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When allegations of sexual assault against members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team were first investigated, player Michael McLeod volunteered to make a statement to London police.
It’s what he didn’t say to now-retired Det. Stephen Newton on Nov. 17, 2018, that the Crown says should concern Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia at the high-profile trial of five men who were teammates on the world championship team.
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His omission, Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham said, contradicts the heart of the defence argument that all the sex at the Delta Armouries hotel room on June 19, 2018, was the complainant’s idea.
“Mr. McLeod does not say that this was (the woman’s) idea. He does not say that she asked him to invite his teammates into the room for group sexual activity,” Cunningham said Wednesday as she began her closing argument, pointing to McLeod as the one who “set (the woman) up.”
“If this was something that had happened, I submit you can be confident he would have said that during this interview. There is no logical or plausible reason why he wouldn’t, if it was a true fact.”
Cunningham argued that the 27-year-old woman, whose identity is protected by a court order, “did not voluntarily agree to the charged sexual acts that took place in the room that night.
“The woman did not make an affirmative, voluntary choice to engage in sexual activity,” Cunningham said.
McLeod, 27, Alex Formenton, 25, Carter Hart, 26, Dillon Dube, 26, and Cal Foote, 26 – all members of the 2018 championship team who went on to professional careers – have pleaded not guilty to sexual assault. McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to a second sexual assault count for being a party to an offence.
The allegations stem from a boozy night in London while the team was in town for a Hockey Canada gala and golf tournament on June 18 and 19, 2018. The judge has heard that some of the team ended up at Jack’s bar on Richmond Row to drink and dance, and that’s where McLeod met the woman, who was 20 years old, and took her back to the Delta Armouries hotel for consensual sex.
It’s what happened in the hotel room that forms the basis of the charges. The woman claims that several members of the team – as many as 10 – came to Room 209 at McLeod’s invitation without her knowledge, and that she was sexually abused while naked on a bedsheet.
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She testified over several days and insisted she was extremely drunk when she went back to the hotel, and had disassociated her mind from her body to cope with what she described as a harrowing early morning with the men.
The defence and even two players who were called as Crown witnesses say the woman was the sexual aggressor, who masturbated in front of them, then begged and taunted them to have sex with her. The players with girlfriends refused, but there were some who took her up on her offer, all of which they say was consensual sex.
The trial began in late April. Julianna Greenspan, Hart’s defence lawyer, made the final of the five defence arguments Wednesday morning.
Cunningham is expected to continue her argument Thursday, but began Wednesday afternoon urging Carroccia to accept that the evidence shows McLeod “brought his teammates into the room for sexual activity with (the woman) without any belief that she was interested in that, and knowing, in fact, that she had not asked for that.”
Understanding that core fact, she said, will help the judge assess what happened that night and the evidence of the woman, which the defence has strenuously argued is not credible or reliable.
Cunningham pointed to a text exchange McLeod had with the woman on June 20, 2018, after he was told that police and Hockey Canada had been alerted to the activities in his hotel room. The court has heard that McLeod tracked the woman down through Instagram and arranged to text her.
McLeod asked her if she had gone to police. The woman replied that her mother had. McLeod wrote back, “You were having fun.”
The woman responded: “I was OK going home with you. It was everyone else afterwards that I wasn’t expecting. I just felt like I was being made fun of and taken advantage of.”
McLeod wrote back, “I understand that you are embarrassed about what happened,“ and then urged the woman to straighten things out with her mother and police because the mother “is misrepresenting” what happened.
Cunningham said McLeod didn’t express surprise or shock – or say, “What are you talking about? You asked me to invite them in.”
Carroccia interjected that McLeod did say it was “a serious matter” that was being misrepresented. Cunningham said she didn’t see that as a response but “an adoption by silence” of the woman’s claim that she “wasn’t expecting” the other men and was “really drunk.”
While the defence argued that the woman was the instigator, Cunningham said that there was no evidence – only suggestions during cross-examination. She pointed to the group text McLeod sent out to the team inviting them to “a 3-way, quick,” and how he pulled both Crown witnesses Boris Katchouk and Taylor Raddysh into the room and asked if they wanted oral sex.
Both Katchouk and Raddysh testified to seeing the woman in bed with the covers up to her neck. The only comment made by the woman, the court heard, was to Katchouk, who was briefly alone in the room with her and holding a piece of pizza. He testified she asked if she could have a bite.
Katchouk agreed that she was being “flirty” but Cunningham asked: “How do you ask for a bite of pizza flirtatiously?”
After the two men left, Cunningham said the woman went into the bathroom and was “shocked” to see more men in the room when she came out naked. “This is the moment . . . where she first begins to perceive that she is in a dangerous situation – a situation without a viable or safe means of escape,” and when the woman essentially went on “autopilot”, disassociating her mind from her body, Cunningham said.
