As officers across California clash with protesters of immigration raids, two Bay Area lawmakers proposed legislation Monday that would make it a crime for state or federal police to wear masks. “We do not need secret police in California,

Democratic lawmakers in California are seeking to ban law enforcement officers in the state from wearing face coverings.

The Los Angeles Press Club says police officers repeatedly used "less-lethal" bullets and violated the constitutional rights of reporters covering anti-ICE protests.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the San Francisco Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery Street to oppose President Donald Trump 's aggressive deportation plans after Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) arrested multiple immigrants at the downtown courtroom, NBC Bay Area first reported.

Parts of the 101 freeway, Alameda, Los Angeles St., Spring St., Main St., Aliso St., Commercial St., Temple Ave., 1st St and Arcadia St. are currently blocked off to drivers, the LAPD said.

The demonstrations come on the heels of weeks of protests across California and the nation denouncing raids on immigrant communities by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the start of Saturday’s protest in San Francisco,

Several people were detained during an apparent immigration raid at the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet, according to multiple media reports.