More than 2,000 "No Kings Day" protests were held on Saturday, organizers said.
Saturday marks the first full day of Marines on duty in Los Angeles, one week after protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids ignited in LA and spread to other cities across the U.S., including New York City, San Francisco, Boston, and Austin, Texas.
Meanwhile, more than 2,000 "No Kings Day" protests were held across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the Trump administration and to counterprogram the military parade in Washington, D.C., organizers said. More than 5 million people participated, according to organizers.
The demonstrations remained peaceful in almost all cities, but as the evening grew in Los Angeles, tensions escalated between police and protesters.
The Marines stationed at the Wilshire federal building in Los Angeles on Friday made the first temporary detention among the troops sent to the city, U.S. Army North confirmed.
“Any temporary detention ends immediately when the individual(s) can be safely transferred to the custody of appropriate civilian law enforcement personnel," the Army said.
-ABC News’ Luis Martinez
President Donald Trump has painted a bleak picture of Los Angeles since protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids broke out over the weekend.
He has repeatedly said that the city was going to burn without the intervention of the military and that there were paid "insurrectionists" and "criminal invaders" seizing the city, which had devolved into "anarchy."
Local leaders, however, present a more complex picture of the scene on the ground.
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Marines began their deployment in Los Angeles on Friday, with some spotted guarding the Wilshire Federal Building.
Thousands of "No Kings Day" protests are set to be held throughout the U.S. and abroad on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump's administration and to counterprogram the military parade.
Ezra Levin, the co-executive director of progressive organizing group Indivisible, told ABC News on Thursday there are now more than 2,000 events planned "just about everywhere, everywhere but downtown D.C. -- intentionally so."
According to Levin, the organizers did not want to give Trump a rationale to retaliate against peaceful protests in D.C. or to say that the protesters were protesting the military.
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