FBI Director Kash Patel issued an ominous threat to the city and its residents late Sunday night, claiming that his agency would intervene in the multi-day, anti-Trump display without explicit direction.

As President Trump deployed National Guard troops, large groups of protesters in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend decried immigration raids, shutting down a freeway and clashing with law enforcement.

Protestors in over a dozen cities are set to demonstrate their solidarity with those arrested by federal agents in California over the weekend.

President Donald Trump ordered thousands of troops after large protests in LA targeted the administration's crackdown on immigration enforcement

The ban has been strongly condemned as discriminatory by groups that provide aid and resettlement to refugees, who say it will prevent many people from reuniting with family and jeopardize the safety of those fleeing conflict and persecution in countries such as Afghanistan.

In one episode in downtown Los Angeles, an Australian television journalist was struck when an officer fired a nonlethal projectile while she was on the air.

California officials have continued to maintain the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members is "unnecessary".

Lauren Tomasi, a 9News correspondent, was reporting live when an officer behind her suddenly raised their firearm and fired a nonlethal round at close range.

The company said it doesn't think the vehicles were intentionally targeted, but that it had paused rides in downtown LA.