Trump Allowed to Keep National Guard in Los Angeles
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President Trump has said the city would be burning without military intervention, but the protests have been confined to a relatively small area.
Governors aren't on the same page about the National Guard for "No Kings" protests. They are weighing public safety, and if Trump will step in.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced questions from Congress on the Trump administration’s decision to deploy troops to Los Angeles. About 700 Marines and more than 4,000 National Guard have been ... overreaction to peaceful protests in California
HOW WE GOT HERE: The protests erupted after Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Friday carried out raids in three locations across L.A., where dozens of people were taken into custody. Newsom called the raids “chaotic federal sweeps” that aimed to fill an “arbitrary arrest quota.”
Waymo said it had temporarily halted service in downtown Los Angeles after several of its cars were torched during protests.
The Guard’s arrival marks a potentially volatile phase in Trump’s push to ramp up deportations and in his contentious relationship with state and local authorities.
The Trump administration is accusing the LAPD of waiting two hours to respond and disperse a violent mob of 1,000 people who gathered in the city’s downtown Friday nto protest the feds’ efforts to
Just blocks from where a handful of die-hard protesters faced police in Los Angeles on Wednesday, residents were enjoying lunch in the sun and shrugging off Donald Trump's claims their city was burning.