USA. The riots in Los Angeles continue. Donald Trump would like to thank the local authorities

– The situation in the city escalated, the level of violence from some protesters is “repulsive” – ​​said Sheriff Los Angeles Jim McDonell at a press conference. President Donald Trump criticized the local authorities and stated that he should be thanks for sending soldiers to the place.

The sheriff emphasized that the situation in the city is getting worse, and demonstrations are becoming more and more aggressive. – The violence I observe is disgusting. (…) Some people shot commercial fireworks at our policemen. It can kill – he said.

27 people were arrested in the city, including In connection with throwing a cocktail Molotov at a policeman. The officers were also thrown stones and other objects. Los Angeles police informed on the X website that at night from Sunday to Monday there were reports of looting cases in the city center.

Donald Trump sent a national guard to California

In Los Angeles under the decision of the President USA About 300 members of the National Guard were located. On Saturday Donald Trump ordered 2,000 guards to send to the city streets in response to protests. The decision was criticized by the city authorities and the state of California.

California Gavin Governor announced that he would sue Trump for sending a guard to his condition. The spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt on Monday accused him on the website X that he “did nothing” when violent riots “broke out in Los Angeles.

“Federal law enforcement officers were attacked by aggressive extremists and criminals waving foreign flags, because the news governor was too weak to protect the city,” she added. “Even the head of the Los Angeles police admitted that the riots are out of control,” she emphasized.

Trump: They should say: “Thank you, Mr. President”

On Monday, Donald Trump said that the decision he made was “great”. “If we did not do it, Los Angeles would be completely annihilated,” wrote the US president in his social network Truth Social. He accused California governor Gavin Newsom and the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass incompetence and decided that they should say: “Thank you, Mr. President Trump, you are so wonderful. We would be nothing without you.” However, the president continued – instead of news and bass “they prefer to lie to the inhabitants of California and America, saying that (guards) were not needed and that they are 'peaceful protests'. “One look at photos and recordings from this violence and destruction says everything you need to know about it,” he added.

Journalist shot with a rubber ball during protests in Los Angeles

The NBC News station said that the correspondent of Australian Channel Nine Lauren Tomasi was hit on Sunday evening during the reporting of protests in Los Angeles with a rubber ball. The recording shows that the policeman turned towards Tomasi and her team, and then fired.

Also the British photojournalist Nick Stern said that he was hit in a thigh with a rubber ball during the reporting of the confrontation between security forces and protesters.

Fox News pointed out that the group of protesters spat on the American flag and burned it, shouting the slogans against Donald Trump.

Protests in Los Angeles after the arrest of immigrants

The White House stated that it celebrates the law, which usually requires the governor to apply for the distribution of the guard, because “violent protests threaten security and cause significant damage to federal immigrant detention centers and for another federal property.”

Protests broke out on Friday, June 6, after a roundup carried out by federal agents in the clothing warehouse, where at least 44 immigrants were arrested.

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