Watch: Protester interviewed after being tear gassed during LA riots goes viral

Watch the moment a protester who was hit with tear gas during the Los Angeles riots said it “tasted like fascism”.

Law enforcement in LA have been using “less-lethal weapons” such as tear gas and rubber bullets to dispel demonstrators who gathered to protest immigration raids at the Metropolitan Detention Center on Friday (6 June).

Speaking to CBS News on Saturday (7 June), a demonstrator in downtown LA said he “tasted a little tear gas” which “tasted like fascism”, in a moment that has since gone viral on social media.

The ongoing protests intensified after Donald Trump deployed over 2,000 National Guard troops to the city on Sunday (8 June), a move he defended as a “great decision” which saved the city from being "obliterated".