Nobody asked the feds to come into LA. The protests were normal, everyday protests of the kind you see in cities all the time. They got hot, but the LAPD knew how to handle such events and they did. But that’s not the point. Trump wanted a free hand to federalize the national Guard at his whim wherever there are protests and he got it. According to the 9th Circuit he doesn’t need a genuine rationale to do it.
Next up: is Posse Comitatus dead?