She noted that the woman was steadfast during cross-examination in saying she didn’t think she would have stated or demanded that the players in the room have sex with her. And the evidence from Katchouk and Raddysh was that she did not offer them sex. So, logically, Cunningham argued, it doesn’t make sense she would offer sex to others after they left.
She said McLeod recruited the men to come to the room and some showed up looking for sex “even before they laid eyes on her, even without knowing her name.”
Earlier in the day, Greenspan called the 2022 revival of the Hockey Canada and London police investigations of the 2018 allegations “Tunnel Vision 101” because they both relied on a new narrative that anchored the woman’s $3.55-million civil action against Hockey Canada, the Canadian Hockey League and eight unnamed players from the team.
Hockey Canada quickly settled the lawsuit without the players’ knowledge and then “went on a bit of a rampage,” Greenspan said, to corroborate the woman’s allegations.
The same urgency came over London police in 2022 when it reopened its investigation that had been closed in 2019 because there weren’t grounds to lay charges.
“The police, just like the complainant and just like Hockey Canada, were focused on (the woman’s) truth, not the truth,” said Greenspan.
Hockey Canada’s investigation, she said, was “premised on coercion” with warnings to former players that if they didn’t cooperate, “they could be named and shamed.”
London police, she added, chose not to do further interviews with the complainant to limit the number of times she had to “relive the traumatic experience.”
The trial, Greenspan said, has been conducted while “the public and the press have been actively engaged at quite a high and, quite frankly, suffocating level,” pointing specifically to courthouse demonstrations she described as “active efforts to bully and intimidate.
“The most upsetting part of all of this is a glaring reality – that the concepts of the presumption of innocence and holding the state to this burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt have been, outside these walls of justice, forgotten,” she said.
Foote, Greenspan added, was fully clothed and did not touch the woman when he did the splits – his party trick – over her torso at his teammates’ request, and there was no evidence he saw McLeod’s text or went to the room looking for sex.
The evidence was that everyone, including the woman, was smiling and laughing, Greenspan said.
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A curfew is in place for a second night in Los Angeles after nearly a week of unrest in the city over US immigration raids.
Multiple people were arrested for violating the downtown curfew shortly after it came into effect at 20:00 local time on Wednesday (03:00 GMT on Thursday), the BBC's US partner CBS News reported.
Nearly 400 people have been arrested in LA since protests began on Friday, including 330 undocumented migrants and 157 people arrested for assault and obstruction – including one for the attempted murder of a police officer.
Federal prosecutors have so far charged two men for throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers in two separate incidents.
A total of 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines have been deployed to help quell the unrest. Some of those National Guard troops are now authorised to detain people until police can arrest them.
Hundreds of protesters marched to Los Angeles City Hall early in the evening before being dispersed by police.
As the curfew came into effect for a second night, LA Mayor Karen Bass wrote on X that the measure was designed to "stop bad actors who are taking advantage of the president's chaotic escalation".
She had earlier blamed the demonstrations on US President Donald Trump's immigration raids, which she said "provoked" residents by causing "fear" and "panic".
"A week ago, everything was peaceful," she told a news conference. "Things began to be difficult on Friday when raids took place."
Bass suggested Los Angeles was "part of a national experiment to determine how far the federal government can go in taking over power from a local government, from a local jurisdiction". She has called on the administration to end the raids.
Bass's curfew, ordered on Tuesday, affects a relatively small area of about one square mile in the second-largest city in the US. She said she wanted "to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting", as LA had reached a "tipping point".
Later on Tuesday evening, police said they made "mass arrests" after another day of protest over the immigration action.
In a series of statements, they said that those detained included 203 people arrested for failure to disperse, 17 for curfew violations, three for possession of a firearm, and one for assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.
Two officers were injured in the skirmishes, the statement added.
But, the following day, police chief Jim McDonnell stressed that the disorder had occurred in a limited area: "Some of the imagery of the protests and the violence gives the appearance as though this is a city-wide crisis, and it is not."
US Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters at the White House that the curfew had "helped a bit".
Elsewhere in LA, Trump's immigration raids have continued, with the assistance of the National Guard troops.
The National Guard and Marine forces deployed to Los Angeles do not have the authority to make arrests – only to detain protesters until police can arrest them.
"They are strictly used for the protection of the federal personnel as they conduct their operations and to protect them to allow them to do their federal mission," said Maj Gen Scott Sherman, who is leading the deployment.
Some 500 National Guard troops have already been trained to accompany agents on immigration raids and some troops have already temporarily detained people in LA protests, Sherman told US media outlets.
Trump's row with state officials has ramped up after his decision to deploy federal troops to LA. The president has vowed to "liberate" the city, but he has been accused by California Governor Gavin Newsom of an "assault" on democracy.
Other state officials, too, have insisted that local law enforcement has the situation under control.
But US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has backed Trump, telling a Senate hearing on Wednesday that sending the troops to Los Angeles was "lawful and constitutional".
