PODCAST: Paid Insurrectionists are Behind the LA Riots

“Paid insurrectionists” are behind the rioting in Los Angeles, Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday as another day of violence prompted officials to make it illegal to enter the city centre at night. The U.S. president alleged that well-equipped “agitators” had been paid to cause chaos in the country’s second-biggest city, although he did not specify who was funding them or why.

He added that the 2,000 National Guard members and 700 U.S. marines he had deployed to Los Angeles would remain in place until he decided it was safe.

Mr Trump’s intervention came on the fourth day of protests sparked by immigration raids, during which cars have been set alight and properties vandalised in downtown LA. Demonstrators — and journalists lawfully covering the protests — have been tear-gassed and shot by police with rubber bullets.

Violence and looting has has become such a concern that on Tuesday night Karen Bass, the mayor, announced that people would be banned from the city centre from 8pm until 6am local time. Ms Bass said that an emergency had been declared and that a curfew was necessary to protect locals and businesses.

“Last night, there were 23 businesses that were looted and I think if you drive through down-town LA, the graffiti is everywhere and has caused significant damages to businesses and a number of properties,” she said. “These are paid insurrectionists. These are paid troublemakers. They’re agitators. They’re paid,” Mr Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Do you think somebody walks up to a kerb and starts hammering pieces out, has all the equipment necessary and starts handing it out to people to use as a weapon? These are paid insurrectionists or agitators or troublemakers.”

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