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Protests live updates: 1 wounded in shooting 'possibly' connected with Utah protest
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.
Key Headlines
- Salt Lake City police investigate shooting 'possibly associated' with demonstration
- Ahead of curfew, LAPD ask demonstrators to leave downtown area
- Police clear crowd outside federal building in Los Angeles
- LA protesters chant 'shame' at Marines after peaceful protests
- Texas Capitol evacuated due to threat against lawmakers: DPS
- Man arrested for driving car into 'No Kings' rally in Virginia
Trump admin tells ICE to pause most raids on farms, hotels, restaurants
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed to ABC News that it issued new guidance to pause most raids on farms, restaurants, and hotels, after Trump earlier this week shifted his stance on targeting undocumented workers in those industries.
"Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels," senior ICE official Tatum King wrote in an email to leaders of the ICE department that generally carries out criminal investigations.
The email says that investigations involving "human trafficking, money laundering, drug smuggling into these industries are OK."
The new guidance was first reported by the New York Times.
"We will follow the president's direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America's streets," DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement on ABC News.
This comes after Trump publicly acknowledged that those industries have been hurt by his deportation agenda.
-ABC News' Selina Wang
Marines make 1st temporary detention in LA
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
Trump has made a number of claims about the LA protests. Here is the context.
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 guard federal building in LA
Marines began their deployment in Los Angeles on Friday, with some spotted guarding the Wilshire Federal Building.