Just like the Marines refues to be deployed to California
And they basically did nothing but stand around. I think they arrested one guy? And that one guy was most likely being an asshole and pushed his luck past the brink. Also, there was only 700 of them. You couldn’t control my little hick town with 700 soldiers. LOL, they’d be hilariously outgunned by the rednecks and retired military. In any case, now they’re gone.
Yes, it was an egregiously corrupt use of the military, but that’s not even close to using weapons of war on an American city.
I think they arrested one guy? And that one guy was most likely being an asshole and pushed his luck past the brink.
Think again, señor rationalizer.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shortly after they began guarding a Los Angeles federal building Friday, U.S. Marines detained a man who had walked onto the property and did not immediately hear their commands to stop.
The brief detention marked the first time federal troops have detained a civilian since they were deployed to the nation’s second-largest city by President Donald Trump in response to protests over the admin[…]
The man, Marcos Leao, was later released without charges and said the Marines were just doing their jobs.
Such an asshole…
2700, I believe.
Every source I see states 700.
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Remind me again how many Marines opened fire on civilians.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
So it’s fine as long as they’re not literally murdering people?
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
No Marine obeyed an illegal order, and that’s the whole point of this thread.
They were used in a very narrow scope as defined by law, protecting specific government buildings.
It was Trump being a bully and grandstanding, but other than the optics we’re talking about, it was really a lame event.
The vast majority of the 2k Marines did what Marines always do when they don’t have specific orders on a shit deployment, the sat around or caught up on rack time.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Right?! They were out in less than 6-weeks.
apftwb@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Marines opening fire? I think only during the Rodney King riots.
Any military branches opening fire? The Kent State Shooting and The Bonus Army Incident.
Any military branches just bombing the shit out of civilians on US soil? The Battle of Blair Mountain and The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Oh I know it has happened, and those type incidents are why the UCMJ now explicitly has the don’t do illegal shit clause.
I was talking here to the 2k or so that deployed recently in LA.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
goalpost: moved