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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is denounced federal agents and National Guard troops for getting off at City Park on Monday, July 7th.
Armored vehicles, cavalry and armed troops flocked to the city’s MacArthur Park before departing Monday morning. Bass said 20 children were playing in the park, with the military surgently sharing footage of federal officials running through the park.
“Frankie, it’s ridiculous to have a federal armed vehicle when nothing is happening in our park, and not American,” Bus said at a press conference Monday. “The federal government that seized our state’s national guards is outrageous and non-American. It’s outrageous and American that we have a US Marine who is trained to kill foreign foreigners deployed in our American cities.”
The mayor said in X that she visited the park second when she heard what was going on and ordered the person in charge to leave immediately. Calling the scene “absolutely outrageous,” she described what happened as “a military-style operation designed to strike fear in the heart of our city.”
“We are not afraid, we are not divided. We stand together,” she wrote.
According to the Department of Defense X-Post, troops attended the park to “ensure the safety of federal agents.”
Los Angeles City Councilman Eunisses Hernandez said the district covers MacArthur Park, with X, that armed forces “are terrorizing summer camp street vendors, elders and even children.”
USA Today contacted the National Guard for comment.
The Pentagon spent $134 million on deploying the National Guard
Bass criticizes the existence of the National Guard in LA, claiming that it is extraordinary to deploy without the governor’s request.
Last month, President Donald Trump deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to the city in response to protests against federal immigration enforcement. The president defended the decision, saying, “If we don’t send the National Guard, Los Angeles will be on fire now!”
Defense officials said the Pentagon spent $134 million on the 60-day rollout. Bryn McDonnell, the Secretary of Defense special assistant, explained that the costs included travel, housing and food, and that funds came from their operations and maintenance accounts.
Gav. Gavin Newsom attempted to stop a federal invasion in California, later filed a lawsuit against Trump, accusing the president and the Secretary of Defense of the Defense Secretary of trying to use his assets to support the ICE attack.
Contributors: James Powell and Bert Janssen, USA Today
