California officials have continued to maintain the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members is "unnecessary".

Lauren Tomasi, a 9News correspondent, was reporting live when an officer behind her suddenly raised their firearm and fired a nonlethal round at close range.

An Australian television journalist was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet Sunday while reporting live from downtown Los Angeles on the large-scale protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and subsequent deployment of California National Guard troops to the city.

Dozens of arrests have been made after three days of protests, with the National Guard now patrolling the city.

The Los Angeles Police Department declared all of downtown LA an unlawful assembly area Sunday night. State of play: That declaration followed a faceoff between protesters and National Guard members Sunday, a day after President Trump signed a memorandum deploying 2,000 Guard troops to address the protests.

The city acknowledged that the change could make it more difficult for some families to visit detained loved ones.

Protesters clashed with police on Friday evening outside a federal detention center in Los Angeles after U.S. immigration authorities arrested more than 40 people.

ICE officers and agents executed search warrants at three locations, according to a spokesperson for Homeland Security Investigations, but immigration advocates said they were aware of arrests at seven locations.