On his Fact Social social media community earlier this week, President Donald Trump claimed that “If we didn’t send out the National Guard — Los Angeles would be burning right now!”
In truth, the size of the immigration-related protests that began June 6 in Paramount has been comparatively small:
Los Angeles County is greater than 4,751 sq. miles, or 3 million acres, in space. (Nearly 700 of these sq. miles are water.)
Town of Los Angeles is about 469 sq. miles, or 318,912 acres, in space.
Town of Paramount — which isn’t a part of town of Los Angeles, though it’s inside LA County — is lower than 5 sq. miles, or 3,097 acres.
The weekend protests in Paramount befell on about six metropolis blocks, or one-twentieth of a sq. mile, roughly 30 acres.
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If all of Paramount was concerned within the protest, that may be 1% of the world of the separate metropolis of Los Angeles and one-tenth of 1% of Los Angeles County.
The associated protests in downtown Los Angeles have taken place in a few five-block space — about 25 acres or much less in a metropolis of greater than 300,000 acres.
In distinction, the widespread unrest that adopted the 1992 Rodney King verdict befell in a few 40-block space, or about 200 acres. That’s greater than eight instances the dimensions of the present protests in Los Angeles.
Though the present protests are rising in quantity and scope, they’re principally clustered round downtown Los Angeles. They haven’t but approached what was seen in June 2020, after the homicide of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. Then, there have been protests throughout Los Angeles County, together with in Altadena, Burbank, Covina, Culver Metropolis, Diamond Bar, Downey, downtown Los Angeles, Glendora, Hollywood, La Puente, La Verne, Manhattan Seashore, Palos Verdes Estates, Pomona, Redondo Seashore, San Dimas, Sierra Madre, Walnut, West Covina, Westwood and elsewhere.
Simply as at this time, the California Nationwide Guard was deployed to Los Angeles in 1992. That was on the request of then-Gov. Pete Wilson, although, slightly than over the objections of native leaders, as is the case now.
As of Thursday morning, the Los Angeles Police Division had arrested greater than 270 folks because of latest protests, together with dozens Wednesday night time. About 12,000 folks have been arrested in reference to the unrest following the Rodney King verdict in 1992.
On Tuesday night time, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass instituted a curfew aimed toward calming tensions within the metropolis. The curfew is particularly for downtown Los Angeles. In accordance with Bass, it covers an space of lower than one sq. mile or about 640 acres. That’s one-fifth of 1% of the whole metropolis of Los Angeles. In distinction, Tom Bradley, Los Angeles’ mayor in 1992, instituted a city-wide curfew that lasted six days.
Initially Revealed: June 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM PDT
