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JUNE 14TH A TRUMP DISASTER
Los Angeles: Thousands protest against Trump and immigrant arrests - No Kings
JUNE 14TH A TRUMP DISASTER
Los Angeles: Thousands protest against Trump and immigrant arrests - No Kings
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CLPRESS / News agency - Breaking news in France
June 14th 2025
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EXCLUSIVE - On Saturday, June 14, one of the major demonstrations in the vast national protest movement dubbed 'No Kings' took place in Los Angeles. The protests were sparked by a spectacular military parade in Washington, D.C., coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and Donald Trump's 79th birthday.
The protesters expressed their rejection of the Trump administration's authoritarian policies—particularly its massive immigration removal operations carried out by the federal service ICE—as well as the military display's perceived monarchical symbolism.
The 'No Kings' movement has spread to more than 2,000 cities across the country, attracting millions of participants. In Los Angeles, the main rally downtown drew approximately 25,000 people, according to authorities. It followed a week of protests against ICE (anti-immigration police) raids and the military presence in the city (National Guard and Marines) deployed by President Trump without approval from Governor Newsom.
The initially peaceful demonstration turned violent in the mid-afternoon in front of the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building. Protesters threw projectiles, pyrotechnic devices, and bottles, while law enforcement responded with tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets, and horseback charges.
The clashes resulted in numerous injuries to both law enforcement and protesters. In Los Angeles, police carried out violent dispersals, and several dozen arrests were recorded for obstruction of traffic or participation in unlawful assemblies, bringing the total number of arrests in the region to approximately 500 since the protests began in early June.
The 'No Kings' movement has been hailed as the largest anti-Trump citizen mobilization since his return to the presidency, seen as a wake-up call against the slide toward a permanent state of emergency and the erosion of civil liberties. It has attracted support from diverse communities: immigrants, families, veterans, young people, and disillusioned former Republican voters.
In early June, mass raids by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents in several Los Angeles neighborhoods—including the Fashion District, Westlake, and South L.A.—sparked a series of protests, initially peaceful and sometimes erupting into violent clashes. These actions aimed to arrest people without legal status, leading to the arrest of dozens to over a hundred people, suspected by the protesters of having suffered police violence.
The deployment of the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, ordered by President Trump following the first riots against these ICE raids in early June, marked an unprecedented escalation. This federal mobilization, deemed illegal by the California courts, raises questions about the use of the military in the face of civil unrest.
Governor Gavin Newsom denounced an 'unjustified federal intrusion' and filed a lawsuit to protect state sovereignty. He declared that he would not allow this maneuver to go through, calling the intervention 'intentionally inflammatory.' Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass castigated the National Guard as a dangerous federal 'experiment,' believing its presence arouses more tensions than it calms. She deemed the operation 'unjustified' and called for calm, reiterating that the local police had sufficient resources. For his part, Trump welcomed the appeals court's decision temporarily upholding these federal military deployments, deeming it to have 'saved L.A.' from destruction.
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
The 'No-King' demonstrations around the USA on June 14th 2024 had more than 20,000 participants Trump's mega parade in Washington DC had thousands of trroops in the parade, but hardly anyone watching. Why would they? Everything was in military drab? The marching was sloppy! A huge flop!
Peter Burgess