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Los An­ge­les po­lice swift­ly en­forced a down­town cur­few Tues­day night, mak­ing ar­rests mo­ments af­ter it took ef­fect, while de­ploy­ing of­fi­cers on horse­back and us­ing crowd con­trol pro­jec­tiles to break up a group of hun­dreds demon­strat­ing against Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s im­mi­gra­tion crack­down.

Mem­bers of the Na­tion­al Guard stood watch be­hind plas­tic shields, but did not ap­pear to par­tic­i­pate in the ar­rests.

Hours lat­er, many of the pro­test­ers had dis­persed, al­though spo­radic con­fronta­tions con­tin­ued that were much small­er than in pre­vi­ous nights. Of­fi­cials said the cur­few was nec­es­sary to stop van­dal­ism and theft by ag­i­ta­tors look­ing to cause trou­ble.