Mayor says Los Angeles being used as ‘test case’ by federal government – as it happened
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Mayor says ‘nothing warranted’ the intervention and that cannot ‘emphasize enough the level of fear and terror that is in Angelenos right now’ due to Ice raids

Despite comments made by Donald Trump just now (“we’ll see”), the US military is set to temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles while additional National Guard troops arrive in the city, a US official has told Reuters.

The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said a battalion would be sent, but for now, the Insurrection Act is not expected to be invoked.

The official added that the situation was fluid and could change.

  • unphazed@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Yep. But who’s stopping them? I swear to god they’re poking the bear to incite revolution. Break all the laws, prove they’re immune, incite full out rebellion, then invoke martial law, then write new laws that they will actually follow (for a time), just to get their new utopia.