The LA Protests Didn’t Have To Be This Way

The LA Protests Didn’t Have To Be This Way

June 8, the third day of protest in downtown Los Angeles, began with a loose assemblage of people behind the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building bearing flags and predictable signs — FUCK ICE and CHINGA LA MIGRA — hollering under a hot sun at a line of camouflaged soldiers. These armed troops were a fraction of the 2,000 National Guard members that Donald Trump had federalized without asking the governor of California or the mayor of Los Angeles i…