Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

According to the military release [1]:

> Approximately 700 Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division will seamlessly integrate with the Title 10 forces under Task Force 51 who are protecting federal personnel and federal property in the greater Los Angeles area.

It seems like Trump has not invoked the insurrection act but instead it’s all under a different federal law. Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown law professor, has a write up [2] on Title 10 vs the Insurrection Act and some possible concerns. He posted this about the National guard but given the military release states they are being deployed to assist the nation guard under title 10 it still seems relevant. To quote the TL;DR of his post:

> The TL;DR here is that Trump has not (yet) invoked the Insurrection Act, which means that the 2000 additional troops that will soon be brought to bear will not be allowed to engage in ordinary law enforcement activities without violating a different law—the Posse Comitatus Act. All that these troops will be able to do is provide a form of force protection and other logistical support for ICE personnel. Whether that, in turn, leads to further escalation is the bigger issue (and, indeed, may be the very purpose of their deployment). But at least as I’m writing this, we’re not there yet.

[1] https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/421...

[2] https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/156-federalizing-the-californ...

I lived through the BLM protests in a liberal city. They let them destroy everything, then they called in the National Guard to stop looting that already happened.

Everyone’s okay with peaceful protests, but they should call in the national guard and prosecute people for violence. You might hate Trump, but in my previous experience, it’s the residents of the most liberal districts that suffer all the consequences of this nonsense.

Seems to me that sending the USMC to protect a burning Waymo is a bit of an overreaction.

I'm not American, thus I had no vote in the election, nor do I like Trump for a number of reasons.

However, enforcement of immigration laws has been one of the biggest parts of his election platform, if not the central part(build the wall, etc).

I imagine his voters are happy to see some action being taken.

The protestors could really do with some better optics, destroying property and waving foreign flags is just going to increase approval for military action.

If the protestors had instead marched peacefully with American flags, it would have been a much better PR win.

Now, did they really destroy “everything”?