California Gov. Gavin Newsom held a formal address Tuesday to the state, blaming President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard late Saturday night after two days of riots and destruction for Sunday and Monday’s more violent escalation.
At approximately the same time, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ordered a curfew for downtown Los Angeles, warning that violators will be arrested.
“On Saturday morning, when federal agents jumped out of an unmarked van near a Home Depot parking lot, they began grabbing people,” said Newsom in his address. “In response, everyday Angelenos came to exercise their constitutional right to free speech and assembly to protest their government’s actions.”
The protests started on Friday and soon escalated to violence as rioters began using hammers to break pieces of concrete structures to hurl at police.
“In turn, the state of California and the city and county of Los Angeles sent our police officers to help keep the peace,” said Newsom. “And with some exceptions, they were successful.”
On Saturday, rioters were caught on video hurling large stones — often successfully — at the windshields of federal agents’ vehicles as they were driving by. A Reuters photographer also captured the now famous image of a man waving a Mexican flag while riding a motorcycle in circles around a burning vehicle in front of a line of police.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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