Jonathan Wackrow: Deploying National Guard Is ‘A Trigger or a Catalyst for Further Escalation’ of Protests

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WACKROW: “And really, what law enforcement‘s primary role — and again, I‘m going to talk about like the LAPD — their primary role remains facilitating the First Amendment rights while ensuring public safety and civil order. So what the federal government is doing is they‘re deploying these troops to protect federal facilities. But is that proportionate to what we see going on right now? Is that an escalation? Again, time will tell, but I think that across the country, the mobilization of the National Guard, the marines in L.A., is really being utilized as a call to action by protesters. It‘s a trigger or a catalyst for further escalation of these protests. It‘s not proportionate to what we‘re seeing, the issues being raised right now. So, again, this is a balance. And to your point, are we at a tipping point? We may be very soon."