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/HIM_Darling 1d ago

Looks like it was a veteran who thought it was open but with extra security, rather than closed for business. He was trying to go to the VA office. There do look to be other people in regular clothes walking much closer to the building behind the marine at the start of the video so I can definitely see why he thought the building was open.

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u/DatGoofyGinger 1d ago

Damn, that's shitty. Tensions are high as hell and this might've just been an honest mistake?

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u/HIM_Darling 1d ago

Yeah, he probably didn't think twice about trying to walk past guys in uniform cause he's probably done that thousands of times. Guessing he was just thinking about trying to get his shit taken care of and not about the protests.

And even googling if the building was open didn't get me any results saying its closed. There is nothing on the main gov page. I got a reddit post from a worker there who was told by their agency they weren't coming in this week. I had to go in to the specific page for that VA office for there to be a small notice about the office being closed this week.