LOS ANGELES — Just blocks from where a handful of die-hard protesters faced police in Los Angeles yesterday, residents were enjoying lunch in the sun and shrugging off Donald Trump’s claims their city was burning.

Six days after unrest began — prompting the US president to send soldiers into the streets, over the furious protests of local officials — life in the City of Angels was going on largely as normal.

“Everything is hunky dory right here at Ground Zero,” Lynn Sturgis, a retired teacher who was protesting outside the federal complex that has been at the heart of the demonstrations in Downtown Los Angeles, told AFP.

“Our city is not at all on fire, it’s not burning down, as our terrible leader is trying to tell you.”

The demonstrations began Friday as immigration authorities carried out raids on undocumented migrants in the sprawling metropolis.