About 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines were sent to Los Angeles from Tuesday morning, after President Trump has bypassed Californian leaders who said federal forces Were not necessary to respond to especially peaceful protests.
This is how the commitment relates to earlier military activations on domestic soil that responds to social unrest.
2021: Attack on the Capitol
In 2021, civil servants in Washington initially asked 340 National Guard members to help respond to planned protests on January 5 and January 6, According to the army.
Since the protests deteriorated on 6 January against the results of the 2020 presidential elections, a violent crowd of police officers and the Capitol, the mayor of Washington DC, Muriel Bowser, were sent for help and 1,100 DC National Guard members. Later that night, the acting Minister of Defense at the time Mris Miller, 6,200 Meer National Guard -Members from other states to guarantee peace in the days prior to the inauguration of former President Joseph R. Biden.
2020: George Floyd protests
After protests around the United States arose In response to the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, members of the National Guard were deployed in various states.
From 3 June 2020The National Guard had used more than 18,000 members in 28 states to respond to civil unrest with regard to the murder of Mr Floyd at the request of the Governors of the States. Another 42,000 members of the National Guard were activated at the same time for the response of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
In California, 9,600 soldiers in the entire state were deployed after the murder of Mr. Floyd, According to a report Due to the California Governor’s Office or Emergency Services. The report said that the demonstrations were mainly peaceful, but after particularly destructive protests in Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom each used 1,000 troops in the city and the county. A report Commissioned by the Los Angeles city council said that 2800 members of the National Guard were sent.
1992: Los Angeles Riots
There was widespread riots, vandalism and violence In Los Angeles in 1992 In protest against the brutality of the police after a jury had not found four police officers guilty, although the officers were recorded on video, Rodney King defeated a black motorist.
President George HW Bush ordered the National Guard to respond at the request of the Governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles.
Almost 2,000 national guard troops were activated after the protests started on April 29, 1992, The Los Angeles Times reported in 1992. Later that night, state leaders said they had asked for more members of the National Guard to be deployed, which brought the total to 6,000.
On May 3, 1992, nearly 8,500 members of the Marines, Army and National Guard in Los Angeles County, were The Los Angeles Times reported.
1970: Kent State
The mayor of Kent, Ohio, Asked in May 1970 The members of the National Guard of Ohio are sent to Kent State University to give room there to anti-Vietnam war protests and at other university campuses throughout the country. Almost 1,000 troops were at the university on 3 May. The next day, members of the Ohio National Guard shot in a crowd of protesters, Kill four students and injury nine.
Era of civil rights
Until Mr. Trump deployed members of the National Guard in Los Angeles on Saturday, a president had not used federal troops without the permission of the governor of a state Since the civil rights movement.
In the 1950s and 1960s, members of the National Guard were deployed to guarantee the peaceful expansion of rights, such as such as Desegregular schools.
The day after Martin Luther King Jr. In April 1968, 6,000 troops of the National Guard, Army and Marines were killed were activated in Washington To respond to protests. In the days that followed, more than 13,000 soldiers patrolled the city.
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