Re: Los Angeles Has Surrendered

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 17:40:44 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 6/9/2025 8:36 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 6/9/2025 5:33 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

 

Encouraged by the mayor and city council, over the weekend, violent
leftist protesters took to the streets and attacked police and
federal agents while they were in the performance of making legal
and constitutional arrests. This, of course, is the very definition
of insurrection under the U.S. Code but none of our legacy media came
anywhere close to using that term to describe it.  Insurrection is a
crime they apparently believe only conservatives can commit. . . .

 

Over Governor Newsom's objections, Trump federalized and deployed the
California national guard. Newsom said army troops were unnecessary but
police have been using anti-riot tactics, so what's the difference. The
violent protests have continued for three days. News reports say that
national guard troops have been deployed to protect federal property. If
that's all they are being used for, I don't see how that usurps
federalism. Newsom is going to court this morning anyway.

 

Police declared all of downtown Los Angeles "an unlawful assembly area".
Why didn't they just declare a straight-forward curfew? What does that
mean for a building owner trying to get security guards deployed?

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/08/national-guard-los-angeles-protests-live-updates/84103374007/

 

Reports I had read indicated there were all of 100 protesters.

 
That was Friday. Numerous other people began protesting over the next
several days.
 

In part because of the overboard heavy handed Trump response.
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This article says 60 were arrested in San Francisco.
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump/
 
Now there's looting.
 
https://www.newsweek.com/mass-looting-breaks-out-la-riots-intensify-2082622

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The police/NG are also deliberately shooting reporters/journalists.  For
the moment with rubber bullets but just the fact that they are picking
them out specifically to shoot is extremely troubling.

What evidence is there that the media is being targeted on purpose?
Not that this would be a bad thing :)