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August 9, 1990: 200 National Guardsmen and Bureau of Land Management rangers conduct a marijuana raid dubbed Operation Green Sweep on a Federal conservation area in California known as King Ridge. Local residents file a $100 million lawsuit, claiming that Federal agents illegally invaded their property, wrongfully arrested them, and harassed them with their low-flying helicopters and loaded guns.

August 12, 1997: The US Justice Department announced that there would be no indictments issued to any of the Marines responsible for killing Ezequiel Hernandez, Jr. Despite the fact that Hernandez was facing away from the Marines at the time he was shot, an internal military review found that the soldiers had "acted in self-defense" and done nothing wrong. The review was supervised by Lt. General Carlton W. Fulford, who said that the killing might not have happened at all had civilian law enforcement agencies been patrolling the border.

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