Padilla: MacArthur Park—After they staged this show of force, there were zero people detained. I’m sure they got tons of footage for their next TikTok videos. On the flip side, what’s happening to the community? Before these agents went through the park, it was the site of a summer camp.
Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here: youtu.be/_koaP6NPcyg
okay. the padilla segment starts at 3:42 in a 15-16 minute video total
Propaganda / recruitment video.
The maganauts love this poster. Imagine that.
Why?
😡Tuck fRump.
It is easier to terrorize children and their parents when the children are most vulnerable.
It's not their community. I wonder how it would feel to have them facing their *own communities with these offenses.
Oh! They know about the terror that the McArthur park show of force did. It went exactly as they planned, because they are fucking monsters. 😢
A summer camp full of brown kids. That's all you need to know
Today, I heard a radio ad with Kristi Noem bragging about capturing three criminal immigrants and thanking Trump. Our tax dollars should not be paying for radio ads and commercials to promote racism.
Armed men descending on summer camp is disgusting
Criminals being payed by our tax dollars. Such bullshit
Goons in costumes. Idiots. Fuck them
The fear and terror are what they want
They're a joke and so is Trump
The children will never forget.
California’s tax dollars are funding ICE. Punch back and withhold federal dollars. Think bigger than “suing” this regime. The law does not apply to them anymore.
😡 terrorizing a children’s day camp?!? Horrible!
can you post the original link so i can look for available captions? as posted here on bsky there's nothing for me to see
Disgraceful...
What a major waste of time, resources, and money.
Sowing disruption and fear.
The raid on MacArthur Park was pure political theater. So. Why do it? Simple. Trump hates California. He hates Gavin Newsom. He hates Alex Padilla. He hates Karen Bass. That's why.
WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS SHIT! Jesus Christ people, what did that little stunt cost us? How about the money we are wasting having the military there for no fucking reason!
Let's organize and flip not only CA CD 41 but also CA CD 23. It's always been low turnout, get registration up and turnout up and CD 23 can flip. Both share a media market, it's a wiglely line between them. bsky.app/profile/thet...
I ate food too soon before bed.Had a horrible nightmare.This is it: in less than a yr Trump will use Ice againts us all & take over.There will be war on Every street. I woke feeling like I wanted to talk to judges, senators,Gov's & independent media urgently. Heed me. 450 mill.$ beckncall military!
For those unfamiliar with the horrors of Jim Crow, chain gangs, segregation, police dogs attacking protestors, lynchings, or the burning of Black-owned businesses—what's happening now is your moment. Pay attention. Let your trump loving friends go. NOW! VOTE! PROTEST!
ICEgoons!
Traumatizing kids a a camp for no reason.
Anyone with a gun and wearing a mask is a terrorist. Time for the local police to start treating them as terrorists.
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#VOTE-REPLICANS-OUT
Americans need to stop acting like things are normal.Things are not normal, act accordingly.
Write a law, let them break it and arrest them and send them to El Salvador. Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out ICE
While noem is playing war Barbie deliberately scaring innocent children in a family park in LA, innocent children are dying in a park because of her and trumps regime. This is really happening and still we soft citizens are too scared, lazy or non caring enough to march in the millions to stop it.
What is this with federal agents using horses for crowd control? What is this, Dr. Zhivago where the mounted troops attack the protesters with sabers? I fear that a day will come where some trooper(s) will open fire.
This is building up to a pivotal moment. Americans will take only so much.
The should all rebel it’s time to take action
#IHDY? 😡 🇺🇸
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I truly wish the vast majority of Americans were empathetic enough to put themselves in others' shoes. What if this happened in your neighborhood park, to your kids and community? Where is the humanity?
I feel you 💯
Sickening.
Abusive regime, unchecked
Jose 👀
The targets were deliberately children on summer break. 10am in July. Zero gangsters are in this park. ICE is full of idiots. MS13 activity is at night, in specific alleys (which MS13 tags and identifies, also like idiots) near this park. If they wanted to arrest the worst, it’s actually easy.
They're pussies. They only go after innocent people. Gang members are way over their kitties. And, theyre pussies.
Yup: this was never about actual criminals. Too hard for them. They could camp at the exits of jails and intercept people that way. The FOIA and CPRA laws force sanctuary cities to give public records. Court dockets aren’t private. Run names against SS records: boom, deportable felons.
