Former LAPD chief: Sending troops to quell protests ‘should always be last resort’

Jun 13, 2025 - 21:01
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Former LAPD chief: Sending troops to quell protests ‘should always be last resort’
Former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief Michel Moore pushed back on President Trump’s deployment of military troops to Los Angeles in an op-ed published Friday in The New York Times, calling the move not only “at odds with the principles of our democracy” but “tactically unsound.” Moore’s op-ed comes after an appeals court temporarily paused a ruling by a federal…