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“… In Los Angeles, the County Sheriff’s Department said it responded Saturday morning to a protest in Paramount.

Deputies stepped in to control the crowd after protesters threw objects at federal agents and deputy sheriffs, according to the department. “When federal authorities come under attack and request assistance, we will support them and provide aid,” the department said.

The mayor of Paramount, Peggy Lemons, said the federal agents had been gathering in an industrial park near a Home Depot when residents in the majority-Latino neighborhood spotted them. It wasn’t known why the agents were staging there, but Homeland Security has had an office in the park for at least 15 years, she said.

As the crowd grew to roughly 300 people, the federal agents called the County Sheriff for assistance. Law enforcement tossed flash-bang stun grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowd, she said. Some protesters responded with firecrackers and at one point set a tire on fire in the road.

Additional munitions were delivered to authorities in Paramount aboard Customs and Border Protection helicopters, according to an Instagram post from a U.S. Border Patrol sector chief in Southern California, Gregory Bovino….”
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The outcry was similar to protests that took place in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, when people reacted to federal agents engaged in what appeared to be immigration enforcement.

The president of California’s Service Employees International Union, David Huerta, was injured and detained while protesting what the union said was a raid by ICE officials in Los Angeles. Videos captured people surrounding vans, shouting and chanting. The protests lasted overnight Friday.

U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bilal Essayli said Friday on social media that agents were executing a warrant at a work site in Los Angeles when Huerta “deliberately obstructed their access by blocking their vehicle.”

Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said Friday that some 800 protesters surrounded and breached a federal law-enforcement building in Los Angeles. She said protesters assaulted ICE officers, slashed tires and defaced public property. …”
 
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The outcry was similar to protests that took place in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, when people reacted to federal agents engaged in what appeared to be immigration enforcement.

The president of California’s Service Employees International Union, David Huerta, was injured and detained while protesting what the union said was a raid by ICE officials in Los Angeles. Videos captured people surrounding vans, shouting and chanting. The protests lasted overnight Friday.

U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bilal Essayli said Friday on social media that agents were executing a warrant at a work site in Los Angeles when Huerta “deliberately obstructed their access by blocking their vehicle.”

Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said Friday that some 800 protesters surrounded and breached a federal law-enforcement building in Los Angeles. She said protesters assaulted ICE officers, slashed tires and defaced public property. …”
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“… “To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States,” Trump’s memo said.

The troops are authorized to “perform those military protective activities that the Secretary of Defense determines are reasonably necessary to ensure the protection and safety of Federal personnel and property,” the memo said.

It said the troops will be activated for 60 days unlessHegseth decides otherwise. Hegseth has discretion to “employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary.” The order doesn’t limit the use of federal forces to Los Angeles.

Bass, the city’s mayor, tweeted shortly after midnight local time that the National Guard had not been deployed there. …”

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Lots of obviously fake videos and suspect videos being shared on social media claiming to be the National Guard arriving to crack skulls in LA. So far, the videos I’ve found from legit sources seem to be of local officials using riot gear and flash grenades to quell the protests.
 
This seems to be the photo of the protests being deployed a lot

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Returning to Trump’s post, it appears that the National Guard wasn’t even on site as the Paramount protest petered out last night. Heavy local law enforcement presence for sure to keep the dwindling crowd from expanding to more violent rioting.

Rocks and other objects were hurled at ICE agents, tires and a car were set ablaze and some intersections were blocked.

But, as with Trump’s claim of sending water to LA earlier this year, it doesn’t appear that the National Guard wasn’t actually on the streets or directly involved in quelling protests in Paramount or Los Angeles last night. At least so far there is no video evidence from a credible source of National Guard being involved — maybe that will emerge after sunrise in Los Angeles in the form of National Guard patrols on LA county streets?
 

Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’​

Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are struggling to fulfill Trump campaign promises often rooted in misinformation and conspiracy theories.

🎁—> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/...e_code=1.NU8.vj5Y.1UypJVBys0HD&smid=url-share

“… Investigations into Mr. Epstein’s 2019 death in a Manhattan prison cell found serious management errors but no evidence of criminality. Yet Mr. Trump, once a friend of the financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls, has long suggested Mr. Epstein was silenced by shadowy clients of his sex trafficking ring. In a 2023 episode of his popular podcast, Mr. Bongino, now the bureau’s No. 2 official, implored listeners, “Please do not let that story go.”

They obliged. A Trump-allied podcaster suggested the F.B.I. leaders were “beholden to some unseen powers.” A former F.B.I. agent who has been critical of the bureau posted a parody of a law firm ad with Mr. Bongino standing next to a sign that read “Trust Me & Bro Consulting.” Tucker Carlson, a friend of Mr. Bongino’s, said Trump appointees were “making a huge mistake, promising to reveal things and then not revealing them.” Alex Jones, a founding father of the modern conspiracy movement, referred to Mr. Patel’s own handling of the Epstein case as flat-out “gaslighting.”

Mr. Patel and Mr. Bongino, partisan showmen placed in positions previously held by people with greater experience, earned their bona fides in Mr. Trump’s camp by promoting conspiracy theories, making promises of what they would accomplish under Mr. Trump when he returned to power based on fictional or exaggerated premises, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.

It has now fallen on Mr. Patel, Mr. Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi to make good on the promises explicit and implied — or show how hard they are trying. But they are running what amounts to a conspiracy theory fulfillment center with unstocked shelves, critics say.…”
 


Saying things (even provocative or incorrect things) and flying flags cannot be allowed?



No, that does not “count” as due process.
 


Guy who was CEO of a company that cheated government healthcare programs of over a billion dollars eager to remove people from the rolls of government healthcare programs…

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“… Rick Scott’s opponents have cried foul over his tenure as head of a hospital chain that paid the biggest health care fraud fine in history.

In 2000 and 2003, Columbia/HCA agreed to pay fines and penalties totaling $1.7 billion for cheating federal programs that serve the military, the elderly and the poor.

Scott, who was never charged, said he was unaware of any fraud and resigned as CEO in 1997.

What no one has ever satisfactorily answered is what, if anything, did Scott know and when did he know it.…”

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Over his two campaigns for governor, Rick Scott’s opponents have cried foul over his tenure as head of a hospital...
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