The Boots Are Real: U.S. Marines Just Detained a Civilian in Los Angeles
It actually happened. Not in a novel. Not in a movie. Not in some post-apocalyptic video game where the flag is faded and the streets are patrolled by faceless men in camo. In Los Angeles, in June 2025, a U.S. Marine zip-tied a civilian and handed them off to Homeland Security. It was broad daylight. It was caught on camera. And it was real.
This is not a drill. This is not an exaggeration. This is the moment when the line between military and civilian policing—once thick, bright, and legally sacred—got smudged into the pavement with the butt of a rifle.
Reuters confirmed the detention after showing photographic evidence to U.S. military officials, who acknowledged it. A Marine, deployed under President Trump’s domestic mobilization order, temporarily restrained a civilian outside the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles. Zip ties. Arm grab. Hand-off to DHS. Just like that, posse comitatus took a body blow on camera.
Let’s be clear about what this means.
The Posse Comitatus Act has been federal law since 1878. It prohibits the use of active-duty military personnel in civilian law enforcement—except under extraordinary circumstances like invasion or insurrection. It was designed to prevent military crackdowns on the American people. Today, it was sidestepped under the thin legal justification of "force protection." According to U.S. Northern Command, Marines are allowed to "temporarily detain an individual in specific circumstances" if there’s a threat to federal personnel or property. In theory, it’s supposed to end the second civilian law enforcement takes over.
But this is not theory. This is America in 2025.
There are now hundreds of Marines and thousands of National Guard troops stationed in Los Angeles. Another 500 Marines are reportedly on the way. According to federal officials, those troops may accompany ICE agents during federal immigration operations. Let that settle. ICE, backed by combat-trained soldiers. Not metaphorically. Not symbolically. Literally.
This is how it begins: not with tanks, but with a handshake between bureaucrats and generals. Not with martial law, but with a "mission to protect property." And it doesn’t take a historian to recognize the pattern—once a military power is normalized on city streets, it rarely packs up and leaves without consequence.
If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act—a real possibility openly discussed by some officials—Marines wouldn’t just assist ICE. They could conduct arrests. Interrogate civilians. Enforce curfews. This isn’t dystopian speculation. It’s a legal switch. And it’s one signature away.
Trump has now shown he’s willing to deploy Marines—ostensibly to protect property, but functionally to intimidate dissent. And if it can happen in Los Angeles, it can happen anywhere. The legal groundwork is being tested. And once precedent is set—expect replication.
U.S. Marines detained a civilian. That’s the fact. But here’s the implication: this was a test. Of legality. Of optics. Of public reaction. And now that the test is over?
Welcome to the results.
I post substantive content here but so far no one reads it. I am veteran and on 06 January 2021 Trump proved himself to be a domestic enemy of the Constitution that I swore to uphold and defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. He should have been publicly tried and executed for sedition and treason, but instead he is our president again and HE RAN ON PROMISES TO VIOLATE THE QUESTION.
This is not America anymore.