The Los Angeles Reaction to “Radical Left Protests” is a “Traint in a Trinketbox”

“I think it was a riot. I think it was very bad. It was covered in a riot by most of the people, according to Trump before he left for Camp David. He questioned if local officials could bring the protesters under control, and said the federal government would make sure there was “law and order”.

We support the governor of California who said that local authorities should be able to do their job without interference and intimidation from the federal government.

“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,” Newsom wrote. “This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”

Los Angeles became “a trinketbox” according to the Mayor as law enforcement clashed with demonstrators over a series of federal immigration raids.

The Los Angeles police department said 50 people were arrested in a short period of time. Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell has said the department supports the First Amendment right to assemble.

ICE operations targeted multiple locations across the Los Angeles area and demonstrators tried to prevent people from being deported. Authorities used flash bangs, pepper spray and tear gas to disperse crowds. A Home depot in the city of Paramount outside Los Angeles was the site of a particularly contentious confrontation.

The National Guard would be sent to respond to the protests. In a social media post, Trump attacked what he called “Radical Left protests” by “instigators and often paid troublemakers.”

At least three officers were injured in a clash between protesters and police in San Francisco, California, against immigration raids on the 101 Freeway

At least three officers were injured and at least 60 people were arrested in San Francisco, California, as police clashed with protesters demonstrating in support of Los Angeles protests against the immigration raids.

The police wrote on X that they were conducting arrests and people were throwing “concrete, bottles and other objects.” By Sunday evening, LAist reported that Los Angeles police had arrested 10 and the California Highway Patrol arrested another 17 people on the 101 Freeway.

The people here want to be peaceful, Anna Benedict told LAist. “We’ve been standing here for quite a while, and no one is menacing the National Guard. Everybody is just standing up for their own freedom.”

Eli says that attacks on the immigrant community are attacks on all of us.

Two government officials told NPR Monday that 700 Marines have been deployed to the state. The police chief said he didn’t know about the Marines showing up.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a post on X Saturday that active duty Marines at Camp Pendleton also were on high alert and would also be mobilized “if violence continues.”

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Trump said he could also deploy troops to more cities. Minneapolis and Chicago witnessed protests in response to ICE actions.

“We’re going to have troops everywhere. We are not going to allow it to happen to our country. Trump said that the country was not going to be torn apart like it was under Biden. (The reference to an “autopen” comes after Trump last week ordered an investigation into whether his predecessor Joe Biden used an autopen to sign documents in office).

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stated on All Things Considered that coordination with federalized National Guard troops iscollaborative, but that she was opposed to President Trump’s deployment of them.

Bass believes that the raids and federalization of troops to come into Los Angeles is part of a plan to sow chaos. She called the city a “tinderbox” and said, “I do not want to see civil unrest take place in this city and I think bringing the National Guard in is provocative.”

Donald Trump’s repeated promise to mass deportations in his second term is likely to continue the administration’s increased immigration enforcement.

At Camp David, Trump said he plans to meet with people, including generals and admirals. Asked about sending Marines and protests in other cities, Trump left open that possibility.

“The bar is what I think it is. We’ll be very, very strong in terms of law and order if we see danger to our country. Trump said that it was about law and order.

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“As protests continue and potentially expand over the coming days,” Mirasola said, “I worry that there is going to be political pressure to move beyond the limited ambit of what’s included in the protective power.”

The Secretary of Defense shall consult with both the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security before removing any personnel from any location in which they are sent.

Mirasola thinks that the presidential memorandum is broad and doesn’t appear limited to LA. The memo doesn’t say “Los Angeles” and the secretary of defense has wide latitude to do military protective activities.

Mirasola warned that if the National Guard moved meaningfully beyond this more limited role, we could see an overstepping of the legal theory behind the deployment.

The provision has previously been used along with the Insurrection Act. “It hasn’t been used as a standalone authority, and whether it can provide on its own the substantive authority to do the things that President Trump is doing would be a question” for the courts, if it gets there.

“The courts have not had the opportunity to resolve whether, under this theory, the military can perform these fundamental law enforcement functions that we’re talking about in a situation like what’s unfolding in Los Angeles,” she said.

In the past, the Justice Department “has opined that when protecting federal functions and property, the military is not actually conducting law enforcement” and so the Posse Comitatus Act, which is supposed to block federal participation in law enforcement, simply doesn’t apply, Goitein explained.

Goitein said that this idea has been put forward many times by the executive branch, including during Trump’s first administration.

It is the first time since 1965 that a president called National Guard troops to respond to civil unrest without a governor’s official request for assistance, according to Elizabeth Goitein, the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program.

California and Gov. Gavin Newsom have responded: Newsom announced on Monday that the state is suing the Trump administration over the president’s decision. Newsom’s office said in a statement that the lawsuit, which names Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense, alleges the National Guard order “violates the U.S. Constitution and exceeds” the president’s authority.

The powers granted to the president of the United States to quell unrest have been questioned. And how is the Trump administration bucking tradition and legal precedent in this situation?

This act has not yet been invoked by the White House in Los Angeles, despite the fact that Trump and his allies have referred to the protesters as “insurrectionists.” Trump said on Sunday that so far he didn’t see the basis for invoking the Insurrection Act, though he left open the possibility of doing that in the future.

She said that it hasn’t been used since 1992 without a state request. After police officers were acquitted in the beating of a King, Bush used it to bring about peace in Los Angeles.

The Title 10 of the U.S. Code on armed services includes “10 U.S.C. 12406.” It allows the president to deploy federal troops in instances of “a rebellion or danger of a rebellion” against the U.S. government.

Newsom’s office said the president exceeded his “Title 10 authority, not only because the takeover occurred without the consent or input of the Governor, as federal law requires, but also because it was unwarranted.”

The situation in Los Angeles is not comparable to others of the same nature, nor is it different from other similar situations in recent years, as stated by the office of the governor.

Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown law professor, wrote on his Substack that invoking this provision doesn’t authorize the National Guard troops to conduct their own immigration raids, arrests or do anything other than what the president’s memo stated, which was to “ensure the protection and safety of Federal personnel and property.”

The president is also justifying calling the military to LA by seemingly pointing to an implied authority in Article 2 of the Constitution, according to Christopher Mirasola, an assistant professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

The protective power is a debated theory of presidential power that states that the president has constitutional authority to use the military to protect federal functions.

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Los Angeles police said that while the protests have mostly been peaceful, some violence has occurred. Though, several officials have rebuffed the president’s intervention, saying they have it handled.

He said that attack officers and those who incite violence will be arrested. There is no tolerance for any criminal activity that is used to protest.

The charges those arrested face include attempted murder with a Molotov cocktail, assault on a police officer, and failure to disperse, the LAPD said. One of those arrested was David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union California, who was released Monday afternoon.

“The Los Angeles Police Department, alongside our mutual aid partners, have decades of experience managing large-scale public demonstrations, and we remain confident in our ability to do so professionally and effectively,” he said.

McDonnell refuted claims that it took LAPD more than two hours to respond to a federal request for assistance. He said the police department took longer to respond to calls because they did not know there was a federal force in the area and that tear gas used by federal troops made road conditions hazardous. The department was on the scene in 38 minutes, McDonnell said.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass should thank President Trump for ridding the streets of illegal immigrants, rapists, and gangbangers, said the White House in a statement.

“This isn’t about public safety,” he said. It is about getting closer to a dangerous President’s ego. This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.

“Do your job,” the governor said, in response to the vice president. We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. Rescind the order. Return control to California.”