Protests erupted in L.A. after federal immigration raids, prompting Trump to deploy National Guard troops and sparking clashes with police.

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said on Monday that the Trump administration and its immigration raids were to blame for inflaming tensions in the city. In a televised interview, Ms. Bass sought to downplay the protests of the last few days. “This is not citywide civil unrest,” she said on CNN. “A few streets downtown, it looks horrible.”

Lauren Tomasi, a 9News correspondent, was reporting live when an officer behind her suddenly raised their firearm and fired a nonlethal round at close range.

The Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California, canceled a longstanding contract to house federal immigration detainees at a local police department facility, citing rising public controversy over the arrangement.

An Australian television journalist was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet Sunday while reporting live from downtown Los Angeles on the large-scale protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and subsequent deployment of California National Guard troops to the city.

Federal immigration authorities said some of the migrants arrested in Los Angeles last week had criminal histories that included assault and drug offenses.

President Trump ordered deployment of 2,000 guard members over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said Trump wanted to create a "spectacle."

We reported earlier that protesters had brought traffic to a standstill on the 101 freeway, a major route in downtown Los Angeles. Now police are confirming that they have dispersed the demonstrators and the road has reopened.