The military deployment to the LA area will cost $134m (£99m), the Pentagon has said.
While addressing troops at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina earlier this week, Trump described the protests as a "full-blown assault on peace and public order".
The Republican president said he planned to use "every asset at our disposal to quell the violence".
He urged troops to boo the names of Newsom and Joe Biden, his presidential predecessor, during his speech.
In televised remarks of his own, Newsom – who is seen as a potential presidential contender himself – again criticised the president's rare deployment of the US military without a request from state officials. He called it a "brazen abuse of power".
"California may be first – but it clearly won't end here," he said. "Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault right before our eyes."
Trump has set a goal for border agents of at least 3,000 daily arrests as he seeks to ramp up mass deportations, a signature pledge of his re-election campaign.
Since assuming office, the president has drastically reduced illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border to historically low levels.
A CBS News/YouGov poll conducted in early June, before the protests kicked off, found 54% of Americans saying they approved of Trump's deportation policy, and 50% approved of how he was handling immigration.
That compares with smaller numbers of 42% who gave approval to his economic policy and 39% for his policy on tackling inflation.
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A suspected Indian government agent had Jagmeet Singh under close surveillance, prompting the RCMP to place the New Democratic Party leader in police protection 18 months ago, sources have told Global News.
The agent, who is allegedly tied to activities directed by the Indian government, had access to intimate knowledge of Singh’s daily routines, travel and family, according to the sources familiar with the matter.
He was also described by the sources as associated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, which the Indian government has been accused of using to commit violence in Canada.
Police notified Singh about a credible risk to his life in late 2023 and put tight security around him and his homes. Singh revealed during the 2025 federal election that he had been under police protection.
But no details of the investigation have been publicly disclosed until now, and Singh has said the RCMP never told him who was behind the threat, although “the implication was a foreign government.”
Police responded to the threat at the time and Singh is no longer considered to be in imminent danger. Singh lost his seat in the 2025 federal election and has stepped down as NDP leader.
The allegation that a suspected Indian agent was gathering information about the day-to-day movements of a federal party leader will likely raise new questions about foreign interference.
Singh did not respond to requests for comment through an intermediary. Global News is not identifying the multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation who spoke on condition they would not be named.
The Indian High Commission in Ottawa has not responded to questions about the allegations. The RCMP said it does not discuss “protective measures, nor confirm individuals who may be designated to receive protection.”
“The security environment in which public figures operate is constantly evolving, and the RCMP takes all threats against public officials seriously,” spokesperson Marie-Eve Breton said on Wednesday.
The reasons police became concerned about Singh’s safety a year-and-a-half ago have emerged as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Canada on the weekend.
With President Donald Trump in the White House, Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he wants to diversify Canada’s trading relationships and has invited Modi to the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta.
But the decision has faced criticism because New Delhi is still not cooperating with RCMP investigations into India’s suspected involvement in the 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, among other violent crimes.
“India has repeatedly violated Canada’s sovereignty, undermined our national security, and ignored all calls for accountability,” Danish Singh, president of the World Sikh Organization, said Thursday.
He called the suspected surveillance of the former NDP leader “appalling” and said inviting Modi to the G7 was “a betrayal of the Sikh community and of Canada’s core democratic values.”
RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme held a news conference last October to announce that investigators had found evidence linking “agents of the government of India to homicides and violent acts” across the country.
Police said India was collecting information on potential victims in Canada and using the Lawrence Bishnoi crime group, and similar drug and extortion outfits, to target them.
They also said “well over a dozen credible and imminent threats to life” had led them to issue warnings to members of the South Asian community, specifically those active in the pro-Khalistan movement.
Singh told reporters in April that police had advised him in the winter of 2023 that his life could be in danger. They did not tell him who was behind the threat but he said the implication was that it was a foreign government.
He said he stayed in his basement, avoided windows and considered quitting politics over fears about his family’s safety. He decided to carry on but was forced to lead the NDP for a period under police protection.
A lawyer who became federal NDP leader in 2017, Singh has angered India by pressing the Canadian government to take a harder line against Modi’s government over its problematic human rights record.
Indian press reports have wrongly labelled Singh a supporter of anti-India “terrorists” and reported that the intelligence agency that works for Modi’s office had prepared dossiers on him.
Under Modi, New Delhi has amped up its claims that Canada has not done enough to counter the Khalistan movement that seeks independence for India’s Sikh-majority Punjab.
It has also meddled in all levels of Canadian politics and now ranks as the “second most active country engaging in electoral foreign interference in Canada,” according to the Hogue Commission.
With the murder of Nijjar, however, India has allegedly taken its grievances against Canada to another level. A Sikh temple leader, Nijjar was leading a referendum campaign on Khalistan independence when he was gunned down.
Then-prime minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons in September 2023 that investigators were probing the involvement of Indian government agents.
