• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    And they basically did nothing but stand around. I think they arrested one guy? And that one guy was most likely being an asshole and pushed his luck past the brink. Also, there was only 700 of them. You couldn’t control my little hick town with 700 soldiers. LOL, they’d be hilariously outgunned by the rednecks and retired military. In any case, now they’re gone.

    Yes, it was an egregiously corrupt use of the military, but that’s not even close to using weapons of war on an American city.

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      9 hours ago

      I think they arrested one guy? And that one guy was most likely being an asshole and pushed his luck past the brink.

      Think again, señor:

      LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shortly after they began guarding a Los Angeles federal building Friday, U.S. Marines detained a man who had walked onto the property and did not immediately hear their commands to stop.

      The brief detention marked the first time federal troops have detained a civilian since they were deployed to the nation’s second-largest city by President Donald Trump in response to protests over the admin[…]

      The man, Marcos Leao, was later released without charges and said the Marines were just doing their jobs.

      Such an asshole…