Gavin Newsom: ‘LAPD Plenty Capable Escalating Tensions, Beating Protestors, Without National Guard’
Governor Gavin Newsom casts aspersions on Trump’s ordering on the National Guard to quell Los Angeles anti-ICE protest.
This Saturday, President Donald Trump called for 2,000 National Guard troops to enter Los Angeles, overriding the state’s governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom criticized the move stating it was “purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.”
“We don’t need the National Guard beating minorities to death and escalating tensions in the streets of Los Angeles, that’s what the LAPD is for,” Newsom stated during a press event on Flower Street.
Newsom’s right. The LAPD has a rich and illustrious history of beating minorities, all the way back to its founding in the 1860s.
“The LAPD is plenty capable of escalating tensions on their own. Just watch.” Newsom told the press as armored vans of LAPD officers in riot gear began beating the crowd.
“Our inclusive police force won’t just be beating minorities, but protestors of all shapes and colors. The deployment of the National Guard is an overreach by the Trump administration in an attempt to take all the protestor-beating fun from good, hard-working L.A. police officers,” he concluded.
However, President Trump is buying Newsom’s claims. He took to Truth Social to present his counter-points to Newsom’s speech:
“Governor NEWSCUM doesn’t want any of our GOOD National Guard officers to come to California and enact violence, incite clashes, and increase unrest! WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY FOR THEN?! The National Guard just sits on their fat asses all year waiting for protests like these so they can beat minorities, but NEWSCUM doesn’t want them doing their job?” Trump wrote.
Pete Hegseth, had the President’s back, writing on X:
“The US military hasn’t seen real action in years. We’ve got all kinds of new weapons that we’re testing and now we have thousands of willing test subjects, we must take this opportunity. The Marines are on standby, and have been granted permission to test ‘Meltajet,’ a sort of firehouse that sprays biological dissolvent.”
But don’t fear, historical experts say while the use of the National Guard in this instance is escalatory, it’s not yet a crisis. Alex Vonhouton, Professor of History at Columbia University says this is nothing history hasn’t seen before:
“This kind of thing is not new, and certainly not a constitutional crisis. There’s a myriad of historical examples that relate to the current situation. For instance, we saw this type of thing a lot in 1930’s Germany, and in the end, everything worked out fine, so.” Professor Vonhouton wrote in the New York Times.
The National Guard deployment is off to a rocky start. Video from the protest shows that the federal troops and LAPD have gotten into a skirmish as they fight over who has the right to senselessly beat protestors.