CNN reporter detained during LA unrest.
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COPS have detained a CNN reporter live on-air as he covered the tense Los Angeles protests.

Anchor Laura Coates yelled out, “What’s going on?” after watching national correspondent Jason Carroll being led away with his hands behind his back.

CNN reporter detained during LA unrest.
CNN national correspondent Jason Carroll was detained live on-air while covering the Los Angeles protestsCredit: CNN
Jason Carroll speaking at a microphone.
Carroll, seen in 2014, was told to put his hands behind his back and leave the areaCredit: Alamy
Police officers in riot gear confronting protesters on the ground.
Cops have clashed with protesters in the days-long protests over President Donald Trump’s ICE raidsCredit: AFP
Police arresting a person during a protest in Los Angeles.
Carroll was told that he would be arrested if he came back to the areaCredit: CNN

Carroll was reporting on the fourth day of demonstrations against Donald Trump’s strict actions on illegal immigration when he unexpectedly lost contact with Coates on Thursday night.

“Jason? What’s going on? I hear you. What happened Jason?” Coates said live on air.

“I am being detained,” said Carroll in the distance as his cameraman filmed several feet behind him.

Carroll then chatted with the cops, who confirmed that he wasn’t being arrested.

“We’re letting you go, but you can’t come back,” said the officer before threatening to arrest Carroll if he returned to the scene.

The two appeared to have a friendly interaction before Carroll was put behind a wall of cops and lost touch with Coates.

Later, Carroll explained that the officers didn’t put him in zip ties but did grab both of his hands and told him, “you are being detained.”

The reporter was stunned by the sudden change as he had been roaming the streets of Los Angeles covering the protests since that morning.

“It is something that I wasn’t expecting simply because we have been out here all day,” he said.

“Normally, the officers […] realize the press is there doing a job.”

Trump sends another 2k National Guard to riot-ravaged LA as chaos spreads with arrests in NYC & Texas

Carroll was led away around the same time that officials told demonstrators that they had to leave or else they would be arrested.

They cuffed a number of protesters and charged them with failure to disperse to finally break up Thursday’s demonstration.

CNN reporter being pulled away by crowd during LA protests.
Carroll said he was stunned by the detainment because he had been covering the protests all day with no issuesCredit: CNN
Map illustrating key areas of Los Angeles riots, highlighting clashes between protesters and National Guard.

PROTESTS RAGE ON

The demonstrations, which began over the weekend, intensified when Trump deployed about 2,000 National Guard members to maintain order, even though California Governor Gavin Newsom cautioned him to refrain from doing so.

Newsom claims that the peaceful protests criticizing Trump’s immigration crackdown turned into a protest once the troops arrived.

In the meantime, Trump claims that Los Angeles would have been reduced to ashes if he hadn’t dispatched the troops, as he intends to deploy 700 Marines to the area.

“If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday morning.

California has filed a lawsuit against Trump, accusing him of breaking the 10th Amendment when he sent in the guard.

The protests have spawned more protests across the country, and hundreds of participants have been arrested.

Trump has vowed to maintain law and order despite Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass begging him to pause the ICE raids.

“There is a real fear in Los Angeles right now. Parents, workers, grandparents, young people scared to go about their daily lives,” she said.

“We are a city of immigrants. Washington is attacking our people, our neighborhoods and our economy.”

Protesters clashing with police and National Guard during an immigration protest.
Some protesters clashed with authoritiesCredit: AP
Shattered glass on the floor after a store was looted during protests.
Glass surrounding businesses was busted by lootersCredit: Reuters
Protesters face off against lines of police and National Guard troops.
A wall of law enforcement officers stand in front of a crowd of protestersCredit: Getty
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