Posted on 06/10/2025 7:56:18 PM PDT by Morgana
Los Angeles was put on lockdown after mayor Karen Bass finally caved and declared a local emergency while Governor Gavin Newsom tore into President Trump for exacerbating the immigration chaos.
The riot-ravaged Downtown area will be a no-go zone from 8pm to 6am on Tuesday through Wednesday after violent demonstrators set fire to cars, looted buildings and attacked officers with rocks, fireworks and cement bricks in harrowing scenes of destruction.
Bass said the curfew is expected to last several days and will encompass a square mile radius around the epicenter of the violence in Downtown LA.
'If you do not live or work in downtown LA avoid the area. Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break the curfew, and you will be prosecuted,' Bass said.
Less than an hour after the curfew was imposed, Newsom lashed out at Trump in a speech that aired on national television.
The Golden State governor blamed the federal government for the ongoing crisis and issued a chilling warning that chaos could soon engulf other states too.
'Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves, but they do not stop there,' Newsom warned.
'This is a president who in just over 140 days, has fired government watchdogs that could hold him accountable, accountable for corruption and fraud. He's declared a war, a war on culture, on history, on science, on knowledge itself. Databases, quite literally, are vanishing.'
Newsom claimed that 'when Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard. He made that order apply to every state in this nation.
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Ah, so. Thank you! (and also for the laugh!)
the more tear gas the better.
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