ICE is not grounded in reality
Oh but it is grounded in the reality they are trying to create.
Thank you for doing something!!
MAGAs love it when kids are traumatized. That’s the reason they do nothing about school shootings
In my community, all construction workers &landscapers, in solidarity to prevent coworkers from getting profiled/kidnapped are wearing full masks, long sleeves, gloves, hats/glasses while they work. An owner rep is at every site barring anyone claiming authority from property without a warrant.
Why wasn’t LA swat team called out 🧌🧌
These agents have children too I would think. How would they feel about their own kids being in that park! They are being told by supervisors that the mission is priority over the law and constitution. How can anyone be ok with that!
So...kids can't use a park for its intended use, recreation, in the form of a summer "city camp".
They want us to get accustomed to ICE being a regular presence
Refuse to get accustomed. Get angry/active instead.
Das ist ein take.
Both photos here show armed thugs on horses hunting helpless humans and both taken in the state of California…the only way to tell which one isn’t ICE is they don’t have masks on…otherwise indistinguishable
They probably terrified some children and elderly folks. That’s the goal now.
The CLUMP is all about appearance. He’s a fake reality idiot who had a show. I still can’t believe active military soldiers took arms to their own home! There used to be a kind of OATH soldier’s to defend constitution not a TYRANT! I guess no more. It was his propaganda commercial. We need to FIGHT!
Hamon says he is coming to Portland because he feels “bullied” He needs mandatory therapy
Hamon 😂🤣😂 He looks like a ham
I don't think any of these ICE agents are REAL, that is, before trump agents. I think these are J6 thugs he pardoned, then anyone who wants gets a make believe uniform, a mask, gun and off they go to raise hell. They're legalized gangs, not true LEO's
Practice. Now he’s using Comey to cover up the practice for martial law.
Video of scared and confused children crying and running from heavily armed soldiers will be like snuff porn to the MAGA base.
Terrorism, plain and simple.
L.A. is allowing it. At this point, one has to ask, why?
But FEMA was delayed three days to Texas. Noem has to go!!!!!
Hope the Tic Toc video is a parody because the whole scene looked stupid
Also, wtf is going to happen when the Olympics and World Cup come?
This is domestic terrorism! 😡
ASSHOLES looking like Hitler Storm Troopers!
It was practice. They showed their hand Armored assault vehicles and Patriot front horses. Love all animals, but horses terrify very easily
It's government sanctioned terrorism. Call it what it is.
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The power of the GOLDEN CALF and the FOURTH REICH seems unstoppable...I'm sure ADOLF HITLER was seen as unstoppable too...I never thought I would see FASCISM come to my nation... www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
How about using those horses 🐎 to help find missing dead bodies in Texas!! 🥺💔🥀🕊🙏🏿
100% these Nazis all took a group shower and took turns picking up the soap and washed each other with a slow caress while gazing into each others eyes and topped off rubbing baby oil on each other. They then sent the video to Gym Jordan.
We heard it was a homeless encampment with pedos waiting for their treats in the kids park. Is this true?
The Marines lost a major battle, the Battle of MacArthur Park. Retreating in fear from taco vendors, US enemies realize the Marines are a shadow of their former selves. Next, they will engage in the Battle of Home Depot against landscapers and be defeated again.
Be careful in your reactions. They are baiting you into retaliation to justify their use of force. They want to install martial law in California. Probably to control the next election.
It is curious when you think about the building of America over the years, how many of us have ancestors who immigrated not many generations ago. I wonder how many ICE Enforcers are only a few generations past their immigrating ancestors? Which means they are stalking people much like their own.
Performative terrorism. Jfc 🤬
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So the big takeaway from this past week has been that, if you send your kids to summer camp in the US, they have an equal chance of being endangered by government action or inaction.
Ooh that’s good
Republicans make our communities LESS safe.
They are brown shirts and wannabe gestapo
They are Gestapo and SS. Stephen Miller and Hegseth carefully studied Nazi tactics
It was all staged for a propaganda video.
It was a test, could they move around like that and get away with it. They did, they can. They will.
