Re: Los Angeles Has Surrendered

BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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The LAPD chief said on camera that his officers were overwhelmed and needed
help until he got a call from the mayor and was taken to the woodshed. Then
suddenly he claimed not to need help at all.

I wouldn't trust Karen Bass to manage an emergency if she was last person
on earth. Through a mixture of incompetence and gross negligence she stood
by and let the city burn in January and she's standing by and allowing
criminals to run free now. Of course she said the Guard wasn't necessary.
As a Castro-loving revolutionary, violent leftist uprising is what she
admires. She's not complaining that ICE "didn't give her a heads-up", she's
complaining that ICE is enforcing the law at all. She doesn't believe
America should enforce its borders or even have them in the first place.
Plus she won't support anything that Trump does out of sheer reflex.

I haven't read an analysis of Friday, June 6, 2025. Had the police chief
wanted to contain the demonstrations that day? Was he countermanded by
the mayor? Seems to me that there wasn't much of an issue on June 6 till
it became clear that the demonstrators were occupying streets and not
intending to leave. If there had been a police response at that moment,
then the cops wouldn't have been overrun.

Trump just foolishly let Bass off the hook, 'cuz no one will look at her
failure of governance. All the talk is about how much Trump stretched,
if not broke the law, in federalizing Guard troops, instead of a sober
examination if the demonstrations could have ended peacefully without
extending into the weekend.

Don't make me defend Trump here. While it was probably illegal to
federalize the Guard to deploy it, I don't see an unconstitutional
violation of federalism as they are securing federal buildings and
aren't performing general anti-riot duties that they aren't trained to
perform like police.

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