
National Guard can detain people
The 700 Marines being sent to Los Angeles are currently undergoing a two-day civil unrest training to get "extensive training on crowd control," Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman of the National Guard told Los Angeles ABC station KABC.
President Donald Trump has sent 4,000 National Guardsmen to LA. There are 2,000 of them currently in LA and the other 2,000 will arrive by Thursday afternoon to begin training, Sherman said.
The soldiers' role is "solely to protect personnel to do their federal mission," Sherman said. He noted that the National Guard has been on raids as "protection of personnel as they do their federal job."
The guardsmen can detain people, but local law enforcement must make the arrests, he said.