As the #DC #military parade took place, hundreds of #protesters stood outside the federal building in downtown #LosAngeles. People had been dancing around, before hundreds of cops circled the 4-block square without warning or announcement, leading to a tense stand-off, acc/to a Rolling Stone reporter on the ground. #FlashBang #grenades went off, & police used #TearGas & smoke grenades to clear protesters.

#Trump #law #democracy #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #AmericanAutocracy

Though rock music blared on TV, the parade itself was eerily quiet. One video posted on X shows tanks squeaking past nearly silent crowds, sounding like a grocery cart in need of grease.

In the weeks leading up to his #birthday & the parade, #Trump told close associates that #protesters were going to try to overshadow the #military parade, including in media coverage, in #DC & elsewhere, & that he was determined not to let that happen…

#vanity #dictatorship #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy

At 2,000 locations across the country, #protesters held a #NoKings Day to voice their anger toward #Trump. About 20,000 people gathered in downtown #LosAngeles, undeterred by law enforcement's use of non-lethal weapons on earlier #protests & the president's escalation by sending in #troops.

#law #democracy #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #PosseComitatusAct #dictatorship #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy

"We will kill you graveyard dead."

Florida Sheriff #WayneIvey threatened to kill anti-#ICE #protesters, offering multiple graphic, sadistic descriptions of how police would do it.

#Protesters breached a #police line guarding the entrance to Highway #101 & now a police convoy has blocked traffic for the #protest to proceed onto the highway. The 101 has been blocked at #immigration & #RacialJustice #demonstrations many times in years past.

#Trump #law #Title10 #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #USTroops #NationalGuard #immigration

#LAPD orders some #protesters to disperse

The intersection mentioned in the post is right next to the federal building where #NationalGuard troops were stationed & protesters are gathered.

Several #police vehicles have driven into the area.

A helicopter circling the crowd in downtown #LosAngeles is announcing via loudspeaker that the #protest is an “unlawful assembly”

#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #immigration

Gee, why would #protesters ever need to wear #masks?

#Trump #law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #California #USTroops #NationalGuard #immigration

Foam projectiles fired into the crowd of #protesters littered the ground outside a downtown detention center where a crowd has been growing since the morning.

Tensions are escalating in one area of the protest, where a line of #LosAngeles #police officers are separating the crowd. “Love thy neighbor,” one protester yelled.

#Trump #law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #UseOfForce #Proportionality #democracy #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #Gestapo #California #NationalGuard #immigration

Video via Reuters

There are more press members than #protesters. The protesters are nowhere near the #NationalGuard physically. Yet #RubberBullets, #TearGas & #FlashBang #grenades.

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#Trump #law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #UseOfForce #RulesOfEngagement #Proportionality #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #USTroops #immigration

AP:

Members of the #NationalGuard faced off w/ #protesters in #LosAngeles on Sun, & #TearGas was fired at a growing crowd that gathered outside a federal complex hours after the federal troops arrived in the city on #Trump’s orders.

The confrontation broke out in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in #LA, as a group of demonstrators SHOUTED INSULTS at the guard lined shoulder to shoulder behind riot shields.

Tear gas for insults.

#law #UseOfForce #RulesOfEngagement #Proportionality

#IdiotInChief praised the #NationalGuard for their work in #LosAngeles at #immigration #protests in a Truth Social post. But the 2,000 troops he ordered to the area had not arrived. It was local law enforcement & some federal agents who have dealt w/ #protesters.

Shortly after #Trump praised the Guard for their work in LA, Mayor #KarenBass reminded residents that the troops had not arrived. “Just to be clear, the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles,” she posted.

#DHS Secy #KristiNoem, appearing on CBS Sunday, declined to give details about the #NationalGuard deployment in #LosAngeles. Asked if #troops would remove #protesters’ masks, she said, “I won’t get more specific on that, just because we never do when it comes to law enforcement operations.” #Trump said on Saturday that face coverings would not be tolerated at #protests.

[that would absolutely violate the #PosseComitatusAct]

#law #Title10 #democracy #RightToProtest #California #immigration

Note: most #protesters are not wearing #masks to hide their identities as #Trump claims. They are wearing masks because of the #TearGas canisters #LAPD & Federal officers
have been shooting at them.

#law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #NationalGuard #USTroops #immigration

A MSNBC reporter on the scene said the #NationalGuard fired the #TearGas when #protesters were only approaching them. Approaching. That’s it. No other provocation.

#Trump #law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #UseOfForce #RulesOfEngagement #Proportionality #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #USTroops #immigration

#Military ofcls are still trying to figure out the extent to which #NationalGuard #troops deployed to the #LosAngeles area could engage w/ #protesters, 2 #defense ofcls said Sunday.

The #Army’s 79th Brigade Combat Team from the #California National Guard are tasked w/defending federal property & personnel in the operational area. The troops were read their #RulesOfEngagement — the rules for the #UseOfForce — before they deployed. But #Pentagon ofcls have not said publicly what those rules are.

The principle of #proportionality is a #legal doctrine that requires any action taken by authorities, especially in the context of surveillance & #LawEnforcement, to be #proportionate to the objective being pursued.

#Law enforcement officers should use only the amount of force necessary to mitigate an incident, make an arrest, or protect themselves or others from harm.

#Trump #UseOfForce #RulesOfEngagement #NationalGuard #LosAngeles #protests #protesters #tyranny
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Overview of Police Use of Force

Broadly speaking, the use of force by law enforcement officers becomes necessary and is permitted under specific circumstances, such as in self-defense or in defense of another individual or group.

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🚨🚨 #NationalGuard members or other agents, it’s not clear which, just fired what appeared to be #TearGas at the crowd outside the detention center in downtown #LosAngeles, scattering #protesters who coughed from the smoke. Others helped them wash out their eyes.

At least one protester was hit by a #RubberBullet.

#Trump #law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #California #NationalGuard #USTroops #immigration

On Saturday, law enforcement officers used #FlashBang #grenades, #TearGas & #RubberBullets as they clashed with #protesters who came to the area in Paramount, which had been rumored to be the site of an #immigration operation.

There were hundreds of protesters when the #demonstrations peaked during the day, but their numbers dwindled in the evening. Several dozen were still protesting at 6PM.

#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo

#RiotPolice use force against #LA #protesters

Police in riot gear turned out Friday evening in a tense confrontation w/protesters in #LosAngeles, after a day of #immigration #raids in which dozens of people were reported to be taken into custody.

Live Reuters video showed #LAPD officers lined up on a downtown street wielding #batons, & firing what appeared to be #TearGas rifles…after authorities had ordered…protesters to disperse…

#law #Trump #AmericanAutocracy
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