Purple Heart vet sues after National Guard troops detained her as she sat quietly in the front yard of her DC home
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.
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“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.
Why the fuck are the Idaho national guard in DC in the first place?
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.
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.
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.
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.
This and all the imperialism.
Nah, the imperialism is fine as long as it's just desert people dying. It's for a good cause after all: To secure the resources needed to wage more war.
As an American, fuck the troops.
Poverty makes people do wild things. It's an incredible weapon wielded by the rich.
I absolutely agree that joining the military is a crazy choice, and yet, propaganda works and desperation does unfortunate things to our instincts.
I thought the custom was to fuck their wives while they're on deployment.
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.
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.
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.
Nazis gonna do what Nazis do.
God the comments on that article.
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.
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.
I never thought the imperial boomerang would hit me in the face.
She was attacked because she was out being cool by fucking with the guard.
Fucking with fascist collaborators is good and just, so I can't disagree with her there, but still: Better this happen to someone who was involved in the second-worst war crime of the 21st century (the worst being the Gaza genocide) than someone who wasn't.
The leopards are hungry.