特朗普部署数百名国民警卫队士兵后，洛杉矶抗议活动加剧
【中美创新时报2025 年 6 月 9 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）周日，洛杉矶的紧张局势升级，数千名抗议者走上街头，抗议唐纳德·特朗普总统非正常部署国民警卫队，封锁了一条主要高速公路，并焚烧了自动驾驶汽车，而执法部门则使用催泪瓦斯、橡皮子弹和闪光弹来控制人群。美联社记者杰森·迪伦、杰米·丁和杰克·奥芬哈茨对此作了下述报道。
夜幕降临，许多抗议者散去，警方宣布集会非法，随后警方将进入现场逮捕未离开的抗议者。一些抗议者从横跨街道的临时路障后面向警方投掷物品，另一些人则向停在已关闭的101号南向高速公路上的加州公路巡警及其车辆投掷混凝土块、石块、电动滑板车和烟花。警察们跑到一座立交桥下寻找掩护。
洛杉矶这座拥有400万人口的庞大城市周日的抗议活动集中在市中心的几个街区。这是该地区反对特朗普移民镇压的示威活动的第三天，也是最激烈的一天，约300名国民警卫队的到来引发了许多居民的愤怒和恐惧。
这支警卫队专门负责保护联邦建筑，包括抗议者集中的市中心拘留中心。
洛杉矶警察局局长吉姆·麦克唐纳表示，剩余的抗议者让警察“不知所措”。他说，这些抗议者中包括经常出现在示威活动中制造麻烦的煽动者。
整个周末的抗议活动中，有数十人被捕。周日，一人因向警察投掷燃烧瓶而被拘留，另一人因驾驶摩托车冲撞警察队伍而被拘留。
特朗普在“真相社交”上回应麦克唐纳，告诉他逮捕戴口罩的抗议者。
他写道：“洛杉矶的情况实在糟糕，快派部队过来！”
旧金山抗议活动中数十人被捕
警方在社交媒体上发表声明称，在旧金山，由于一群人拒绝遵守解散命令，监控抗议活动的警察于周日晚上逮捕了数十人。
旧金山警察局表示，警方当时正在监视桑索姆街和华盛顿街附近的抗议活动，但当人群中出现暴力行为时，警方宣布该集会为非法集会。许多人离开了现场，但也有一些人留在现场，还有一些人转移到市场街和科尔尼街，在那里有人破坏了建筑物和一辆警车。
一小群抗议者继续前往蒙哥马利街，由于他们不遵守驱散命令，警方逮捕了60人。警方称，有三名警察受伤，其中一人被送往医院。
声明称：“在旧金山，个人始终可以自由行使第一修正案赋予的权利，但暴力行为——尤其是针对旧金山警察局警员的暴力行为——绝不会被容忍。”
国民警卫队抵达后冲突升级
周日上午，在洛杉矶，国民警卫队士兵肩并肩站在一起，手持长枪和防暴盾牌，抗议者高喊“可耻”和“回家”。在一些国民警卫队成员接近他们后，另一组身穿制服的警察向人群推进，向街道发射了充满烟雾的罐子。
几分钟后，洛杉矶警察局发射多发人群控制弹药驱散抗议者，称这些抗议者非法集结。随后，大部分抗议者转移到101号高速公路上阻塞交通，直到傍晚时分州巡警将他们从道路上驱散。
附近，至少有四辆Waymo自动驾驶汽车着火，大量黑烟直冲云霄，并在电动汽车燃烧过程中不时发生爆炸。傍晚时分，警方发布了非法集会令，封锁了洛杉矶市中心的几个街区。
傍晚时分，每隔几秒钟就会传来闪光弹的回响。
州长称不需要警卫
民主党州长加文·纽瑟姆周日下午致信特朗普，要求撤走这些警卫人员，称其部署“严重侵犯了州主权”。他目前正在洛杉矶与当地执法人员和官员会面。
此次部署似乎是几十年来一个州首次在未经州长要求的情况下启动国民警卫队的行动，这对那些试图阻碍政府大规模驱逐行动的人来说是一次重大升级。
纽瑟姆和洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯将抗议活动日益激烈归咎于特朗普部署国民警卫队的决定，称此举旨在加剧紧张局势。他们都敦促抗议者保持和平。
“我们在洛杉矶看到的混乱是政府挑起的，”她在下午的新闻发布会上说。“这是为了另一个目的，与公共安全无关。”
但洛杉矶警察局局长麦克唐纳表示，抗议活动与民间骚乱事件的模式类似，第二天和第三天事态会愈演愈烈。
他反驳了特朗普政府的说法，即洛杉矶警察局在周五一系列移民突袭行动后爆发抗议活动时未能协助联邦当局。他表示，他的部门已经尽快做出了反应，并且在突袭行动之前没有收到通知，因此没有为抗议活动做好预先部署。
与此同时，纽瑟姆多次表示加州当局已控制住局势。他嘲笑特朗普在部队抵达洛杉矶之前就在社交媒体上向国民警卫队发布祝贺信息，并在MSNBC电视台表示，特朗普在周五的电话中从未提到部署国民警卫队。他称特朗普是个“冷酷的骗子”。
这些警告并没有阻止政府。
白宫发言人阿比盖尔·杰克逊在一份声明中表示：“纽瑟姆声称在特朗普总统介入之前洛杉矶没有出现任何问题，这是一个赤裸裸的谎言。”
抗议活动持续多日后才部署
国民警卫队的抵达之前，抗议活动已持续两天，抗议活动于周五从洛杉矶市中心开始，并于周六蔓延至该市南部拉丁裔人口聚居的城市派拉蒙和邻近的康普顿。
周五，联邦特工在洛杉矶时尚区、一家家得宝停车场和其他几个地点逮捕了多名移民。第二天，他们在派拉蒙另一家家得宝附近的国土安全部办公室附近集结，引发了怀疑再次发生突袭的抗议者。联邦当局后来表示，该家得宝没有采取任何执法行动。
联邦当局称，洛杉矶地区一周以来逮捕的移民人数已超过100人。更多人在抗议活动中被捕，其中包括一位被控妨碍执法的知名工会领袖。
此次抗议活动的规模不及过去促使国民警卫队进驻洛杉矶的示威活动，包括瓦茨骚乱和罗德尼·金骚乱，以及 2020 年反对警察暴力的抗议活动，在这些抗议活动中，纽瑟姆请求联邦军队的协助。
据布伦南司法中心称，国民警卫队上次在未经州长许可的情况下出动是在 1965 年，当时总统林登·约翰逊派遣部队保护阿拉巴马州的民权游行。
特朗普称将有“非常强大的法律和秩序”
特朗普在周六的指令中援引了一项法律条款，允许他在“发生叛乱或有发生叛乱的危险”时部署联邦军队成员。
