National Guard troops seized Anna King, slamming her to the ground and leaving her with injuries that required surgery, according to a federal tort claim
A retired U.S. Army captain and Iraq War veteran is taking legal action after National Guard troops approached her outside her Washington, D.C. home, pushed her to the ground and detained her in an aggressive, caught-on-camera confrontation.
Anna King, who received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for her service, was cornered on her front porch by three National Guard troops on the evening of May 8.
“Get away from me right now,” King can be heard telling the guards in footage taken on a Ring security camera. “You have absolutely no authority to detain me.”
Footage shared by the ACLU of the District of Columbia shows King trying to go inside her home as the men, three Idaho National Guard members, grab King and force her to the ground as she screams for them to get off her.
This is why absolutely nobody should be joining the US military. Its all “support our troops” until those troops are women, people of color, LGBTQ+, anti-war, anti-Zionist and/or simply not a fascist. Then you become an enemy of the state.
Don’t even have to be any of those. It’s “support our troops” until they come home, then they’re all chattel.
Or simply become a vet
the National Guard claims that King was approached by the troops because she was a suspect in an assault of a National Guardsman two days earlier.
King’s attorneys said they believe she was targeted because she has been outspoken against the National Guard’s presence in D.C., including putting signs on her front patio that are critical of their deployment. Two signs read: “Occupation: Troops Out” and “National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing.”
National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing.
Lol, thats an excellent thing to put on a sign
There was a sign right there telling them what not to do and they still failed.
You think they are able and willing to read?
Let’s say she did assault a member of the national gaurd 2 days ago.
The national gaurd has zero authority to enter her property and detain her. This is solely a power of the civilian law enforcement, or at least its supposed to be.
Thank you! This part missing from the description makes no sense to me. I only read it to know the reasoning for the assault, and not for the description of how exactly they slammed her.
Who cares about their bullshit reasoning? They aren’t law enforcement have no right to detain anyone.
I guess nowadays it is relevant to note that “slammed” was physical, instead of a couple negative words.
Two signs read: “Occupation: Troops Out” and “National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing
This was the reason. Free speech is no more.
So the federal government gave a bunch of potato brained iditos from Idaho the authority to wander around D.C terrorizing black and brown people for exercising their constitutional rights. Got it. The downward spiral toward fascism continues.
Towards fascism? At what point will it be considered just fascism?
When the trains start running on time I guess /s
Edit: reread it and figured I should add that /s for clarity
I mean trains …… should I change my vote for good transit? /s
…to ICE detention centers.
And that’s the real catch
Honestly, Idaho is one of the worst states in the union, look at who they voted for
Nazis gonna do what Nazis do.
If anyone has any doubt what side the military is going to be on when the shit hits the fan…
I’ve been saying it for years. This is Weaponized Patriotism. They spent the last 20 years deifying the military in American eyes so at least half the country would either be fine looking the other way when the military is turned on US citizens, or are so deep in the propaganda that they’ll outright support it
National Guard is a small part (and state specific) of the military AND is mostly representative of the state they’re from. They usually have a more homogenous world view derived from the culture of their state.
Active duty military gets to experience other places and takes people away from their home state, usually improving their world views.
Point being, it’s not black and white, and generalizations are generally useless.
They usually have a more homogenous world view derived from the culture of their state.
Wasn’t Trump deploying the National Guard to other states specifically for that “problem”?
Remember Kent State
Remember Kent State
and U New Mexico
They usually have a more homogenous world view derived from the culture of their state.
'cept that time they murdered students from Kent State to New Mexico.
Yeah but then they were defending themselves from …. Flowers and stuff
Now they’re going on offense
That’s my point exactly?
usually improving their world views.
You mean learning where countries are on a map by bombing them?
I won’t trust them until I’m sure.
I deployed and went TDY all over US and the world, as did my NG counterparts. The only difference is they don’t PCS. Regardless if they are active or guard/reserves, they get plenty of exposure. Some people just don’t change.
The PCS part is really important. It’s what forces you to be comfortable with loving in New surroundings.
I can understand why more people in the guard don’t change. Because despite the TDYs they are always going to back to the same home.
My point was that it isn’t. At least half of the active duty guys I kept in touch after I got out all went full on maga. And most of them PCS’d not only all over US, but Europe and Asia as well.
Yeah, sure. My point was you’re more likely to have NG guys that never change because they don’t get as much exposure.
Active duty tends to have more exposure. Doesn’t mean they all grow better for it.
You’re bringing in anecdotes. I’m sorry you’ve met so many miserable people.
You know what’s wild? The US military runs on socialism. It literally cannot work without it.
I hope they can’t sleep at night. I hope their names are released, everyone they love disown them, and they end up unable to find a job, homeless and miserable. Being deployed by a tyrant into Washington DC to assault and arrest non violent protesters who happen to be real service member veterans is Nazi behavior.
Me too. They gave her nightmares and she has them every day, they should too.
they’re from Idaho. nobody they know in Idaho gives a fuck.
