Trump wants to 'liberate' Los Angeles, residents say 'no thanks'

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United States president Donald Trump says he sent the National Guards and Marines to ‘liberate’ Los Angeles from protester violence.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/world/us-canada/trump-wants-liberate-los-angeles-residents-say-no-thanks/

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00:00United States President Donald Trump says he sent the National Guards and Marines to

00:04quote, liberate Los Angeles from protester violence. But Little Tokyo residents in LA

00:10say Trump's troop deployment only intensifies the protests against the recent immigration

00:14raids in their neighborhood. Police have reportedly used flashbangs and fired less

00:19lethal munitions at protesters in the neighborhood. The Trump administration

00:23says its immigration raids are rounding up de facto criminals for lacking proper documents

00:28to stay in the United States. California Governor Gavin Newsom says the use of military had quote,

00:34only inflamed a combustible situation and warned that the move is an assault on democracy. Los

00:39Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says that Trump's use of troops was a deliberate effort to create chaos.

00:45The Trump administration rejects the accusation, saying it only deployed the troops due to local

00:50and state leaders' inability to get the situation under control.

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