Peaceful demonstrations in downtown LA escalate to violent confrontation with police using tear gas as protesters throw objects, prompting warnings from LAPD and Homeland Security.

It's been five days since anti-ICE demonstrations erupted in Los Angeles, some turning violent between protesters and law enforcement officers, prompting President Trump to deploy National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines.

Democrats were walking a line between criticizing the White House for sending troops to put down protests in L.A. and the violence that Trump says caused him to act.

LA residents who surveyed the damage after the protests on June 8 were disillusioned by what unfolded in their city and feared what might come next.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Los Angeles and throughout the Southland Saturday to protest the policies of the Trump administration in the nationwide “No Kings Day of Defiance” demonstrations.

Don’t think that somehow because they called out the National Guard there was violence. There was no violence. I was on the street, I know.”

Despite the curfew, people are still coming to downtown LA to participate in immigration protests. Local residents are living with around-the-clock law enforcement and experiencing vandalism.

While the president contends that the L.A. protests against his immigration policy have been chaotic, the scenes are not as violent.