Overview

• On June 13, Marines guarding the Wilshire Federal Building detained 27-year-old US Army veteran Marcos Leao for entering a restricted zone and handed him to DHS two hours later
• President Trump deployed about 700 Marines alongside National Guard forces to Los Angeles in response to ICE raid protests, overriding Governor Gavin Newsom’s objections and prompting a state lawsuit
• Mayor Karen Bass has kept a curfew in place over one square mile of downtown Los Angeles with no set end date as demonstrations enter their eighth day
• Nearly 1,800 demonstrations are scheduled nationwide this weekend opposing the administration’s Washington military parade and its immigration enforcement tactics
• Civil liberties advocates and local officials are challenging the legality of using active-duty troops to police civilian protests on US soil