No purpose except to intimidate
An American Melodrama: More than a dozen Border Patrol agents turned up in downtown Los Angeles on yesterday at a rally and news conference that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was holding on congressional redistricting. The governor’s event had nothing to do with immigration, and local elected officials expressed outrage that the federal agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force outside a museum where Mr. Newsom and other leaders were speaking. As the governor was preparing to speak inside the Japanese American National Museum in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles, the agents assembled outside, many of them masked and armed, and some wearing tactical helmets and carrying rifles. (Source: nytimes.com)