Police declared all of downtown Los Angeles to be an unlawful assembly area and ordered protesters to go home on Sunday night after a third day of violence hit demonstrations againstPresident Donald Trump's immigration policy.

As Los Angeles police struggled with another day of unrest in downtown L.A., several Waymo autonomous taxis were set on fire, sending black smoke billowing into the air.

Protesters gathered in downtown LA have been told to leave immediately by police - hours after officers dispersed demonstrators blocking a major freeway in the city California's governor Gavin Newsom urges Trump to revoke the troop deployment - and has threatened to sue the administration over what he called an "illegal" act The Los Angeles Police Department says that business owners are reporting looting.