Donald Trump warned Monday he may ship federal officers to New York. (FILE)
Washington:
US President Donald Trump introduced a “surge” of federal brokers to crime hotspots together with Chicago on Wednesday, following a rise in violence within the nation’s third-largest metropolis.
“I’m announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into communities plagued by violent crime,” Trump mentioned on the White House, with Attorney General William Barr and the FBI and Department of Homeland Security administrators within the viewers.
The Department of Justice will “immediately surge federal law enforcement to the city of Chicago,” added the president, who has more and more sought to make law-and-order a theme for his flagging re-election marketing campaign.
Barr mentioned “Operation Legend” would see some 200 brokers despatched to the Windy City and one other 30 to Albuquerque, New Mexico after it kicked off earlier this month in Kansas City, Missouri the place there are already 200 officers.
Shootings have spiked in numerous US cities this summer season, with greater than 60 folks shot in Chicago, together with 14 fatalities, over the previous weekend alone, in response to the division.
Trump warned Monday he may ship federal officers to New York and different Democratic-led cities to guard federal buildings and type out what he says is a collapse of legislation and order.
The warning got here after an uncommon deployment of military-garbed federal brokers amid protests in Portland, Oregon, which many mentioned smacked of authoritarianism.
The deployment introduced Wednesday, nonetheless, concerned federal brokers who will associate with native legislation enforcement, not riot management forces as seen in Portland.
The mayors of six main cities — Atlanta, Washington, Seattle, Chicago, Portland and Kansas City — mentioned in a letter to Barr and Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf on Monday that uninvited deployments of federal troops violate the Constitution.
On Wednesday Trump mentioned he needed to “make law enforcement stronger not weaker,” including that extra officers ought to be employed quite than slicing police division budgets.
In mentioning police budgets, Trump was responding to calls to “defund police,” a standard chorus from anti-racism protests which have sprung up throughout the nation following the demise of George Floyd, an African American, by the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis.
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