Police believe India used gang members to carry out the killing. Sources have told Global News that Modi’s right-hand man Amit Shah allegedly approved the operation. India has denied that.
Canada later expelled six Indian diplomats and consular officials for allegedly collecting information on Canadians of Indian descent that was fed back to intelligence officers in New Delhi and used to direct attacks.
The alleged surveillance of Singh is not unprecedented. Before Nijjar was killed, he told a close friend that a tracking device had been found on his pickup truck when he was having it serviced.
“He told me this personally,” said Moninder Singh, the spokesperson for the Sikh Federation who is also among those police have warned about threats to their lives.
Nijjar was shot dead inside the same vehicle outside Surrey’s Guru Nanak Sikh Temple. Moninder Singh said he did not know whether agents had followed him too.
“I’ve had multiple warnings but have never been told or known if I was under surveillance, but I would think I would be and do live my life as though I am,” he said.
“There’s no other way.”
As someone living under threat, he said Modi’s visit to Canada had added “insult to injury.”
After Modi said he would attend the G7, Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal said his constituents had told him that inviting the Indian prime minster was sending the wrong message.
Carney has said that Modi agreed to “continued law enforcement dialogue and discussions addressing security concerns” and that countering foreign interference was high on the summit agenda.
But a Canadian Sikh coalition wrote to MPs this week to voice their “anger and sense of betrayal” over Carney’s decision to extend an invitation to the leader of a government that has not yet been held to account for Nijjar’s killing.
“His death was not an isolated act but part of a coordinated campaign of transnational repression that continues to violate Canadian sovereignty to this day,” the four Sikh organizations wrote.
“To extend an invitation to the architect of these policies who proudly boasts that India ‘enters the homes of its enemies and kills them,’ without any public commitment to justice or accountability, undermines the very principles Canada claims to uphold.”
The letter was signed by the leaders of the World Sikh Organization of Canada, Sikh Federation, B.C. Gurdwaras Council, Ontario Gurdwara’s Committee and Quebec Sikh Council. The groups are holding a news conference on Parliament Hill on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES − Mayor Karen Bass issued a curfew for parts of downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday following intense days of protests over immigration enforcement raids that have left crews to clean up the wreckage and seen thousands of National Guard troops sent to the city.
In a news conference, Bass said the curfew will run from 8 p.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday, in an effort to curb ongoing vandalism and looting in downtown Los Angeles. Bass announced the curfew while many people in the city were out marching through the streets and protesting against the ICE raids. 
The curfew was announced to “stop bad actors who are taking advantage of the President’s chaotic escalation,” Bass asserted in a social media post. “Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break the curfew, and you will be prosecuted.”Nights of volatile protests have prompted a legal and social media standoff between California leaders and the Trump administration. The conflict centers on Trump’s move to deploy Marines and the National Guard in California in response to protests that have sprung up against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit against Trump for deploying federal troops in the city. Newsom has also accused Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of trying to use the assets to help ICE conduct raids. A judge set a hearing for the matter for Thursday.
Newsom’s efforts to block federal incursion in California come after Trump doubled the National Guard presence in Los Angeles to 4,000 and deployed 700 Marines, an escalation estimated to cost about $134 million, according to a Pentagon official. Trump remained all-in on his decisions, posting on Truth Social that “if we didn’t send out the National Guard—Los Angeles would be burning right now!”
Since Friday, officers have had confrontations with protesters, leading to the use of pepper spray and flash bangs as officials announced more than 150 arrests amid flare-ups of vandalism and violence. Bass on Tuesday said damage was limited to a small area downtown, but noted that the graffiti was “extensive” and required a large response as the city prepares to host the 2026 World Cup.
The curfew issued by Bass covers a one-square-mile area of downtown Los Angeles and will last from 8 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday local time. The mayor said she expected the curfew to last for several days.
Bass announced the curfew while people were marching through the streets, where protests had turned into vandalism and looting earlier in the week. Police have made over 150 arrests in response to the protests, including over 100 the night before the curfew was announced.
In a statement about the protests Monday night, Los Angeles police said that “as demonstrators were being disbursed, agitators and miscreants within the crowd looted businesses and vandalized property.”
California officials have said that Trump’s move to send federal troops to the city has only exacerbated tensions and prompted more unrest. 
Newsom delivered a fiery speech Tuesday night, sharing details about what sparked the protests in California’s biggest city and what the president’s reaction says about the state of the nation.
“This situation was winding down and concentrated in just a few square blocks downtown, but that’s not what Donald Trump wanted,” Newsom said. “He chose escalation, he chose more force, he chose theatrics over public safety.”
Newsom said Trump did not consult with California law enforcement leaders and commandeered National Guard troops to Los Angeles streets “illegally and for no reason.”
“This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation,” Newsom explained.
Newsom said the protests were sparked by unprecedented immigration enforcement raids that saw federal agents “jumping out of unmarked vans” outside Home Depot to detain people. The governor added that a “U.S. citizen nine months pregnant was arrested, a four-year-old girl taken, families separated, friends quite literally disappearing.”
