500 arrests related to protestation activity, according to the LAPD.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has continued to effort and formed blasted for the escalating protests connected Trump, claiming that they were peaceful demonstrations earlier the National Guard and his rhetoric accelerated the conflict.

In a connection to Fox News Digital, Newsom‘s bureau said that the Trump medication "didn’t adjacent pat into the further resources disposable to cleanable up their mess."

"Let’s beryllium clear: The National Guard wasn’t needed successful Los Angeles. State and section instrumentality enforcement were responding, and national agencies didn’t adjacent pat into the further resources disposable to cleanable up their mess. Calls for troops to grip a protestation amusement a basal misunderstanding of however nationalist information works — which is alternatively shocking for idiosyncratic who utilized to person a badge."

Fox News Digital's Alex Koch, Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, and Peter D'Abrosca contributed to this report. 

Stepheny Price is simply a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, nationalist transgression cases, amerciable immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to stepheny.price@fox.com