A Look at the Crackdown On the L.A. Protests

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By Livia Albeck-Ripka, Gabriel Blanco, Christina Shaman and Nikolay NikolovJune 10, 2025

Livia Albeck-Ripka, a New York Times reporter based in Los Angeles, describes how she was one of the reporters struck by crowd control munitions. Experts say that some aggressive measures used by the authorities in the Los Angeles protests have violated their own policies, federal policies and injunctions put into place after the George Floyd protests.

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