Trump Threatens To Grab Protestors By The Posse
President Donald Trump has threatened to send “active duty” U.S. military to Minnesota to quell the uprising against the police killing of yet another unarmed African-American even though the state’s governor had not accepted Trump’s offer.
The president made his intention known in a series of tweets on Friday. Trump said “we will assume control,” clearly meaning the federal government. The National Guard of each state is controlled by the state governor.
The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration has offered “the use of active-duty soldiers and intelligence,” including “some forces who were put on alert to deploy.”
The New York Times and other media said “military police” were being prepared by the Pentagon and that it would be the first deployment of MPs since the Rodney King uprisings in Los Angeles of 1992.