From Reuters:
“Six U.S. mayors urge Congress to
block Trump federal deployment”
- Six U.S. mayors on Monday
called on Congress to halt President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal
forces to their cities, saying their presence has escalated tensions at
anti-racism protests spreading across the country. Federal agents dispatched to
Portland, Oregon, have drawn national attention for whisking away demonstrators
in unnmarked cars, beating a U.S. Navy veteran and tear-gassing activist
mothers and the city’s Democratic mayor. The tactics, condemned by Democrats as
federal overreach, have fueled a new wave of protests following demonstrations
sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on May
25. Trump, a Republican, has pointed to national unrest, including the toppling
of statues, as reasons for the federal deployments in a “law and order”
campaign as he seeks re-election on Nov. 3. The Department of Homeland Security
says its agents are in Portland and other cities to protect government property
from “violent anarchists.” Democratic mayors said the federal interventions,
without the consent of local officials, were illegal. “We call on Congress to
pass legislation to make clear that these actions are unlawful and repugnant,”
the mayors of Portland, Chicago; Seattle; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Kansas City,
Missouri; and Washington, D.C., wrote in a letter to the leaders of both
parties in the Senate and House of Representatives.
WEEKEND SURGE: The appeal followed a surge in Black Lives
Matter protests over the weekend with an escalation in violence and the
appearance of white supremacists and an armed Black militia. A person was shot
dead at an Austin, Texas, protest on Saturday and two people were shot at a
Sunday demonstration in Aurora, Colorado. In Seattle, police declared a riot
and arrested 45 people during a protest over the deployment of federal agents
to Portland and a standby force to Seattle. Protesters in Los Angeles clashed
with officers in front of the city’s federal courthouse downtown. Weekend
violence in downtown Richmond was instigated by white supremacists posing as
Black Lives Matter protesters, police said. A Black militia group marched
through Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday demanding justice for Breonna Taylor,
a Black woman killed by police who burst into her apartment. After violence in
Oakland, California, during a protest on Sunday, Mayor Libby Schaaf condemned
“agitators” for vandalizing the downtown and giving Trump the “images he wants”
to justify sending federal agents into U.S. cities. The U.S. Marshals Service
on Monday tweeted it was lining up 100 personnel to send to Oregon to either
relieve or supplement officers already in the state for the federal agency’s
“civil unrest mission.”
^ Here’s an idea: If Governors of
States and Mayors of Cities do not want the Federal Government to come in to
restore law and order then those Governors and Mayors should DO THEIR JOB and
restore law and order themselves! It has been 2 months of violence, destruction
and deaths in many of these areas. Enough is enough. Many of the Governors and
Mayors have sided with those causing the violence and deaths (like in Seattle
and in Portland.) At least the Seattle Mayor finally woke up and saw what the
Purge Zone she allowed for 3 weeks actually entailed. If cities and States have
things “under-control” then the rate of shootings, deaths and rioting should be
going down. Instead they are all going UP! I would rather see the Federal
Government go into these Purge Zone Cities and restore law and order than to
allow the 2 month lawlessness and deaths to continue. ^
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