Los Angeles Declares Local Emergency and Imposes Nighttime Curfew on Downtown

On June 10, 2025, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, Mayor Karen Bass declared a local emergency and imposed a nighttime curfew on about one square mile of downtown Los Angeles, seeking to stop vandalism and looting during days of protests over federal immigration enforcement. The curfew took effect at 8 p.m. that evening and ran until 6 a.m. the next morning.

At a news conference that day, Bass said she had declared a local emergency and issued a curfew for downtown Los Angeles to stop the vandalism and the looting. She said 23 downtown businesses had been looted on the night of June 9 alone. She said people who did not live or work in downtown should avoid the area, that anyone who broke the curfew would be arrested and prosecuted, and that the curfew was expected to last for several days.

The curfew area was bounded by the 5, 10 and 110 freeways. The Los Angeles Police Department said the curfew did not apply to residents of the designated area, people experiencing homelessness, credentialed media, or public safety and emergency personnel, and that people traveling to and from work were also exempt.

After the curfew took effect at 8 p.m., large crowds remained in downtown near Temple Street and Los Angeles Street, law enforcement responded, and the majority of the crowd left the area. In its running summary, the LAPD reported 203 arrests for failure to disperse on the night of June 10, 17 arrests for curfew violations and three arrests for possession of a firearm, with two officers injured and treated and numerous less-lethal munitions used during crowd control.

The protests had begun on June 7 over federal immigration enforcement operations in the Los Angeles area. During the same episode, the federal government ordered the California National Guard into federal service and deployed troops toward Los Angeles, and California sued over that order. The curfew was the city's own public-order measure within the same events.

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(Source: Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles)

Source: Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles

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