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California Governer Gavin Newsom condemned President Trump’s deployment of over 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles as an unconstitutional, authoritarian power grab. He warned the move threatens democracy, centralizes power, and urged peaceful citizen resistance. California is suing to block the federal militarization.  #Newsom #Trump #BorderCrisis #MilitaryInLA #ICE #DemocracyAtRisk #LAProtests #CaliforniavsTrump #USAPolitics #World   🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE  For More Updates:  English: https://newsable.asianetnews.com/  Hindi: https://hindi.asianetnews.com/  Malayalam: https://www.asianetnews.com/  Kannada: https://kannada.asianetnews.com/  Tamil: https://tamil.asianetnews.com/  Telugu: https://telugu.asianetnews.com/  Bengali: https://bangla.asianetnews.com/  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianetNewsa...  Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ann.newsable/  ➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports and more.

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00:00I want to say a few words about the events of the last few days.

00:04This past weekend, federal agents conducted large-scale workplace raids in and around

00:08Los Angeles.

00:10Those raids continue as I speak.

00:12California is no stranger to immigration enforcement.

00:15But instead of focusing on undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records and people with

00:20final deportation orders, a strategy both parties have long supported, this administration

00:26is pushing mass deportations, indiscriminately targeting hard-working immigrant families

00:32regardless of their roots or risk.

00:36What's happening right now is very different than anything we've seen before.

00:41On Saturday morning, when federal agents jumped out of an unmarked van near a Home Depot parking

00:46lot, they began grabbing people, a deliberate targeting of a heavily Latino suburb.

00:52A similar scene played out when a clothing company was raided downtown.

00:56In other actions, a U.S. citizen, nine months pregnant, was arrested, a four-year-old girl

01:03taken, families separated, friends quite literally disappearing.

01:09In response, everyday Angelenos came out to exercise their constitutional right to free

01:15speech and assembly, to protest their government's actions.

01:19In turn, the state of California and the city and county of Los Angeles sent our police officers

01:25to help keep the peace.

01:27And with some exceptions, they were successful.

01:30Like many states, California is no stranger to this sort of unrest.

01:36We manage it regularly and with our own law enforcement.

01:39But this, again, was different.

01:42What then ensued was the use of tear gas, flashbang grenades, rubber bullets, federal agents detaining

01:49people and undermining their due process rights.

01:53Donald Trump, without consulting California law enforcement leaders, commandeered 2,000 of

02:00our state's National Guard members to deploy on our streets, illegally and for no reason.

02:07This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our

02:13people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk.

02:18That's when the downward spiral began.

02:20He doubled down on his dangerous National Guard deployment by fanning the flames even harder.

02:26And the president, he did it on purpose.

02:29As the news spread throughout LA, anxiety for family and friends ramped up.

02:35Protests started again.

02:37By night, several dozen lawbreakers became violent and destructive.

02:42They vandalized property.

02:43They tried to assault police officers.

02:45Many of you have seen the video clips of cars burning on cable news.

02:49If you incite violence, I want to be clear about this.

02:52If you incite violence or destroy our communities, you're going to be held to account.

02:57That kind of criminal behavior will not be tolerated, full stop.

03:01Already more than 220 people have been arrested and we're reviewing tapes to build additional

03:06cases and people will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

03:11Again, thanks to our law enforcement officers and the majority of Angelenos who protested peacefully,

03:18the situation was winding down and was concentrated in just a few square blocks downtown.

03:25But that's not what Donald Trump wanted.

03:28He again chose escalation.

03:30He chose more force.

03:32He chose theatrics over public safety.

03:35He federalized another 2,000 Guard members.

03:38He deployed more than 700 active U.S. Marines.

03:43These are the men and women trained for foreign combat, not domestic law enforcement.

03:48We honor their service.

03:50We honor their bravery.

03:52But we do not want our streets militarized by our own armed forces.

03:56Not in L.A.

03:57Not in California.

03:59Not anywhere.

04:00We're seeing unmarked cars.

04:02Unmarked cars in school parking lots.

04:05Kids afraid of attending their own graduation.

04:09Donald Trump is pulling a military dragnet all across Los Angeles, well beyond his stated

04:15intent to just go after violent and serious criminals.

04:19His agents are arresting dishwashers, gardeners, day laborers, and seamstresses.

04:26That's just weakness, weakness masquerading as strength.

04:30Donald Trump's government isn't protecting our communities.

04:33They're traumatizing our communities.

04:35And that seems to be the entire point.

04:38California will keep fighting.

04:40It will keep fighting on behalf of our people, all of our people, including in the courts.

04:45Just yesterday, we filed a legal challenge to Donald Trump's reckless deployment of American

04:51troops to a major American city.

04:53Today, we sought an emergency court order to stop the use of the American military to engage

04:59in law enforcement activities across Los Angeles.

05:03If some of us could be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or

05:08skin color, then none of us are safe.

05:12Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves.

05:17But they do not stop there.

05:20Trump and his loyalists, they thrive on division because it allows them to take more power and

05:25exert even more control.

05:27And by the way, Trump is not opposed to lawlessness and violence as long as it serves him.

05:34What more evidence do we need than January 6th?

05:37I ask everyone, take time, reflect on this perilous moment.

05:43A president who wants to be bound by no law or constitution, perpetuating a unified assault

05:51on American traditions.

05:53This is a president who in just over 140 days has fired government watchdogs that could hold

05:59him accountable, accountable for corruption and fraud.

06:03He's declared a war, a war on culture, on history, on science, on knowledge itself.

06:08Databases quite literally are vanishing.

06:12He's delegitimizing news organizations and he's assaulting the First Amendment.

06:17In the threat of defunding them, at threat he's dictating what universities themselves

06:22can teach.

06:23He's targeting law firms and the judicial branch that are the foundations of an orderly

06:28and civil society.

06:30He's calling for a sitting governor to be arrested for no other reason than to, in his own words,

06:37for getting elected.

06:38And we all know this Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military,

06:44forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed

06:51dictators have done in the past.

06:53Look, this isn't just about protests here in Los Angeles.

06:58When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard, he made that

07:02order apply to every state in this nation.

07:05This is about all of us.

07:07This is about you.

07:10California may be first, but it clearly will not end here.

07:13Other states are next.

07:15Democracy is next.

07:17Democracy is under assault before our eyes.

07:20This moment we have feared has arrived.

07:23He's taking a wrecking ball, a wrecking ball to our Founding Fathers historic project, three

07:29co-equal branches of independent government.

07:32There are no longer any checks and balances.

07:34Congress is nowhere to be found.

07:37Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility.

07:41The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don.

07:47The Founding Fathers, they didn't live and die to see this kind of moment.

07:51It's time for all of us to stand up.

07:53Justice Brandeis, he said it best.

07:55In a democracy, the most important office, with all due respect, Mr. President, is not the

08:01presidency.

08:02And it's certainly not governor.

08:03The most important office is Office of Citizen.

08:06At this moment, at this moment, we all need to stand up and be held to account a higher

08:12level of accountability.

08:14If you exercise your First Amendment rights, please, please do it peacefully.

08:19I know many of you are feeling deep anxiety, stress, and fear, but I want you to know that

08:25you are the antidote to that fear and that anxiety.

08:29What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence to be complicit in this moment.

08:36Do not give in to him.

California Governer Newsom BLASTS at Trump’s Militarization in LA | 'Democracy Under Siege'

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