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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Los Angeles Has Surrendered
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 17:40:44 -0700
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On 6/9/2025 8:36 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> On 6/9/2025 5:33 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> Encouraged by the mayor and city council, over the weekend, violent
>>>> leftist protesters took to the streets and attacked police and
>>>> federal agents while they were in the performance of making legal
>>>> and constitutional arrests. This, of course, is the very definition
>>>> of insurrection under the U.S. Code but none of our legacy media came
>>>> anywhere close to using that term to describe it.  Insurrection is a
>>>> crime they apparently believe only conservatives can commit. . . .
> 
>>> Over Governor Newsom's objections, Trump federalized and deployed the
>>> California national guard. Newsom said army troops were unnecessary but
>>> police have been using anti-riot tactics, so what's the difference. The
>>> violent protests have continued for three days. News reports say that
>>> national guard troops have been deployed to protect federal property. If
>>> that's all they are being used for, I don't see how that usurps
>>> federalism. Newsom is going to court this morning anyway.
> 
>>> Police declared all of downtown Los Angeles "an unlawful assembly area".
>>> Why didn't they just declare a straight-forward curfew? What does that
>>> mean for a building owner trying to get security guards deployed?
> 
>>> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/08/national-guard-los-angeles-protests-live-updates/84103374007/
> 
>> Reports I had read indicated there were all of 100 protesters.
> 
> That was Friday. Numerous other people began protesting over the next
> several days.
> 
In part because of the overboard heavy handed Trump response.

> This article says 60 were arrested in San Francisco.
> 
> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump/
> 
> Now there's looting.
> 
> https://www.newsweek.com/mass-looting-breaks-out-la-riots-intensify-2082622

The police/NG are also deliberately shooting reporters/journalists.  For 
the moment with rubber bullets but just the fact that they are picking 
them out specifically to shoot is extremely troubling.

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