Looting and vandalism has scarred the heart of America’s second biggest city as largely peaceful protests over immigration arrests turned ugly after dark.
One square mile (2.5 square kilometers) of the city’s more-than-500 square mile area will be off-limits until 6am (1300 GMT) for everyone apart from residents, journalists and emergency services, she added.
“I think that obviously they’re doing it for safety,“ she said of the curfew.
Small-scale and largely peaceful protests -- marred by eye-catching acts of violence -- began Friday in Los Angeles as anger swelled over ramped up arrests by immigration authorities.
Overnight Monday 23 businesses were looted, police said, adding that more than 500 people had been arrested over recent days.
‘Provide protection’
A military spokeswoman said the soldiers were expected to be on the streets later Tuesday or some time on Wednesday.
Demonstrators told AFP the soldiers “should be respected” because they hadn’t chosen to be in LA, but Lisa Orman blasted it as “ridiculous.”
“It was 100 times bigger. So the idea that the Marines here, it’s a big show. The president wants a big show.”
Photographs issued by the Marine Corps showed men in combat fatigues using riot shields to practice crowd control techniques at the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach.
Two dozen miles (40 kilometers) north, the sprawling city of Los Angeles spent the day much as it usually does: tourists thronged Hollywood Boulevard, tens of thousands of children went to school and commuter traffic choked the streets.
“What you’re witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order and national sovereignty,“ he told troops at Fort Bragg.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who has clashed with the president before, said Trump’s shock militarization of the city was the behavior of “a tyrant, not a president.”
In a live-streamed address, Newsom called Trump a “president who wants to be bound by no law or constitution, perpetuating a unified assault on American tradition.
In a filing to the US District Court in Northern California, Newsom asked for an injunction preventing the use of troops for policing.
Trump’s use of the military is an “incredibly rare” move for a US president, Rachel VanLandingham, a professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles and a former US Air Force lieutenant colonel, told AFP.
Trump “is trying to use emergency declarations to justify bringing in first the National Guard and then mobilizing Marines,“ said law professor Frank Bowman of the University of Missouri.
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