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Early Monday evening, after a few hundred people ignored dispersal orders near the Federal Building, police — firing less-lethal munitions and tossing flash-bang grenades — pushed protesters into Little Tokyo, where businesses and the Japanese American National Museum were heavily vandalized.

But then tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades were used — by federal agents, Newsom implied.

The picture Trump painted of the federal government’s role in the protests against immigration raids marks a sharp contrast to Newsom’s assertion that state and local law enforcement were successfully keeping the peace before federal authorities deployed “tear gas,” “flash-bang grenades” and “rubber bullets” on Angelenos exercising their constitutional right to free speech and assembly.

As the day continued, the situation eventually evolved into the old children’s game of Red Rover: Protesters would get too close and throw water bottles, federal agents would shoot pepper balls and eventually escalate to flash-bang grenades and tear gas.

Officials fired tear gas and flash-bang grenades at demonstrators who threw rocks and other objects at federal vehicles that departed from the business park gates.