As soon as footage of National Guard troops got back to Mayor Bass, she went down there to personally handle the situation.

But this wasn't about saving MacArthur Park from the bad guys. Instead, the deployment of masked troops in tactical gear showed Trump and his berserkers only care about optics.

The ICE goons showed up in full battle-rattle with mechanized war machines, some of them even on horseback, seeking to sweep through MacArthur Park. They were met by local activists who, armed only ...