LOS ANGELES: This isn’t the image Los Angeles wanted projected around the globe. Clouds of tear gas wafting over a throng of protesters on a blocked freeway. Federal immigration agents in tactical garb raiding businesses in search of immigrants without legal status. A messy war of words between President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom. Photos captured several Waymo robotaxis set on fire and graffiti scrawled on a federal detention center building, while videos recorded the sounds of rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades hitting crowds.

Protesters gathered after immigration agents took dozens of people into custody during raids across Los Angeles.

As federal agents carried out more workplace raids, they squared off with protesters, using what appeared to be tear gas and flash-bang grenades.