Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot and others have protested the use of force by President Donald Trump to quell rioters.
According to him,american presidents generally don’t try to invade their own country.
But the contrary that is what the United States President is accused of doing he said adding,” that’s effectively what local officials say Donald Trump is up to, as he prepares to send hundreds of federal law enforcement officers to Chicago and to Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Donald Trump’s troops” will not be allowed to “terrorize our residents,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has warned. Albuquerque leaders say they don’t need “Trump’s secret police.”
The President, however, says he’s just trying to quell street violence — which he claims has been fostered by the anti-police policies of radical Democratic leaders. “This bloodshed must end,” he said Wednesday.
The federal government does have the authority to send in its own law enforcement agents, even against the wishes of local officials. More commonly, it happens with their consent. And Chicago does have a problem. Last weekend, 63 people were shot, 12 fatally, in the Windy City. Fifteen people mourning the victim of a drive-by killing were wounded in another shooting spree on Tuesday.
Trump thinks he’s set a trap: When Democrats complain, he’ll paint them as soft on crime. And he’s using the heart-rending tales of urban crossfire deaths to tell crucial voters — women and suburbanites — that he’s the only president who can keep them safe. But the causes of violent crime are deeply complicated and have defied political leaders for years. Drug wars, poverty, a lack of social mobility, underinvestment in deprived communities and a torrent of legal and illegal firearms are often cited by anti-crime campaigners.
The federal officers destined for Chicago and Albuquerque are on a different mission than the camouflaged, unidentified federal forces recently filmed pulling protesters off the streets in Portland, Oregon. But after those scenes, Trump’s new initiative is unlikely to get the benefit of the doubt, as his “law and order” election message takes on an authoritarian tinge.
Federal officers deployed tear gas canisters to counter protesters in Portland on Tuesday night.
