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US: Majority of LA immigration protesters are young people: CGTN reporter

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Storyline: Around 85 percent of protesters who clashed with National Guard troops last weekend in Los Angeles over U.S. federal immigration raids were young people, according to Matteo Ghidoni, a China Global Television Network (CGTN) reporter who was at the scene. The clashes followed a series of raids carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal law enforcement agencies at several locations in southern California starting June 6, which sparked widespread protests. According to Ghidoni, the protest was peaceful at the beginning, but some breakaway groups of protesters started damaging cars on the street. Police fired non-lethal rounds, and the area was engulfed in tear gas. According to Ghidoni, when he left the scene at around 20:30, most of the protesters had left. Shotlist: Los Angeles, USA - June 8, 2025: 1. Various of law enforcement officers, protesters on street Los Angeles, USA - June 8, 2025: 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matteo Ghidoni, China Global Television Network (CGTN) stringer (partially overlaid with shots 3-4): "Today I was in downtown Los Angeles during the clashes between protesters and the Los Angeles police department. I was there in the middle of protest, and I can tell you 85 percent of the people down in the street protesting were younger people. I guess students, anyway, very younger protesters. Peacefully protesting at the beginning, but then, as it usually happens, a bunch of them separated from the bigger group and started creating damages to the walls around them, the cars. I saw several groups of people, men mainly, setting on fire and destroying at least six different cars right in front of me. When the police was down arresting or blocking these people that was attacking the freeway, from above the freeway, people started throwing rocks on police cars - not even just rocks, any kind of objects like even electric scooters, any kind of object. They were throwing it down on top of police cars. Overall, when I left, it was 20:30 more or less in the night. A lot of people left the scene. There were still a bunch of guys, like insulting the police and creating problems. Today is Sunday night. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. We don't know if the protests are going to keep going for seven days in a row waiting for a next Saturday, or maybe they're going to take a pause and they're going to start next Saturday again. We'll see what happens." [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] 3. Various of car on fire 4. Police cars on street, people throwing rocks [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] 5. Various of protesters, vehicles on fire on street, firefighter extinguishing fire. [Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland]

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