{"id":173402,"date":"2025-06-08T17:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T17:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/national-guard-troops-arrive-in-los-angeles-after-trump-signs-orders\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T17:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T17:59:55","slug":"national-guard-troops-arrive-in-los-angeles-after-trump-signs-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/national-guard-troops-arrive-in-los-angeles-after-trump-signs-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guard Troops Arrive In Los Angeles After Trump Signs Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">During his first term in 2020, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/06\/donald-trump-brutal-police-protest-crackdown?srsltid=AfmBOoougralS8wK1I_DvVm83xlaCb1j7xTN1C_Bl5w0MT2pZJGpimDS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a>, but didn\u2019t follow through on, deploying the US military to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/05\/05\/trumps-response-to-george-floyd-turmoil-abject-failure-presidential-leadership?srsltid=AfmBOoqHvPkr1Rcb7XpyU2-d2iJUy41KORov-OPmn-tBEPKhhyoBGLyf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suppress<\/a> nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police officer <strong>Derek Chauvin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW lgCwTv responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi lqMXz asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi lqMXz asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE cmter caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd jSwmTa iXWezO caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>A protester is seen among smoke as protests and confrontations between immigration rights supporters and law enforcement take place in Paramount and downtown Los Angeles, California, following recent raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents on June 7, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cvffOM fNaHcW caption__credit\">Anadolu\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">According to <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/07\/us\/trump-national-guard-deploy-rare.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/07\/us\/trump-national-guard-deploy-rare.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/07\/us\/trump-national-guard-deploy-rare.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> from <em>The New York Times<\/em>, this is the first time in approximately 60 years that a president has activated a state\u2019s National Guard force without a request from that state\u2019s governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson was the last leader to do so, sending troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators in 1965.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The last time the National Guard was federalized was also in Los Angeles in 1992, per the <em>Times<\/em>, when President George H.W. Bush sent troops to crush protests and unrest after police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">While on the campaign trail, Trump <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-2025-overview.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-2025-overview.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-2025-overview.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> he would do precisely what he did this weekend. At a 2023 rally in Iowa, he said he planned to unilaterally send troops into Democratic-run cities. The then-candidate Trump called cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco crime dens, saying, \u201cWe cannot let it happen any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cAnd one of the other things I\u2019ll do\u2014because you\u2019re supposed to not be involved in that, you just have to be asked by the governor or the mayor to come in\u2014the next time, I\u2019m not waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Erwin Chemerinsky<\/strong>, the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, called Trump\u2019s decision to deploy troops to the state \u201cchilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cFor the federal government to take over the California National Guard, without the request of the governor, to put down protests is truly chilling,\u201d Chemerinsky told the <em>Times<\/em>. \u201cIt is using the military domestically to stop dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/national-guard-arrive-in-los-angeles-after-trump-signs-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his first term in 2020, Trump suggested, but didn\u2019t follow through on, deploying the US military to suppress nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police officer Derek Chauvin. A protester is seen among smoke as protests and confrontations between immigration rights supporters and law enforcement take place in Paramount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,5218,11273,1881,6737,11628,7724],"class_list":{"0":"post-173402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-george-floyd","10":"tag-ice","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-national-guard","14":"tag-protests"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}