LOS ANGELES − Police on Monday were urging businesses and residents to report any "vandalism, damage or looting" for documentation after protests against Trump administration policies deteriorated into destructive clashes between officers and protesters.

Authorities declared several of the demonstrations Sunday "unlawful assemblies," sweeping in with flash-bangs and tear gas grenades to disperse hundreds of protesters. Some vehicles were set ablaze , protesters blocked the 101 Freeway, and a group of them converged on an overpass and threw objects down at police, video footage showed.

Police in riot gear were joined by hundreds of California National Guard troops ordered into action by President Donald Trump. Gov. Gavin Newsom asked Trump to withdraw the Guard and said the state woul

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