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🔵 Greta Thunberg Arrested
Citizen Frank
June 09, 2025
Good morning. It’s Monday, June 9.
Israeli forces took control of the Gaza-bound boat Madleen early Monday and detained the group of 12 activists who were on board, following repeated warnings to the activists against attempting to sail to the Gaza coast, which is under a strict maritime blockade.
The activist mission organized by the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel Freedom Flotilla Coalition had intended to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis created by the 20-month-old war between Israel and the Hamas terror group It had planned to deliver a symbolic amount of aid to the war-torn enclave.
The group of activists — among whom are Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, and French-Palestinian European Parliament Member Rima Hassan — were to be handed over to police for deportation upon arrival at Ashdod Port.
Protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached a third day Sunday as protesters in downtown Los Angeles clashed with police, blocked off a major freeway and set vehicles on fire.
Anti-ICE protests erupted coast to coast over the weekend as Immigration and Customs Enforcement ramped up its immigration raids in Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago.
Twenty-seven arrests were reported Saturday in Los Angeles as about 300 National Guard members were deployed in the city, the first of which arrived in Los Angeles Sunday morning. Late in the evening, LAPD officials reported 10 arrests, including the apprehension of one individual who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail, and said three officers had been injured but not hospitalized.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said California will sue the Trump administration on Monday over its deployment of the National Guard to quell Los Angeles protests against federal immigration raids.
In an interview Sunday evening on MSNBC, Newsom said the lawsuit would challenge Trump’s federalizing of the California National Guard without the state’s consent, a move with little precedent in U.S. history.
“Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight. He’s exacerbated the conditions. He’s, you know, lit the proverbial match. He’s putting fuel on this fire, ever since he announced he was taking over the National Guard — an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act,” Newsom said on MSNBC.
About 500 Marines are prepared to deploy if needed to help authorities in Los Angeles as protests continue around immigration enforcement raids.
In a statement from U.S. Northern Command, officials said about 2,000 California Army National Guard soldier were placed under federal command to help protect federal personnel and property in the greater Los Angeles area.
About 300 Guard members from the 78th Infantry Brigade Combat team were deployed at locations in the greater Los Angeles area: Los Angeles, Paramount and Compton.
A YouTuber and his partner were killed Sunday when another man — believed to be a fellow YouTuber — opened fire near the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas, according to witnesses and local officials. The suspect is still at large.
The shooting happened at 10:40 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday when a local YouTuber known as Finny Da Legend was livestreaming his walk along the Las Vegas Strip, accompanied by a woman believed to be his partner.
While streaming at the Bellagio fountains, another man — believed to be fellow YouTuber SinCity-MannyWise, also known as Sin City Family — walked past them in the background, not appearing to notice them.
Multiple people were injured on June 8 after a skydiving plane crashed in Coffee County, Tennessee, authorities and officials said.
A skydiving plane departed Tullahoma Regional Airport at about 12:30 p.m. on June 8 with 20 people aboard, City Administrator Jason Quick said during an evening news conference. Shortly after takeoff, the plane “experienced an unknown issue that resulted in an impact on trees and terrain,” Quick explained.
“Tullahoma Police and Tullahoma Fire were on scene in minutes, along with Tennessee Highway Patrol, the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department, Coffee County Emergency Management Service, and Coffee County Ambulance Service,” Quick added.
An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnances at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not life threatening, officials said Monday.
The four soldiers sustained finger injuries while working at a facility that belongs to Okinawa prefecture and temporarily stores unexploded ordnance, mostly from wartime and found on the island, local officials said. One of the harshest battles of World War II was fought on Okinawa.
Prefectural officials said the injuries were not life threatening, but no other details were immediately known.
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