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Photos From The Downtown La Ice Protests Katie Couric Media

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"My name is Catie Laffoon and I’m a photographer based in LA; I've shot protests around the country and I can tell you that what’s happening here is different from what you might think. There’s been no violence from protestors, contrary to what many outlets are reporting. The images being circulated are orchestrated by authorities who meet peace with force, over and over and over, trying to get the protestors to fight back. But I have yet to see a single person fight back: I’ve seen two empty water bottles thrown in the last week, and that’s it. But I’ve seen authorities illegally assault and batter civilians who have their hands up, doing their best to follow the orders being given by the police." "At a recent protest in downtown LA, I met everyone at city hall at 4pm.

People were peacefully gathered, sitting on the steps; There was music, people dancing, good spirits, and the feeling was that we were ready for a peaceful march. We had a great leader/organizer, who repeatedly — throughout the entire day — reinforced that we were peacefully protesting and no agitators would be tolerated." "About 20 minutes in, one person threw an empty water bottle in the direction of police and we stopped the entire march, however many thousands of people we were by then. We reprimanded the person and announced that we had a zero-tolerance policy for agitators — and that if absolutely anything else was thrown, that person would be considered to be working for the authorities... As we walked, we kept yelling the same phrase: 'Peaceful protest!'" "We were going down Broadway until we ran into a blockade at Temple, at around 6:15pm.

There was nowhere for us to go, so we stopped and held our arms up and said we were peacefully protesting. They waited until enough people had bottlenecked on the block and then they declared it an unlawful gathering and immediately began shooting rubber bullets." "We repeatedly yelled, 'We are peaceful, no threat!'; some people even sat down, holding their hands up. But officers began shooting point-blank at people, not shooting the rubber bullets into the ground, but directly at people’s bodies. A lot of people were similarly hit with tear-gas canisters, and hurt badly." Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Protesters danced in the streets — and confronted the California National Guard. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A series of surprise U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps in downtown Los Angeles on Friday prompted fierce pushback from protesters and officials who decried the actions as “cruel and unnecessary” and said they stoked fear in the immigrant...

Tensions remained high in downtown into the evening. The Los Angeles Police Department declared an unlawful assembly and ordered about 200 protesters who remained gathered by the Los Angeles Federal Building to disperse around 7 p.m. The use of so-called less-lethal munitions was authorized at 8 p.m. following reports of a small group of “violent individuals” throwing large pieces of concrete at officers, police said. A citywide tactical alert was issued shortly afterward. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section.

Yesterday, for the third day in a row, anti-ICE demonstrations kicked off in Los Angeles. I spent the day documenting the protests as they moved around Downtown, from the Metropolitan Detention Center to City Hall to the 101 freeway. It’s hard to say definitively, since chaos was unfolding in a few locations, but the law-enforcement response to the protests I photographed felt excessive. On multiple occasions, I saw what appeared to be police opening fire directly into crowds with “less lethal” rounds in response to plastic water bottles being thrown at them. Videos are circulating of protesters being run over by horses and a journalist being shot with a rubber bullet. I narrowly missed being hit by rounds several times.

I was unsuccessful in avoiding getting tear-gassed. There is, of course, some anxiety when documenting these events that the photos and videos you’re taking may feed into the narrative about Los Angeles being pushed by Trump and his supporters on the... Whenever I took a photo of something on fire or something being thrown at police, it felt like I was one of 100 photographers doing so. (I have now seen the shirtless person on top of a trashed Waymo pictured below from around 50 different angles in addition to my own.) By contrast, I have seen maybe one photo from... And even when mayhem did erupt, it was generally possible to walk half a block to buy an ice cream from a street vendor or have your photo taken with the person who turned... Here’s what I saw.

“My name is Catie Laffoon and I’m a photographer based in LA; I’ve shot protests around the country and I can tell you that what’s happening here is different from what you might think. There’s been no violence from protestors, contrary to what many outlets are reporting. The images being circulated are orchestrated by authorities who meet peace with force, over and over and over, trying to get the protestors to fight back. But I have yet to see a single person fight back: I’ve seen two empty water bottles thrown in the last week, and that’s it. But I’ve seen authorities illegally assault and batter civilians who have their hands up, doing their best to follow the orders being given by the police.” “At a recent protest in downtown LA, I met everyone at city hall at 4pm.

People were peacefully gathered, sitting on the steps; There was music, people dancing, good spirits, and the feeling was that we were ready for a peaceful march. We had a great leader/organizer, who repeatedly — throughout the entire day — reinforced that we were peacefully protesting and no agitators would be tolerated.” “About 20 minutes in, one person threw an empty water bottle in the direction of police and we stopped the entire march, however many thousands of people we were by then. We reprimanded the person and announced that we had a zero-tolerance policy for agitators — and that if absolutely anything else was thrown, that person would be considered to be working for the authorities... As we walked, we kept yelling the same phrase: ‘Peaceful protest!'” “We were going down Broadway until we ran into a blockade at Temple, at around 6:15pm.

There was nowhere for us to go, so we stopped and held our arms up and said we were peacefully protesting. They waited until enough people had bottlenecked on the block and then they declared it an unlawful gathering and immediately began shooting rubber bullets.” “We repeatedly yelled, ‘We are peaceful, no threat!’; some people even sat down, holding their hands up. But officers began shooting point-blank at people, not shooting the rubber bullets into the ground, but directly at people’s bodies. A lot of people were similarly hit with tear-gas canisters, and hurt badly.” As demonstrators in Los Angeles took to the streets to protest ICE agents raiding their neighborhoods and communities, they were met with tear gas, shields, and the full weight of state power.

Orders that bypassed Gov. Gavin Newsom and came straight from President Donald Trump. MORE: Op-Ed: National Guard Deployment In California Echoes Kent State Tragedy Trump initially directed 2,000 National Guard troops to quell the LA protests, which only angered protesters even more, escalating the violence after a Friday of fairly civil disobedience. Once tensions reached a boiling point, protesters flooded downtown in response to Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, blocking off a major freeway as law enforcement tried to control the crowd with tear gas... The last time the National Guard was deployed without the governor’s permission was in 1965, when President Lyndon B.

Johnson sent troops to protect a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The Los Angeles protests have continued into a sixth day, as locals stand up against the immigration raid crackdown, and US president Donald Trump's administration has sent thousands more troops into the city. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said on Wednesday (June 11) it has carried out "mass arrests" with over 300 protesters arrested in the last two days. In an update on X, the LAPD said “multiple groups” continued to congregate within the designated downtown curfew area. “Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated,” it said.

The Downtown area was under curfew again last night for a second night, with the move being a result of looters and vandals “taking advantage” of Trump’s “chaotic escalation”, according to LA Mayor Karen... In recent days, Trump has escalated his response with the mobilisation of 4,000 National Guard troops to crack down on the protests, while 700 Marines have also been deployed to the area to protect...

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