The Los Angeles Police Department itself put out a statement describing the demonstrations as “peaceful” on Friday, but Trump’s deputy chief of staff, maniacal white nationalist Stephen Miller, had already posted on X earlier that day that the protests were an “insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.” His post was above a video of a slow march of a few hundred people surrounding LA’s federal detention center. “One side is for enforcing the law and protecting Americans,” Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and Trump ally told the Times, “and the other side is for defending illegals and being on the side of the people who break the law.” We might instead recall King’s 1963 letter from Birmingham jail, in which he decried “the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action.’”
Author: Natasha Lennard
Published at: 2025-06-09 20:39:32
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