LA protests live updates: Waymo self-driving cars are torched across the city as company is urged to shut down app

A helicopter swarming overhead the Metropolitan Detention Center has warned rioters: ‘This is an unlawful assembly.’

The Los Angeles Police Department reiterated that message on social media, and announced the department has authorized the ‘use of less lethal munitions.’

‘All persons must leave the area or be subject to arrest,’ the LAPD Central Division wrote on X.

‘Persons throwing items at officrs will be detained and arrested.’

The Los Angeles Police Department is reportedly calling on Waymo to shut down its app in the city.

Officers are saying people are calling for a car just to set them on fire.

Protesters who have set Waymo self-driving taxis on fire have shut down roads, the Los Angeles Police Department announced.

It said Los Angeles St north of Arcadia is ‘closed indefinitely due to demonstrators igniting multiple autonomous vehicles on fire.’

Signs reading ‘Abolish ICE’ and ‘Immigrants are the heart of LA’ at the Los Angeles Football Club game

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino offered a stern warning to protesters Sunday evening, writing: ‘We will be investigating and pursuing all available leads for assault on a federal officer, in addition to the many arrests already made.

‘And, although we’ll pursue every case, we don’t need to catch every single perp, we just need to catch you.’

He then announced that the bureau is using all investigative and technological tools to pursue perps even after order is ‘firmly established.’

‘We will not forget. Even after you try to.’

Protesters have taken aim at Waymo self-driving taxis during their riots, setting them on fire and spraying them with graffiti.

Videos posted online showed at least four of the vehicles burning Sunday night.

The feds have put at least one protester on the Most Wanted List, they announced Sunday night.

Authorities say the unidentified suspect threw rocks at law enforcement vehicles during the protests in Paramount on Saturday, injuring one federal officer and damaging vehicles.

The bureau is now offering $50,000 for any information that leads to his arrest.

California Highway Patrol has announced that Highway 101 is reopen.

It had been closed since the afternoon, when at least 2,000 protesters they commandeered both sides of the road, grinding traffic to a complete halt.

At a news conference Sunday night, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she had tried to warn the Trump administration that if it deployed the National Guard ‘it would create a sense of chaos.’

‘It’s the last thing our city needs,’ she said, claiming that ‘what we’re seeing in L.A. is chaos caused by the administration.’

Video posted online shows a Waymo self-driving car burning, and a protester carrying a Mexican flag jumping on its hood.

A man at the scene of the Los Angeles riots was shot ‘right in the middle of his nose bridge’ by a less-lethal police projectile, a witness told NBC News.

The man was reportedly left with a four-inch laceration that went as deep as the bone.

‘It had to have been targeted because, as you can see, every single canister has been deliberately shot into the air,’ Dario DeLeon told the station. ‘That was the first one that actually was aimed at us, and it hit him right in the face.”

DeLeon said that he didn’t see the shot being fired but that he saw the recoil and the man hitting the ground. He said it took a water bottle and the help of some other people to get the man back to his feet, all while police were shooting more rounds at the crowd.

The man was gushing blood, DeLeon said, which left him with blood all over his hands and his pants from helping out.

There are 500 United States Marines on ‘prepared to deploy status’ to the scene of the Los Angeles protests under the order of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, ABC News reports.

California Gov. Newsom has previously called the threat of Marines at the scene ‘deranged behavior,’ which Hegseth responded to on Sunday morning.

‘Deranged=Allowing your city to burn & law enforcement to be attacked,’ he wrote, adding: ‘The National Guard, and Marines if need be, stand with ICE.’

More than 20 Democratic governors have signed onto a statement declaring that President Trump has abused his power in calling the National Guard to the scene of the LA riots.

They also said his threat to send US Marines into the city ‘undermines the mission of our service members, erodes public trust and shows the Trump administration does not trust local law enforcement.

‘It’s important we respect the executive authority of our country’s governors to manage their National Guards — and we stand with Gov. Newsom who has made it clear that violence is unacceptable and that local authorities should be able to do their jobs without the chaos of this federal interference and intimidation.’

Two police officers were injured when two motorcyclists tried to breach a skirmish line, the LAPD announced.

The officers are now being treated at the scene, and the two motorcyclists were taken into custody.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has released her own statement condemning the president for deploying the National Guard, which she called a ‘dangerous escalation.’

‘In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division,’ she wrote.

The one-time Democratic presidential nominee then went on to express her support for the protests – which she called ‘overwhelmingly peaceful.’

Newsom – who has been sniping with Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth all weekend – is attempting to wrangle back control in a formal request to Hegseth sent Sunday.

‘This is a serious breach of state sovereignty – inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed,’ Newsom said in a statement to X, calling the deployment ‘unlawful.’

‘Rescind the order. Return control to California.’

He also outrageously claimed that the state ‘didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved.’

President Donald Trump has vowed to restore order and ‘liberate Los Angeles‘ from illegal aliens which have ‘invaded and occupied a once great American city.’

A combined effort led by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi will restore order, Trump said.

He has directed his key personnel to ‘to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the migrant Invasion, and put an end to these migrant riots.

‘Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday afternoon.

Los Angeles is under siege as rioters seize control of the 101 Freeway and ramp up violent clashes with the National Guard, LAPD and immigration officials in response to President Trump’s efforts to track down and arrest illegal migrants.

Authorities revealed Sunday afternoon that rioters had shut down the 101 Freeway both southbound and northbound after they stormed the road en masse.

Extraordinary photos shows at least 2,000 protesters as they commandeered both sides of the road, grinding traffic to a complete halt as they march down the streets waving flags and holding signs high above their heads.

Motorists stuck on the unmoving freeway are being instructed to turn around in an effort to clear the traffic, as even more rioters gather on overpasses and ramps.