California officials have continued to maintain the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members is "unnecessary".

The protests, which are also pushing back on the deployment of the National Guard, have been happening since Friday.

An Australian television journalist was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet Sunday while reporting live from downtown Los Angeles on the large-scale protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and subsequent deployment of California National Guard troops to the city.

California officials have continued to maintain the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members is "unnecessary".

A rally is planned at noon today at Grand Park, downtown, where civil rights and labor leaders will demand the release of union leader David Huerta from federal detention after he was arrested during an immigration enforcement action. Huerta is due in court at the Roybal Federal Building at 1:30 p.m.

The useful idiots who burned Waymo cars were also burning Google, Waymo's parent company, which has been a big supporter of undocumented immigrants.

Footage shows a helicopter depositing boxes in Paramount, a city in Los Angeles County where protests erupted on Friday.

What started as a small protest against immigrant arrests escalated over a few days, after President Trump called in the National Guard.