Trump has said his immigration policy is meant to root out criminals and people illegally in the country, adding that deploying federal troops to Los Angeles was necessary to protect federal buildings from vandalism and keep the peace.
“California may be first, but it clearly will not end here, other states are next, democracy is next,” Newsom said. “This moment we have feared has arrived. The rule of law has increasingly given way to the rule of Don.”
CHICAGO — Hundreds of people gathered in the city’s iconic Loop neighborhood on Tuesday to protest ICE and the immigration enforcement raids that sparked widespread demonstrations in Los Angeles.
Marchers gathered at Daley Plaza near the federal courthouse, marched under the tracks of the El train and down Michigan Avenue.
Demonstrators carried Mexican flags, signs reading “none of us are free unless all of us are free” and chanted a slogan in Spanish insulting immigration authorities.
Protesters marched through Chicago at the same time that people took to the streets in Los Angeles.
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Judge Charles Breyer balked at Newsom’s request to block the Trump administration’s use of the National Guard and Marines on Tuesday. Instead, Breyer ordered a briefing on Wednesday and a hearing on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, the Trump administration called Newsom’s motion for an emergency temporary restraining order “legally meritless,” in pursuit of “an extraordinary, unprecedented, and dangerous court order,” and claimed the court has no authority to weigh in.
– Sarah Wire
President Donald Trump said in remarks from Fort Bragg in North Carolina that service members deployed to California are “defending the republic itself” and helping the administration “liberate” the city of Los Angeles.
“They’re stopping an invasion,” Trump said, in late afternoon remarks.
The Republican president said California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats, are “incompetent” and suggested without evidence that “troublemakers, agitators and insurrectionists” were being paid to undermine federal immigration law.
Asked by a reporter if he was accusing Newsom and Bass of paying demonstrators, Trump said “somebody” was but not necessarily the Democratic politicians. “He was just asked by reporters about this remark and he said “somebody” is paying for it, without specifiying who.
“And if they’re not, they’re just troublemakers,” he said. “I believe someboyd is paying them.”
Trump said: “As the entire world can now see, uncontrolled migration leads to chaos, dysfunction and disorder.”
– Francesca Chambers
Trump’s deployment of thousands of troops to the nation’s second-largest city has unleashed indignation and anger among residents and local officials who say the threat of immigration protests has been dramatically overblown by the White House.
“The implication is that Donald Trump is waging a war on us personally,” said protester Charlie Knowlton, 30.
Immigration agents carrying out Trump’s goal of deporting 1 million undocumented immigrants annually sparked a series of sometimes-violent protests in the greater Los Angeles area. 
Trump has dispatched 4,000 members of the National Guard and 700 Marines to Los Angeles, arguing that local law enforcement is overwhelmed. Few of those troops are actually on the streets, however.
The Los Angeles Police Department alone has about 9,000 officers to serve the city of nearly 4 million people sprawling across a land area that’s one-third the size of Rhode Island. The larger Los Angeles metro area has more than 18 million residents and covers an area nearly the size of Maine.
Local authorities say they have detained about 150 people in connection to the unrest that left small areas of the 5.8-square-mile downtown marred with pervasive graffiti and a few broken windows. No serious injuries have been reported.
“We all know this is a power grab,” Knowlton said before taking a selfie in front of a line of LAPD officers in riot gear. “What I want right now is for the city police to grow a spine and stand up to the feds.”
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The motion says the state on June 9 became aware that the National Guard units in California “would be providing support for counter-immigration operations and not only at federal buildings.”
“Specifically, these activities—scheduled to begin today, June 10, 2025—will include ‘holding a secure perimeter in communities around areas where immigration enforcement activities would take place, and securing routes over public streets where immigration enforcement officers would travel,’” the motion said.
The filing did not say how the state received word about the alleged change in operations.
The 4,000 California National Guard members called in by the president were originally tasked with protecting federal buildings and other property of the federal government. The Trump administration has not responded to the motion or Newsom’s allegation’s that the troops were going to used for immigration enforcement.
Mayor Karen Bass, asked why Los Angeles would be targeted, said she believes her city is “an experiment.”
“If you can do this to the nation’s second largest city, maybe the administration is hoping this will be a signal to everybody everywhere to fear them—that you federal government that historically has protected you can come in and take over,” she told reporters in a news conference Tuesday.
Bass said she would be reaching out to President Trump. Asked what she would tell him, she said, “I want to tell him to stop the raids. I want to tell him that this is a city of immigrants. I want to tell him that if you want to devastate the economy of the City of Los Angeles, attack immigrants.”
− Phaedra Trethan
The number of arrests in connection with the demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles shot up Monday evening, according to the city’s police department.
Police reported on Tuesday that officers made at least 113 arrests. 96 were for failure to follow orders to leave the area. 14 people were arrested for looting. One person each was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest and vandalism.
