Washington – When racial justice demonstrated cities through America to the depths of the pandemic, President Trump, then during his first mandate, demonstrated a deduction. The threats to invoke the Insurrection Act and federalize the National Guard have never materialized.
This time, it took less than 24 hours of isolated demonstrations in the county of Los Angeles before Trump, more aggressive than ever in his use of executive power, emitted a historical order. “The federal government will intervene and solve the problem,” he said on social networks on Saturday evening, issuing an executive action that has not been seen since civil disorders seized the nation in the 1960s.
It was the last expression of an unleashed president from conventional parameters on his power, carefree with the rights of the States or the proportionality of his actions. And the targeting of a democratic city in a democratic state was, according to the vice-president, an intentional ploy to do a political lesson in Los Angeles.
The pace of climbing and the reluctance of the federal government to rely on the cooperative authorities of the application of local laws raise questions about the intentions of the administration by answering the demonstrators. The administration jumped several stages in an established scale of response options, such as improving the American marshal service and federal protection services to protect prisons and federal goods, before asking the State if a deployment of the National Guard could be justified.
Local officials were clear that they did not want or needed federal help. And they fear that Trump’s heavy response may degenerate what was a series of isolated clashes and old composed of a few hundred people in a larger challenge of application of the law that could hike in the city.
The historic deployment of the president caused a fury among local democrats who warned against an offense on the rights of the States. Trump’s acquisition of the California National Guard, said Governor Gavin Newsom, was invited to “not because there is a shortage of application of the law, but because they want a show.”
“Don’t give them one,” he said.
Vice-President JD Vance, calling for “insurrectionist” anti-glossy demonstrators, praised the political decline, declaring on X that “half of the American political leadership decided that the application of the borders was bad”.
Protests against ice agents on Friday and Saturday were limited in scale and location. Friday afternoon, several dozen people protested against the flash raids outside the metropolitan detention center, with a little conflict with agents and to vandalize the building. The LAPD authorized the so-called less lethal ammunition against a small group of “violent demonstrators” after the concrete was thrown against an officer. The demonstration disbursed at midnight.
On Saturday, outside a home deposit, the demonstrators chanted “Ice returning home” and “no justice, no peace”. Some demonstrators shouted to deputies and a series of flash-bang grenades was deployed.
“What are you doing!” A man shouted.
Times journalists have seen federal agents of several cycles of flash-bangs and pepper balls against the demonstrators.
Despite the limited scale of violence on Saturday evening, the Trump administration adopted the visuals of a city in chaos forcing the federal application of the law and the order.
“The Trump administration has a zero tolerance policy for criminal behavior and violence, especially when this violence is addressed to law enforcement agents who are trying to do their job,” the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Saturday evening. “These criminals will be arrested and quickly brought to justice. The commander-in-chief will ensure that the laws of the United States are fully executed and completely. ”
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth, in a statement on Saturday, said the administration was ready to go further, deploying American navies in active service in the second largest city in the country. “This is disturbed behavior,” said California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.
Trump’s decision on Saturday to call the National Guard, using a rarely used authority called Title 10, has no clear history precedent. President Lyndon Johnson cited title 10 in 1965 to protect civil rights walkers during demonstrations in Selma, Alberta, but made concern that the local police refuse to do so themselves.
On the other hand, this weekend, the Sheriff’s Department of the County of Los Angeles said that it was fully co-opted with the Federal police. “We are planning long -term civilian disorders and collaborating with our partners responsible for the application of laws,” the ministry said in a statement.
The 2,000 guards called for the duty are double the number which was awarded by the local authorities to respond to much wider demonstrations that broke out in Los Angeles following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Tom Homan, the so-called TSAR of the president’s border, told Fox News on Saturday evening that the administration was “already ahead of the match” in its planning of a deployment of the National Guard.
“It is a question of enforcing the law, and again, we are not going to apologize for having done it,” he said. “We intensify.”
The troops of the National Guard began to arrive in Los Angeles on Sunday morning, moving into federal buildings in the county of the.
“If Governor Gavin Newscum, from California, and Mayor Karen Bass, Los Angeles, cannot do their job,” wrote Trump on the truth, his social media platform, “then the federal government will intervene and solve the problem.”
