LOS ANGELES, CA — For the second consecutive night, protesters clashed with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department during a demonstration against immigration detentions in downtown Los Angeles, and this time at least one person was injured and four people were arrested.
The trouble took place outside the federal Metropolitan Detention Center on Alameda Street near Aliso Street.
“Late in the evening and into the morning hours, Central Division officers were called to the area (of) Alameda south of Aliso due to federal officers requesting assistance due to protesters trespassing, obstructing and becoming violent,” an LAPD news release said. “When Central officers arrived, they were confronted by a large group of people in the middle of Alameda.”
As officers responded, they “were met with one individual swinging a 6-foot rope with metal bolts on the end of it hitting officers.”
Others in the crowd did not disperse as ordered and resisted efforts to remove them, according to the LAPD.
One person was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, two were arrested on suspicion of resisting or obstructing officers and one was collared on suspicion of battery for allegedly spitting on or at officers, police said.
Shortly after the protest was dispersed around 12:30 a..m. Friday, the LAPD requested an ambulance to respond to the Metropolitan Detention Center for an injured party, according to reports from the scene.
Video from ABC7 showed protesters following a Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance, taking photographs and chanting slogans as the ambulance drove away. The ambulance was escorted by a Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service vehicle.
The condition of the injured person was not available.
The clashes occurred in the same area as the night before, when a federal officer was attacked by a man wearing dark clothes and a mask, but it did not appear the agent was seriously injured as no ambulance was requested, an LAPD spokeswoman said.
Officers formed a skirmish line and took a female suspected of assault with a deadly weapon into custody, according to police.
City News Service