View this post on Instagram “This vehicle was used for a peaceful protest and nonviolence act! 2025 has been a roller coaster of a year!” the shop explained on Instagram. “Time to rewrap this cybertruck into a new color! Do you suppose the ice protectors or no[?]” Whatever the motives of the Cybertruck stunt, the reality on the ground in L.A. gets more hairy with each passing day. ICE agents are grabbing anyone they can find who may look like an illegal immigrant and breaking up families just trying to live their lives. And the police are heightening the tension of the situation each night with their aggressive tactics and liberal use of “less lethal” munitions. President Trump has vowed to crush the protests in L.A. and has called in at least 4,000 National Guard troops, federalizing them against the wishes of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Trump claimed Tuesday that he spoke to Newsom “yesterday,” but the governor told the New York Times that wasn’t true and they last spoke on Friday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also reportedly deployed about 700 Marines from the nearby city of Twentynine Palms. Just 34% of Americans approve of the Trump regime sending in the National Guard and Marines, according to a YouGov poll released Tuesday. The military deployments will cost about $134 million, according to the Pentagon. Trump and his goons clearly intend to make an example of protesters in L.A. by using the most fascist tactics possible. David Huerta, the president of the California division of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), was arrested last Friday during ICE raids and has been charged with felony conspiracy to impede an officer, according to CBS News. SEIU President David Huerta speaks to the media after he was released from federal court in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2025. © Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images When asked in the Oval Office on Tuesday whether similar crackdowns were coming to other cities, Trump replied they were. Trump also said protesters who may show up in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demonstrate against his military parade/birthday party will be met with “very heavy force.” The protests, dubbed No Kings Day, are taking place all across the country on Saturday, June 14, though it’s not clear how large the anti-Trump crowd might be in Washington. Officials said they expect hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters to be there. Los Angeles magazine has reported that ICE agents are even aggressively questioning the workers that make their food and clean their rooms at the hotel where they’re staying in Pasadena. And new reporting from the Wall Street Journal suggests that’s probably because one of Trump’s most vitriolic aids, Stephen Miller, has been telling immigration enforcement officers to just start grabbing anyone, even if they committed no crime.