
29 arrested Sunday as protests intensify in downtown LA
Twenty-nine people were arrested Sunday as protesters again took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles in response to ICE raids and President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard.
Chief Jim McDonnell announced the number of LAPD arrests at an 8 p.m. news conference.
Ten people were taken into custody by the Los Angeles Police Department, McDonnell said, including one person who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail and another accused of ramming a police line with a motorcycle.
The California Highway Patrol arrested 19 people, most of whom were detained after protesters made their way onto the 101 Freeway and blocked traffic.
Another 29 people were arrested Saturday for failure to disperse, McDonnell said.
The police chief delivered his remarks as evening protests in downtown L.A. became more and more chaotic.
McDonnell said those individuals as anarchists, and he made a distinction between them and the protesters who had participated in demonstrations earlier in the day.
He said it was "even more disgusting that many of the people who are doing this come in from other places just to hurt people and to cause havoc."