{"id":3624,"date":"2025-06-14T03:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T03:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2025-06-14T03:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T03:11:50","slug":"trumps-gi-joe-cosplaying-goon-squads-sow-terror-and-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3624","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s GI Joe-Cosplaying \u201cGoon Squads\u201d Sow Terror \u2014 and Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22trumps-gi-joe-cosplaying-goon-squads-sow-terror-and-solidari%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22intercept-presents%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) --><\/p>\n<p>\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/intercept-presents\/trumps-gi-joe-cosplaying-goon-squads-sow-terror-and-solidari?accentColor=111111&amp;bgColor=f5f6f7&amp;logo=false\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"acast-player__embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">Across the country,<\/span> demonstrators are preparing for a weekend of protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, Donald Trump\u2019s planned June 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/05\/29\/trump-birthday-army-military-dc-parade-cost\/\">military parade<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2025\/6\/11\/no_kings\"> Trump himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ground zero for these demonstrations is likely to be Los Angeles, where heavily armed ICE agents have carried out raids at churches, graduations, parking lots, and scores of other gathering spots recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200aThe level of armament that these guys are wearing is out of a GI Joe movie,\u201d said Salvador G. Sarmiento, the campaign director and lawyer for the 70-member<a href=\"https:\/\/ndlon.org\/\"> National Day Laborer Organizing Network<\/a>. \u201cIt seems like the federal police is just driving around willy-nilly \u2014 dressed up as a goon squad \u2014 picking up people that they see on a street corner.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government [is] violently taking people from their work sites in military fashion,\u201d added <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/jonahvaldez\/\">Jonah Valdez<\/a>, reporter for The Intercept.<\/p>\n<p>This week on The Intercept Briefing, Sarmiento and Valdez joined host Jordan Uhl to discuss the wave of ICE operations sweeping Los Angeles that have sparked a week of protests and the militarized response from law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(cta)[1](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22CTA%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Atrue%7D)(%7B%7D) --><\/p>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(cta)[1] --><\/p>\n<p>Several weeks ago,\u00a0White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller went on Fox News to tout the Trump administration\u2019s goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration-aims-3000-arrests-illegal-immigrants-each-day\">3,000 ICE arrests per day<\/a>. Shortly after that, federal agents targeted day laborers outside several Los Angeles-area Home Depots and raided Ambiance Apparel, a clothing manufacturer in the heart of downtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sarmiento hypothesized that LA\u2019s reputation as \u201ca multicultural, multiracial, working-class city,\u201d bothers Trump administration officials like Miller and <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/11\/13\/trump-tom-homan-border-czar-family-separation\/\">Tom Homan<\/a>, Trump\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/27\/trump-deport-venezuela-gang-tren-de-aragua\/\"> border czar<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anything triggers Stephen Miller more than the city of Los Angeles itself, it\u2019s undocumented workers that are visible on a street corner,\u201d Sarimento said. \u201cDay laborers are often a target.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As videos of agents clad in tactical gear and armored vehicles spread online, so did fear and resistance. <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/06\/09\/la-protests-ice-national-guard-trump-adam-schiff\/\">Protests erupted <\/a>against the federal government\u2019s aggressive and militaristic push into communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The law enforcement response against protesters escalated quickly with so-called<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/06\/10\/la-police-ice-raids-protests\/\"> \u201cless-lethal\u201d munitions being fired at the crowd<\/a> on Sunday. \u201cI spoke with five people total who were hit and injured by LAPD mostly, but also [California Highway Patrol],\u201d said Valdez. \u201cOne of them has a pretty bad injury on his arm where the ER doctor told him he\u2019s worried about long-term nerve damage and mobility.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sarmiento, Valdez, and Uhl also discussed how the protests have been misrepresented by right-wing and mainstream media outlets \u2014 and the importance of community solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200aPeople [have to] continue showing up\u00a0because there\u2019s no politician, no elected official, no foundation, nobody in D.C. or Sacramento that\u2019s going to come save the day,\u201d Sarmiento said. \u201cIt\u2019s the people, it\u2019s our neighbors, it\u2019s our loved ones, it\u2019s our family, it\u2019s our friends, our co-workers that we\u2019re all counting on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As people head to the streets again this weekend, protesters should be informed about their constitutional rights and safety options. The episode also features practical advice from attorney Isabella Salom\u00e3o Nascimento.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear the full conversation of The Intercept Briefing on<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-intercept-briefing\/id1195206601\"> Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2js8lwDRiK1TB4rUgiYb24?si=e3ce772344ee4170\"> Spotify<\/a>, or wherever you listen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/06\/13\/briefing-podcast-ice-raids-la-protests-military\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the country, demonstrators are preparing for a weekend of protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, Donald Trump\u2019s planned June 14 military parade, and Trump himself. Ground zero for these demonstrations is likely to be Los Angeles, where heavily armed ICE agents have carried out raids at churches, graduations, parking lots, and scores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}