Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Friday, June 20, 2025

We don't have s" under control," a Los Angeles Police Department commander told me on Sunday. "It's a godsend that the National Guard and the Marines are here." Officers on the street felt the same way, though the LAPD forbids them to express that view in public, the commander said. There are two different pictures of what happened in Los Angeles"the official one from California's elected leaders and the media, and the ground-level view from law enforcement. On Saturday"a week after President Trump activated the National Guard and six days after Gov. Gavin Newsom told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that local law enforcement officers were "sufficient to maintain order""a crowd broke into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center downtown to liberate the detainees ...

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Depends on what one is rioting for or against one supposes. Just sayin

#1 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-20 12:01 PM | Reply

Protesting is fine. Rioting is not. Those are different things.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-20 12:18 PM | Reply

I figured this was a comrad Jeffry
Thread Before I opened it. Our Russian friends are becoming too predictable.

#3 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-06-20 02:44 PM | Reply

Whenever I want an objective opinion on protests and riots, I ALWAYS consult the author of, "Trump Defends the Law"!

jajajaa!

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-20 02:51 PM | Reply

Depends on who.

#5 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-06-20 04:09 PM | Reply

"We don't have s" under control," a Los Angeles Police Department commander told me on Sunday. "It's a godsend that the National Guard and the Marines are here."

Lying statements like this are why people say "fcnk the police" and "ACAB". This pig is obviously MAGA

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-06-20 05:01 PM | Reply

The LAPD, the Rampart Division, or anyone on the force have no history of abuse against minorities or other vulnerable people, right? media.npr.org

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-20 05:12 PM | Reply

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