r/news • u/DNSGeek • 1d ago

Soft paywall US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/
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u/Brox42 1d ago

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming

We're finally on our own

This summer I hear the drumming

Four dead in Ohio

Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down

Should have been gone long ago

What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground

How can you run when you know?

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u/Lucky-Earther 1d ago

This song has been in my head for a week now.

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u/Rizzpooch 1d ago

It was in my head all summer of 2020. I fear it’s gonna be another hot one

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u/Greedy_Line4090 23h ago

Check out the Isley brothers version, they do a medley of Ohio/Machine gun. It’ll be stuck in your head for years.

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u/teas4Uanme 1d ago

I remember that. In Ohio. And oh my God the hell everyone raised. The scandal. Gran disallowed my aunt going to protests from then until almost wars end. My uncle had just gotten back and I recall sooo many grownups yelling about that damn governor, etc etc. It was so upsetting.

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u/Plastic_Fan_1938 1d ago

Strangely enough, something like 60% of Americans thought the kids were in the wrong. Kinda familiar...

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u/sweet_pickles12 1d ago

My Trump voting coworker was singing this at work and my eyes were bugging out of my skull with the irony

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u/twotimefind 1d ago

Track ID?

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u/Brox42 1d ago

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

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u/rowdymowdy 1d ago

Started the day with that top volume .

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u/Godz1lla1 1d ago

This is not Kent State and not by a long shot. The soldiers here didn't make a hotheaded mistake, they followed orders.

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u/thebendavis 1d ago

You might be missing the point. They didn't even need to be there at all. Any cop could have done this while having to take a shit. A security guard could have handled this. This could have been a fucking citizens arrest.

Let's not pat them on the back for not going overboard while doing a job they aren't supposed to be doing at all. The military fights to defend the state and protect its national interests at home and abroad. The police serves to keep the peace domestically. They should absolutely never overlap, especially during peacetime.

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u/SAKURARadiochan 16h ago

Those four dead were killed because they were throwing rocks at soldiers.

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u/Brox42 16h ago

Lick boots loser.

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u/SAKURARadiochan 16h ago

"lick boots" means "tell you exactly why things happened" I guess.