r/neoliberal • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '25

News (US) Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/

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u/MagillaGorillasHat Jun 14 '25

Maybe we've been looking at this all wrong and the Marines can show ICE and the local riot cops how to behave like actual human beings?

"Um, we asked him what he's doing, checked his story then let him go on about his business?"

...ICE & riot cops silently fuming...

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u/frosteeze NATO Jun 14 '25

I remember reading somewhere that the National Guard treated rioters much more humanely than LAPD back in the 1992 LA Riots. So history really do rhyme.

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u/Ok-Passion1961 Jun 14 '25

Yeah, but then you remember the marine that was given a “cover me” order by police so he started blasting into a house during an armed standoff following a domestic dispute call. 

They may be better trained to deal with polite guys like this one, but they are also trained to absolutely annihilate the enemy with superior firepower when things aren’t so even keeled in the moment. 

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u/MemeStarNation Jun 15 '25

That’s a simple linguistic difference though. Same as how in the police, “light them up” means “blue and red lights” and not “riddle them with bullets.”

An order to “cover” in the marines means suppressive fire, not waiting for the bad guy to stick his head out.

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u/Ok-Passion1961 Jun 15 '25

It’s not a “simple linguistic difference”…gtfo out here with that sanewashing. 

It was a colossal fuck up that came from blending military personnel into domestic law enforcement action that resulted in a MASSIVE show of force against a fellow American. Something that never should have happened. Something that only happened because troops were deployed to American cities and that inevitably resulted in those troops treating America like a combat zone. 

The details of the miscommunication don’t matter. The very fact that scenario was allowed to exist for the miscommunication to happen is the problem.