Pogrom in the city of Angels

What is happening in Los Angeles, where the sea infantry entered. And why migrants are caught only in democratic states

From last Friday in the capital of California, protests turning into clashes with the police. They are caused by raids by employees of the border and immigration service that catch illegal migrants. According to officials, more than 150 people were arrested in Los Angeles from Friday. About 60 more were arrested in San Francisco, where demonstrators and police fought on the street in the city center on Sunday evening. The protests spread to Atlanta (Georgia), Dallas (Texas) and New York. But to talk about the "foreboding of the Civil War" is clearly premature.

Trump supporters support the president’s decision to introduce two thousand soldiers of the National Guard into Los Angeles. This was done without the consent of the Governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles. Later, the president ordered to strengthen the group, adding 700 marine infantrymen and 2,000 more national guards.

This is happening in America for the first time since 1965. Then President Lindon Johnson used troops to protect demonstrators for civil rights in Alabama. Here, on the contrary, the marine infantry, which is not used at all against civilian, and national guards, usually acting in the conditions of natural disasters (floods, forest fires, hurricanes), are designed to suppress demonstrators, and not protect them from racists, as it was in the distant 1965.

The actions of the President Governor Gavin News and the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass were called "deliberately instigators." According to them, before the input of the guards, the Los Angeles police coped with the situation, and the protests were peaceful. News said that California filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for the deployment of troops without the consent of the state leadership.

“We had no problems until Trump intervened,” News wrote on social networks X.

The protests began on Friday, when ICE federal agents (border and immigration service) searched the area of ​​the sewing factory and parking of the Home Depot store in search of illegal migrants. This is a new practice of the current administration - catching right at workplaces and on the streets. The agents were met by protesters who chanted slogans such as “kill Ice” and threw eggs. They were dispersed by law enforcement officers who used peppers and rubber bullets.

The arrested illegal migrants were accused of serious crimes, including murder of the second degree, theft on especially large sizes, an attack with the aim of rape and attack with deadly weapons - this is an official version of the Ministry of Internal Security. On the other hand, protesters claim that among the detainees were elderly women and minor shweets.

The demonstrations continued on Saturday both in the center of Los Angeles, and in the Latin American suburb of the paramount, about 25 km south. Law enforcement officers used ammunition to contain the crowd, tear gas and light -school grenades. On Sunday, about 300 fighters of the National Guard of California entered the city. Demonstrations on Sunday afternoon near the Center for detainees in the city center were mostly peaceful, but some protesters launched fireworks in police officers under the bridge on a nearby US motorway 101. It was blocked.

Since Friday, the situation has deteriorated, the head of the city police, Jim McDonnell, recognized. The police chief told reporters that the Department would not request assistance from the National Guard, but added: “Looking at today's violence, I think we should revalize.” In the ranks of the protesters, anarchists and representatives of the Antifa movement were seen. The most active threw Molotov cocktails, fireworks, stones and spoiled property.

Several police cars were set on fire. The mayor of the basics said that the pogromers should be held accountable, but repeated that these actions of Trump caused a similar reaction. Simultaneously with the protests in some parts of the city in Hollywood, a parade was completely organized and peacefully passed in support of the LGBT*community as part of the month of National Pride celebrated here.

In the center of Los Angeles, the Australian television journalist was wounded by a police rubber bullet when she worked live. Protesters waving the Mexican flag and flags of other countries from where the immigrants came.

American media note that

Trump officials called demonstrators waving flags, “rebels”, but for many protesters who are “Mexican Americans”, the flag symbolizes pride in their historical heritage. No more.

Most of the protesters in Los Angeles are Latin American. This is the main group that federal immigration agents are aimed at. Latin American people make up the majority of the inhabitants of the city of angels, occupy influential political positions and make up almost half of the employees of the city police department and the Department of the Sheriff of the District. As the journalist Joe Domenik, who specializes in the history of the police, notes, “a very difficult situation has developed. For many officers, parents and grandparents probably do not have migration documents. ”

Now many are comparing current events with 1992. Experts note that then there was a completely different situation. Unlike individual skirmishes observed in Los Angeles over the past few days, then the city literally fell into the “zone of lawlessness”. Drivers were pulled out of cars and beaten. The buildings were burned. Enterprises robbed. In total, 63 people died during the riots, including nine, shot by the police. The riots lasted six days and were called by the African Americans anger for the cruel actions of the police, which lasted many years. The immediate cause was the recognition as innocent in the use of the “excessive power” of four officers who stopped the African American Rodney King only after the high -speed chase. The videos clearly showed that the officers brutally beat the driver, but they were released.

Then, due to mass pogroms, sports events were postponed or transferred to safer places, a commandant hour was introduced from sunset to dawn, the schools were closed, and mail delivery was suspended. On the third day of the riots, President George Bush Sr., at the request of Governor Pia Wilson and mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley used the National Guard. Thousands of soldiers of the army and marine corps were sent to the city. The armored cars drove into the center for highways.

