{"id":41801,"date":"2025-06-09T13:56:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41801"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:56:46","slug":"protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"PROTESTERS URGED NOT TO GIVE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PRETEXT FOR WHAT IT ALREADY DOING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Protesters_Urged-NIB-IHA-PH-copy.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: June 9, 2025 (TheOnion.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they\u2019re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. \u201cAngelenos\u2014don\u2019t engage in violence and give the administration an excuse to inflict all the damage they have been inflicting carte blanche for months on end,\u201d said Bass, adding that Trump and his team are just looking for a reason to respond with violence, as they would have done whether or not any of this happened. \u201cDon\u2019t fan the flame that has been fanned behind the scenes at the White House since day one of Trump\u2019s term in office. You wouldn\u2019t want them to start abducting people in broad daylight and deporting them, would you? No, so let\u2019s not become scapegoats for the horrific violations of civil liberties that would have eventually landed at our doorstep regardless.\u201d At press time, Bass warned that Trump was using the actions of protesters to justify sending in the National Guard that had been pre-deployed to the conflict days before it even began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: June 9, 2025 (TheOnion.com) LOS ANGELES\u2014Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they\u2019re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. \u201cAngelenos\u2014don\u2019t engage in violence&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41802,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41801\/revisions\/41802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}