President Donald Trump threatened Monday to send more military-garbed law enforcement into US cities to quell anti-racism protests, a move he called necessary
threatened Monday to send more military-garbed law enforcement into US cities to quell anti-racism protests, a move he called necessary security action and critics labelled an election year political stunt.
"I'm going to do something, that I can tell you, because we're not going to leave New York and Chicago and Philadelphia, Detroit and Baltimore," he said.- Going to 'do our job' -"I don't need invitations by the state, state mayors or state governors to do our job. We're going to do that, whether they like us there or not," he said on Fox News.
But he accused protesters of minor crimes, such as breaking windows and putting graffiti on federal buildings.After the DHS force arrived, video showed them taking some demonstrators away in unmarked vehicles. Oregon has sued DHS for rights violations, while the state's governor, Kate Brown, demanded the officers be withdrawn, calling the deployment a political"photo op."
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