Faux News: California police plead for help amid officer shortage as union boss warns of unprecedented riot ‘onslaught’

Trump’s National Guard deployment protects federal property while local officers face injuries from violent demonstrators

As the protests against Los Angeles’ immigration raids spread, state law enforcement leaders are sounding the alarm on the dangers facing officers on the front lines of the riots.  

“I’ve been around a very long time, and I have seen similar to what we’re facing now,” Jake Johnson, president of the California Association of Highway Patrolmen (CAHP), told Fox News Digital. “But I’ve never seen the amount of onslaught.”

Thousands of protesters descended on Los Angeles in the last two weeks after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers began conducting raids throughout the sanctuary city. The violence included rioters hurling projectiles at law enforcement officers and lighting numerous self-driving electric vehicles on fire.

Get rid of the wannabe dictator — King Donald — and purge Washington of his sycophants, and things will get a lot better very quickly. One must address the real problems, not the symptoms.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-police-plead-help-amid-officer-shortage-union-boss-warns-unprecedented-riot-onslaught

Alternet: Split Supreme Court deals a massive blow to right-wing movement — but ‘the fight isn’t over’

Public education and First Amendment advocates on Thursday celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to allow the nation’s first religious public charter school in Oklahoma—even though the outcome of this case doesn’t rule out the possibility of another attempt to establish such an institution.

“Requiring states to allow religious public schools would dismantle religious freedom and public education as we know it,” Cecillia Wang, national legal director of the ACLU, said in a statement about the 4-4 decison. “Today, a core American constitutional value remains in place: Public schools must remain secular and welcome all students, regardless of faith.”

Unfortunately a 4-4 decision doesn’t mean that it’s over, only that the lower court decision under appeal will be allowed to stand, for now at least.

https://www.alternet.org/supreme-court-charter-2672189203