The Military National Guard began arriving on Sunday, June 8 in Los Angeles by order of Donald Trump, after two days of sometimes violent demonstrations against its migration policy, a weird deployment was carried out against the Council of the California democratic authorities.
Denunciating the ongoing “anarchy” in the megalopolis of the powerful democratic state, the Republican president ordered the deployment of 2,000 members of this armed reserve force, mainly mobilized during natural disasters on Saturday night.
A decision described as “deliberately incendiary” by the governor of California Gavin Newsom, who warned that “only tensions would worse.”
Military armed with automatic rifles looked at Sunday morning near the City Council, according to the ABC channel, while other demonstrations are scheduled from 2:00 pm local (9:00 pm GMT).
This deployment occurs after two days of demonstrations marked by confrontations and violence in a city in the suburbs of Los Angeles to the mainly Hispanic population, the inhabitants oppose the arrests of MANU militari of immigrants led by the Federal Immigration Police, ICE.
“We have to defend our people,” a woman told AFP, refusing to give her name.
Source: BFM TV
