As Republicans have pushed for mask bans to crack down on shadowy protesters and criminals, a pair of Democratic lawmakers in California want to prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing face

A lawsuit claims LAPD officers violated press rights by violently confronting journalists during anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles.

Edwin Osvaldo Manriquez is accused of dispersing multiple paintball rounds at a helmeted officer who was struck on the head, an FBI affidavit states.

Organizers said demonstrations were arranged to reject authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics and the militarization of the country’s democracy.

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Expense reports show the California Democratic Party purchased 200 pallets of bricks in May 2025 to supply protesters during civil unrest in Los Angeles.

Across the country, an estimated 5 million protesters took part in more than 2,000 protests, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, a co-sponsor of the nationwide protest. In the Bay Area, more than 50 protests were planned stretching south from Gilroy north to Santa Rosa.

The Los Angeles Police Department has declared all of downtown as an unlawful assembly, telling all demonstrators to leave the area immediately. "Downtown Los Angeles has been declared as an UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY. You are to leave the Downtown Area immediately," police said on X.