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.
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Jun 14, 2025, 1:49 PM EDT
LA curfew to continue Saturday night
The curfew in a part of downtown Los Angeles will remain in effect Saturday night as multiple protests are expected in the city, LA Mayor Bass said.
"Hundreds of additional personnel are mobilized and proactively positioned to keep people safe and to protect property,” she said.
She said Friday’s protests were peaceful with very few arrests.
"We have zero tolerance for anyone who damages property or puts officers or people at risk," Bass stressed, pleading, "Please, please do not give the administration an excuse to intervene. Let's make sure we show the world the best of Los Angeles, and our country."
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell added, "If you're here in Los Angeles today to make your voice heard through peaceful demonstrations, we are here to protect you. But if you come with the intent to commit crime, damage property or harm others, including our officers, you will be arrested. ... We're asking everyone who plans to participate in today's events to do so peacefully and respectfully."
Since June 7, the LAPD said it's made 523 arrests related to protest activity.
LAPD officers on horseback clash with protesters gathered near Los Angeles City Hall to protest against federal immigration operations on June 11, 2025.
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-ABC News’ Amanda Morris
Jun 14, 2025, 12:40 PM EDT
Guardsmen will now be protecting ICE at raids
National Guardsmen have carried out 26 missions since they were deployed to Los Angeles, Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman of the National Guard said. A handful of those assignments have been to guard facilities and the remaining have been missions protecting ICE on raids, he said.
National Guard troops wear gas masks during protests against federal immigration sweeps, in Los Angeles, June 12, 2025.
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Sherman had told ABC News and The Associated Press in a joint interview on Wednesday that 500 of the 4,000 National Guardsmen assigned to LA had been specifically trained to work with these ICE teams. Now that the Guardsmen who had been protecting the federal buildings are being replaced by 200 Marines, those Guardsmen will be trained to working on ICE raids.
"I would like to emphasize that the soldiers will not participate in law enforcement activities," Sherman said. "Rather, they'll be focused on protecting federal law enforcement personnel."
-ABC News’ Luis Martinez
Jun 14, 2025, 12:27 PM EDT
60 arrested on eve of Army parade as veterans protest militarism
Sixty demonstrators, part of a veterans protest against militarism, were arrested at the Supreme Court on Friday night and will be charged with unlawful demonstration and crossing a police line, Capitol police said. Some will also be charged with assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, police said.
"A few people pushed the bike rack down and illegally crossed the police line while running towards the Rotunda Steps," Capitol police said in a statement.
A demonstator speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court during a protest of the upcoming parade for the Army's 250th anniversary, which falls on President Donald Trump's birthday, on June 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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Brittany Ramos DeBarros, a former Army captain who was one of the organizers of the event, told ABC News that although they planned this before the protests in Los Angeles, they now also plan on calling attention to the Trump administration's deployment of the military to the LA protests.
“We need to see more courage, more resistance, to the terrifying consolidation of authoritarianism that we're seeing right now, particularly as we're seeing the Marines be mobilized in our own cities,” Ramos DeBarros said.
“It's not an accident that Trump is about to have tanks rolling down our streets here in D.C. [at Saturday’s Army anniversary parade] while he has the military also terrorizing immigrants in LA,” she said.