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Yeah, it's really intense here. And, Erin, I just we just all got pepper sprayed. And so I'm just still recovering from that. There's so much of the pepper spray still in the air and so, so many people around us coughing and gagging, including us. So, it's been a really interesting scene here. I've never seen this before in all of my years covering protests here in this area, here in downtown L.A.

On June 6, police fired 34 rounds at about 100 people. On June 8, police fired 1,040 projectiles at about 6,000 people, including 20 rounds of CS gas, a type of tear gas. Six injuries were reported as a result of those projectiles. There were 584 police officers responding that day, the department said. Protesters had blocked off a major freeway and set self-driving cars on fire.

As the Associated Press reports, Breyer's ruling finds that administration officials "willfully" violated the law, refusing to "meaningfully coordinate with state and local officials," and that they instructed troops to perform functions that were specifically barred in their own training materials.

Drones have been used to support law enforcement in LA protests, but CBP insists they're not surveilling First Amendment activities; it's for officer safety.

This is one of the rubber bullets that struck our producer here as we moved back into a safer location.

Claudia Sheinbaum came out and encouraged more protests in LA, and I condemn her for that, Noem said.

Gavin Newsom accuses Trump of lying about their call regarding the National Guard, stating the topic was never discussed despite Trump's claims.