Days after the immigration raid protests, journalists seem to bear the severe injuries

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump continued to defend his decision to invite the National Guard and Marine Forces to suppress the demonstrations in Los Angeles, to follow up on previous allegations that the city was “” obliterated “if he did not.

It is a surprisingly uncompromising claim, which receives a reaction from local officials, including California Governor Gavin New Tiri, and La Mayor Karen Bass. NEWSOM and Bass confirmed among others that the protests that started on Friday were mostly in a small section in the city center. (The curfew on Tuesday covered a section of 2.5 square kilometers of a city that includes about 1295 square kilometers.)

There was undoubtedly a wave of violence since the words spread late last week that the federal immigration and customs enforcement agents (ICE) were making raids to find the residents of the city that were not documented, where people were placed, sabotaging buildings and looting.

But since the protests close to the sign of one week, there was fortunately any known death or injuries as a result of violence or clashes with the police.

Dozens of journalists who were struck: the invitation group

On a night basis, the head of the Los Angeles Police Department Jim McDONEL has documented injuries to the deployed officers, who faced a number of projectiles, including, at least on an occasion, Cocktail Molotov. In some cases, the officers needed hospital treatment for hours, while others were treated at the scene.

Journalists, with less protective equipment than police, It seems that it was the profession to keep most of the injuries yet.

At least two of the most serious incidents that involve journalists have occurred away from the city center scene.

Nick Sterin, the U.S. -based British photographer, was standing near some people, waving Mexican ties, 32 km from the city center, at a protest site in Paramount, California, when he was shot on Saturday. He told CBC News on Tuesday evening from the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, where he was recovering from emergency surgery to remove a rubber bullet from his thigh.

Stern was unable to issue a ruling on whether he was deliberately injured, but the correspondents of the invitation group without limits/correspondents without a fryer. It has been condemned A “random wave of violence” against journalists who say they are exercising their first right to the first amendment of the press to cover the raids and respond.

The group said that there are at least 31 attacks on journalists – 27 of the law – since the demonstrations began.

The New York Post Toby Kanham’s photographer was overlooking the 101st highway when he was shot with a rubber bullet. The two spent the hospital with injury and neck pain and left a red mark on his forehead.

Kanham said: “I completely understand the presence in the place you can get,” Kanham said. “But at the same time, there was nothing to justify even targeting the gun in my face and pulling the trigger, so I am a little angry, to be honest.”

A video clip that was widely distributed on Sunday showed that Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi fired the leg with a rubber bullet while reporting from the city center. She later told her 9News employer that she was safe and unbearable.

Ben Kamacho, a reporter on the local news site The Southlander, reported that he was fired twice.

“Not sure what was hit me every time, but they struck like heavy marble and without immediate warning,” he wrote on the Internet. “The elbow is wrapped in the gauze and the knee is weak.”

Not all incidents that involve law enforcement. The Associated Press Jay Hong was kicked and hit with sticks by the demonstrators on Monday, giving him the protection equipment from escaping from the injury.

A quieter scene on the first night with a curfew

National Guard requests usually come from state rulers, but newsom did not do it.

There are now more than 4000 members of the National Guard and 700 naval infantry deployed in the city, although they are not supposed to participate in the application of the civil law, and instead they support those who are.

The responsible commander said on Wednesday that the National Guard forces had already detained civilians temporarily in the protests, but then handed them over to the law.

Speaking in an interview with Associated Press and other media, Miguer General Scott Sherman said in an interview with Associated Press and other media, although things have calmed down in Los Angeles, but he expects the situation to escalate.

Sherman is the leader of the 51st Labor Squad, who oversees the Guard and Navy forces.

He said that these temporary arrests were in the past few days, and there was not much recently.

Defense Minister Beit Higseth said that the publication will last 60 days, and a Pentagon official said in the Capitol Hill certificate on Tuesday that the estimated cost is $ 134 million.

History of protests in Los Angeles

Los Angeles has been the position of some of the most important violent protests in the United States since World War II. A black car driver in WhatsApp was arrested in 1965 by white police officers who were out of control, and in the riots that followed, about 34 people were killed, more than 1,000 injured people and an estimated damage of $ 40 million.

In 1992, then President George Hero Bush used the rebellion law to ensure a military response to the uprising that occurred in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas after four white police officers were acquitted of the black car driver Rodney King. 64 people have died, with more than 2,300 people injured and $ 1 billion in appreciation.

To date, the current situation in Los Angeles is more comparable to the protests that appeared after the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police officer in late May 2020. This deadly reaction was arrested on the video and caused a national response during the following months.

While the scenes of violence in Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle played, and killed in Wisconsin and Texas, the Los Angeles region protests in 2020 It was concealed by comparisonand According to multiple reports.

Continuous

McDonnell told the Los Angeles Times, the city council on Tuesday that 114 people had been arrested the day before, that is, a total of greater than both the previous three nights.

Bass said she felt that she had to respond to the “transformation point” to sabotage Monday night, saying that 23 companies were looted. She said that the curfew from 8 pm to 6 am will last for several days.

It seems that the initial reports from the first night with a curfew, on Tuesday, indicate a quieter scene. Members of the National Guard stood behind the plastic shields, but they did not participate in any arrests, AP said.

Many arrests on Tuesday It happened in the scene of the highway protestAnd not in the city center, while others were martyred for the violation of the curfew. There were no reports of serious injuries.

There are no guarantees of what will happen after that, but city officials undoubtedly hope to determine the turning point in the severity of the protests.