他说他已授权部署 2,000 名国民警卫队成员。
周日，特朗普在新泽西州莫里斯敦准备登上空军一号时告诉记者，洛杉矶有“暴力分子”，“他们不会逃脱惩罚”。
当被问及是否计划派遣美军前往洛杉矶时，特朗普回答说：“我们将在各地部署军队。我们不会让这种事情发生在我们的国家。” 他没有详细说明。
据美国北方司令部称，驻扎在洛杉矶以东约 125 英里（200 公里）二十九棕榈村的约 500 名海军陆战队员周日下午处于“准备部署状态”。
奥芬哈茨在纽约报道。美联社记者米歇尔·普莱斯在新泽西州布里奇沃特对本文亦有贡献。
题图：周日，加州公路巡警在洛杉矶101号公路上与抗议者发生冲突。 图片来源：GABRIELA BHASKAR/纽约时报
附原英文报道：
Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops
By Jason Dearen, Jaime Ding, and Jake Offenhartz Associated Press,Updated June 9, 2025, 1 hour ago
California Highway Patrol officers clash with protesters on Highway 101 in Los Angeles on Sunday.GABRIELA BHASKAR/NYT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tensions in Los Angeles escalated Sunday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard, blocking off a major freeway and setting self-driving cars on fire as law enforcement used tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bangs to control the crowd.
Many protesters dispersed as evening fell and police declared an unlawful assembly, a precursor to officers moving in and making arrests of people who don’t leave. Some of those remaining threw objects at police from behind a makeshift barrier that spanned the width of a street and others hurled chunks of concrete, rocks, electric scooters and fireworks at California Highway Patrol officers and their vehicles parked on the closed southbound 101 Freeway. Officers ran under an overpass to take cover.
Sunday’s protests in Los Angeles, a sprawling city of 4 million people, were centered in several blocks of downtown. It was the third and most intense day of demonstrations against Trump’s immigration crackdown in the region, as the arrival of around 300 Guard troops spurred anger and fear among many residents.
The Guard was deployed specifically to protect federal buildings, including the downtown detention center where protesters concentrated.
Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said officers were “overwhelmed” by the remaining protesters. He said they included regular agitators who show up at demonstrations to cause trouble.
Several dozen people were arrested throughout the weekend of protest. One was detained Sunday for throwing a Molotov cocktail at police, and another for ramming a motorcycle into a line of officers.
Trump responded to McDonnell on Truth Social, telling him to arrest protesters in face masks.
“Looking really bad in L.A. BRING IN THE TROOPS!!!” he wrote.
