Trump has already said he might “take control” of Minneapolis.
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Or about Covid. But, the headlines are all about one horrible thing after another.
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Oops. Someone will have to remind him that the National Guard only has law enforcement powers when they’re activated under State orders, not federal.
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Trump believes he is omnipotent, and that he alone controls every aspect of government.
This issue, combined with his abject failure to properly deal with the pandemic, will drive voters away from him in significant numbers.
He’ll be left with only his hard-core cultists, who are not numerous enough to reelect him in November.
Count on it.
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It took violence to free the colonies from the monarchy; to suppress the treasonous Confederacy and defeat Nazi Fascism.
Sometimes a People must struggle against oppression.
I believe it was Plato who said, ‘Poverty has two children- Crime and Revolution’.
In this case we suffer a poverty of Justice.
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Alternatively, they can go with their method of last resort: File a single charge of 1st degree, premeditated murder and nothing else so because of overcharging, the cop’s lawyers can jump through the obvious loopholes. Either way, the crooked cop walks.
On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. The next day, Governor Wallace yielded to the federal pressure, and two African American students—Vivian Malone and James A. Hood—successfully enrolled. In September of the same year, Wallace again attempted to block the desegregation of an Alabama public school—this time Tuskegee High School in Huntsville—but President Kennedy once again employed his executive authority and federalized National Guard troops. Wallace had little choice but to yield.
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Or all 3 videos from 3 different angles? With audio?
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And, while Floyd was killed,at almost the same time there was the white Connecticut college student who went on his murder spree and was considered armed and dangerous, yet cops were able to arrest him without mussing a hair on his head. That right there is America.
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Or Dylan Roof of mass church murder and bad haircut fame was arrested they took him to Burger King.
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Well, maybe a more direct poverty as well.
“…the most recent Census Bureau figures for 2018, the number of jobs in the MSP region has increased by 10% since the Great Recession, which is comparable to other large metro areas and the nation as a whole. However, the median income for Black households in MSP was $38,200, less than half that of white households ($85,400). This is a greater difference than the gap between the national medians for each group ($41,500 and $68,000, respectively).”
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People are gonna be rightly pissed if that cop is not charged with murder. And they will be pissed when he is acquitted out of the undue deference we have given police. The public needs to see it all unfold.
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Here’s a good read on it, lengthy and indepth. Congress changed thing in 1981, in a nutshell current authorities allow for a lot of work behind the scenes in stuff like this, but:
So they can lend a hand, but can’t be running around the place shooting up and arresting looters.
Kennedy’s activation is noted in the paper, that was under the precedent at the time.
Although I suppose he could get creative and use 10 USC § 333 and decide that it’s an insurrection… Wouldn’t put it past him, but he’d have to get damned creative to do so.
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Thanks! I wasn’t up on the change, so I will check this out. I just recalled Kennedy. If anyone is above the law it’s Trump/Barr. These next months are promising to be fuck’n nuts.
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The only real problem I see with this is that eventually we’re going to reach a point where every TrumpTweet™ is flagged, and it just becomes part of the white noise we all tune out as part of every day internettting.
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Yup. Can totally see him trying something like that.
Not just insane. This is the president of the united states making an official statement that national guard troops will open fire on US citizens. In a sane world he would be in custody.
I didn’t mean you were defending the cops, I took it that you were defending the reasons for not charging them, and defending those who had not charged them with a crime. FFS.
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