Two officers were brought to a hospital for their injuries and released. Several businesses were looted, police said.
The crowds of people left around 3 a.m., officials said.
LAPD acknowledged the hectic night in a statement: “Unfortunately, as demonstrators were being disbursed, agitators and miscreants within the crowd looted businesses and vandalized property,” police said. “We are asking that all residents and businesses continue to report any crimes… Please document with photographs or video before clean up.”
The number of arrests was more than double what LAPD reported for Saturday and Sunday when 50 people were arrested. Most were also for failure to follow dispersal orders although among the charges was attempted murder with a Molotov cocktail and assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, according to police.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told reporters she is considering a curfew to restore calm to the city.
“We’re looking at things like a curfew,” she said June 10, and she planned to meet with Police Chief Jim McDonnell later in the day to discuss it.
She said a curfew wouldn’t need to be citywide, but likely focused on the downtown area.
− Bart Jansen
Authorities have dispatched painters, cleaners, and other workers to scrub away, cover up or fade out widespread spraypaint graffiti around downtown. While the vast majority of protesters have been peaceful, a small number have defaced buildings, sidewalks and streets with anti-Trump slogans, criticism of ICE and police, and exhortations to resist fascism.
Federal buildings are among the hardest hit, and there was no sign of the National Guard or Marines protecting those facilities Tuesday. On North Los Angeles Street, contractors were paying particular attention to the asphalt where five Waymo self-driving electric vehicles were burned by protesters, releasing rare Earth materials that can be hazardous.
Around the corner, painter’s apprentice Tim Brevard, 53, covered up graffiti on a wall with grey paint shot from a sprayer. Under normal circumstances, Brevard’s team removes gang graffiti from the same area daily. Now it is political graffiti. City policy calls for removing it within 72 hours of being reported, and the city spends about $14 million annually on graffiti removal, according to its annual budget.
“Down here it’s tough because there’s fresh graffiti every day,” Brevard said as he paused to wipe sweat from his face with a gloved hand. “There’s always gang graffiti. Every day we do this.”
The protests in Los Angeles County began as a reaction to a handful of immigration raids, including one outside a Home Depot and another at a clothing manufacturer in the city’s garment district.
The raids and subsequent outrage came as the Trump administration stepped up its detention and deportation of immigrants including at workplaces, traffic stops and routine legal check-ins.
Protests against these moves have increased, too. While most have remained peaceful, the Department of Homeland Security reported a more than 400% surge in assaults on agents.
After small protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles on June 6, Trump took several swift actions, calling in the 4,000 California National Guard troops and 700 Marines, drawing ire – and at least one lawsuit – from California officials who accuse the president of stoking tension and escalating unrest.
Trump has stood by his actions, saying the deployments were necessary to contain what he described as “violent, instigated riots.” About 150 people have been arrested at the protests, which have included flare-ups of unruly clashes, vandalism and looting, but have remained limited to a few blocks in the city’s downtown area.
As authorities brace for another day of protests and Los Angelenos ready themselves for the increased military presence, read more about how the protests began.
Trump said he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act, which would give him more leeway to use the military for domestic purposes as he deploys troops to Los Angeles in response to violent protests.
“If there’s an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it,” Trump said Tuesday during an event in the White House. “We’ll see. But I can tell you, last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible.”
Trump deployed the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Newsom, sparking the lawsuit from the state. Marines also were sent to help the guard after protests erupted over federal immigration enforcement efforts.
The troops currently are limited to protecting federal property and law enforcement officers. The Insurrection Act would give Trump authority to use them more broadly. Trump said some areas of Los Angeles, during the protests, where “you could have called it an insurrection. It was terrible.”
− Zac Anderson
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, asked Tuesday whether Newsom should be arrested, said the governor should be “tarred and feathered.”
“That’s not my lane. I’m not gonna give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested. But he ought to be tarred and feathered,” Johnson, R-LA., said in a weekly press conference.
Johnson said Newsom is keeping the administration from implementing federal law.
Newsom quickly responded on social media. “Good to know we’re skipping the arrest and going straight for the 1700s style forms of punishment. A fitting threat given the (Republicans) want to bring our country back to the 18th Century.”
− Sarah D. Wire
Most of the unrest is taking place across a few square miles in a mostly commercial area downtown. The city is sprawled across hundreds of square miles and the county covers thousands of square miles. The vast majority of the metropolitan area has been quiet, with people able to continue their daily routines.
Trump has insisted that he had no choice but to increase the level of force in response to growing unrest over his immigration crackdown.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a House committee Tuesday the United States was entering a new phase in which the National Guard would “become a critical component of how we secure that homeland.”
“The National Guard is a huge component of how we see the future,” he told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.
Bryn MacDonnell, a special assistant to the secretary of defense, said the Pentagon is spending $134 million of deploying 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines. Funding is coming from operations and maintenance accounts, he said.
