For two weeks in June, protesters across L.A. made front page news. In groups large and small, they showed up to oppose immigration raids, marched on the federal building downtown and rallied to cry out “no kings” in the United States. They faced a downtown curfew, an onslaught of insults from the president, dissension in their own ranks, violent or messy compatriots, and whack-a-mole attempts to try to keep up with the federal immigration enforcement agents crisscrossing the region.