Mayor Eric Garcetti said he asked Gov. Gavin Newsom for 500 to 700 members of the Guard.
The Los Angeles mayor asked for the National Guard to be sent in to the nation's second-largest city as protesters torched police cars and vandalized and burglarized stores while clashing with lines of officers.A few hundred chanting demonstrators marched through San Francisco while northeast of San Diego police fired tear gas to try to break up a large group that defied orders to leave the La Mesa police headquarters.
Garcetti initially imposed a curfew on the downtown area, where hours of clashes occurred Friday night. But he quickly expanded it to the entirety of the nation's second-largest city as the violence focused on an area about 6 miles to the west.Adjacent Beverly Hills and West Hollywood followed as demonstrations spread into those cities. Other cities in the county also began imposing curfews.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said authorities were closely monitoring organizing by violent extremist groups who may be trying to use the protests for their own agendas. “Every effort must be taken to apprehend and prosecute those who use deadly violence,” she said. “People must have the right to peacefully and safely protest in Oakland and across the country.”
Police had items thrown at them. Six LAPD officers sustained injuries ranging from lacerations to impact wounds. In the San Francisco Bay Area, protests in Oakland and San Jose grew increasingly tense and confrontational as the night wore on. Small fires were set inside a Walgreens and a Mercedes-Benz dealership on Oakland’s auto row, where several cars were smashed and spray-painted with graffiti. City officials said more than 70 businesses were vandalized.
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