Former LAPD Chief: Sending Troops to Quell Protests ‘Should Always Be Last Resort’

Former LAPD chief: Sending troops to quell protests ‘should always be last resort’

Former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief Michel Moore pushed back on President Trump’s deployment of military troops to Los Angeles in an op-ed published Friday in The New York Times, calling the move not only “at odds with the principles of our democracy” but “tactically unsound.” Moore’s op-ed comes after an appeals court temporarily paused a ruling by a federal…

The Weaponization of Memory in Trump’s Los Angeles Crackdown

The president is borrowing the language of past leaders and social movements. But rather than wielding it to protect the marginalized, he's using it to corral his targets and opposition.

With troops in Los Angeles, echoes of the Kent State massacre

Ohio National Guard members with gas masks and rifles advance toward Kent State University students during an anti-war protest on May 4, 1970. More than a dozen students were killed or injured when the guard opened fire. (Howard Ruffner/Getty Images.)This article was originally published by The Trace. Earlier in June, President Donald Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops and Marines to quell anti-deportation protests and secure fede…