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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by aisenik on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:46AM (#44247584)
if the cops are all rioting and playing murder-musical chairs with peaceful people living their lives freely, crimes of opportunity will happen.

it's the feds and the sheriffs and the police causing unrest, by intent and design.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by cmurf on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @01:22PM (#44249775)
Certainly the Trump regime are.

LAPD are trained and regularly used for crowd control and protest dispersal. The guard isn’t. And for sure the Marines have no clue about policing.

I think LAPD is choosing a 1st amendment violation as the lesser failure than permitting any escalation involving the National Guard. That would quickly turn out badly for the guard, become a pretext for ever more violent authoritarianism in response.

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