Escalating in LA
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Not getting the kind of resistance he wants, Trump keeps sending in troops:
Tensions began to rise in Los Angeles on Monday evening after a mostly quiet day of protests against President Trump’s deportation roundups, and following the administration’s orders to more than double the number of military forces being sent to the area.
The unrest initially focused on a small area downtown, near a federal building and City Hall, where law enforcement officers fired flash bangs and foam rounds to disperse a crowd. Police officers and National Guard troops in riot gear surrounded the federal building as night approached. But protesters then began to spread out, with some moving into the nearby area of Little Tokyo.
The confrontation on the ground mirrored the one between top officials in California and in Washington, as the Trump administration’s new deployments brought the number of federal forces to 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 active-duty Marines. The escalation was striking, given that the protests had been relatively small and limited to a few locations. Mr. Trump has labeled the protesters “insurrectionists.”
Trump knows exactly what he’s doing when he falsely applies the term “insurrectionist.” Senate Republicans letting him off the hook for 1/6 was a massive blow to the constitutional order.