They need to leave, and they need to leave right now. They need to leave because this is unacceptable!

Well, they’re going to arrest me for doing my job? As Mayor, my number one responsibility is to keep Angelenos safe.

I think the goal is to spread fear.

It is outrageous and un-American that we have federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing is going on in the parks.

It's outrageous and un-American that we have U.S. Marines who are trained to kill foreign soldiers overseas, deployed in our American city.

It is outrageous and un-American that the federal government that seized our state's National Guard.

They need to leave because this is unacceptable.

We will not be afraid and we will not be divided. We will stand TOGETHER.

Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW. Absolutely outrageous.

Franky, it is outrageous and un-American that we have federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing is going on in our parks.

I was horrified. What went through my mind was those occasions when I would travel overseas and see a city or a country under siege by their military in preparation for a coup. That’s the imagery that I had in my mind.

It’s outrageous and un-American that the federal government seized our state’s national guard.