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15 US mayors demand stop to federal policing with 'no oversight' in Portland
Fifteen mayors of major US cities have sent a letter to US federal law enforcement officials demanding a stop to the sending of federal forces to cities and the removal of federal officers from Portland, Oregon.
In their letter, the mayors say that the federal officers are conducting law enforcement activity with no consultation with local police in tactics they likened to “authoritarian regimes” not in the US.
The mayors of Seattle, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Washington DC and a handful of other cities signed the letter addressed to attorney general William Barr and Department of Homeland Security acting secretary Chad Wolf.
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“Federal officers have not been trained for urban community policing, including critical crowd management and de-escalation techniques. There is no oversight of the actions of federal forces,” they wrote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-mayors-demand-stop-to-federal-policing-with-no-oversight-in-portland/ar-BB173IAU?li=BBnb7Kz
