Donald Trump criticizes democrats in several cities, accusing them of laxity. Chicago, Kansas City and Albuquerque will receive of the federal forces.
The us president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that it boost the number of federal agents in Chicago, after a resurgence of violence in the third largest city in the United States and despite the opposition of the mayor, a democrat from the metropolis. A great deal of criticism for its management of the pandemic coronavirus a little more than three months of the presidential election, the billionaire republican candidate for re-election, including a campaign for the return to “order”.
And the face of a crime on the rise this summer in the major cities of the country, such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Atlanta or Baltimore, he debunked the responsible democrats in several cities, accusing them of laxity. “I am announcing a sharp rise in law enforcement federal in the populations affected by violent crime”, he said from the White House.
The u.s. department of Justice will “immediately increase the number of federal police officers in the city of Chicago,” he added. This, together with the president, Bill Barr, the minister of Justice, said that the operation would Chicago, Kansas City and Albuquerque. Approximately 200 officers will be sent to Chicago, 30 in Albuquerque (New Mexico), and 200, are already in Kansas City (Missouri), he said.
summer Offer : Take advantage of the special offer 2 months for€ 1 I would like to subscribe
Letter of mayors democrats to the minister of justice
“The operation was first launched on July 8 in Kansas City, as a result of the president’s promise to Trump help the u.s. cities recently affected by violence”, according to a press release of the ministry of Justice. According to William Barr, the federal agents will work “hand in hand” with the police and should not be confused with the forces of the order of federal involved in the response anti-riot.
The president, ahead in the latest polls by his rival, democrat Joe Biden, had threatened to send federal agents in New York and Chicago, as in other bastions of the democrats, to protect the federal buildings and, more broadly, to “restore order”. Fifteen people were injured Tuesday in a shooting at a funeral in Chicago, where the violence is endemic in some areas.
READ ALSO >> The mayor of Portland wants the departure of federal troops after a night of violence
In response to the president’s comments, the mayors-democrats of Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Kansas City and the federal capital Washington have sent a letter to the minister of Justice to oppose the “unilateral deployment” of the federal forces in their cities.
Returning to the question of sending these last days of federal police officers in Portland, Oregon – where officers, in camouflage uniform and without a badge of identification, arrests challenged – the mayors felt that their interventions had contributed to “an escalation” of tensions, and compared the method to “tactics used by authoritarian regimes”.
New York city hall decides the evacuation of the camp
“In any case I will not let the soldiers of Donald Trump come to Chicago and terrorizing our residents”, has tweeted the mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot. The mayor of New York, Bill De Blasio, has reiterated that his city would attack the federal government in court if federal agents were deployed in the capital of the american economy.
on Wednesday, under pressure New York city hall was finally cleared of the encampment that had been erected in June of the demonstrators against racial inequalities front of the city hall The new york police, accompanied by cleaning agents and lawyers, came before dawn to dismantle the tents and hunt the fifty people remained on the spot, without being struck or injured, said the head of the new york police Dermot Shea, at a press briefing.
The mayor, democrat Bill de Blasio, an ardent defender of the right to protest and the movement against the racial inequalities that followed the death of the Afro-American George Floyd at the end of may, was presented as a more thoughtful cleaning up the site dubbed “Occupy City Hall”, in tribute to the movement “Occupy Wall Street” born in 2011 that, months, had decried the abuses of capitalism. “In recent weeks, the rally was smaller, it was less a protest and more of a gathering of homeless,” said the mayor. “It was time to act.”
Since the end of major events for George Floyd in New York, the pressure rose to put an end to the camp and the graffiti wild that it has generated on several municipal buildings and statues, close to federal buildings.
But the pressure on the municipality is also the governor of the State of New York, Andrew Cuomo. This last was said on Wednesday “very troubled” by the rise of crime in New York city and other signs of the “decline” of the metropolis, which is idling after having been severely hit by the pandemic.
The governor indicated that he had spoken to the us president on Tuesday to ask him do not send federal agents in New York and assure him that he would take him-the same action if necessary. “I’m worried, but not to the point of declaring a state of emergency,” he said.
