LA protests: LAPD says it has made ‘mass arrests’ after mayor issued curfew for downtown – live

Mayor Karen Bass issues curfew for one square mile area in downtown, beginning at 8pm local time on Tuesday until 6am local time on Wednesday The Guardian has been reporting on the protests against ICE raids in Los Angeles, as Donald Trump ramps up his administration’s efforts to detain undocumented migrants. My colleague Robert Mackey has fact-checked a speech President Trump made at military base Fort Bragg, which contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA. Trump falsely claims protesters are bearing foreign flags as part of a ‘foreign invasion’ In his deeply partisan speech at Fort Bragg, Trump made the baseless claim that the protests against immigration raids in LA are being led by paid “rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion”.