They chose a Monday morning. That is not a time when a lot of people are in the park, they are at work. They were making footage for commercials, TikToks for recruiting. It's also a hat tip to Bill Bratton's May Melee in 2007 that got the LAPD sued up the yazoo.
Everything they do is a test of lowering the bar each and every time and look how far they have gone and will keep going with smirks on their face’s because we are letting them get away with it every time.
Probably a dress rehearsal
California, with at least 17 states, filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Homeland Security. The suit aims to stop the federal agencies from engaging in unconstitutional and unlawful stops of Los Angeles residents during immigration sweeps. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
Is he bringing charges of child abuse against DHS?
Trump's Stormtroopers training as ICE agents.
Felon47 encourages the DHS to perform these Cos-play activities simply to infuse chaos into people’s everyday lives. Latino’s in LA and its surrounding cities are target #1 for Felons chaos and unfortunately can’t afford to go to a park or doctors appointment or a movie or anything! Pathetic!
Arrest them
They are terrorists cause trauma directly and indirectly ON PURPOSE.
Enough. State and local government needs to mobilize to repel these brownshirts.
It's shocking that no one can stop the ICE travesties.
I'm sure everyone noticed the photographer in the back of their ICE vehicle taking pics of the people protesting their presence. Watch them start going after those protesters.
They were practicing…
The goal is disruption. The goal is purification. The goal is submission.
What a waste of public tax dollars. Can't have National Park employees or National Forest Service employees, but can have a $45 million-dollar military parade, $1 billion for retro of a luxury plane than no one can use except Donald. He spends like a drunken sailor on his needs.
Don't forget the weekly golfing at taxpayers expense, living expenses for DOGE...
Not to mention the $170 Billion for ICE in the bill...it's gonna be very very bad.
Just an obvious attempt by cosplaying incels to instill fear in people. For no reason other than it makes them feel less pathetic.
Recruiting video!
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A distraction from the CRYPTO grift, read the NYT articles and connect dots, while having incompetence at every level to further distract, its intentional as the accept and give bribes, to Rs no doubt, with the crypto
A summer camp for kids?! Oh, the horror!
How much tax payer dollars were spent on this stunt??!!!!
Only the flaccid flex
They are like the kid behind you kicking the back of your seat. They win when/ if we react!
Live, love, laugh, dance and dream. Make your presence known with love, humanity, courage, determination and unity. America 🇺🇸 you can win 🫵
They are looking for retaliation.
All planned in advance!
New York Review of Books contributer Fintan O'Toole, in a recent article, had a perceptive though frightening take on the military presence in LA (pre MacArthur Park): inuring the troops to action on US soil vs US citizens.
Fraudulent imposters posing as POLICE, who are now listed on the new Budget Chart as being under DoJ & DHS? No mention of "ICE" who supposedly inherited the biggest big bill raises & boost in #s? This is a clue for us. How is it that I'm the only Nobody who blew this chart up to see the new titles?
If you haven’t seen this yet, you need to watch it now. It was all planned at the Army’s highest levels. Here’s proof. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6dm6G7q/
I don't understand why Bonte and Newsom haven't banned face coverings for all law enforcement in California!
Because they don’t want the conflict when the Feds refuse.
These mounted ICE Agents rode through the middle of a Summer Camp for dozens of kids in McArthur Park, a beautiful park btw, and ruined everyone’s day with threats and abuse, for not a single detainee. Not one. Los Angeles, I’m so sorry these philistines are trampling over one of my favorite cities.
"We drove those kids indoors with our show of force. How brave are we?"
All this cash influx to Ice. Its apparent the traitor is creating his own private army to control all of us. Then the republicans can make us all suffer under his dictatorship. Wake up. Wake up. The maga republicans already knew what was happening. They knew!
So put out a bill called, “protect children from government trauma” and make it read that when children are in a park, school or church, government agencies cannot interfere. Do something other than complain. Keep piling legislation against ICE.
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They are literally terrorists.
Somebody hammer away at the cost. Tote it up (don't ask them, estimate), and then ask whether zero arrests was worth the theater at that ticket price.
They shouldn't be arresting anyone without due process !
But the ones who don't care about fairness? They do care about money. I guarantee you that.
Republicans are not Republicans. They do not care about cost.effectiveness. It's all about control. Republicans are a fascist regime.
