Mayor Karen Bass says curfew for part of downtown area in effect from 8pm on Tuesday to 6am on Wednesday.
Published On 11 Jun 2025
Los Angeles police have made arrests after a curfew took effect in part of the United States’s second-largest city amid continuing protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said late on Tuesday that “mass arrests” were under way as people gathered within the designated downtown curfew area.
“Multiple groups continue to congregate on 1st St between Spring and Alameda,” the LAPD wrote on X. “Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated. Curfew is in effect.”
Later, many of the protesters had dispersed, although sporadic confrontations continued. Officials said the curfew was necessary to stop vandalism and theft by agitators looking to cause trouble.
The curfew applies to 1sq mile (2.6sq km) of the downtown area, and will be in effect from 8pm on Tuesday to 6am on Wednesday (03: 00 GMT to 13: 00 GMT Wednesday), LA Mayor Karen Bass said.
Bass said she expected the curfew to remain in effect for several days, but stressed that the order applied only to a small portion of the city, which covers 502sq miles (1,300sq km).
The curfew took effect on the fifth night of protests against the Trump administration’s raids on suspected undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles, and as demonstrations spread to dozens of other US cities, including New York, Chicago and Atlanta.
Trump’s immigration crackdown and deployment of the National Guard and Marines against protesters have drawn condemnation from California officials, who have accused the president of abusing his authority and fanning tensions.
In an address to Californians on Tuesday night, Governor Gavin Newsom blasted Trump’s