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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, today, for the very first time since federal troops were sent into Los Angeles, |
0:06.0 | we saw a member of the U.S. Marine Corps detain a civilian outside a federal building in L.A. |
0:12.0 | You can see the footage right there on the screen. That's according to Reuters, which obtained this footage you're seeing, showing two Marines, |
0:18.0 | appearing to handcuff and temporarily detain a young man for |
0:21.9 | walking through a National Guard checkpoint. Now, the man who was detained is reportedly a veteran |
0:26.8 | himself who was just trying to get to the Department of Veterans Affairs office when he was stopped. |
0:32.9 | It's a big deal because the armed forces are generally forbidden from engaging in domestic law enforcement. |
0:38.4 | It's obviously not what we saw here. So this raises more serious questions about the appropriate |
0:43.5 | use of the military and U.S. soil. And that brings us to Washington, D.C., where it may be raining, |
0:50.4 | but right now tons of military hardware, including helicopters, artillery, tanks, are being |
0:55.8 | positioned up and down along the National Mall. |
0:58.6 | You can see some of the shots and the footage there. |
1:00.8 | That's the National Mall, everyone. |
1:03.4 | All in preparation for what the Trump team is still, I guess, kind of pretending is a celebration |
1:09.1 | of the 250th anniversary of the Army. |
1:11.6 | That's what they're still telling people. |
1:13.6 | One that we all actually know is primarily a vanity-driven birthday celebration for President Trump. |
1:18.6 | That's what it really is. |
1:20.6 | I mean, Trump didn't even leave this $43 million at least to maybe more, |
1:24.6 | who knows ego-boosting party in the hands of someone who might actually know |
1:29.3 | how to celebrate the Army. |
1:31.3 | Well, still, of course, making him feel like a very special birthday boy. |
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