Lindell hosted to discuss election fraud. Lindell said he did not know about the story before it was discussed onstage at the event and only learned about it during the trial.
Across the street, storefronts were covered in anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement graffiti.“I think people have the right idea, just the wrong approach,” Melendrez said as cars whisked by him, some honking in appreciation or stopping to ask questions about the night before. “Everybody has their own way of coping with stuff, and if nobody is there to help manage their feelings this is what can tend to happen. You need some community support.”
Melendrez, his wife and daughter cleaned the streets that were obscured just hours earlier by huge clouds of tear gas fired by federal authorities. The protests prompted President Donald Trump todeployed to downtown Los Angeles over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The governor has called Trump’s order a “complete overreaction.”More protests erupted Sunday as troops dressed in tactical gear were seen stationed outside Metropolitan Detention Center downtown, where hundreds of demonstrators clashed with federal authorities previously. Tear gas was fired when some demonstrators moved close to the Guard troops.
A Home Depot about a block away from where Melendrez was cleaning was the epicenter of the previous night’s struggle. On Sunday it was empty and calm; a lone worker cleaned graffiti off the store’s sign as customers drove in.As federal officers in tactical gear fired tear gas and other nonlethal weapons in Compton and Paramount on Saturday, some protesters started a series of small fires that left black char on the streets. Graffiti was scrawled on a doughnut shop, a taqueria, a gas station and other locally owned businesses. On Sunday the damage was still raw and uncleaned in Compton, save for Melendrez’s efforts, with spray-painted slogans such as “What is America without Immigrants” all around.
Launie Melendrez, who is married to Ernest, said she supported peaceful protest, and empathized with the families “being destroyed, that are getting wrangled up. It’s sad.”
She looked around at the local businesses that had been damaged, and shook her head. “The destruction of people’s hard work. This is how these people, their families, take care of themselves. And the destruction of that is not going to help your case.”Like other NATO members, the U.K. has been
in February 2022. Starmer has pledged to increase British defense spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product by 2027 and to 3% by 2034.Rutte has proposed a target of 3.5% of economic output on military spending and another 1.5% on “defense-related expenditure” such as roads, bridges, airfields and sea ports. He said last week he is confident the alliance will agree to the target at its summit in The Hague on June 24-25.
At the moment, 22 of the 32 member countries meet or exceed NATO’s current 2% target.The new target would meet