Mayor Karen Bass said Sunday that Los Angeles does not need National Guard troops to bolster city police amid protests against raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, despite violent incidents.

On Monday 9 June, the American president expressed his satisfaction: deploying National Guard troops in Los Angeles was, in his view, was an “excellent decision.”

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