The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday to consider extending a curfew covering a one-square-mile area of downtown that Mayor Karen Bass enacted in response to vandalism and looting during protests over immigration enforcement.
City Council members on Tuesday will discuss the mayor’s declaration and take potential steps to ratify and extend it.
Bass had said there was no “termination date” for the curfew during a Friday news conference. She reported that it was “making a difference” in curtailing criminal activity.
Protests erupted on June 6 after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began detaining migrants in the city. While most demonstrations have remained peaceful, police and city officials said that some gatherings turned destructive after dark, with looting and vandalism blamed on so-called “bad actors.”’
On the fifth day of protests, Bass declared a local emergency in downtown Los Angeles and imposed a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. On Monday, she adjusted the curfew, pushing the start time back to 10 p.m.
“We are hoping that if the cause of the turmoil ends, which is stopping the raids, then I can almost guarantee you that curfew will go away,” Bass previously said.
Immigration enforcement operations are expected to continue across Los Angeles County.
President Donald Trump issued some guidance on immigration enforcement to focus on Democrat-run cities, and scaling back operations at farms, hotels and restaurants.