A 17 -year -old boy is in critical condition after being stabbed on Friday during a demonstration against the immigration and expulsion policies of President Trump near the Los Angeles City Hall, the authorities announced.
The Los Angeles police department received a report around 1:35 p.m. from a male victim stabbed at 200 N. Spring St. after a fight broke out during the demonstration, according to a spokesperson for the department. The victim was taken to the hospital and a dispersion order was issued during the demonstration, police said.
A LAPD spokesperson said a few people had been detained as part of the incident. At 2:12 p.m., the LAPD announced that the demonstration had been authorized on Spring Street in the Town Hall.
The public is invited to avoid the area, because Spring Street is closed from Temple Street to First Street while investigators collect evidence and seek witnesses, according to the LAPD.
The demonstration moved to the 6th street viaduct and blocked the traffic lanes in the west direction around 2:30 p.m., which caused a temporary closure of the bridge, according to the LAPD. At 2:50 p.m., the LAPD said that the demonstrators were walking east on the bridge and that it had to reopen soon.
The rally on Friday was the sixth consecutive day of protests against the repression of Trump immigration in downtown during the week, hundreds of high school students left the lessons to join the demonstrations.
Trump promised to carry out the greatest effort to expulsion in the history of the United States and declared a national emergency at the southern border, in deployment of troops.
He issued decrees limiting legal paths to enter the United States, strengthening efforts to seal the American-Mexican border and promote scales to collect and expel people who are not allowed to be in the country. Certain orders were disputed in court.
There are about 11 to 15 million immigrants without documentation in the United States, including more than 2 million in California.
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