Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

US cities brace for more protests, downtown Los Angeles under curfew
Reuters ^ | June 11, 20259:56 AM CDT | Brad Brooks, Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Dietrich Knauth

Posted on 06/11/2025 8:53:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Summary

LOS ANGELES, June 11 (Reuters) - Several U.S. cities braced for a new round of protests on Wednesday over President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration raids, as parts of Los Angeles spent the night under curfew in an effort to quell five days of unrest.

Officials were also preparing for nationwide anti-Trump demonstrations on Saturday, when tanks and armored vehicles will rumble down the streets of Washington, D.C., in a military parade marking the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and coinciding with the president's 79th birthday.

The Reuters Tariff Watch newsletter is your daily guide to the latest global trade and tariff news. Sign up here.

The governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, said he will deploy the National Guard on Wednesday ahead of planned protests. Already this week, demonstrations have broken out in Austin, Texas, New York, Atlanta and Chicago, among other cities.

Trump's decision to send National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles has sparked a national debate on the use of military on U.S. soil and pitted the Republican president against California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.

Trump has claimed that the deployment prevented the violence from raging out of control, an assertion Newsom and other local officials said was the opposite of the truth.

"This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk. That's when the downward spiral began," Newsom said in a video address on Tuesday. "He again chose escalation. He chose more force. He chose theatrics over public safety. ... Democracy is under assault."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: civilunrest; feralcity; losangeles
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-26 next last

1 posted on 06/11/2025 8:53:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Instead of calling them “protests”, how about calling them thuggery from the left.


2 posted on 06/11/2025 8:55:34 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Officials were also preparing for nationwide anti-Trump demonstrations on Saturday, when tanks and armored vehicles will rumble down the streets of Washington, D.C., in a military parade marking the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and coinciding with the president's 79th birthday."

That will be interesting. Got my popcorn...got yours?

3 posted on 06/11/2025 8:56:37 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1789. Death Certificate - 2021? )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
Same ****, different day (Under Trump Administration)

They were protesting against him in 2017 as well.

4 posted on 06/11/2025 8:57:48 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OttawaFreeper

They’re simply riots. And note that the media never mentions how they impact peoples’ daily lives, rights and property.


5 posted on 06/11/2025 8:57:53 AM PDT by Starboard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Starboard

The enemedia doesn’t care.


6 posted on 06/11/2025 8:58:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

HOW did we think mocking God, would cost us nothing... ??


7 posted on 06/11/2025 8:59:42 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
77 million people says Trump is doing what he promised.

Newsome refused to do what he promised...protect the people of his state.

Just a reminder....there is no such thing as a Sanctuary city, state or park bench.

8 posted on 06/11/2025 9:00:36 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why do you have to “brace” for peaceful gatherings?


9 posted on 06/11/2025 9:00:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OttawaFreeper

Insurrectionist comes to mind


10 posted on 06/11/2025 9:04:54 AM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
Not really sure how looting sushi restaurants helps gets the "protesters" point across.šŸ¤”

Must be a demonicRAT thing.

11 posted on 06/11/2025 9:05:01 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
They used to be called riots, but that term fell out of favor because of the race that was actually doing the rioting. Some brilliant wordsmith in DC came up with the term Times of High Excitement.
12 posted on 06/11/2025 9:09:22 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau

**Instead of calling them ā€œprotestsā€, how about calling them thuggery from the left.**
**Why do you have to ā€œbraceā€ for peaceful gatherings?**

Anyone enjoying this as much as I am?


13 posted on 06/11/2025 9:10:14 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

We know who funds and organizes these inserections. It doesn’t take more than a little internet sleuthing. Why doesn’t the DOJ and FBI do anything about it? Congress isn’t interested in anything as long as President Trump is president.


14 posted on 06/11/2025 9:11:38 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why the hell should cities have to “brace” themselves from a far left assault on civility that’s as “peaceful” as a church picnic according to the far left’s Damockrazy “media”?


15 posted on 06/11/2025 9:13:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DemonRATS have replaced Hitler with "Doc" Jill's "Taco" slur to attack President Trump. Nice!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OttawaFreeper
...new round of protests... over President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration raids...

These illegals are NOT 'immigrants' anymore than a thief breaking into your home is a house guest.

More proof Reuters sucks.

PS Reuters - drug dealers pushing fentanyl to teenagers aren't pharmacists either...

16 posted on 06/11/2025 9:14:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (What if stupidity isn’t about intelligence at all, but about surrendering the will to think?Bonhoeff)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: OttawaFreeper
This is what this invasion and insurrection are all about:

A declaration of war against the USA by the Mexican drug cartels and the Mexican Government, which they control, using

the President of Mexico, as a pawn, and the insurgents in the USA, as soldiers,

and using as weapons

Mexican nationalism,

Mexican resentment toward the USA for past transgressions, especially the annexation of Mexican territory by the USA in the 19th century and a desire to reclaim it,

the complicity, witting or unwitting, of the US Democrat Party and its supporters, including the so-called "journalists" of the news media and the feckless, misguided and easily brainwashed American "liberals"/"progressives", and

the Decadence of Western Civilization in America, manifest as the counter-culture movement of the 1960s and its 21st century successor, wokeism, which they perceive as a lethal weakness crippling American society, the American People, and the entire United States,

and they perceive--ERRONEOUSLY--that the time to strike is now, when the USA, at least in their opinion, is at its weakest, before President Trump and the MAGA Republicans can re-establish US strength and ascendancy.

Weak and incompetent US "leaders" such as the absurd Joe Biden and the ridiculous, weeping Gavin Newsom fuel their erroneous conviction that the US is weak enough for attack and conquest, but it is fueled even more by the stupid Americans who support such idiotic weaklings and their woke and evil Democrat Party.

The stupid woke Americans and their ridiculous and absurd leaders notwithstanding, should the enemies of the USA--WHOEVER THEY MIGHT BE!--persist in their attack on the USA they will awaken a Sleeping Tiger and will suffer the same fate as the Japanese Empire.

Be forewarned!


17 posted on 06/11/2025 9:18:16 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing inflames unrest in the delusional, and nothing inflames unrest in the evil, like TRUTH.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: OttawaFreeper

There haven’t been riots or looting in LA for nearly 3 days.

There are a couple hundred people standing around, but that’s about it.☺


18 posted on 06/11/2025 9:21:03 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

My wife and I came from the Midwest and Southwest, and most of our living relatives still live where they were born, raised and live with their extended families.

None of them will be visiting any west coast rat owned/controlled city/areas this summer.


19 posted on 06/11/2025 9:27:15 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Drones have forever changed fighting wars/with Navy/Army top water or below and anything that flies)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now is the time or the FBI to shine and regain some of the lost prestige. Plant informants in these subversive organizations to give good intelligence of plans and tactics, identify leaders and get them behind bars - then prosecute, prosecute, prosecute.


20 posted on 06/11/2025 9:29:02 AM PDT by elpadre
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-26 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson