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Marcos Leao was on his way to the VA when he was detained by Marines in Los Angeles.
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The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this timeā¦ š¼
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Trump is testing the boundaries of his power right now. His military escalation in Los Angeles is a rehearsal for what MAGA wants to do across the nation. Thatās why we need millions of Americans to join us tomorrow for peaceful protests on #NoKings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCā¦.
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Just visited the federal government building in West L.A., which is being guarded by some very bored looking Marines. They and National Guard far outnumbered civilians outside the facility, which hasnāt been the site of any protests this past week.
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Some pundits are urging protesters in Los Angeles not to resist the militarization of their city.
Thatās easy to say when ICE isnāt snatching up your friends and family members. trib.al/lwpnNOT
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In Defense of Confrontational Protesters
Some pundits are urging protesters in Los Angeles not to resist the militarization of their city. Thatās easy to say when ICE isnāt snatching up your friends and family members.
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about 1 hour agoāRussia is amplifying conspiracy theories about the L.A. protests.
Pro-Russian accounts are spreading baseless claims, from Mexico fomenting the protests to a secret leftist cabal tied to Democrats orchestrating them.ā #Pinks
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Russia is amplifying conspiracy theories about the L.A. protests
Pro-Russian accounts are spreading baseless claims, from Mexico fomenting the protests to a secret leftist cabal tied to Democrats orchestrating them.
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BREAKING: National Guard storm peaceful protesters
Shooting nonlethal rounds & dragging away a protester outside the Federal Detention Centre in downtown Los Angeles
There were no signs of any violence or abuse prior to the incident
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Notice the difference in how Padilla and Schiff talk about the protests.
Padilla says we must protest peacefully "but we can't cower." Schiff was on the senate floor yesterday conceding Republican talking points about how there were some "vandals and miscreants" committing "vile acts" in L.A.
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I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
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Anti-surveillance makeup blew up on social media during the 2020 George Floyd protests as a way to protect against facial recognition software used by police.
Butā¦ does it actually work?
L.A. TACO reporter @marinamasako.bsky.social shares more.
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Standoff between protesters and Los Angeles law enforcement downtown
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Around 7:25 a.m. in downtown Los Angeles, large group of cops, sirens howling, rushing off someplace. Protest? Riot? Breakfast? Who knows. Sometimes thatās just how cops travel.
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My coworkers in Florida and Texas are going. Friends in L.A. have been on ICEās neck for days and are ready for Saturday.
And in the words of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel āwe must choose sides. silence only helps the oppressor.ā
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Just to get this right: Kristi Noem is saying that they are taking control from the governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles, but the protesters who donāt want that to happen are the insurrectionists.
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wrote about the brokenness of our media systems (what's new?!), the people who think LA is a war zone because that's what they want to believe, & the strangeness of living in an emergency but also having to refute the lies being told about our cities as hellscapes www.theatlantic.com/technā¦.
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After a week of protests over federal immigration raids, about 200 Marines moved into Los Angeles to guard a federal building while communities across the country prepped for whatās anticipated to be a nationwide wave of large-scale demonstrations against President Trumpās polices this weekend.
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Marines take over some security in LA while cities across US prep for āNo Kingsā rallies on Saturday
After a week of protests over federal immigration raids, about 200 Marines moved into Los Angeles on Friday to guard a federal building in the city while communities across the country prepped for ā¦
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He doesnāt know quite enough on how to manage a bullpen but that never stopped him
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"No, L.A. is not under lockdown. No, the protesters arenāt Soros-paid agitators. And no, this isnāt Portland 2020. Iām here in Los Angeles. Hereās whatās actually happening"
from Nancy Rommelmann
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Los Angeles is not burning: Dispatch from L.A.
"Are things really that bad?" a friend in the media texted me on Wednesday, regarding what the public is being told and shown about the protests in Los
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"This isn't about whether ICE can can conduct raids. This is about whether people can express dissent and disagreement with their government without being met with heavy force."
āŖ@lizagoitein.bsky.socialā¬ joins Jen to discuss the L.A. protests, Newsom's suit against Trump, & the right to protest
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Americans have the right to protest! Liza Goitein on the L.A. protests & Newsom's suit against Trump
"This is about whether people can express dissent and disagreement with their government without being met with heavy fo
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So 3 different email newsletters that I subscribe to wrote posts that (independently) described the Trump administration's response to the Los Angeles protests in terms of the "imperial boomerang," in case you were curious about my media diet.
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Federal law enforcement forcibly removed and handcuffed U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla at a Thursday press conference in Los Angeles by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid multi-day protests against the Trump administrationās immigration crackdown ohiocapitaljournal.com/20ā¦.
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California cuffed, shoved out of Noem press event ā¢ Ohio Capital Journal
Federal law enforcement forcibly removed and handcuffed U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla at a Thursday press conference in Los Angeles by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid multi-day protests againstā¦
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LAUSD teachers are now on the frontline of the immigration fight.
To counter the panic of recent ICE raids, Los Angeles teachers are giving students ātools of resistanceā ā from protest signs reading āBe Fair, Be Kindā for elementary kids to pocket-sized legal zines for high schoolers.
