Los Angeles: Haos after Trump command to send the ethnicity to suppress anti -racist demonstrations
The administration Trump It escalates its attack on protesters who have been mobilizing in Los Angeles since Friday against the Ice broom businesses that raids in neighborhoods in the city to capture and deport immigrants without paper.
On Saturday night, Trump announced that 2,000 National Guard men in Los Angeles will develop to suppress demonstrations. The last time that the National Guard forces were recruited was to suppress the 1992 uprising in Los Angeles, who erupted after the acquittal of four white police officers who had wildly beaten African -American Rodney King.
Defense Minister Pitt Hessegen then announced that US Marines from the nearby Pentleton camp have been on a high alert.
« Under President Trump, violence and destruction against federal employees and federal facilities will not be tolerated. It is common sense, « Heguez wrote on social media.
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‘Oil on Fire’
The use of the National Guard to suppress demonstrations is usually asked by the rulers in consultation with the federal authorities, said CNN’s senior national security analyst Juliet Cayeim, which did not happen in this case.
California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom described the directive on the development of the National Guard « deliberately incendiary » and said that all he would succeed was to escalate tensions.
Growth became « not because there is a lack of law enforcement forces, but because they want a spectacle, » Newsom wrote in X.
Cayem described Trump’s reaction to demonstrations as extremely excessive. He also said of Hessegen’s proposal to develop in active soldiers in Los Angeles that he was « the most shocking of all shocking ».
« We need a administration that will not reach Defcon 1 (the highest level of alarm in the US Army) every time he sees something on television that she doesn’t like, » Cayem said.
« In active Marines? This is simply unheard of the type of situation, « he added.
Even the mobilization of the 2,000 National Guard soldiers « was not reasonable given the threat we see, » he added.
How did the demonstrations began
On Friday ICE officers, who, after Trump’s election, engage in mass arrests and expulsions of immigrants in summary procedures, raided businesses that seem to have been employed without cards. Crowds rushed to the spot shouting slogans against Ice and in favor of immigrants.
Protesters then broke out in a federal building in downtown Los Angeles, after being spread among the protesters that immigrants were allegedly held in the basement of the building.
On Saturday, the demonstrations continued in the Paramount area as another immigrant arrest operation was ongoing. Officers used tear gas and chemicals with protesters throwing stones and clashing with police.
Authorities have made dozens of arrests that continue until now.
Citizens’ moves in Los Angeles denounced Trump’s decision to develop the National Guard.
The Union of United Latin American Citizens issued a statement stating, among other things, that the government is using the militarized suppression of immigration as a policy weapon. « Now, » Union President Roman Palomares said, « it uses the armed forces against its people – in communities that are already injured and besieged. »
The Washington -based People’s Action defense team said: « Let’s be clear: violence comes from the Trump regime. »
« They want to play their game and react in ways they can use to justify further escalation. We are committed to non -violence and are also committed to resisting this attack, « the team said in a statement issued on Saturday.
Law and order
« If Governor Gavin Newskom, California, and Mayor of Karen Bas, Los Angeles, cannot do their job, which everyone knows that they cannot, then the federal government will intervene and solve the problem, Riots & Looters, Posting the White House official X’s official account, which was first posted before ordering the development of the National Guard.
The post was accompanied by photos of the demonstrations and a portrait of Trump with the slogan « LAW AND CLASS ».
A title under the photos read: « No mercy on the illegal riots and looting. »
Source: In