The president is escalating the situation to justify greater force and repression. Now he’s talking about sending ‘troops everywhere’

White House says the US president is deploying 2,000 guardsmen as protests against immigration raids continue.

The National Guard deployment will delight supporters of his hardline stance on law and order, but opponents say its inflammatory

President Trump has long mused about using troops to crush violent protests or riots in blue-state cities. He is now moving to do so in Los Angeles.

The president vowed to crush opposition to his immigration raids – but his attempted show of force may have awoken something else

The Guardian’s US live news editor in London, Chris Michael, on the president’s shock decision and what could happen next

At least 300 National Guard troops have been deployed to Los Angeles, and the president has not ruled out whether he will invoke the Insurrection Act.

Update comes as California mounts lawsuit against Trump sending US National Guard to respond to immigration protests.

The president is escalating the situation to justify greater force and repression. Now he’s talking about sending ‘troops everywhere’

As a pretext to sending in the national guard, the White House marked the Ice protests as a broader threat to the US

US President Donald Trump claims troops prevented LA from burning during protests, sparking outrage among Democrats and California Governor Gavin Newsom branding Trump…

If you want to radicalize a population, there is no faster way than to use disproportionate force against civilians.

President Donald Trump refused to rule out invoking the Insurrection Act in Los Angeles as he tore into 'bad people' and 'animals' he said brought the city to the verge of burning…

What Trump is doing in Los Angeles is a warning for the rest of the nation.

President Trump defends deploying military on Los Angeles protesters, denouncing them as "animals" and "foreign enemy" in aggressive speech.

Six Americans tell the BBC that there's clearly a problem in Los Angeles - they just don't agree with who's at fault.

US president touts intervention in cities like Los Angeles while preparing for a massive show of force in the capital.

In its first months in office, the Trump administration enacted what could be called soft authoritarianism. Now we are in a second phase

The president had been waiting for this made-for-TV clash that allows the administration to ‘manufacture’ a crisis

Troops are trained for war, where they can shoot to kill. Asking troops to police is an invitation to brutality

The Trump administration maintains it took over California's National Guard to restore order, and protect ICE officers.