Donald Trump deploys thousands of soldiers in Los Angeles in the event of demonstrations – Liberation
Hundreds of navies and thousands of reservists deployed: Donald Trump Muscular Monday in an incredible way his response to clashes between police officers and demonstrators in Los Angeles; of the measures denounced as disproportionate And illegal by opponents of the American president. After several days of sometimes violent confrontation between the police and demonstrators opposed to the repressive clandestine immigration policy, the 78 -year -old republican took the exceptional decision on Monday to deploy in American territory 700 active soldiers of the famous Marine Corps. According to the Pentagon, he then ordered the sending of 2,000 additional members of the National Guard, a reserve body, which are added to the 2,100 already mobilized in the second largest American city. The measure provoked the anger and misunderstanding of demonstrators but also many democratic officials who accuse the president of stirring tensions.
Kelly Diemer, a 47 -year -old demonstrator, denounced a decision « Very weird » to send soldiers against them. « They are supposed to protect us, but instead, they are sent to attack us »she told AFP, before adding that according to her the United States was not « Plus a democracy ». Already opposed to the sending of the National Guard, the State Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom, estimated that the deployment of active active soldiers was « The crazy fantasy of a dictatorial president ».
The governor also criticized the announced mobilization of 2,000 additional reservists, while the first envoys would have received neither water nor food according to him. « 300 are deployed, the rest awaits, unused, in federal buildings, without orders »said Gavin Newsom on X. « It has nothing to do with public security, it just aims to pet the ego of a dangerous president »he said. Clearly determined to harden the tone, Donald Trump had previously warned on his social social platform those he calls « Insurgents » :: « If they spit, we hit, and I promise you that we will hit like never before. »
National guards, in a military uniform and endowed with sticks and riot shields, were deployed on Monday in front of a city of federal detention in the city. Faced with them, demonstrators shouted: « Pigs, go home ! « An increasingly numerous crowd also converged on the center of Los Angeles, where police separated the demonstrators from the federal agents. Incended carcasses of cars still littered the street, traces of the clashes which led in two days on 56 arrests.
An owner of a small business, who preferred to keep anonymity, said to himself with AFP in favor of the muscular repression of the federal authorities. « It is necessary to stop vandalism »she said that the storefront of her business has been tagged by Graffiti.
Friday, demonstrators had tried to intervene in the face of the muscular arrests of immigrants led by the Federal Immigration Police (ICE). “I saw my father handcuffed, hampered at the waist and the ankles. It was very traumatic « testified on Monday at a press conference Julian, presenting herself as the daughter of Mario Romero, arrested by the ICE.
California prosecutor Rob Bonta announced on Monday to prosecute Donald Trump in court, saying that his choice to mobilize the National Guard without the downstream of the Governor « Raped » The Constitution. The Democrat mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, assured that the perimeter of clashes only concerned « Some streets » from the city center. According to Donald Trump, the Californian metropolis would have been « Striped from the card » If he had decided to send the National Guard.
A version contradicted by the County Prosecutor of Los Angeles, Nathan Hochman. « We have not noticed large -scale civilian disorders which would require 2,000 national guards and 500 or 700 additional soldiers »he told the Newsnation channel. Gavin Newsom, considered as a potential candidate in the White House for 2028, is one of the favorite targets of the Republican, who launched Monday that it would be « great » to stop it. Its manager of the mass expulsion program, Tom Homan, assured Monday evening that the Trump administration had « No intention » to arrest the governor, advancing that the quote had been taken « Out of context ».
