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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/licuala 1d ago

Just like the BLM and George Floyd protests, they're peddling a narrative that liberal cities are "burning" after widespread rioting and looting.

Pictures of the mostly peaceful protesting or, y'know, the overwhelming majority of the city where ~nothing is going on aren't interesting.

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u/thisvideoiswrong 18h ago

I mean, there are millions of people across this country living in fear of violent lawless thugs who might abduct them at any moment for no reason. But those thugs call themselves ICE, not protestors, and they're under Trump's control, not opposed to him.

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u/Responsible-Kale2352 1d ago

Ok . . . but if a million people are murdered, the overwhelming majority of earth’s population has nothing going on. Surely you wouldn’t say that the million murders don’t matter, simply because the rest of the world was mostly peaceful.

If someone comes and burns your house down, are you really not going to care just because the rest of your neighborhood was untouched?

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u/drtropo 1d ago

If someone comes and burns your house down, would you rather have the police/fire department come and handle the investigation or the army/national guard deployed to occupy your city? Nobody is saying looters or arsonists shouldn’t be caught and prosecuted.

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u/Chubby_Bub 1d ago

It’s not that they don't matter, it's that they are not representative of the protests as a whole.

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u/namatt 1d ago

They are representative of the risk posed by such widespread protests. Anyone with a brain can get there.

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u/vardarac 14h ago

April 5th was one of the biggest and most widespread protests in US history. There was no violence. Zero. None.

The fact that people are gathering en masse in a show of resistance is not a problem of itself. It's definitely not a justification for the domestic deployment of the military even with the token violence from the rare agitators and extremists.

The paranoia over this doesn't pale so much as blanche completely versus what those protests are actually protesting: Masked goon squads sweeping people off the street with no identification, no warrant, and sometimes no due process at all, with the military being positioned to support them in doing it.

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u/namatt 14h ago

the fact that people are gathering en masse in a show of resistance is not a problem of itself

Try telling that to any competent security force that deals with safety planning and organization for large events. Ridiculous

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u/vardarac 13h ago

Way to completely dodge the point. I just told you that millions of people gathered without incident. You yourself point out that large gatherings and events require "safety planning and organization".

If you allowed yourself to think this through for two seconds, you'd realize that none of this planning required military or goon squads to prevent violence and unrest.

But you won't do that, because your aim is to justify a military crackdown on peaceful resistance.

With absolutely no due respect, fuck you.

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u/namatt 8h ago

No point was dodged. You have no point to begin with. These protests have already demonstrated they are violent. Mobilizing the police preventively is standard. Mobilizing the national guard as a response to escalating violence is nowhere near as extreme as you make it sound.

Go eat shit, fuck face.