Yeah, About Los Angeles

"You sent your troops here without fuel, food, water or a place to sleep. Here they are-being forced to sleep on the floor, piled on top of one another. If anyone is treating our troops disrespectfully, it is you @realDonaldTrump." @GavinNewsom https://t.co/ggBuk2WaLK pic.twitter.com/IWcpFF6zkH

— Mary Rose G. B. (Striving Ethnologist) (@mare_se) June 10, 2025

F%$# them for making Newsom a heroic figure

I think that the current protests and violence in Los Angeles are the result of a deliberate provocation by ICE at the direction of the Trump administration.

Donald Trump’s administration promised to crush opposition in Los Angeles.

Late on Saturday night, the US president deployed national guard soldiers in LA following protests against immigration raids in the city – a stunning escalation in the administration’s promise of “mass deportations”. His administration has promised to quell protests, and warned local leaders to brace for at least 30 days of ramped-up immigration enforcement.

But the overwhelming show of force may have awoken something else. The city is responding with a roaring backlash.

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Fueling the fury was the brutality with which federal agents had approached their targets, including a clothing manufacturer in Los Angeles’s garment district, and Home Depot in the Westlake district and a warehouse in South Los Angeles. The arrests were carried out without judicial warrants, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) – advocates say that more than 200 people were taken.

Lawyers reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been holding detained families in the basements of federal immigration facilities, separating children and mothers from their fathers. Agents have refused access to attorneys and family members, according to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef).

As masked immigration officers ripped workers away from their jobs, other agents in riot gear attacked protesters with teargas and flash-bang grenades, escalating a handful of isolated demonstrations into a clash that roiled the city and spurred several hundred to join the protest.

Among the protesters arrested was the union leader David Huerta, president of SEIU-USWW and SEIU California. The images of a middle-aged man in a plaid button-down shirt who was shoved down to the ground have angered millions of union workers across the US, wrote the LA Times columnist Anita Chabria. “The battleground has been redrawn in ways we don’t fully yet appreciate,” she wrote.

We have, of course, seen the random condemnations from the Republican never-Trumpers, like David Frum at The Atlantic, but that and $15.54 will get you a Venti as Starbucks.  It really does not matter.

What DOES matter is that it's pretty clear that Trump and his Evil Minions™ are attempting to create a situation where he can declare something akin to martial law.

I think that the goal is to allow Trump to take direct control of the 2026 elections and engage in mass arrests of his opponents.

Kristi Noem is asking the Secretary of Defense to use the military to arrest, "Lawbreakers," which appears to me to be a attempt to create conditions to justify the military intervention in civilian governance.

One day before the Trump administration deployed U.S. Marines to confront protesters in Los Angeles, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to direct the military to detain or arrest “lawbreakers,” a move one expert called “a grave escalation.”

A letter sent Sunday from Noem to Hegseth, obtained by the Chronicle, requested that the Pentagon give “Direction to DoD forces to either detain, just as they would at any federal facility guarded by military, lawbreakers under Title 18 until they can be arrested and processed by federal law enforcement, or arrest them.”

The military is generally barred under federal laws from taking part in domestic law enforcement. Granting Noem’s request would likely require the administration to sidestep those laws by invoking the Insurrection Act, two legal experts said in interviews.

Yeah, I'm worried about a 7 Days in May scenario.