Media outlet fans the flames as LA protests. It's repulsive and dangerous
Members of the clergy in Los Angeles lead a crowd down Temple Street on Tuesday after a prayer vigil at Grand Park. Los Angeles had its quietest night in a week on Tuesday, as a combination of a city curfew and faith leaders’ calls for nonviolent resistance appeared to quell furious protests against the Trump administration’s sprawling immigration raids. Photo by Gina Ferazzi / The Los Angeles Times
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What is going on in Los Angeles? Depends on whom you ask.
Word to the wise: Don’t ask Fox News.
Law-enforcement agents began raids over the weekend, arresting immigrants and drawing protests. Isolated protests became unruly, with cars set on fire and authorities firing tear-gas and non-lethal projectiles into crowds of demonstrators. On Saturday, June 7, Donald Trump called up 2,000 members of the National Guard, a move California Gov. Gavin Newsom said was merely a stunt, a show of force meant to escalate the situation. Trump also said U.S. Marines were standing by if needed — an obvious threat.
By Sunday, June 8, the protests had grown more violent. So had the rhetoric.
Trump is clearly looking for a fight, and if he can’t find one big enough, he’ll do what he has to do to start one. It’s reminiscent of what William Randolph Hearst supposedly said of a non-existent insurrection in Cuba, “You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.”
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