Significant escalation. Marine rifles are sent to Los Angeles
Marine prisons are preparing to leave for the metropolitan area on Monday Los Angeles From Twentynine Palms, California, according to an X post of the US Northern Command, said CNN. The US Northern Command announced on Monday that members of the marine kids will integrate with other armed forces that protect the federal staff and federal properties in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
About 700 marine kids were activated to help federal staff and properties in the Los Angeles area. They will join the thousands of members of the National Guard who were activated by President Donald Trump at the weekend without the consent of the Governor of California or the mayor of Los Angeles.
California General Prosecutor Robert Bonta characterized the marine kids as « unnecessarily mobilized » in an interview with CNN Monday.
And Reuters informs that an American official told the news agency on Monday that the US Army will temporarily send approximately 700 Marine kids to Los Angeles, while additional bands of the National Guard arrive in the city. The official, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said that a battalion would be sent, but that, for the moment, the law of insurrection is not stipulated. The official added that the situation is fluid and can change.
The conduct of an entire battalion of Marini kids marks a significant escalation of the use of the army by Trump as a demonstration of force against protesters, but it is not yet clear what their mission will be in Los Angeles, CNN sources said. Like the troops of the National Guard, they are forbidden to carry out law enforcement activities, such as arrests, unless Trump invokes the law on insurrection.
Over 2,000 members of the California National Guard were mobilized by the president, but so far about 300 have been dislocated on the streets. Marine troops are expected to replace some of the members of the National Guard who have been dislocated in Los Angeles in the last two days, the source said.