− Mayes-Osterman, Cybele
Newsom criticized Trump on X Tuesday after Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, blasted the governor on the same social media site hours earlier. Miller wrote that “when the rioters swarmed, you handed over your streets, willingly. You still refuse to arrest and prosecute the arsonists, seditionists and insurrectionists.”
Newsom made reference to Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of hundreds of people in connection with the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“The only people defending insurrectionists are you and @realDonaldTrump,” Newsom wrote. “Or, are we pretending like you didn’t pardon 1500 of them?”
Several national civil rights groups described the Trump administration’s National Guard deployment as an overreach of power that was “deeply disturbing” and “reckless.”
“It is not lost on us that no such show of force was deployed in advance of the January 6 insurrection at our nation’s capital despite the clear threat to democracy. The contrast is alarming,” leaders wrote in a statement released Monday night. “Peaceful protesters in Los Angeles are met with military presence, while violent actors in Washington, D.C. were allowed to breach the heart of our government with little resistance. This inconsistency amplifies questions about how power is used and against whom.”
The right to protest the Trump administration’s “unjust policies targeting Black and Brown communities must be protected,” they wrote.
The groups include the NAACP, the National Urban League, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, the National Action Network, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Leadership Conference, the National Council of Negro Women and the Legal Defense Fund.
Separately, Judith LeBlanc, executive director of Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund, called the administration’s decision to call in the National Guard and the Marines “an act of violence meant to silence organizers who are taking a righteous stand against the illegal and brutal ICE raids happening everyday.”
− Deborah Barfield Berry
Multiple members of the media have reported being caught in the crossfire or targeted by authorities using tear gas or rubber bullets.
The incidents included Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi, who was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet on camera in a video that shows an officer appearing to aim at her. A New York Post photographer, Toby Canham, also said he was shot in the forehead with a nonlethal round. British freelance photographer Nick Stern told the BBC he underwent emergency surgery after he was hit in the leg by a plastic bullet. 
The Committee to Protect Journalists has sounded the alarm over the incidents, warning against the intimidation of journalists. 
“Any attempt to discourage or silence media coverage by intimidating or injuring journalists should not be tolerated,” Katherine Jacobsen, program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, said in a statement. “It is incumbent upon authorities to respect the media’s role of documenting issues of public interest.”
National Press Club President Mike Balsamo warned that law enforcement “cannot pick and choose when the First Amendment applies. Journalists in Los Angeles were not caught in the crossfire — they were targeted. ” 
-Jeanine Santucci 
Police briefly detained CNN correspondent Jason Carroll while on air Monday night during the network’s coverage of the protests. CNN was covering the protests live when in-studio anchors briefly lost contact with Carroll, who could be seen being led away from the protests by LAPD officers with his hands behind his back. Carroll returned to the mic, informing the anchors: “I am being detained.”
An officer then can be heard telling Carroll: “We’re letting you go. You can’t come back. If you come back, you will be arrested.”
CNN issued a statement saying “we are pleased the situation resolved quickly once the reporting team presented law enforcement with their CNN credentials. CNN will continue to report out the news unfolding in Los Angeles.” Read more here.
− Taijuan Moorman
On Monday, California sued the Trump administration, alleging that the president’s deployment of Guard troops was unnecessary and unlawful. Newsom later indicated that he will take similar action to prevent the Marines from being deployed, describing the order as a “blatant abuse of power.”
“It makes me feel like our city is actually a test case,” Bass said at a news conference. “A test case for what happens when the federal government moves in and takes the authority away from the state or away from local government.”
Some day laborers and other community members in Los Angeles County are warily watching federal troops, bracing for more raids and trying to look to the future while looking out for each other. Some are still searching for detained family members. Some say they’ve seen worse.
Jose Luis Valencia, 54, is an undocumented immigrant who was born in the Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City. This week he was looking for work outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles County.
“We’re a little nervous, but we’re here looking for work to survive,” Valencia told USA TODAY. “We need money to put food on the table and support our family.” Read more here.
− Pamela Avila and Trevor Hughes
The California governor, in a post to social media blasting Trump’s decision to send the military members to California, said Marines are “not political pawns.” Newsom said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was “illegally” deploying the Marines and argued it was a stunt so Trump could have a “talking point” at a planned parade in Washington on Saturday to celebrate the 250^th birthday of the Army, also the day of Trump’s 79^th birthday. 
“The Courts and Congress must act. Checks and balances are crumbling,” Newsom added.
-Jeanine Santucci
Officials at the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday that despite violent demonstrations, local police can handle whatever protesters throw at them and that federal help is unnecessary and could become a hindrance.
“The possible arrival of federal military forces in Los Angeles – absent clear coordination – presents a significant logistical and operational challenge for those of us charged with safeguarding this city,” Police Chief Jim McDonnell said in a statement. “The Los Angeles Police Department, alongside our mutual aid partners, have decades of experience managing large-scale public demonstrations, and we remain confident in our ability to do so professionally and effectively.”
