Los Angeles Announces Downtown Curfew

(MENAFN) In response to escalating unrest tied to federal immigration enforcement, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced a nighttime curfew in the downtown district on Tuesday evening.

The curfew aims to prevent further confrontations between demonstrators critical of Leader Donald Trump’s immigration initiatives and police forces.

“I issued a curfew starting tonight at 8pm for Downtown Los Angeles to stop bad actors who are taking advantage of the President's chaotic escalation. If you do not live or work in Downtown L.A., avoid the area,” Bass posted on X. “Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break the curfew, and you will be prosecuted.”

The restriction will remain in place until 6 a.m. on Wednesday and is expected to continue "for several days," as Mayor Bass explained during a press briefing. It applies to an area approximately one square mile in size, covering important government buildings like City Hall and the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building.

Earlier the same day, President Trump vowed to “liberate” Los Angeles during a speech to military personnel at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

He characterized the protests against his mass deportation measures as “a full-blown assault on peace, on public order and on national sovereignty, carried out by rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion of our country.”

Trump also accused California Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Bass of being “incompetent,” alleging that they supported “troublemakers, agitators and insurrectionists.”

He further claimed they were deliberately undermining federal law and aiding what he described as an occupation of the city by “criminal invaders.”

However, the president appeared to retract parts of these accusations—particularly the claim that demonstrators were being compensated—when pressed by journalists later in the day.

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