Self-driving Waymo cars torched in LA riots, national guard deployed as protests rage on: 10 key updates

As tensions escalated in Los Angeles after immigration authorities clashed with protestors following the detention of individuals by federal immigration officials at various locations, several self-driving Waymo cars were set on fire, as per visuals that emerged online.

Here are 10 key updates from the three-day-long LA riots –

• Protests erupted in Los Angeles after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers executed search warrants at several locations on Friday, over allegations of an employer using fictitious documents for some of its employees, according to a report by CBS News.
• Protesters rushed around a federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Friday amid the rumours that detainees were reportedly held in the basement of that building, the report said.

• Tensions escalated in the LA County city of Paramount on Saturday over the news that federal law enforcement officers were carrying out another immigration operation.
• The Los Angeles Police Department started arresting people after labelling multiple protests as “unlawful” assemblies and permitting the use of “less lethal munitions," according to a report by CNN News.
• Protestors filled the streets, blocking near the original protest location at the Metropolitan Detention Centre, after the Los Angeles Police Department declared the assembly "unlawful."

• US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to safeguard federal staff and assets during protests, marking the first instance in which a president has activated the National Guard without a state’s request or approval since 1965.
• After the National Guard was deployed, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass mentioned that she communicated with border czar Tom Homan in an attempt to persuade President Donald Trump against sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles. Nevertheless, the troops were dispatched.

“I knew that the order had been given,” CNN quoted the mayor during a news conference. “I was trying to encourage, to prevent the deployment. Obviously, that did not work," she said.

• Earlier, California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke with Trump for about 40 minutes, according to the governor’s office. Trump has asserted, without providing evidence, that he felt the need to intervene as California Democratic officials were not able to manage the protests on their own, the report said.
• Amid the growing tensions, several demonstrators rushed downtown Los Angeles, close major freeways, and ignite self-driving cars on June 9, reported AP.
• The state is likely to file a lawsuit against Trump's deployment of National Guard soldiers. “I believe that we are likely going to see a lawsuit tomorrow recognising that he did not have the authority to call in the National Guard for 400 people protesting in a way that local law enforcement could clearly handle,” California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis told CNN on Sunday.