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After brief clashes, the Police dispersed the people who demonstrated alongside the mob of Congress Dozens of protesters gathered in Downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday. Photo: Jorge Macías / Impremedia
By: EFE 19 from January 2021
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) dispersed a small protest by far-right supporters of President Donald Trump on Wednesday , who had gathered in the center of the Californian city.
Local media such as the Los Angeles Times pointed out that this demonstration of extremists began early in the morning and developed practically at the same time as the assault on the Capitol f ederal in Washington DC that shocked the country and the whole world.
In Los Angeles, about two hundred followers Trump radicals demonstrated in the vicinity of the city hall and the police headquarters.
Trump thugs in DTLA pic.twitter.com/I0FgVtgcA9
– Mexican Rug Dealer (@DealinRugs) January 7, 2021
As in other similar mobilizations in favor of Trump, the Protesters carried American flags and denounced that there was fraud in the November presidential elections, although no evidence has been provided to prove it.
The agents dispersed this concentration shortly after noon after declaring the demonstration illegal , and arrested some people after minor clashes between far-rightists and anti-fascists.
Today in LA, white suprema cists at the “Stop The Steal” rally attacked a Black woman.
The woman was walking home when 19 people surrounded her, demanding to know who she voted for.
They shoved her, pepper-sprayed her , and punched her in the face before our friends helped her. pic.twitter.com/4LvEd7XkbR
– Chad Loder (@chadloder) January 7, 2021
He Los Angeles Mayor, Democrat Eric Garcetti, assured that the assault on the Capitol in Washington represents “a black day for the United States.”
“ Assaults on the integrity of our elections and the security of our federal Capitol are wrong: they challenge our constitution, the core of our decency, and our common humanity “, he stated on Twitter.
Outside of Los Angeles, too There were other pro-Trump extremist protests today in different parts of California.
This is a dark day for America.
The assaults on the integrity of our elections and the safety of the US Capitol are wrong – defying our constitution, our core decency, and our common humanity.
– MayorOfLA (@MayorOfLA) January 6, 1200
For example, several hundred far-rightists gathered in the state capital, Sacramento, carrying signs such as “Stop the fraud,” according to The Sacramento Bee newspaper.
Sacramento Police noted on Twitter that arrested eleven people around the State Capitol for these protests , they pointed out that there were some clashes between prayers of Trump and counter-protesters, and clarified that already in the afternoon most of the people had dispersed.
Images and videos of small pro-Trump demonstrations in Beverly Hills, one of the richest areas of Los Angeles County, and also in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach, in Los Angeles County, were also seen on social media today. Orange, an area of great Republican tradition in the majority Democratic state of California.
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