A US Marine battalion is being sent to Los Angeles to help maintain order as anti-ICE riots continued to rage across Southern California. On Sunday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Marines to prepare for deployment to LA “if violence continues.

Gavin Newsom (D-CA) called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "deranged" over his threat to send in nearby Marines to quell riots in Los Angeles. Protests broke out in the city on Friday in response to a wave of U.

The Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell on Monday said that he was not informed about US Marines being deployed to LA