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Po­lice ar­rest­ed more than 20 peo­ple, most­ly on cur­few vi­o­la­tions, on the first night of re­stric­tions in down­town Los An­ge­les and used crowd-con­trol pro­jec­tiles to break up hun­dreds of pro­test­ers demon­strat­ing against Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s im­mi­gra­tion crack­down, of­fi­cials said Wednes­day.

But there were few­er clash­es be­tween po­lice and demon­stra­tors than on pre­vi­ous nights, and by day­break the down­town streets were bustling with res­i­dents walk­ing dogs and com­muters clutch­ing cof­fee cups.

Of­fi­cials said the cur­few was nec­es­sary to stop van­dal­ism and theft by ag­i­ta­tors look­ing to cause trou­ble af­ter five days of protests, which have most­ly been con­cen­trat­ed down­town.