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LAUSD teachers are now on the frontline of the immigration fight
To counter the panic of recent ICE raids, Los Angeles teachers are giving students "tools of resistance" ā from pocket-sized legal zines for high schoolers to protest signs reading 'Be Fair, Be Kind' ...
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Among many notable points: Judge Breyer concludes that to declare this a ārebellion,ā as the administration would have it, would raise serious First Amendment concerns.
![from sporadic or impromptu, violence.Ā® Nor is there evidence that any of the violent protesters were attempting to overthrow the government as a whole; the evidence is overwhelming that protesters gathered to protest a single issue-the immigration raids.
See, e.g., Espiritu Decl. Ex. D ("Friday evening, protesters marched in downtown L.A. condemning Friday's immigration raids."). While Defendants have pointed to several instances of violence, they have not identified a violent, armed, organized, open and avowed uprising against the government as a whole. The definition of rebellion is unmet.
Moreover, the Court is troubled by the implication inherent in Defendants' argument that protest against the federal government, a core civil liberty protected by the First Amendment, can justify a finding of rebellion. The U.S. Reports are chock-full of language explaining the importance of individuals' right to speak out against the government even when doing so is uncomfortable, even when doing so is provocative, even when doing so causes inconvenience. See, e.g., Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15, 24-25 (1972) (*To many, the immediate consequence of this freedom may often appear to be only verbal tumult, discord, and even offensive utterance. ... That the air may at times seem filled with verbal cacophony is, in this sense not a sign of weakness but of strength."); Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 508 ("But, in our system, undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression. Any departure from absolute regimentation may cause trouble. ... Any word spoken ... that deviates from the views of another person may start an argument or cause a disturbance. But our Constitution says we must take this risk.");
Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 550-51 (rejecting the argument that a conviction for breach of the peace "should be sustained because of fear expressed by some [onlookers] that 'violence wasā¦](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wufsdxzvzx36d7wppganbvpw/bafkreibyro755nsaaimkuruyiv72wq73r2lze267id262t4iv4aydicwuu@jpeg)
![exercise" (quoting Watson v. City of Memphis, 373 U.S. 526, 535 (1963))); Texas v.
Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 414 (1989) ("If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable."); Hurley v. Irish-Am. Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Grp. of Boston, Inc., 515 U.S. 557, 574 (1995) ("[T]he point of all speech protection [] is to shield just those choices of content that in someone's eyes are misguided, or even hurtful.").
Applying these principles, courts have repeatedly reaffirmed that peaceful protest does not lose its protection merely because some isolated individuals act violently outside the protections of the First Amendment:
Moreover, although defendants make much of the fact that some
loes not lose all constitutional protection merely because som members of the group
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advocated doctrine that itself is not protected."
Jones v. Parmley, 465 F.3d 46, 57 (2d Cir. 2006) (cleaned up) (quoting NAACP v.
Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886, 908 (1982)); see also Black Lives Matter Seattle-King Cnty. v. City of Seattle, 466 F. Supp. 3d 1206, 1213 (W.D. Wash. 2020) (finding that instances of protesters "launch[ing] objects at the police, ranging from rocks, bottles, fireworks, traffic cones, traffic flares, and more," warranted only "ensur[ing] an adequate police presence and "arrest[ing] those who engage in such conduct" rather than
"suppress[ing] legitimate First Amendment conduct as a prophylactic measure" (quoting Collins v. Jordan, 110 F.3d 1363, 1372 (9th Cir. 1996))); Index Newspapers LLC v. City of Portland, 480 F. Supp. 3d 1120, 1143 (D. Or. 2020) (*The fact that there are some violent offenders [] does not give the Federal Defendants carte blanche to attack journalists and legal observers and infringe their First Amendment rights."). In short, individuals' right to protest the government is ā¦](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wufsdxzvzx36d7wppganbvpw/bafkreifshx67oywmipgcy5cxths6aal6u5gaa3gb7q2epbmvbgvta5qnyy@jpeg)
![conduct and "rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States" is untenable and dangerous.
In a short paragraph, Defendants suggest that even if there was no rebellion that
would justify federalizing the National Guard, there was still a "danger of a rebellion," which would satisfy Ā§ 12406. Opp. at 16. This argument cannot withstand scrutiny. For starters, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth did not rely on a "danger of a rebellion"
when issuing the memorandum and orders that federalized the National Guard under s
12406. See June 7 Memo; June 7 Order; June 9 Order? It is concerning, to say the least, to imagine that the federal executive could unilaterally exercise military force in a domestic context and then be allowed to backfill justifications for doing so, especially considering how wary courts are of after-the-fact justifications even where the stakes are lower. Cf. Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass'n of U.S. v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 463 U.S. 29, 50 (1983) ("[CJourts may not accept appellate counsel's post hoc rationalizations for agency action."). But in any event, Defendants do not even explain how the Court should determine whether there is a "danger of a rebellion." "Rebellion" remains the operative word, and so any difference between a "rebellion" and a "danger of a rebellion" must be a difference of degree, not one of kind, with respect to the conduct of the alleged rebellion.
With that in mind, Defendants have still not established a factual basis-again, even assuming their factual assertions to be correct-from which this Court can conclude that there is a danger of an organized, violent, armed uprising with the goal of overthrowing the lawful government of the United States.
Accordingly, Defendants do not satisfy the "rebellion" condition.
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Execution of the Laws
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