The protests of 2025 can not compare with large -scale riots and violence of 1992. Protesters directed their anger mainly to ICE agents, and not to residents, and acts of vandalism caused relatively slight damage to buildings or enterprises, the media noted. In any case, for now. Then the African Americans rebelled, now they are mainly protesting Latinos.

Why is Trump so “twisting the nuts” in the city of angels?

Those experts who are looking for “rational grain” in any actions, and not just “emotional outlets” believe that sending marines and guards to Los Angeles is a kind of “distraction operation”. After a loud quarrel with a magician, against the background of problems with the passage of a “large beautiful bill”, which increases the deficit and foreign debt, through Congress, not to mention the failures in foreign policy (never approximately the world in Ukraine and in the gas sector), the President at once switches the attention of American voters to his decisive migrants and suppress their protests.

This topic is still Trump’s political horse, its main advantage in the eyes of the masses. According to the CBS News poll, published on Monday,

Most Americans approve of Trump's mass deportations (54%) and the actions of the immigration and customs police agents that search the community in order to detect illegal immigrants (51%).

The IPSOS survey showed that the Republicans are ahead of the Democrats by 19 points on the question of whom voters are more trusted in the issue of immigration, while CNN and CBS News found that the party was the leader on this issue at 6 points.

Trump, thus, kills three birds with one stone at once: strengthens the rating, distracts the focus of citizens from their failures and strikes political opponents in the “most blue city of the very blue state” of the country - the main estate of the Democratic Party.

Let me remind you that California is a unique "state in the state." The economy of this state, which recently ahead of Japan, occupies 4th place in the world. 10 years ago she was the eighth.

Trump, who called in social networks mostly peaceful demonstrators “rebel crowds that captured and occupied Los Angeles,” did not exclude the application of the Law on an uprising that would allow him to deploy the army within the country. The president claims that the "rebels" are "paid." His chief official on border protection issues, the so -called The “king of border” Tom Homan admitted that the Governor of California News and the mayor of Los Angeles Bass could be prosecuted, although he later accused journalists of “inaccurate citation”.

Governor News, who is called one of the main presidential candidates from the Democratic Party in the elections in 2028, said that he was ready to arrest and accused Trump that he was working out a scheme with the introduction of federal troops into any unwanted state, by the example of California. The clashes between the protesting and law enforcement agencies “exactly what Donald Trump wanted,” wrote News on Monday on social networks: “He enlisted fires and acted illegally in order to federal guard. The order signed by him applies not only to California. He will allow him to do the same in any state. We sue him. ”

If the ICE raids aimed at Los Angeles are needed why they are also not needed in the “Red States”, which, as it could be assumed, Trump is more inclined to protect-the Wsa Today Rex Khuppka, asks the question. Why do ICE agents are not looking for illegal workers on farms in Nebrak or on meat processing plants in Indiana? Why are the protests against ICE raids in the republican states are not dispersed by federal troops?

Experts call the actions of the head of the White House "a defiant manifestation of double standards." A person who praised the rebels on January 6 as “great patriots”, and then forgave them all, has the arrogance to call the “rebels” protesters in Los Angeles,

Trump critics note. In the protests in California there is nothing that would make them a rebellion against the state, while everything regarding the attack on the Capitols of the United States in 2021 and attempts to cancel the elections made it a real rebellion.

On June 9, the “Border Tsar” Tom Homan said about the protesters in Los Angeles: “You can protest. You get your rights in accordance with the first amendment. But when you cross this border, you attack an ICE employee, destroy property, or Ice says that you will prevent the protection of law and order ... This is a crime. And the Trump administration is not going to endure it. ” But it turns out that if you protest for Trump (events of January 6), you can break into the federal building (Capitol), beat the police (140 people received injuries, 5 dead, including because of suicide), destroy property-this is “patriotic and excusable”.

About the protesters in the city of Angels, the press secretary of the White House, Karolin Livitt, said: "Left radicals carrying foreign flags." Vice President J. D. Wence stated on social networks: "rebels carrying foreign flags attack employees of the immigration service." On January 6, 2021, the trumpists, who broke into the Capitol with the flags of the Southern Confederation and the United States, were beaten with poles from the banners of the police. Another quote from USA Today: “Americans throughout the country should feel free to go out and protest ... If only this fully corresponds to the beliefs of the Republicans and the Trump administration. If something goes beyond this framework, they will call the National Guard. And sea infantry. "

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On Tuesday, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass announced a commandant hour from 8 pm to 6 a.m. in the central regions of the city.

* In the Russian Federation, the international public movement of LGBT is recognized as an extremist organization and is prohibited.