Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said Thursday that she would not allow federal agents slated to be dispatched in her city in the coming days to repeat what’s happened amid protests in Portland.
Why don’t D city mayors pass ordinances requiring anyone who discharges control ordinance (tear gas, flash bangs, etc.) to have completed a certified crowd control training course in the city or state? Then, if the camoshirts use them, have the cops ask for their certification and arrest anyone who doesn’t have it.
Television is all that counts for our first two-dimensional president.
Even this campaign stunt of sending the most doofus looking troops in “camo” into Portland and now other cities is just for television.
And by the way–some of the helmets those “DHS troopers” wore had jungle camouflage, with plants sticking out of them. Any moviemaker would have laughed them out of their studio.
Seems a bit roundabout. I have to think, although it’s just an assumption, that there are existing things a municipality can do when the feds set up shop and start policing on their own. It’s clearly not necessary, first of all. Second, it’s based on an executive order about federal property, statues and so forth, and you don’t roll up on people on some unremarkable city street and pull them into vans if that’s really your priority. It’s just so wildly illegitimate and shady I’m surprised there hasn’t been a nationally enforceable injunction against it already.
ETA by the way I believe I read a couple days ago that the Portland fire department said the little green men can’t use their stations as staging areas. If that kind of thing is the readiest tool to hand, have at it.
What’s been happening in Albuquerque? Seems kind of random to include in the list of places for Trumps storm troopers to go. But yeah there is a female Democratic governor, so that could be part of it. He just gets so triggered by those ladies in positions of power!
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said Thursday that she would not allow federal agents slated to be dispatched in her city…
What is the plan exactly? How can she prevent them from doing whatever they want just like they are doing in Portland? I’m all for it, but what is “it”?
I’d like to see the local cops have some pride. If they did, anybody wearing camo and carrying would be arrested, no ID required.
Tells me the local cops have received the word from on high. Trump has been courting the cops all his life. They defer to him, they do what he says, and they kiss his arse.
Makes him feel like the tough guy that poor-little-rich-boys never, ever are.
The local boys have dropped the reins out of spite. And there goes we all.
Supremacy Clause. If what the LGM’s are doing is authorized under federal law, no local ordinance can override it. If what they are doing is unauthorized or unconstitutional under federal law, no local ordinance is necessary – it’s just straight up assault, aggravated assault, kidnapping, etc.
The latest article from Greg Sargent:
“Indeed, the deepest flaw here of all is that the scenes Trump is using to portray that fictional Biden dystopia are scenes from Trump’s America. It’s plainly obvious that the voters he hopes to win back see him as deliberately stoking all this civil conflict. He’s relishing it all, and everyone knows it.”
Trying to blame Biden, and the Dem mayors. This is Trump’s America.
They literally tear gassed the mayor of Portland last night. What is she going to do? Especially when she’s trying to thread the needle and get them to ‘help’ while not overstepping their boundaries.
Defund ICE, CBP, etc… Their appropriations are up for debate in the House this week. DHS is currently slated to see $50 billion in discretionary funds from the bill that has been advancing. House Leadership is pushing to pass the bill with no further restrictions (in fairness, they did put in restrictions with regards to Trump’s worst instincts on immigration, but nothing on the invasions of our cities). Call your congressperson and tell them to severely amend it or vote it down. No more enabling this bullshit.
Albuquerque PD is bound by a consent decree governing their use of force. I suspect that might be part of why he’s targeting ABQ. Trump’s boogaloo bois have freer rein to crack heads than APD.