Man I feel you but people like this won’t ever feel like that. They go on to live rich and fulfilling lives and get to retire at 40 because they “served” by harassing civilians and going to weekend warrior training.
No sleep will ever be lost. They will be decorated and given cush jobs and fat bonuses and the whole 9 yards.
I don’t say this to just be bleak and doomer centric or whatever I do it because we need to stop acting like these people have remorse for what they are doing. None of this will ever stop until we treat them ALL (law enforcement of any kind) like the subhuman pieces of garbage that they treat us all like.
I bet, that if as many cops and guardsmen were shot as civilians shot by them shit would start changing. If they feared for their fucking lives just like they make us fear for them every single second of every single day, it would start to change.
But it won’t. Because people keep trying the whole “I hope they lose sleep over this!” Or whatever. They don’t feel things like normal people do, or they would have never taken the job to put their boot on someone’s throat.
His Idaho Redneck Potato Parents will be super proud of him, and the whole congregation will say a prayer for him in church on Sunday.
They don’t give a fuck. They all volunteered for this. They literally enjoy doing this.
We need to pay every one of these piece of shit maga states back. Deploy the NG and shut down their highways with constant checkpoints. Use their massive opioid and meth problems as the excuse. Fuck their lives up like they did to us. Fucking lying evil motherfuckers.
“I know for a fact that protesting is one of the very protected things we have here,” she continued.
And I know for a fact that that isn’t true. This article proves it. Its sad as fuck but USA is toast man. There’s no fixing any of this anymore. Cats out of the bag, toothpaste is out of the tube, bullet is out of the casing.
We’re fucked.
How the fuck is this supposed to help?
Instead of just giving in, like you, she’s fighting to keep it.
Idk man maybe if enough people stop lying to themselves and everyone around them we will all get pissed off enough to actually do something
But as it stands I’m not about to take up arms and get shot in the street while the media paints me as a terrorist for actually defending democracy. Has to be a LOT of people doing it all at once.
Maybe if we stop these illusions and lies and rip the mask off enough people will be pissed off and change will happen.
Idk.
But I know that peacefully protesting and then having to sue when the guard beats the brakes off of you for doing it and getting a sweet settlement paid out in tax dollars isn’t helping shit, to be honest.
I stand with this woman too I’m not saying I don’t or that she shouldn’t protest. But that line about it being protected is 110% completely false. Where is the protection?
I’ll tell you though this bullshit about making some signs and singing songs together isn’t fucking working, man.
You see that right?
You’re right that the problem is coordination. You have the numbers, but without direction you’re just a bunch of individuals so you get… signs and songs. Those are definitely starts, though. They both get attention and inform.
It IS important you and the other dude are right I don’t mean to diminish it completely I am just so burnt out on all this shit going on… So, so badly fatigued with it all.
I voted today for one of the only ones that didn’t take AIPAC money and part of me feels good about that!
And then the realist in me knows that that specific candidate has a zero percent chance of winning. I could have stayed home and shit all over my bedroom floor and it would have had the same exact effect.
I’ve made SO many signs and gone to so many organizational events and talked and talked and, at one point even believed, BELIEVED it was all going to make a difference and I’m just fucking tired of lying to myself and everyone else around me at this point in time.
We ALL know how to actually fix it and I can’t type it here or I’ll probably get permabanned but we all know the fix. Its a tale as old as time.
So, I’m kind of trying that method now. Let’s just fucking put it all full out on display and stew in it until the pressure cooker builds and we all take up arms and fix the problem at the root. This wishful thinking and organizing bullshit isn’t working anymore.
So maybe if enough people get angry and despair enough to the point where they think they might kill themselves instead they will realize that the suits are the ones that need killing.
We got a little glimpse of it with that Luigi dude. Everyone loved his ass and the suits couldn’t believe it. Clutching their pearls and wearing that stupid look on their face like they just can’t wrap their heads around WHY people want them to fucking die.
I have been drinking a bit so this is probably sounding WILD but the fact of the matter is that it is the cold hard truth of it now.
Signs, peaceful protests, voting all of it is wishful thinking at this point in time.
What we need to be doing is blocking all the exits on all the senators and congressmen and state representatives houses and burn them alive inside them until we pry this country back from the hands of the rich parasitic class.
Seriously, its all public. We can all find out right now where every single one of them live its trivially easy and I just keep waiting for the day that it pops off and it hasn’t ever come and I’m afraid now that it won’t.
So, we have people make signs and sing songs and being awareness and that’s all great I’ve done that too and I love the vibe.
But haven’t we been doing that since Reagan? It has just gotten worse. And worse. And worse. And worse. And worse. And worse.
Its like credit card debt, every year we get 30% worse. Lose 30% more freedoms. Have 30% more of the wealth consolidated in the nice manicured lotioned hands of people who have never had to do a day of work in their entire lives.
I’m tired of pretending that signs and songs are going to fix it. Its not.
I definitely think burning the people responsible for this administration alive in their homes is a great solution
I’m not being sarcastic They need to die.
