California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump is “pulling a military dragnet” across Los Angeles during a brief public address on Tuesday.

The mayor said the curfew will run from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time, and cover roughly a square mile of downtown. She said she expects it to last several days.

The Trump administration faces a legal challenge to its deployment of the military to protests. Tensions flared after President Trump sent troops, and protests spread to other U.S. cities.

The Los Angeles Police Department says more than 500 arrests have been made in connection with protest activity over the course of eight days. In a media release issued Sunday, LAPD

Police detained more than 20 people, mostly on curfew violations, on the first night of restrictions in downtown Los Angeles and used crowd-control projectiles to break up hundreds of protesters.

By late morning it was clear, June 6 was no ordinary Friday in LA. Federal agents arrested people in and around downtown Los Angeles. Some day laborers near a Home Depot in Westlake, others working in the Fashion District at Ambience apparel.

Officers rush into crowd, firing less-lethal rounds as demonstrators chant, "Shame." Meanwhile, downtown L.A. shop owners try to cope with curfew as ICE raids spread throughout L.A. County.

“Multiple groups continue to congregate on 1st St between Spring and Alameda. Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated. Curfew is in effect,” read a post on the LAPD’s social media, sent at 9:09p.m local time on Tuesday night.