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Rachel Maddow: “The federal government [is] treating [peaceful protest] as a…”

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Rachel Maddow Interviews Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on ICE Raids and Federal Military Presence

Published | Video Starts at 01:40

I wonder, Mayor Bass, how you are seeing right now the sort of balance between what I think is the sort of obvious and palpable effect of an effectiveness of peaceful protest and The federal government [is] treating [peaceful protest] as a national security disaster. that requires these extraordinary responses from the federal government and the US US Military. How do you, how do you weigh those two views of it? (01:40–01:45)

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Asserts that the federal government is treating peaceful protests as a national security disaster.

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