Police and elected officials say the troops and Marines sent by the Trump administration aren't properly trained to interact with civilians. A judge will decide whether to limit their duties.
I'm just gonna keep posting this any time I see the military acting as a police force.
There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
-Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Well, there are legal proceedings trying to show that using the federal troops in this way is illegal and have them removed. What exactly are you proposing, that the LAPD start a war with the Marines?
The problem is that the distinction between the pigs and soldiers is academic. But didn't we always know that the skills learned in Iraq and Afghanistan would be applied at home?