# Martial Law in Today's America - daily report **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 14, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021 "2025-08-14T02:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/1 "2025-08-14T02:43:23Z")
_I made_ [this post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues/1010068/7296) _in the Clusterfuck Continues thread. Now I think this particular part of the clusterfuck should be the focus of its own thread._ > [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues/1010068/7296): > > [MARTIAL LAW DAILY REPORT](https://www.aol.com/news/trumps-d-c-takeover-yields-185915310.html) > > > Federal authorities arrested 66 people in Washington, D.C. over the first two nights of President Donald Trump’s [takeover of the city’s police force](https://time.com/7308788/trump-washington-dc-national-guard/), a White House official tells TIME, adding that the nation’s capital can expect to see even more National Guard members across the city Wednesday evening. > > > > Forty-three of those arrests occurred overnight on Tuesday, nearly double the amount of the previous night, as more federal agents and National Guard troops arrived in the city to patrol streets as part of Trump’s effort to crack down on crime, which has been [falling in the city](https://time.com/7309133/dc-crime-stats-trump-national-guard/) over the last two years. > > & > > > More than 1,450 law enforcement officers and agents were involved in Tuesday night’s operation, about half of them from the city’s police department. > > > > The National Guard’s role has so far been limited. Only about 30 troops were on D.C. streets Tuesday night, though officials say as many as 800 could eventually be mobilized to protect federal sites and assist in other non-arrest functions. > > > > On Tuesday evening, a small group of Guard members in military vehicles appeared near the Washington Monument, where they were seen taking photos with visitors before departing two hours later. The White House official tells TIME that plans are underway for "a significantly higher National Guard presence” throughout the city on Wednesday night. > > & > > > The White House official said that federal authorities have so far arrested 103 people in D.C. since the Administration started rolling out an increased law enforcement presence last Thursday, with 19 mixed-agency teams fanning out across neighborhoods to “promote public safety and arrest violent offenders,” the White House said. The operation has included agents from the F.B.I., the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Homeland Security, working alongside local police. > > > > In other parts of the city, federal agents were spotted conducting traffic stops and making arrests. Charges over the first two nights have included assault with a deadly weapon, homicide, drug possession with intent to distribute, unlawful entry, resisting arrest, lewd acts, stalking, reckless driving, and driving under the influence, the official said. Thirteen illegal firearms have been seized since Monday night. > > Of course, he has to go low. > > > The White House has signaled that the crackdown will also focus on dismantling homeless encampments, with officials offering those affected access to services like substance abuse counseling but threatening fines or arrest for those who refuse to relocate. > > This is hardly the dystopia the felon paints the capital of what used to be a free country. Actually, he’s trying to turn the capital city into a dystopia. _Feel free to add what you can, even if it’s merely venting over what’s posted here._ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/2 "2025-08-14T02:53:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Feel free to add what you can If only to keep track of who they’ve come for so we can update Niemöller’s poem. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/3 "2025-08-14T03:08:29Z")
Here a gift link to a NYT article about a man (looks like a tourist?) who threw a wrapped Subway at a police officer. He is being charged with a felony. But he’s a _hero_ to me. [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/federal-agent-trump-sandwich-dc.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.eE8.7lvg.H5ahEzgRrEaH&smid=nytcore-android-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/federal-agent-trump-sandwich-dc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE8.7lvg.H5ahEzgRrEaH&smid=nytcore-android-share) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/4 "2025-08-14T03:29:09Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > But he’s a _hero_ to me. Well, the sandwich is at least. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/5 "2025-08-14T04:49:02Z")
[A ~~funny~~ depicable thing happened on the way to the Kennedy Center.](https://www.aol.com/trump-route-kennedy-center-cleared-233653968.html) > WASHINGTON ‒ Blocks away from where President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) announced the latest [slate of Kennedy Center honorees](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/08/13/kennedy-center-honors-michael-crawford-george-strait-trump-host/85642204007/), workers began to sweep away homeless encampments along his route to the White House as part of his [broader crackdown](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/president-trump-targets-washington-dcs-195229505.html) in the capital city. > > The Aug. 13 move comes days after [Trump seized control](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/emergency-5-takeaways-trump-deploys-185334527.html) of Washington, D.C.'s local law enforcement, deployed National Guard troops, and ordered people living outside to “immediately” move, suggesting, as the president put it, that they be relocated “[FAR from the Capital.