Gavin Newsom: “Unprecedented act done not at the behest of the state's…”

“He didn't send them overseas. He sent them to, to an American city. It was just days after he had federalized some 4,000 National Guard. Unprecedented act done not at the behest of the state's governor myself, but against my advice, my counsel, certainly against my consent. We said at the time this was a preview of things to come. A few months later, we saw what happened in another major American city in Washington, D.C. with the Militarization of their streets.” (00:34–00:48)

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