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BREAKING: Decorated Iraq War veteran sues after Trump goons brutally tackled and handcuffed her on her OWN FRONT PORCH!
A decorated U.S. Army veteran who earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart in Iraq is suing the Idaho National Guard and the Defense Department after Idaho-based Guard troops allegedly detained her without a warrant, tackled her on the front porch of her Washington, D.C., home and left her with injuries that required surgery.
Anna King says she was sitting outside her apartment on May 8 beneath signs criticizing Donald Trump's deployment of troops to the nation's capital when three National Guardsmen walked through her front gate and told her she was being detained.
"Get away from me right now. You have absolutely no authority to detain me," King can be heard telling the troops in a video of the confrontation.
When she tried to return to her apartment, the troops blocked her path. Video shows the confrontation escalating before two Guardsmen wrestled her to the ground, pinned her to the concrete and restrained her with plastic handcuffs while waiting for D.C. police to arrive.
According to a claim filed Wednesday by the ACLU of D.C., King remained handcuffed on the ground for about 17 minutes. The restraints were so tight that officers later struggled to remove them, and King ultimately suffered ligament damage requiring surgery, the complaint says.
More than two months later, she says she still wears a cast, has limited feeling in her thumb and struggles with everyday tasks.
King, who has been treated for combat-related PTSD since returning from Iraq, also says the encounter revived severe trauma.
"As a trained combat veteran, I never imagined that armed National Guard members would attack, injure and traumatize me at my home," she said. "We are not at war with Americans, and my porch is not a war zone."
The National Guard says troops detained King because they believed she had thrown an unknown liquid at guardsmen two days earlier.
King had not been charged in connection with that allegation when she was detained and has never been charged over it. She has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges alleging she assaulted two Guardsmen during the confrontation.
King is seeking $3 million in damages, arguing that troops violated her constitutional rights and used excessive force.
The ACLU says King's claim is one of dozens alleging abuses by federal officers around the country, which raises the issue of whether military personnel performing roles traditionally handled by civilian law enforcement is effective or appropriate. We don’t think so.
King says she still struggles to use her hand, still lives with renewed PTSD, and still remembers the feeling of soldiers holding her face down outside her own patio.
For a woman who once risked her life wearing the uniform, she says the hardest encounter with armed troops happened after she came home.
One thing you will NEVER, EVER forget. Being on a commercial flight, & the crew makes an announcement that it is their HONOR to be a part of escorting a fallen soldier home.
They ask that after landing, everyone remain seated while the military escort team disembarks. Of course, during this time, the plane is SILENT, except for the sound of the coffin being unloaded from the cargo hold.
Pray for our heroes and their families.
Jude Bellingham in a recent interview about what lead to the fight between him and Valentin Barco after the England loss to Argentina in the World Cup semi finals
“After the match he walked straight to me and called me a black monkey while laughing,” Bellingham said “I’ve taken a lot of insults from the Argentines that day. The usual stuff, the taunts, the pushing, the gamesmanship. You expect that in a World Cup semi-final. But that is where I draw the line.”
Bellingham added….
“Racism from the Argentines are not talked about enough,” he continued. “It gets brushed under the carpet or laughed off as ‘passion.’ It’s not passion. It’s racism. And they have to be suspended.
🚨 BREAKING:
The BBC has compiled evidence of 160+ Palestinian children deliberately shot in the head by Israeli snipers in Gaza.
The reports state: "Israeli Jews are hunting children for sport."
Barron Trump is now being pulled into an investigation surrounding Andrew and Tristan Tate, and Donald Trump is reportedly furious. They exclaim the “children” of the President shouldn’t be investigated. How quickly they forget the relentless persecution of Hunter Biden !!
Epstein survivors planning to deliver printed files to Judiciary Committee members in the Senate…
… in a FINAL PUSH to get them to reject Todd Blanche as attorney general.
Most people would have looked out the window, assumed everything was fine, and gone back to what they were doing.
Fifteen year old Archie Law didn't.
From his home overlooking Broadford Bay on Scotland's Isle of Skye, he noticed two men in a small inflatable dinghy. They weren't moving forward. They were drifting farther out to sea, paddling in circles.
Archie grabbed his binoculars and took a closer look. The more he watched, the more he realized something was wrong. After speaking with his mother, he launched his own boat and headed toward them.
When he reached the pair, the situation was far worse than it had looked from shore. Their inflatable dinghy had filled with water until it was almost level with their heads. They had no life jackets, no phones, and they were soaked.
Archie helped both men safely back to the old pier before the RNLI lifeboat arrived. Rescue crews later confirmed they were safe, and the RNLI praised the teenager for his quick thinking.
Looking back, Archie said he didn't think the two men truly understood how much danger they were in.
The next morning, he was back on the water fishing, treating the rescue as just another day. For the two men he brought home alive, it was the day a 15 year old refused to ignore what everyone else might have missed.