LAPD said officers have fired over 600 non-lethal bullets and used tear gas on the “hostile crowd.” Among those hit was an Australian journalist covering the protests.
At least five officers received minor injuries, according to police. Five police horses also “were targeted and sustained minor injuries,” police said.
Read more here.
The protests began Friday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps near Los Angeles resulted in more than 40 arrests. The protests had largely been peaceful but flared up when heavily armed, masked agents raided Los Angeles businesses.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, defended the raids and said those arrested by ICE included a Vietnamese man convicted of second-degree murder, an Ecuadoran man convicted of possession of five kilograms of cocaine, and a Filipino man convicted of sexual offenses.
On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said local immigrant rights groups had confirmed at least five ICE raids in the Los Angeles region. The mayor said officials were still working to compile more information on the raids but noted that in some cases, ICE targeted day laborers and detained people who appeared for scheduled immigration appointments.
“As you know, ICE does not tell anybody where they’re going to go or when they’re going to be there,” Bass said at the Monday news conference.
Protests also sprang up in at least nine other cities across the U.S. on Monday, including New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, according to Reuters.
Protests in Los Angeles were relatively peaceful when they began on Friday, but escalated into scenes of chaos, with electric vehicles lit aflame, large clouds of tear gas and clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators. Trump has backed his move to send in troops, calling the protests “violent, insurrectionist mobs” and “lawless riots.” But Newsom said it was Trump who “instigated violence.”
Experts say while there are legal definitions for a riot, the term has become increasingly politicized and encapsulates a wide variety of incidents. In most states including California, the key determinator lies in whether multiple people are involved and whether they are committing acts of violence, Brian Higgins, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said.
“One person is not a riot and neither is a group that is nonviolent,” he said. “They can even be breaking the law, like refusing to disperse. It’s when you add in the factor of violence that it becomes a riot.”
There are some gray areas, he said. Experts also said that while violence is a defining factor in a riot, such violence could be incited by law enforcement. Read more.
Contributing: Jeanine Santucci and Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY; Reuters

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Trend Micro has issued an urgent security bulletin addressing five critical vulnerabilities in its Apex One endpoint security platform that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges on affected systems.
The vulnerabilities, assigned CVE identifiers CVE-2025-49154 through CVE-2025-49158, were disclosed on June 9, 2025, with CVSS scores ranging from 6.7 to 8.8, indicating medium to high severity ratings.
The security flaws affect both Apex One 2019 (On-premises) and Apex One as a Service installations running on Windows platforms.
Given my work in cybersecurity news and vulnerability analysis1516, this represents a significant security update that organizations using Trend Micro’s enterprise security solutions must address immediately.
The most severe vulnerability, CVE-2025-49154, carries a CVSS score of 8.7 and involves improper access control mechanisms.
This flaw allows local attackers to overwrite key memory-mapped files, potentially compromising system security and stability.
The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions, enabling authenticated users to escalate privileges on affected systems.
Four additional vulnerabilities compound the security risk profile.
CVE-2025-49156 and CVE-2025-49157 both involve link following vulnerabilities in the scan engine and damage cleanup engine, respectively, allowing local privilege escalation with CVSS scores of 7.0 and 7.8.
The fifth vulnerability, CVE-2025-49158, affects the security agent’s uninstaller process, potentially allowing privilege escalation during product removal.
The most concerning vulnerability from an attack surface perspective is CVE-2025-49155, which affects the Data Loss Prevention module and carries the highest CVSS score of 8.8.
This uncontrolled search path vulnerability enables remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations, requiring only user interaction such as visiting a malicious webpage or opening a malicious file.
The flaw results from loading a DLL from an uncontrolled search path, classified under CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element.
The vulnerability was discovered by Xavier DANEST from Decathlon and reported through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative program.
Unlike the local privilege escalation vulnerabilities that require authenticated access, this remote code execution flaw significantly expands the potential attack surface for threat actors targeting Apex One deployments.
Trend Micro has released patches to address all identified vulnerabilities.
Organizations running Apex One 2019 (On-premises) should upgrade to SP1 CP Build 14002, while Apex One as a Service customers should update to Security Agent Version 14.0.14492.
Both updates are immediately available through Trend Micro’s distribution channels.
The company acknowledges researchers Alexander Pudwill, Xavier DANEST from Decathlon, anonymous researchers working with the Zero Day Initiative, and Vladislav Berghici from Trend Micro Research for responsibly disclosing these vulnerabilities.
All vulnerabilities have been assigned Zero Day Initiative tracking numbers, and published advisories are available on the ZDI website.
Organizations should prioritize these updates given the combination of high CVSS scores and the potential for both local privilege escalation and remote code execution attacks targeting enterprise security infrastructure.
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