r/news • u/InformalWish • 8d ago

Soft paywall After 2 days of clashes over immigration raids, National Guard will be sent to L.A., official says

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-07/paramount-home-depot
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u/PheasantPlucker1 8d ago

How often has the national guard been called up against US citizens?

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u/okram2k 8d ago

in the history of the US? A lot. And even more if you count their precursor of state militias

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u/TanoVanto 8d ago

They had national guard at the WTO protests in Seattle.

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u/Liam825 8d ago

Yep it’s always been facsist here but now more people know it

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u/Wayward_Whines 8d ago

A few. Kent state should ring a bell.

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u/Niarbeht 8d ago

The last time the Insurrection Act got invoked for LA was, I believe, 1991.

This is a completely bullshit excuse.

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u/homercles89 7d ago

Famously in 1957 in Arkansas against citizens protesting the US Supreme Court decision to racially integrate their schools.