California, Trump calls the nationwide guard: every time the physique has intervened | EUROtoday

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It was a superb resolution, “the American president Donald Trump said on Tuesday on the deployment of the National Guard troops in Los Angeles to quell protests. He added:” If the administration had not performed so, the town would have been utterly destroyed “.

In the meantime, the disputes against the arrests made by the agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have spread to many other cities in the United States, from New York to Austin, passing through Chicago.

What happened in Los Angeles

Protests against the arrests of 118 people suspected of not being in compliance with the residence documents were broken out in the city of angels on Friday 6 June. The agents of the ICE intervened to take them away.

From the start, Trump threatened to put the forces of the National Guard in the field and on Saturday 7 June he did it. He ordered two thousand reservists of the army body to go down the streets of the main city of California and on Sunday morning about 300 troops took a position in the city.

Until then, the protests had been principally peaceable, however the arrival of the police forces induced tensions with the demonstrators. Lanks of firecrackers in opposition to the police, vehicles set on hearth, to which the brokers responded with tear fuel, beautiful grenades and rubber bullets, which additionally hit and wounded journalists.