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LAPD arrests more than 150 people during immigration protests Saturday through Monday
A protester confronts a line of U.S. National Guard in the metropolitan detention center of downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.
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The Los Angeles Police Department says it arrested 113 people in connection to the protests in downtown L.A. on Monday. Another 50 people were arrested in connection with protests over the weekend, police said.
The weekend breakdown: LAPD officials said in a press release today that 29 of those arrests happened Saturday and 21 on Sunday. There were no protest-related arrests made by LAPD on Friday, according to LAPD Officer David Cuellar. He added that most of the arrests took place in downtown L.A. Charges against those who were arrested ranged from failure to disperse, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and attempted murder with a molotov cocktail, Cuellar told LAist.
Other weekend arrests: The California Highway Patrol made 19 arrests in connection with weekend protests, and the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department arrested five people, according to spokespeople for the respective agencies.
The Monday breakdown: The LAPD said 96 people on Monday in downtown L.A. for failing to disperse as protests over immigration raids turned confrontational. Police said another person was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, another on suspicion of resisting arrest and another for alleged vandalism. Additionally, 14 people were arrested in connection with the looting of several businesses, according to the LAPD.
Vitus Larrieu contributed reporting.
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