Mayor Karen Bass has announced that a curfew touch will be in force during a square mile of the center of Los Angeles after four nights of sporadically chaotic protests during which the LAPD arrested more than 150 people.
The remaining touch will be extended from 8 pm to 6 am, will be applied to the area of the center of the 50s to the 110 highway and from highway 10 to where the 110 highway and highway 5 are merged, said Bass.
The mayor made the announcement on Tuesday night. She had suggested earlier on the day she would consider a touch of curbing if the violence exploded again. She said that the curfew would not be necessary throughout the city, since the protests have focused largely on the city center.
“I wanted to let the city declared a local emergency and issued a curfew for the center of Los Angeles to stop vandalism, to stop looting,” Bass said at a night's press conference.
Bass said he hoped that the touch of left will last several days. The decision on when to end will be taken in consultation with the application of the law and the elected leaders, he said.
The curfew does not apply to people living within the designated area, people who experience homeless people, accredited means or public security and emergency personnel, said Los Angeles Chief of Los Angeles, Jim McDonnell.
The curfew occurs as arrests have increased every night since the protests began in response to the repression of immigration of the Trump administration in southern California.
No one was arrested by the Los Angeles Police on Friday night, but 27 were arrested on Saturday, 40 were arrested on Sunday and 114 were arrested on Monday, according to Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell.
The bass and other elected officials in Los Angeles have repeatedly asked protesters who remain non -violent and refrain from spray paint graffiti or otherwise vandalizing or stealing companies. But every morning, the new, often explicit graffiti has adorned buildings throughout the center.
The protests grew again on Tuesday afternoon, with people shed on highway 101 in the city center, temporarily blocking traffic in both directions in the busy road. People pressed through holes in fences that blocked the highway on the ramp near Commercial Street.
The crowd was found with CHP officers who used canes to push them back. Some protesters launched water bottles. At least one protester was arrested by CHP.
The protesters previously closed the highway 101 for several hours on Sunday, during which the CHP made 19 arrests, according to the agency spokesman, Alec Pereyda.
At 4:30 pm on Tuesday, the highway traffic seemed to move freely on the lanes north and slowly on the lanes to the south.
