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OK, I am not very smart but all of the news coverage. I’m seeing is basically just National Guard police and riot gear stand around. I understand that there was a car that was set on fire that there were people tearing up shops and billboards, but there haven’t been any police officers sent to the emergency room. Nobody has died only 60 people have been arrested in the city of millions ?
Is Trump waving his military size penis around because he wants too?
Or was there a legit reason to send in the National Guard ?
National Guard should not be deployed. It’s plainly illegal.
They’re there to foment unrest, to be a lightning rod for violence, so that they can start shooting people.
No. The protests were a few dozen people, but immediately ballooned more than tenfold after that announcement. I wouldn't be surprised if the administrative costs of processing Trump's order cost more than what damage had been done by that point.
This was just escalation: inciting further unrest to justify a crackdown.
Oh man, I was in the Army for 10 years - costs of activating and deploying reserve and non-active duty people is enormous, like the money we lost after Hurricane Katrina was like 50% of just sending in emergency people.
Saw a thing earlier today of someone taking a pot-shot at a reporter with a rubber bullet. She was no where anyone, dude just started blasting. On top of simply trying to cause problems ya can’t deny that cops also just love cruelty for the sake of it.
Yes.
There was a good reason, to stop the police and ICE from attacking people, that's not why they were sent though. In the past the National Guard has been called in to stop local police, like during the end of segregation when local authorities opposed race-mixing in the 60s. But the purpose in this case is to escalate tensions and push the narrative of a 'violent insurrection'.
Numerous people have been sent to the ER after being attacked by police, including a UK journalist who needed emergency surgery after his calf muscle was impaled by a 40mm 'rubber bullet'. People have been shot by teargas and other munitions at close range and been trampled by horses from the LAPD. Many of the fires seen were started by flashbangs and other munitions used by the police. They also have 500 US Marines on standby, which is also only for the purpose of agitating people further and selling the unrest as an 'invasion' to his base.
US Marines policing their own citizens would be a violation of the Posse Commitatus Act?