“I’ve lived in #LA for 35 years already & I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said, adding that more than half of his Hispanic [& Latin] clientele are afraid to leave their homes. “Our business has been down I would say 60% to 70%.”

Asked for comment, city leaders in #Pasadena said that they are aware of Wednesday’s #arrests & the officer pulling his #gun on a resident….

#immigration #law#StateSponsoredAbduction #economy#SmallBusiness#Trump#AbuseOfPower #tyranny#AmericanAutocracy

Video of the operation captured by woman inside Dena’s Burgers, on the corner of Orange Grove Blvd & Los Robles Ave, shows the men being put into an unmarked van & taken away.

#immigration #law#StateSponsoredAbduction#Trump#AbuseOfPower #tyranny#AmericanAutocracy

Found the video via Austin American-Statesman

#USMarines detain civilian at #LA anti-#ICE #protests for first known time after #Trump deploys #military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5oRFbHbuQ

#law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#California#NationalGuard#Marines #resist

Per Idrees Ali of Reuters:

The #troops are authorized [by whom? Not by law] to detain people who pose a threat to federal personnel or property, but only until #LawEnforcement can arrest them.

#Trump #law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#California #military#NationalGuard#Marines #resist

The incident took place at the Wilshire Federal Building in #LosAngeles where #Marines took charge of the mission to protect the building earlier on Friday, in a rare domestic use of US #troops after days of #protests over #immigration raids.

#Trump #law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#California#NationalGuard #resist

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Exclusive: US #Marines carry out first known #detention of #civilian in #LosAngeles, video
shows

Marines deployed to #LA carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the US #military confirmed after being presented w/ Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty #troops deployed there by #Trump.

#Trump #law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy #protests
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/

Well, the #PosseComitatusAct has officially been violated.

#NationalGuard troops have detained #civilians in #LAprotests, commander says

National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the #LosAngeles #protests over #immigration raids, the commander in charge said Wednesday, but they quickly turned them over to #LawEnforcement [the 30 second rule is only for food fools].

#Trump #law #democracy#RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-immigration-raids-los-angeles-c9957a0d4ded48e40ce78efb0b7a8fbf

Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman also said about 500 of the #NationalGuard #troops have been trained so far to accompany #ICE agents on #immigration operations.…

Sherman is commander of Task Force 51, which is overseeing the >4,000 Guard troops & 700 #Marines who have been deployed to #LosAngeles to provide security during the #protests.

#Trump #law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#California

The board is also concerned that the budget that Secretary of #State#MarcoRubio is requesting from #Congress for the next fiscal
year #cuts spending for the Bureau of #Educational & #Cultural Affairs, which includes the #Fulbright program, to $50 million from $691 million this fiscal year. [Holy crap!!! That’s insane]

#law#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

The memo written by the board says that members are resigning “rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the #law, compromise #US national interests & #integrity, & undermine the mission & mandates #Congress established for the #Fulbright program nearly 80 years ago,” according to a copy obtained by The Times.

#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

In addition, the #State Dept is reviewing the applications of about 1,200 scholars from other countries who have already been approved by the board to come to the #UnitedStates, the people said. Those foreign #scholars were also supposed to receive acceptance letters around April.

#law#Fulbright#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

The board approved those scholars over the winter after a yearlong selection process, & the #State Dept was supposed to send acceptance letters by April, the people said. 🚨🚨🚨 But instead, the board learned that the office of public diplomacy at the agency had begun sending REJECTION letters to the #scholars based mainly on their #research topics, they said.

#law#Fulbright#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

The members are concerned that political appointees at the #State Dept, which manages the program, are acting illegally by canceling the awarding of #Fulbright #scholarships to almost 200 American #professors & #researchers who are prepared to go to #universities & other #research institutions overseas starting this summer, …including Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).

#law#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

Thousands of people are marching through #Chicago’s downtown streets after a rally in Federal Plaza. The crowd is growing as it moves along & people arrive after the work day, chanting anti-#Trump & anti-#ICE slogans.

#law #immigration #protest #resist#GoodTrouble #democracy#FirstAmendment#RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/live/

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

🚨🚨 #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

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
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/overview-police-use-force

“If they spit, we hit.”

That is 100% NOT how law enforcement is supposed to respond.

The #UseOfForce is limited by #proportionality.

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