Tensions are escalating in Los Angeles as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement grip the city, with demonstrators clashing with law enforcement and setting vehicles on fire downtown. President Donald Trump deployed 2,

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.

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

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would challenge the legality of President Donald Trump’s National Guard deployment, as protesters clashed with police in downtown Los Angeles.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and other leading California Democrats criticized President Trump’s deployment of National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, calling it an unnecessary provocation.

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

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.

Federal immigration authorities arrested 44 people Friday across Los Angeles, prompting clashes outside at least one location as law enforcement threw flash bangs to try to disperse a crowd that had gathered to protest the detentions.