Alex Akselrod
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CPH Daily Bulletin 10/21/2025
#Marines investigating errant live-fire blast over #California’s I-5
CPH Daily Bulletin 10/21/2025
#Marines investigating errant live-fire blast over #California’s I-5
Alex Akselrod
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#GiftArticle
A federal judge’s scathing opinion explains why Trump’s deployment of #troops to #California was more than just an overreach.
The #Trump administration broke the #law. Its officials knew they were breaking the law. And they’ll likely try to do so again.
#MilitaryState#PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #tyranny#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#Gestapo#NationalGuard#Marines#USTroops #resist
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-national-guard-law-california/684084/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZRivk8VNFDTyCxMzZBFw8k
In its most distilled form, that’s the conclusion of Charles Breyer, the federal judge overseeing a suit brought by #California Governor Gavin Newsom over the #Trump administration’s deployment of National Guardsmen & #Marines in & around #LosAngeles in June. In a scathing opinion delivered today, Breyer said that the administration had acted illegally.
#law#MilitaryState#PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy#Gestapo#NationalGuard#USTroops #resist
Deploying these service members “for the purpose of establishing a #military presence there & enforcing federal law,” Breyer wrote, “is a serious violation of the #PosseComitatusAct.” That #law, passed in 1878, bars the use of the military in domestic law enforcement, except as allowed by the #Constitution or by #Congress.
Breyer’s ruling makes plain how the admin worked to circumvent the law, & why.
#Trump#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy#Gestapo#NationalGuard#Marines
In its most distilled form, that’s the conclusion of Charles Breyer, the federal judge overseeing a suit brought by #California Governor Gavin Newsom over the #Trump administration’s deployment of National Guardsmen & #Marines in & around #LosAngeles in June. In a scathing opinion delivered today, Breyer said that the administration had acted illegally.
#law#MilitaryState#PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy#Gestapo#NationalGuard#USTroops #resist
#GiftArticle
A federal judge’s scathing opinion explains why Trump’s deployment of #troops to #California was more than just an overreach.
The #Trump administration broke the #law. Its officials knew they were breaking the law. And they’ll likely try to do so again.
#MilitaryState#PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #tyranny#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#Gestapo#NationalGuard#Marines#USTroops #resist
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-national-guard-law-california/684084/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZRivk8VNFDTyCxMzZBFw8k
Tim Chambers
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Reuters images showed #Marines apprehending a #civilian, restraining his hands w/zip ties & then handing him over to civilians from #DHS.
Asked about the incident, US #military's Northern Command spox said active duty forces "may temporarily detain an individual in specific circumstances."
"Any temporary detention ends immediately when the individual(s) can be safely transferred to the custody of appropriate civilian law enforcement personnel," a spox said.
Reuters images showed #Marines apprehending a #civilian, restraining his hands w/zip ties & then handing him over to civilians from #DHS.
Asked about the incident, US #military's Northern Command spox said active duty forces "may temporarily detain an individual in specific circumstances."
"Any temporary detention ends immediately when the individual(s) can be safely transferred to the custody of appropriate civilian law enforcement personnel," a spox said.
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
Reuters images showed #Marines apprehending a #civilian, restraining his hands w/zip ties & then handing him over to civilians from #DHS.
Asked about the incident, US #military's Northern Command spox said active duty forces "may temporarily detain an individual in specific circumstances."
"Any temporary detention ends immediately when the individual(s) can be safely transferred to the custody of appropriate civilian law enforcement personnel," a spox said.
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
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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 confrontation escalated on Monday as new #protests occurred & #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth announced—on X—that he was mobilizing 700 #Marines from a base near #LosAngeles to guard federal bldgs. They are expected to join 2k members of the #California#NationalGuard whom #Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the #state’s #governor, #GavinNewsom, who normally [legally] has command of the #troops.
#MediaLiteracy#SocialMedia #moderation #propaganda #disinformation#LAprotests
The latest deployments prompted a new wave of misleading images to spread—some purporting to show #Marines & the #military service’s weapons in action. One was a still from “Blue Thunder,” a 1983 action-thriller about a conspiracy to deprive residents of #LosAngeles of their civil rights. It features a climatic dogfight over the city’s downtown.
#MediaLiteracy#SocialMedia #moderation#Trump#TrumpLies#ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation#LAprotests #immigration #protests
There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers & setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving #Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old #ConspiracyTheories that the #protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the #immigration raids.
#MediaLiteracy#SocialMedia #moderation#TrumpLies#Trump #propaganda #disinformation#LosAngeles#LAprotests #immigration #protests
The confrontation escalated on Monday as new #protests occurred & #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth announced—on X—that he was mobilizing 700 #Marines from a base near #LosAngeles to guard federal bldgs. They are expected to join 2k members of the #California#NationalGuard whom #Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the #state’s #governor, #GavinNewsom, who normally [legally] has command of the #troops.
#MediaLiteracy#SocialMedia #moderation #propaganda #disinformation#LAprotests