As Trump mobilizes the marines to quell an “insurrection” in LA, it’s essential to be clear about how the protests started and what actually happened.
As Trump mobilizes the marines to quell an “insurrection” in LA, it’s essential to be clear about how the protests started and what actually happened.
There is no clear cut point.
These sort of things have a life of their own and it only becomes clear in retrospective.
In Ukraine that point was when the government started killing protesters during Maidan (Feb 2014), that’s when many people (who were generally strongly opposed to violence) started to believe that protestors fighting back was justified.
My guess is once a police mob mentality takes hold and they start unloading on protestors because one racist cop gets itchy is when it will be that point for many. The ICE raids with police/nat guard/military support in LA are a testing ground for Trump to see how much pushback he’ll get from mobilizing multiple levels of state and federal armed forces. I would be surprised if it doesn’t balloon to other states. My bigger question is what nat guard / troops will do in what is clearly an attempt to illegally consolidate executive power.