#national-guard

#national-guard

Bryant approached a group of National Guard members Aug. 24. He allegedly made statements to the effect that he was "strapped," "these are our streets" and "I'll kill you." The National Guard members understood "strapped" to mean that Bryant was armed. Bryant then approached additional National Guard members and "threw his left shoulder" into the left shoulder of one of them, making physical contact, the emergency motion said. The National Guard members told the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., about the confrontations.

Trump was asked Sunday whether he was threatening war with Chicago following a post on his website Truth Social one day earlier. "We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our cities," Trump told reporters on Sunday as he left the White House. "We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's not war, that's common sense."

With some federal agents already at a nearby naval station and fencing erected around the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse overnight, Chicagoans and Illinois' elected officials on Friday continued to prepare for US President Donald Trump's militarized " invasion " of the country's third-largest city. Trump has threatened to not only send immigration enforcement agents but also deploy the National Guard and even potentially active-duty military, mirroring what he has done in Los Angeles and the District of Columbia.

What the president has also said is that we've got a whole host of things that we can focus on. You can both order the Department of Justice to do full transparency. You can also ask the Department of Justice to enforce the law. You can ask the National Guard to make sure that DC's streets are safe. You don't have to do one of these things or the other.

As a resident of San Francisco who prefers to see urban streets free of armed soldiers, I'd rather not have the National Guard occupy our city, as it already has occupied Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. The recent military takeover of Washington by Donald Trump and his army has been abetted by the governors of West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, South Carolina, and Louisiana who voluntarily contributed some of their National Guard troops to the Washington bivouac,

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You know, the thing about this is, of course, we've talked about Washington, D.C., it's the nation's capital, a federal government, Congress could get involved, work with the president, and, together, as we've been talking about for a long time, figure out how to partner with the city. And that hasn't happened. And now we're talking about Chicago. We're talking about New York City. Neither one of those cities are in the top ten for most violent cities in America.

Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt pleaded with President Donald Trump to send the National Guard to New York, saying the Big Apple's streets need to be cleaned by troops. After playing a clip of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson decrying the Trump administration's plans to deploy soldiers to the Windy City as part of the president's anti-crime crackdown, Earhardt and co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Charlie Hurt agreed that it worked in Chicago and would work elsewhere.