Where Things Stand: Behind The Scenes of Trump's Haphazard Occupation of LA

[system1]

Originally published at: Where Things Stand: Behind The Scenes of Trump’s Haphazard Occupation of LA - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Back in June, Major General Scott Sherman had a problem. He was in command of federalized California National Guard troops stationed in Los Angeles, and had received a bizarre request: immigration authorities wanted military vehicles and National Guard troops to support an operation targeting the city’s MacArthur Park on Father’s Day. Sherman balked. Gregory Bovino,…

[tindalos]

@system11

What’s key to understand here is that serving as domestic law enforcement is not the mission for the military.

The obligation to refuse an illegal order would also be considered “key,” not so? Maybe the situation was not clear-cut enough – IANAL and imagine the national guard officer isn’t one either – but maybe the thing for a ‘patriotic’ soldier to do in this instance would be to ask one (I assume CA natl guard has legal counsel somewhere).

[llwillis]

Anna Bower’s report on Day 2 of the CA trial on deployment of the National Guard in LA.

Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)

The point that sticks with me is that simply by their presence in large numbers, the National Guard acts as a ‘force multiplier’ to amplify the LE presence and make it seem overwhelming to the people of LA.

ETA: The objective is not any legitimate public safety purpose. The objective is to frighten and intimidate.

[davidn]

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[lastroth]

@system11

“The Court merely finds that the defendants may not withhold appropriated funds under the present conditions: on the grounds that the Endowment’s projects do not align with the Executive’s priorities,” Friedrich wrote in his opinion.

DonOLD this is not your personal money. This job you took is managerial, not ownership. All decisions are not yours to make.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. But if you stick your nose into where it doesn’t belong…well let’s just say we have ways to deal with that.

[brian512]

@lastroth

DonOLD this is not your personal money. This job you took is managerial, not ownership. All decisions are not yours to make.

Well, he’s a really lousy manager.

He’s a pretty lousy owner, too, if you look at his business track record, but he absolutely sucks at anything that requires any kind of stewardship.

Everything is all for, and about, him.

[mch]

@llwillis

make it seem overwhelming to the people of LA.

Yes, but also to expand resistance and fortify it, if not with people in the streets, then in other ways. D.C. residents are angry about the paltry numbers of NG there, as well as the FBI and other gov’t agents who have been deployed. The NG, FBI, and other gov’t agents are also not happy.