LOS ANGELES — Downtown Los Angeles bustled Wednesday with dog-walkers and commuters touting coffee cups, returning to business as usual after the first night of curfew meant to tamp down tensions following days of protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
There were no signs of the 700 Marines the president deployed to the city. Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, who heads the task force overseeing Trump’s deployment of the Marines and roughly 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, said the Marines were still undergoing civil disobedience training at a Navy facility in Orange County. He wouldn’t speculate as to when they might join the Guard members protecting federal buildings and immigration agents making arrests in Los Angeles.
More than 20 people were arrested for curf