Full Marine Battalion Of 700 Deploying To Los Angeles As Protests Continue

This post was republished with permission from Zero Hedge

Another 200 Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division based out of Twentynine Palms in California have been added to the count – making 700 Marines that will join the roughly 2,000 California National Guard troops stationed in Los Angeles over the weekend, US Northern Command announced Monday. 

Approximately 500 marines – a full battalion – are being deployed to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, according to CNN, citing ‘three people familiar with the matter’ (so who knows). 

Marines out of US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine-Palms, California (where one of the ZH crew was stationed for “the worst 12 weeks of my life”), will join the National Guard troops that were activated by President Donald Trump over the weekend – in the face of strong pushback by Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass. 

It is unclear what the Marines will be tasked with once in LA – as they are prohibited from conducting law enforcement activity such as making arrests unless Trump invokes the Insurrection Act (after spending the last two days calling the protests ‘insurrectionists.’ 

Meanwhile, shit’s still going down in LA. This was the scene Monday afternoon:

NOW: Crowd is rapidly growing outside of Los Angeles detention center where National Guard and LAPD stationed with shields pic.twitter.com/FzVlu2J9SN

— Oliya Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) June 9, 2025

Hundreds of protesters are now outside the 300 North Los Angeles Federal Building, where a line of California National Guardsmen and CBP officers is positioned pic.twitter.com/QYndyuqpdR

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) June 9, 2025

And some chaps driving in a Cybertruck with “Fuck ICE” graffiti and a Mexican flag…

#WATCH: As someone drives their Cybertruck through the riots with deliberately spray-painted with phrases like ACAB’ and F ICE while a Mexican flag waves proudly from the back

#LosAngeles | #California

Watch as chaos erupts during the riots in downtown Los Angeles on… pic.twitter.com/lHi2suT8g2

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) June 9, 2025

And in New York, police are making arrests outside Federal Plaza, as anti-ICE protesters clash with police.

NOW: Police continue to make arrests outside Federal Plaza in NYC as Anti-ICE Protesters Clash with Police in solidarity with Los Angeles

Video by Anna Oakes (@FreedomNTV)
[email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/ljjzKXMikK

— Oliya Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) June 9, 2025

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