Dozens arrested at San Francisco protest
In San Francisco, officers monitoring protests arrested dozens of people Sunday night after a group of people refused to comply with an order to disperse, police said in a statement on social media.
Officers were monitoring a protest in the area of Sansome and Washington streets but declared an unlawful assembly when people in the group became violent, the San Francisco Police Department said. Many people left the scene, but some remained and some moved to Market and Kearny streets, where people vandalized buildings and a police vehicle.
A small group continued to Montgomery Street and when they didn’t comply with a dispersal order, police said officers arrested 60 people. Three officers were injured, including one who was taken to a hospital, police said.
“Individuals are always free to exercise their First Amendment rights in San Francisco but violence — especially against SFPD officers — will never be tolerated,” the statement said.
Clashes escalate as National Guard troops arrive
In Los Angeles on Sunday morning, National Guard troops stood shoulder to shoulder, carrying long guns and riot shields as protesters shouted “shame” and “go home.” After some closely approached the guard members, another set of uniformed officers advanced on the group, shooting smoke-filled canisters into the street.
Minutes later, the Los Angeles Police Department fired rounds of crowd-control munitions to disperse the protesters, who they said were assembled unlawfully. Much of the group then moved to block traffic on the 101 freeway until state patrol officers cleared them from the roadway by late afternoon.
Nearby, at least four self-driving Waymo cars were set on fire, sending large plumes of black smoke into the sky and exploding intermittently as the electric vehicles burned. By evening, police had issued an unlawful assembly order shutting down several blocks of downtown Los Angeles.
Flash bangs echoed out every few seconds into the evening.
Governor says Guard not needed
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom requested Trump remove the guard members in a letter Sunday afternoon, calling their deployment a “serious breach of state sovereignty.” He was in Los Angeles meeting with local law enforcement and officials.
The deployment appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, a significant escalation against those who have sought to hinder the administration’s mass deportation efforts.
Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass blamed the increasingly aggressive protests on Trump’s decision to deploy the Guard, calling it a move designed to enflame tensions. They’ve both urged protesters to remain peaceful.
“What we’re seeing in Los Angeles is chaos that is provoked by the administration,” she said in an afternoon press conference. “This is about another agenda, this isn’t about public safety.”
But McDonnell, the LAPD chief, said the protests were following a similar pattern for episodes of civil unrest, with things ramping up in the second and third days.
He pushed back against claims by the Trump administration that the LAPD had failed to help federal authorities when protests broke out Friday after a series of immigration raids. His department responded as quickly as it could, and had not been notified in advance of the raids and therefore was not pre-positioned for protests, he said.
Newsom, meanwhile, has repeatedly said that California authorities had the situation under control. He mocked Trump for posting a congratulatory message to the Guard on social media before troops had even arrived in Los Angeles, and said on MSNBC that Trump never floated deploying the Guard during a Friday phone call. He called Trump a “stone cold liar.”
The admonishments did not deter the administration.
“It’s a bald-faced lie for Newsom to claim there was no problem in Los Angeles before President Trump got involved,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement.
Deployment follows days of protest
The arrival of the National Guard followed two days of protests that began Friday in downtown Los Angeles before spreading on Saturday to Paramount, a heavily Latino city south of the city, and neighboring Compton.
Federal agents arrested immigrants in LA’s fashion district, in a Home Depot parking lot and at several other locations on Friday. The next day, they were staging at a Department of Homeland Security office near another Home Depot in Paramount, which drew out protesters who suspected another raid. Federal authorities later said there was no enforcement activity at that Home Depot.
The weeklong tally of immigrant arrests in the LA area climbed above 100, federal authorities said. Many more were arrested while protesting, including a prominent union leader who was accused of impeding law enforcement.
The protests did not reach the size of past demonstrations that brought the National Guard to Los Angeles, including the Watts and Rodney King riots, and the 2020 protests against police violence, in which Newsom requested the assistance of federal troops.
The last time the National Guard was activated without a governor’s permission was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to protect a civil rights march in Alabama, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
Trump says there will be ‘very strong law and order’
In a directive Saturday, Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is “a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”
He said he had authorized the deployment of 2,000 members of the National Guard.
Trump told reporters as he prepared to board Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey, Sunday that there were “violent people” in Los Angeles “and they’re not gonna get away with it.”
Asked if he planned to send U.S. troops to Los Angeles, Trump replied: “We’re gonna have troops everywhere. We’re not going to let this happen to our country.” He didn’t elaborate.
About 500 Marines stationed at Twentynine Palms, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) east of Los Angeles were in a “prepared to deploy status” Sunday afternoon, according to the U.S. Northern Command.
Offenhartz reported from New York. Associated Press writer Michelle Price contributed to this report from Bridgewater, New Jersey.
