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NAME: US CLASHES 20060502I TAPE: EF06/0378 IN_TIME: 11:08:39:21 DURATION: 00:01:57:03 SOURCES: ABC (KABC) DATELINE: Los Angeles - 1 May 2006 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of police officers confronting protesters on street, pan to police telling protester on footpath to move 2. Protesters on street shouting at police 3. Police charge protesters 4. Wide shot of protesters forming a line across street, shouting at police 5. Line of police across street, objects being thrown at them 6. Protesters on street shouting at police 7. Wide shot of police as they charge at protesters 8. Zoom as police tackle protester, hold him on ground and beat him 9. Pan from police and protesters on street to protester being taken away by police 10. Police on motorcycles trying to disperse protesters STORYLINE: Police clashed with protesters in Los Angeles, California, on Monday night, at the end of a day which saw more than a (m) million mostly Hispanic immigrants and their supporters skip work and take to the streets in a US-wide boycott. Late on Monday evening, police were involved in a standoff with protesters on a street in the centre of the city. The demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at police, who charged the protesters and also used motorcycles to disperse them. Police say they made two arrests on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Both men, who were not immediately identified, had been throwing rocks and bottles at officers, a police spokesman said. Millions of illegal immigrants and their supporters will return to work in California on Tuesday, while the argument over their status continues. Many of those who marched on Monday insist they are taxpayers who deserve to be allowed full citizenship. Thousands of the demonstrators were born in the US and say their hard-working parents and other relatives should not be deported.