LA police announce hundreds of arrests as Bass’s curfew puts damper on rioters 

The Los Angeles Police Department arrested hundreds after the city’s mayor instituted measures seeking to quell violence in the metropolis. 

After 23 businesses were vandalized Monday evening, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew on Tuesday, set to take effect that evening. The curfew was instituted from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. across most of downtown Los Angeles, including all or parts of the Civic Center, Historic Core, Little Tokyo, and Chinatown. Bass said it was necessary to curb the actions of “bad actors who do not support the immigrant community.”

The LAPD announced Wednesday morning that under the curfew’s implementation, police had arrested over 200 people for failure to disperse, 17 for curfew violation, three for possession of a firearm, one for assaulting an officer

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