Marines still not on LA streets, seen in hand-to-hand combat training

The 700 Marines deployed to Los Angeles by President Donald Trump person not yet deed the streets and are alternatively connected standby and carrying retired nonlethal training.

Dozens of Marines were captured connected aerial footage Tuesday practicing hand-to-hand combat and assemblage power connected Seal Beach field, conscionable southbound of L.A. County. 

Trump activated the Marines and astir 4,000 National Guards aft convulsive mobs took to the streets implicit the weekend, burning and damaging spot portion immoderate threw rocks and Molotov cocktails astatine instrumentality enforcement.

President Trump deployed 700 Marines to Los Angeles amid protests, but troops stay connected standby completing nonlethal weapons grooming portion California's politician challenges the national intervention. (KTTV)

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A U.S. Northern Command spokesperson told Fox News the Marines person not completed their nonlethal weapons training.

They are expected to bash astatine slightest different time of nonlethal weapons training, 2 U.S. defence officials told Fox News. It is expected they volition decorativeness the grooming connected Friday.

"The Marine portion is an infantry portion and needs to larn protocols for [the] usage of unit successful a home setting," a defence authoritative told Fox News.

The cost of sending the Marines and National Guard to Southern California is an estimated $134 million, Acting Pentagon Comptroller Bryn MacDonnell said. The funds volition beryllium pulled from the operations and attraction budget, MacDonnell said.

USMC Commandant Gen. Eric Smith connected Wednesday said the Marines are acting nether NORTHCOM’s absorption and are constricted to protecting national spot and personnel, not engaging successful broader instrumentality enforcement.

He said that they had already received 4 days' worthy of training.

Dozens of Marines were captured connected aerial footage practicing hand-to-hand combat and assemblage power connected Seal Beach field, conscionable southbound of L.A. County. (KTTV)

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, said the Marines and National Guard troops were being deployed to keep the metropolis safe.

"The ngo successful Los Angeles, arsenic you cognize well, sir, is not astir lethality. It’s astir maintaining instrumentality and bid connected behalf of instrumentality enforcement agents who merit to bash their occupation without being attacked by mobs of people," Hegseth said nether grilling from Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.

"We are precise arrogant that the National Guard and the Marines are connected the streets defending the ICE agents, and they volition continue." 

Hegseth said "there is plentifulness of precedent for the U.S. supporting instrumentality enforcement officers." 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies during a proceeding earlier the Senate Appropriations Committee connected June 11, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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A national justice connected Tuesday nighttime declined California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request for an contiguous impermanent restraining bid to restrict Trump’s deployment of Marines and National Guard troops to quell ongoing anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots successful Los Angeles. 

Newsom has had a nationalist warfare of words with Trump medication officials, accusing the president of having "commandeered" thousands of the state’s National Guard members "illegally, for nary reason" without consulting California’s instrumentality enforcement leaders. 

The Trump administration, meanwhile, said its ICE operations are aiming to get "criminal amerciable migrant killers, rapists, gangbangers, cause dealers, quality traffickers and home abusers disconnected the streets." 

Fox News' Liz Friden contributed to this report.