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/move-immediately-trumps-vision-ridding-230449479.html)” > > Amber Harding, executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, said officials cleared at least two tents on a patch of green space near the Kennedy Center as Trump spoke at the performing arts center. > > Members of the city’s Department of Human Services pinned notices to at least nine other tents in the area, notifying residents that the camps would be broken down and closed if not removed by the following morning. > > George Morgan, a lifelong D.C. resident who has lived in the encampment for two months, said he’s not sure where he will go. He won’t go to a shelter because they wouldn’t allow him to bring his American pit bull terrier. Morgan’s an odd one, though. > “I’m very concerned,” said Morgan, a Trump supporter, about the president’s takeover of the city’s police force and his mobilization of the National Guard. “I try not to take offense.” > > He said while he doesn’t know where he will go, he’s “hopeful God will make a way.” And, of course, the homeless are not being move anywhere; they’re being chased away. > Advocates for the city’s homeless population say they’re still unclear where the Trump administration expects people living outside to move. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/6 "2025-08-14T04:56:10Z")
Wat are you talking about? Trump is setting up some very nice homeless shelters in the Potomac. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/7 "2025-08-14T07:12:55Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Wat are you talking about? Trump is setting up some very nice homeless shelters in the Potomac. - Just like all his properties. Underwater. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/8 "2025-08-14T07:23:47Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Just like all his properties. > Underwater. You call it underwater. He calls it liquid. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/9 "2025-08-14T07:41:11Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Here a gift link to a NYT article about a man (looks like a tourist?) who threw a wrapped Subway at a police officer. He is being charged with a felony. Assault with a deli weapon, I assume. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/10 "2025-08-14T11:14:27Z")
Maybe he was just offering him lunch? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/11 "2025-08-14T11:33:33Z")
I only hope that the judge has common sense. “Your Honor, he attacked a federal officer. He threw a sandwich at the officer.” “Prosecutor, since when is a salami, ham, bologna, lettuce, tomato, and cheese sandwich any kind of weapon? Do you really propose to take up the court’s time with this?” “Think very carefully before you answer, Counsellor. Think very carefully.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/12 "2025-08-14T11:37:00Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > “Prosecutor, since when is a salami, ham, bologna, lettuce, tomato, and cheese sandwich any kind of weapon? “I believe it counts as a club.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/13 "2025-08-14T11:38:45Z")
Okay, that made me laugh, @The_Other_Waldo_Pepper . Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/14 "2025-08-14T11:40:19Z")
Humans are very susceptible to mental conditioning. Their strategy, as I see it at least, is to condition American citizens to accepting the deployment of troops within our borders any time he feels he wants to do so. It’s only a matter of time before he is successful. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/15 "2025-08-14T11:49:32Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > salami, ham, bologna,… and cheese Hey now, heart disease is no laughing matter! ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/16 "2025-08-14T11:53:04Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > He threw a sandwich at the officer. Gasp — Littering!! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/17 "2025-08-14T12:16:52Z")
Black man harassed for being outside on own porch by federal agents. White “moderates” make excuses. Actually, he was smoking on his on own porch and probably being all uppity. > **[Federal Agent Stops Black Man Over Cigarette Amid Trump's D.C. Takeover |...](https://www.binnews.com/content/2025-08-13-federal-agent-stops-black-man-over-cigarette-amid-trumps-dc-takeover/)** > > Federal law enforcement appeared to target a Black man smoking on his porch on the first day of their deployment in Washington, D.C. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/18 "2025-08-14T13:43:31Z")
> In a statement to CNN, Pirro said, “The police are not out there to get pushed around or beat up. They have a job to do, and they shouldn’t be abused in the process. Count on me to back the blue.” > > The White House said in a statement to CNN, “Assaulting a law enforcement officer is a crime.” > > “The Trump Administration will always stand up for law enforcement officers and hold those accountable who seek to do them harm,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said. **[SOURCE](https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/politics/man-sandwich-dc-felony-charged)** All that seems new. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/19 "2025-08-14T14:01:51Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > The White House said in a statement to CNN, “Assaulting a law enforcement officer is a crime.” For wich the felon in the Oval Office will happily pardon one if one shouts the felon’s name while assaulting the law enforcement officer. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/20 "2025-08-14T17:37:12Z")
Is throwing a sandwich really assault? Really? Is anyone gonna convict this guy? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021.md?page=2)