And what control did they gain here, by bringing in embedded TV crews like it was the storming of Baghdad, to watch them arrest precisely nobody? Nobody, not even "Republicans" are immune to embarrassment. It breaks through eventually.
They are no longer Republicans
Yup. Nazis
You're right they were always assholes.
Just the kids that were there... Sarcasm.
Cosplaying in all cowards have to show...for no effort.
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Where is Dog'e??? Absolute waste of money and resources, fraudulent activities and abuse of power.... what will it take???
This was a test run How will the People react when they come out in real force. California is target 1. They have a special need to crush California. Its too liberal, too many hippies. And....there is a sh*t ton of money to steal.... Project 2025
“MacArthur Park is melting in the rain, all the sweet green icing flowing down.” Gaaack! I can’t get that darned earworm out of my head. Maybe that should be the background track for ICE training videos. Bwah ha ha
Video for their propaganda network!
AND HOW MANY OF OUR HAD EARNED DOLLARS JUST WASTED ON NOTHING, could have bot more crypto or maybe another detention center ?????
#CALIFORNIA is:💥 The fourth largest economy in the world 1/12 the entire population of the U.S. The leading food producer in USA & top innovator The most diverse state California subsidizes red states = 81.3 billion dollars Hurting California hurts everyone💥 #FAFO #ICE 🆘 #SF #LA #IMMIGRANTS
I believe Krasnov WANTS to hurt everyone… if you can’t see it, you’re blind & deaf. And dumber than a box o rocks
VK - agree he wants to hurt everyone and it's unreal how others can't / won't see it. It's important for people to be aware of what California brings to this country in many ways. It's a hell of a lot and if he takes Cali down, so goes the country! That's why the big fight is here right now.
I just wish Newsom would put himself on the front line.
agree VK and Newsom is definitely getting pushed upfront daily by all of our voices and trumps actions. There's action on the legal fronts and Newsom's formation of coalitions are in the works too. Let's all keep pushing back and pushing leaders forward. They need to hear our voices in unison.
"MacArthur Park is melting in the DARK "
TV Trump regime. Fight fire with fire democrats. Start having daipresser about Trumps policies and how they are killing people.
Maybe Senator Padilla should zero out their budget, eh?
#LAStrong
0 arrests How many 0s in the dollars spent for their show??
So the lady who kills puppies also likes to scare small children?
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It's all about a wealth transfer to his billionaire buddies. Who's building the concentration camps? Who's contracting the goons? Who's providing the surveillance? AwZ Ventures? Who owns the land the concentration camps are on? Who's producing their videos? Who's making the movie? Oliver Stone?
Also, Noems pussy is larger than an elephants ass having been stretched out by Tijuana donkeys
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Yeah, seems they paid far more attention to the McA park summer camp than they are doing to Camp Mystic.
That was a trial run to experiment with 'pushing' people, like cattle, to a gathering area where they will be sorted and shipped out to another gathering area to be a final sort before loading them on planes to be shipped out. Just like cattle. Hitler actually used cattle cars.
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark I think this song, made famous by singer Richard Harris in 1968, is appropriate to what's happening today, with its message of the heartbreaking loss of what we had. I've picnicked in that park....
You mentioned you had a picnic there. I just hope you didn’t take any kids to Mac!
The picnic wasn't recent.
Looks like that picnic was quite some time ago since I lived around there in the 80s. MacArthur Park wasn't doing so great back then. 😃
That's when I was there.
I lived on Mountain View and Beverly back then. Did you live near MacArthur Park?
Not close, no. About 20 miles southeast of Downtown LA. I watched the smoke rise from the Watts Riots.
Seeing the Watts riots must have been an unforgettable experience! You definitely look like you’ve got some interesting tales to tell.
My adult hippie cousin tuned me into the Counterculture at age 12 during the Summer of Love. Got ticked at my dad on a trip to San Francisco that year because he wouldn't take us to Haight Ashbury. 😆
😳 😅 Wow, that must have been quite the adventure for a 12-year-old! You got to see the rise of the hippie culture firsthand. Have you ever checked out a book called 'Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon' by David McGowan? I think you'd enjoy it.
I, for one, am furious that they wasted OUR taxpayer money on this Nazi theater bullshit.
