Jessica Khwariz walked along Alwandra Street with a trash bag full of consumed gas stick and sound, as she helped clean her community with other residents on Sunday morning.
Volunteers were fathers and neighbors in Paraamaont, armed with plastic bags, latex gloves and face masks.
ACRID smell continued in the air the day after the law enforcement, gas and flash bombs on the demonstrators at Alondra Boulevard.
“I am proud of our society, by the strength we have shown,” said Khuraiz, 40 years old. “It seems as if they were a great fear in Paramount, and what? These men have not even cleaned themselves.”
Paramount was thrown into the national spotlight during the weekend, where the Trump administration said on Saturday that it would send 2,000 national guards to Los Angeles after a second day, the demonstrators faced immigration agents during the raids of local companies.
Tension rose again on Sunday in the Los Angeles region, where the demonstrators faced the federal and local authorities in the center of Los Angeles
Paramount, a small city of 54,000 in the province of Southeast Los Angeles, is famous for how its residents and government officials in the 1980s worked to turn their hometown from the “rust belt” community, which won national awards.
The city’s website says that crime in Paramount, with more than 80 % of the population are Latin, has decreased to its lowest levels ever.
Residents say the chaotic clashes between federal immigration authorities and demonstrators on Saturday left them shaken.
Scorch signs in the intersection outside the Home Depot on the Alondra Boulevard show where flash bombs exploded.
Several police agencies responded to the city during the weekend. By Sunday morning, a group of the camouflaged National Guard forces stationed in a business park with armored vehicles where there is an office of the Ministry of Internal Security.
The union and local population organizers, Erdelia Dridge and Alejandro Maldonado, helped organize cleaning efforts in the neighborhood.
“It is Sunday’s solidarity,” Al -Dridge said.
Smoke surrounded by the police was surrounded by the police in riot equipment was far from the one -day associated society. “The city of all AmericaHe received a special praise from the Los Angeles County Council for its conversion.
“The entire society only prays that things remain peaceful and that society will move forward,” Mayor Baiji Limnes said in an interview on Sunday.
Limon said: “Paramount was about a society of blue -collar workers who were doing their best to reach every day,” Limon said.
“Today there are people angry at the federal government’s arrival in their city,” she said. “This comes from fear.”
On Saturday, federal officers fired smokes at the demonstrators near the Business Park, and the damned green smoke receded to the near residential community.
“What do you also call it, but an attack on Paramount and the people who live here?” Maldonado said. “People in society were standing for unfair immigration policies.”
In many ways, Paramount has become a starting point for the escalating federal response that brought the National Guard.
“It seems as if they want to choose a battle with the little man,” Al -Dridge said.
Reverend Brian said in Chapel of change, as there is a clear fear in society.
Watch on Saturday afternoon, while the police fired tear gas and then went out on Sunday morning to help clean the Alondra Street. He realizes that some people may be out of control while protesting, but he believes that people who were outside the business park simply want answers.
“We still do not know what will happen next,” he said.
He said about the Sunday service: “I am pleased and shocked to see people here today.” “There is a real feeling that is not aware. God is good. Paramont is good.”