Trump Allowed to Keep National Guard in Los Angeles
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About 700 Marines and more than 4,000 National Guard have been deployed at the cost of $134 million. William Deverell is a professor of history at USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
President Trump has said the city would be burning without military intervention, but the protests have been confined to a relatively small area.
Trump slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom, who previously called Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to California “deranged.”
These are the people flying flags from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, South Korea and other places during the Los Angeles protests.