It’s all about the reality show …
It get worse because his new bill gives $170billion to make ICE largest police force & this BS they spread is gonna cause civiil war in our country.Nd to stop this insanity trump wants because of his racist ideas. They are building family detention camps thru USA & people nd to wakeup. FK ICE FK DJT
Filming a new propaganda commercial to run on TV and selected roku apps....
thought i did a good job with the punk skull, utilizing the most interior part of the la rams horn and patching two la chargers thunderbolts together for the mohawk. even if nobody recognizes it, i like it a lot. defend #losangeles
Community networking can outsmart ICE.
Reminds me of scenes from another dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451 where the “firemen” moved into the park in force randomly detaining and searching people. I think the real MAGA playbooks are this one and Orwell’s 1984. The parallels between them & what’s happening today are beyond alarming!
Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" (1993) is unmatched in its prescience of this time.
Think I need to rematch Les Mis and Hamilton tonight.
Rewatch*
The most vile human trafficking with a presidential approval.
Kids were traumatized! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Courage to speak up and speak out about what you see. Thank you Sen. Padilla. Try to get the rest of your fellow party to stop posturing and start making justice happen. Too bad they sat around for 4 years and did nothing.
CALIFORNIA STRONG
This information needs to be broadcast far and wide.
They can edit in the unrest later.
They pointed guns at kids who had to be hurried inside out of terror
It’s all performative power porn. So pathetic.
They’re for diversion
Trump's Summer of Evil continues! He hates everything normal in the U.S. But then, he is Putin's tool!
👹👹👹At TAXPAYERS EXPENSE FFS!!
A practice drill for Election Day next November?? hope not!
It’s fear mongering😒
So no ICE related activity? I don’t suppose they had a license for a parade? I don’t suppose they made arrangements beforehand to gather as a group in a public park? Seems like they should be banned from entering public spaces for at least 3.5 years.
It was nothing but bullshit theater! 👎👎💩💩
"Show of Force" (Threat), that is exactly what they attempted. Why they did it. He defies the courts and the law and using our own military against us.
And what did this show of force cost the tax payers?
You have a police force, LAPD if you can’t get them on your side, then you need to fire them if they’re not gonna go by the rules of the constitution & of the state of California they need to go. I don’t give a fuck about their unions I don’t care unless They’re doing their jobs.NO MORE OUTLAW LAPD
LAPD should be ashamed of themselves for letting these people take over their city and basically showing the world how incompetent they are at protecting their cities. People seemed to have forgotten that Indigenous Native American includes those of Mexican decent who lived in the Southwest
states like Texas, Arizona, California, etc. prior to being taken over by the US.
It’s a great point! Even if you’re a cruel jerk & think some people deserve violent ICE detainment - what about the impact on the rest of the community?
That’s LA City Council President @mhdcd8.bsky.social’s line. But it’s very true. He told Stephen Miller that if he wanted to film in LA, then he should apply for a permit like everybody else. bsky.app/profile/plai...
Hey, why don’t we host block parties there, as a way to regain some form of soul back to the community? If they want to push us away from our love for our community, we should show them we aren’t pushovers.
One witness said some folks came thru warning them to leave. iCE was coming.
Community has no place in an autocracy, destroy community and people have no problem turning on/in their neighbours.
So..... They kept a cake from being left out in the rain?
I guess that ICE Barbie is going to do some additional advertising. She can use the footage in her ads.
Of the marines do this they are un American
These participants have hate in their souls
Horrible.
This administration loves chaos and abusing its power. At the hands of Donald,Tom and Steven this is all show for them. They're getting a laugh and kick out this with the evil demonic look in their eyes. This gives them something to brag about behind closed doors. Wonder if Miller&Homan went to FL.
So ICE is the new Klan.
Just getting us used to armed, masked troops in the streets asking people for their papers. Reminds me of something. Can’t think what…
Domestic terrorism @padilla.senate.gov
How much did we, the tax payers, pay for this stunt?
A summer camp .. for KIDS! Little kids!
They should be in the flood areas helping.
How about go help the people in Texas?
And they were not helping in Texas
These raids in California bring a whole new aspect to this song! youtu.be/R-rDQs5NOP4?...
The goal is to instill fear!
Meanwhile they could have been helping TexAss....
