1️⃣ Police ordered the public to disperse from downtown Los Angeles after further unrest, with *cars torched and security forces firing tear gas at protesters* , in the wake of Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to America's second-biggest city. 🇺🇸 *Protests in Los Angeles* , home to a large Latino population, *broke out on June 6* , triggered by immigration raids that resulted in dozens of arrests of what authorities say are illegal migrants and gang members. 🪖 *Critics say the US president* -- who has made clamping down on illegal migration a key pillar of his second term -- *was deliberately stoking tensions with his deployment of California's National Guard* , a stand-by military usually controlled by the state governor.