Los Angeles protests live: LAPD calls for protestors to disperse as Trump says ‘bring in the troops’

Police fire rubber bullets and teargas while protesters block a major freeway and set self-driving cars on fire

California governor, Gavin Newsom, on Sunday evening formally requested the Trump administration rescind the deployment of national guards troops in Los Angeles.

In a letter to the US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, Newsom called the deployment unlawful, and asked for the troops to be put back under the state’s command.

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