Attorney General Pam Bondi said people who loot or assault law enforcement will be subject to arrest after the Trump administration called in troops to Los Angeles against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) wishes.“President Trump is going to make America safe again. We’re going to protect Americans, and that includes Californians. If Gavin Newsom isn’t going to protect them, we are,” Bondi told Lawrence Jones III on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday.“If you loot a business in California during this, we’re charging you with robbery under the Hobbs Act,” Bondi warned. “No longer are the days of non-prosecution for looting. It’s a criminal act. You’ve seen on the news, all these stores being burglarized, vandalized.”“All of our police officers, all of our federal, state, local law enforcement officers, being abused out there trying to keep California safe. Jointly, we’ve all made over 190 arrests, more coming. If you hit a police officer, if you assault a police officer, state or federal, we are coming after you,” Bondi continued.Bondi joins the litany of Republicans, including President Donald Trump, painting a picture of a lawless Los Angeles where “riots” are underway and “insurrectionists” are taking over, inviting immediate comparisons to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that aimed to overturn the results of the 2020 election.The demonstrations in Los Angeles, which are largely peaceful, popped up as a result of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids across California. Trump signed an order authorizing at least 2,000 National Guard troops to be sent to Los Angeles, despite Newsom’s opposition, on Saturday. Then the Pentagon deployed an additional 2,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines.Since the start of the protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has arrested 385 people, USA Today reported on Wednesday. Moreover, ICE agents have detained 330 immigrants in Los Angeles so far, White House officials said. Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday that is set to continue for an unspecified amount of time. Newsom struck back at the Trump administration on Monday by filing a lawsuit over Trump’s commandeering of the state’s National Guard troops. The following day, he filed a motion seeking an emergency order to stop the Trump administration’s “unlawful militarization of Los Angeles.”Bass and Newsom have said that the federal government’s actions are escalating tensions and testing how far this administration can take authoritarianism. “This was provoked by the White House. The reason why? We don’t know,” Bass said at a press conference on Wednesday. “I posit that maybe we are part of a national experiment to determine how far the federal government can go in reaching in and taking over power from a governor, power from a local jurisdiction.”She also claimed the Trump administration’s actions show it is deliberately “trying to cause fear and panic.”In an urgent address on Tuesday evening, Newsom said the issue is bigger than Los Angeles. “When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard, he made that order apply to every state. This is about all of us. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here,” he said.Newsom called Trump “a president who wants to be bound by no law or constitution.”“Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves,” Newsom continued. “But they do not stop there. Trump and his loyalists, they thrive on division because it allows them to take more power and exert even more control.”