California attacks the deployment of soldiers, Donald Trump persists and signs – Liberation
They are around 700 American navies to have arrived this Tuesday, June 10 in the Los Angeles region on Order of President Donald Trump. The State of California asked a court to prevent this measure: « Deploying fighters trained for war is unprecedented and threatens the very foundation of our democracy », Fulminated the Governor of the State Gavin Newsom. “Donald Trump behaves like a tyrant, not as a president. We ask the court to immediately block these illegal actions ”.
The navies are currently in a transit zone while waiting to be deployed in specific places, said an American official, while 4,000 soldiers of the National Guard have also been activated. Despite Critics of local leadersthe republican president camped on his positions: « If I had not sent the army to Los Angeles in the last three nights, this city which was in the past large and beautiful would be burning right now »he wrote this Tuesday on its Truth Social network.
Donald Trump also left the possibility of invoking the insurgency law, several centuries old, which would allow the army to participate directly in the maintenance of civil order, claiming that one could argue that certain parts of the city were already the scene of an insurrection.
Since Friday, the megalopolis with the strong population of Hispanic origin has been the scene of clashes between protesters denouncing raids of the Federal Immigration Police (ICE) against undocumented migrants and the police in anti-riot clothes. The night brought back precarious calm in the center of Los Angeles, some of which laden with tear gas are testifying to the clashes of the last days.
The confrontation is twofold: that, on the ground, opposing the police against protests Protestant against the repressive policy of Donald Trump aimed at migrants illegally entered on American soil; And that, very political, between the administration of the Republican President and California, at the forefront of the Democratic States. Its Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, considered a potential candidate for the White House for 2028, estimated that the deployment of active active soldiers was « The crazy fantasy of a dictatorial president ».
But the president’s close guard added in distrust of local authorities. Gavin Newsom « Merit the tar and the feathers »said the republican boss of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson.
Without making oil stain, the movement has won other American metropolises by contagion. In Santa Ana, close to Los Angeles, the police fired tear gas in the direction of demonstrators crying slogans against ICE, report AFP journalists. Hanging was also reported in New York and Texas. In New York, police arrested during a demonstration in Manhattan, and Austin, tear gas was drawn, according to the KXAN channel, a subsidiary of NBC.
Donald Trump finally warned this Tuesday against any demonstration during the military parade which will take place this weekend in Washington on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the American army – as well as his own birthday. « People who want to protest will be confronted with a very important force », he said. The police are preparing for hundreds of thousands of people attending the parade on Saturday, Matt McCool, a special agent of American secret service, said on Monday. The officer added that thousands of agents will be deployed across the country.
The FBI and the police said, however, that no credible threat weighed on these celebrations.
