'No Kings' protests: Tensions rise in LA as crowd hurls concrete, police allege

A Wednesday morning crash in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles was being investigated as a possible assault with a deadly weapon involving federal agents who left the scene, authorities said.

The collision was reported at 10:47 a.m. in the 3700 block of Whittier Boulevard, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told Los Angeles ABC station KABC.

No serious injuries were immediately reported.

Aerial video from KABC's chopper AIR7 showed LAPD officers and Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters at the crash site. No marked federal vehicles were visible.

Police did not specify which agency the agents involved in the crash worked for.

The ICE raids are stoking a great deal of fear and anxiety in Santee Alley, the open-air shopping mart in downtown Los Angeles' Fashion District.

That's where much of the work is done by migrant laborers - documented or otherwise.

One man who works in the area told our sister station ABC7 in Los Angeles many of his co-workers are not showing up for work out of fear of being arrested.

The ICE raids are stoking a great deal of fear and anxiety in Santee Alley, where much of the work is done by migrant laborers.

"I can't seem to figure out what's going on with a lot of my sewers, so my business is actually being affected by this situation... like real-time, right now," said Jared Lamar. "Everybody is enraged at this point and (that's) because people are being taken out of their homes. What are they supposed to do?"

Amidst all that turmoil, shoppers are also staying away.

Santee Alley is usually bustling, even on a week day. It was virtually empty on Tuesday.

In downtown Los Angeles Tuesday night, 203 people were arrested for failing to disperse and 17 were arrested for curfew violation, the LAPD said.

Another three people were arrested for possession of a firearm, one person was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and one was arrested for discharging a laser at an LAPD airship, police said.

Two LAPD officers were hurt, police said.

The arrests came after LA Mayor Karen Bass issued an overnight curfew for about 1 square mile of downtown.

The 700 Marines being sent to Los Angeles are currently undergoing a two-day civil unrest training to get "extensive training on crowd control," Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman of the National Guard told Los Angeles ABC station KABC.

President Donald Trump has sent 4,000 National Guardsmen to LA. There are 2,000 of them currently in LA and the other 2,000 will arrive by Thursday afternoon to begin training, Sherman said.

The soldiers' role is "solely to protect personnel to do their federal mission," Sherman said. He noted that the National Guard has been on raids as "protection of personnel as they do their federal job."

The guardsmen can detain people, but local law enforcement must make the arrests, he said.