LA protests live updates: LAPD authorizes use of ‘less lethal munitions’ as Highway 101 is blocked

A helicopter swarming overhead the Metropolitan Detention Center has warned rioters: ‘This is an unlawful assembly.’

The Los Angeles Police Department reiterated that message on social media, and announced the department has authorized the ‘use of less lethal munitions.’

‘All persons must leave the area or be subject to arrest,’ the LAPD Central Division wrote on X.

‘Persons throwing items at officrs will be detained and arrested.’

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has released her own statement condemning the president for deploying the National Guard, which she called a ‘dangerous escalation.’

‘In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division,’ she wrote.

The one-time Democratic presidential nominee then went on to express her support for the protests – which she called ‘overwhelmingly peaceful.’

Newsom – who has been sniping with Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth all weekend – is attempting to wrangle back control in a formal request to Hegseth sent Sunday.

‘This is a serious breach of state sovereignty – inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed,’ Newsom said in a statement to X, calling the deployment ‘unlawful.’

‘Rescind the order. Return control to California.’

He also outrageously claimed that the state ‘didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved.’

President Donald Trump has vowed to restore order and ‘liberate Los Angeles‘ from illegal aliens which have ‘invaded and occupied a once great American city.’

A combined effort led by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi will restore order, Trump said.

He has directed his key personnel to ‘to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the migrant Invasion, and put an end to these migrant riots.

‘Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday afternoon.

Los Angeles is under siege as rioters seize control of the 101 Freeway and ramp up violent clashes with the National Guard, LAPD and immigration officials in response to President Trump’s efforts to track down and arrest illegal migrants.

Authorities revealed Sunday afternoon that rioters had shut down the 101 Freeway both southbound and northbound after they stormed the road en masse.

Extraordinary photos shows at least 2,000 protesters as they commandeered both sides of the road, grinding traffic to a complete halt as they march down the streets waving flags and holding signs high above their heads.

Motorists stuck on the unmoving freeway are being instructed to turn around in an effort to clear the traffic, as even more rioters gather on overpasses and ramps.