Lauren Tomasi, a 9News correspondent, was reporting live when an officer behind her suddenly raised their firearm and fired a nonlethal round at close range.

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Police declared all of downtown Los Angeles to be an unlawful assembly area and ordered protesters to go home on Sunday night after a third day of violence hit demonstrations against President Donald Trump's immigration policy.

"This Administration's actions are not about public safety — they're about stoking fear,” the former vice president wrote on social media.

Protesters smashed the windows of multiple Waymo robot taxis and then set them on fire. The police warned of toxic fumes released by burning lithium-ion batteries.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the Trump administration to rescind the deployment, saying the federal government was moving to "take over the California National Guard," calling the move "purposefully inflammatory" and saying it will "only escalate tensions."

A mural featuring Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna was defaced days before anti-ICE riots gripped the city of Los Angeles over the weekend.

President Donald Trump has broken his silence on the ongoing anti-ICE raids in Los Angeles, saying he will use the federal government to crush the “RIOTERS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!”“If Governor Gavin Newscum,