Yesterday, for the third day in a row, anti-ICE demonstrations kicked off in Los Angeles . I spent the day documenting the protests as they moved around Downtown, from the Metropolitan Detention Center, to City Hall, to the 101 freeway. President Trump called in 2,000 National Guard troops to respond.

It’s hard to say definitively, since chaos was unfolding in a few different locations, but the law enforcement response to the protests I photographed felt excessive. On multiple occasions, I saw what appeared to be police opening fire directly into crowds with “less lethal” rounds in response to plastic water bottles being thrown at them. Videos are circulating of protesters being run over by horses and a journalist being shot with a rubber bullet. I narrowly missed being hit by rounds

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