On horseback, heavy armed: Fedes Storm La’s McArthur Park only to vacate it – clock
Dozens of heavy armed federal officers and about 90 National Guard Sainiks landed at McArther Park in Los Angeles on Monday (local time), which was billed as an immigration raid, but looked more like a military spectacle in almost empty public places. Along with the horse riding in the tow and soldiers on military vehicles, Operation expressed displeasure with the city officials including Mayor Karen Bass, who compared the scene to “A City Under Seae” and slammed it as “political stunts”.The AP quoted Bass as saying, “What I saw in the park today looked like a city under the siege, under armed occupation,” AP quoted the bass.
‘What in search of?’
Questioning the purpose behind such an act, Bass said, “The world needs to see the formation of a contingent on horses through the park, in search of?”The children were quickly taken inside the house in a nearby day camp, an 8 -year -old mayor said that he is “afraid of snow.”This operation took place at McArther Park in La, a vibrant, immigrant-rich neighborhood dubbed “Elis Island of West Coast”. Health workers, who assisted the homeless residents, said the soldiers gathered guns on them and ordered them to be released. Park, known for its lake, concert, football game and stirring road vendors, is a cultural center for immigrant families and small businesses.
Why did McArther Park choose as a target?
Council members Uniz Hernandez, whose district covers McArther Park, stated that the region is specifically “who lives there and who represents it.”McArther Park, originally turned into a 35 -acre dump at Westlake Park at the end of the 19th century, was renamed in 1942 after General Douglas McArthur. Since the 1980s, the surrounding Westlake neighborhood has evolved into a densely populated immigrant community, which are home to many people from Mexico, Central America and immigrant advocacy groups.In recent years, it has seen an increase in homeless nests, in which outreach teams have provided assistance for drug addiction. The park was also a major site of the May 2007 Day Immigration rally, which ended in police violence, which led to a $ 12.8 million agreement for the protesters.
What did you say?
Defense officials said the raid was not a military operation, although he admitted that the scale of the presence of the National Guard could give this perception.AP said an official, “It is just going to grow more overt and big as we usually participate.”According to the official, the main responsibility of the service members was to provide security for immigration officers in the event of a hostile crowd. While they were not involved in law enforcement functions such as arrests, they could temporarily catch individuals if the law enforcement was not required to be completed.By deploying soldiers to provide security during the raid, they are brought closer to direct participation in law enforcement activities like exile, Trump has vowed as part of his staunch immigration agenda.