I’m honestly not sure we do have the numbers. Actual progressives seem to be a small minority, and the ones not willing to sacrifice trans people smaller still.
Organize.
USA is toast man.
Better nuke the site from orbit - only way to be sure.
this country is fucked to the core
i served with some STUPID fucking jarheads
just the fucking brain deadest rocks.
not a one of them would have engaged in behaviors like this. they likely would have gone to jail for unaliving bitches making the decisions to remove your constitutional rights
now? generations of poorly educated and economically battered citizens becoming powerful and fighting thier own countrymen
we are absolutely fucked.
Stuff like this has been going on since the 1950’s, though.
National guard killed those college kids at Kent state.
Army raped, tortured and murdered all those kids women and old men in My Lai.
They also gang raped that 6 and 14 year old girl in Iraq (Mahmudiyah rape and murders)
I don’t mean to discredit you and I’m glad you were with good people but man this problem has been pressure cooking for DECADES and it hasn’t gotten any better, at all.
They wanted bloodthirsty animals to be soldiers and police officers and now they act shocked that they are acting like a bunch of bloodthirsty animals. Its like the pikachu shocked face meme.
thats a fair hit.
when i was in oki Marines raped locals. shit.
humans are humans
man… nostalgia is a disease…
I thought the same about the ones I’ve served with. That was before good chunk of them joined the fucking cult.
Why the fuck are the Idaho national guard in DC in the first place?
Because when you’re a dictator and you want to oppress or attack a population, you get troops from nowhere near that location so that they will not be attacking their local community. Ideally you want hillbilly idiots from the arse end of nowhere so you can tell them anything you like about who they are supposed to beat the shit out of.
Idaho, eh? Yep, that’s about right.
That’s how Tiananmen Square happened.
It’s also how most countries orchestrate large cadres of “internal security” troops, including (but very much not limited to) Russia (MVD and OMON), France (Gendarmerie riot units), China (PAP), Germany (Bereitschaftspolizei), and so on.
TL;DR: suppression forces tend to be more effective if nobody in the suppression force knows or has any connection to the citizens being suppressed.
Thats not an endorsement or expression of support for suppression forces, to be clear.
Because the psycho red states offered to put them there. They salivate at the chance to get violent with other Americans. And they’ll keep doing it until we all wake up and realize that we have to punch back when we’re in power.
We need to start viewing this as something similar to an occupation by foreign troops. Red states’ national guards do not belong in blue states or DC.
They’re the ones that will do what this Executive Branch wants them to do; things like what happened in this article. Logistics or efficiency doesn’t matter to them.
Idaho is also the state that legalized firing squads. Hopefully they don’t start taking people back to their state…
Why the fuck she was in Iraq in the first place?
Blame Bush. People’s motivations can be complex but implicitly siding with ICE by trashing their victim for her past is kind of a wild thing to do right now.
Note that Stephen Miller early on explicitly was excited about the prospect of red-state governors deploying their national guard troops into blue areas against the wishes of the people and government of those blue areas.
Basically, acting like a civil war except no one is defending.
I’m not American but live next door. I really hope that spray on hair douche gets his comeuppance. Dude blurted out plenary authority on tv then stood there silent and still but blinking like there were technical issues so they could edit it.
Yeah, I wish blue state governors had the balls to call up their own Guard to defend against those incursions. Because that’s what they are: incursions.
dint they started said thier nat guard from other states, to "patrol, control " any anti-trump protesting last year.
They detained her on suspicion of assaulting a guardsmen 2 days earlier. They didn’t even file charges, just detained her
Gestapo
Surely assault is a police concern, not national guard.
Even if this were justified and they used proper procedure, since when can national guard legally arrest anyone for any reason?
The article does mention that. National guard do not have any authority to arrest. Only detain and hand the person over to the police. It doesn’t mention if she was later arrested though. Just she sustained severe injuries from the detainment.
She get Purple Heart for occupying other peoples land and was detained for protesting against occupation of her’s town. Am I only one who see “Karma is a Bitch” situation here?
Yes.
Why? Because Americans.can do whatever they want to other and that is OK but when similar shit is happening to them then is terrorism? What a joke of society, zero moral values.
Thank you for your service though
They don’t give a shit about the troops yet so many people believe they do
That was the gentlest forcible arrest I’ve ever seen.
They shouldn’t be there or arresting her regardless, though.
The one where she required surgery for the injuries it caused?
I saw the video of the old 93 year old woman they arrested for not paying rent and they were super gentle with her.
Although, not the national guard so I guess that’s not really the same.
The one where she required surgery for the injuries it caused?
As claimed by the defense, who always exaggerate claims in cases like this, so that they can walk them back later. Anchoring is a standard negotiation tactic. So, I’ll wait for the trial. I donate monthly to the ACLU, so I’m funding her defense.
If she actually required surgery for the injuries THEY inflicted, then how is it exaggerated? If you have an injury that requires even minor surgery, then it was a serious injury, even if it was just stitches, which is about the most minor surgery I can think of.
