Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search
 

Odoreida

(1,549 posts)
19. Follow up stories.
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 09:09 AM
Jul 2020
Trump expected to send new federal force to Chicago this week to battle violence, but plan’s full scope is a question mark
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-police-dhs-deployment-20200720-dftu5ychwbcxtg4ltarh5qnwma-story.html

...

The Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, agents are set to assist other federal law enforcement and Chicago police in crime-fighting efforts, according to sources familiar with the matter, though a specific plan on what the agents will be doing — and what their limits would be — had not been made public.

...




Lightfoot warns Trump: Portland-style intervention in Chicago would be a ‘disaster’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2020/7/20/21331575/trump-chicago-crime-protests-police-federal-agents-portland-lightfoot

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, aiming to avoid a Portland-style federal agent crackdown in Chicago this week, asked President Donald Trump for help Monday in a letter where she said she would take him at his word he wanted to help the city, despite his “incendiary rhetoric.”

And while the Lightfoot letter has several conciliatory passages, her main message to the president was, “What we do not need, and what will certainly make our community less safe is secret, federal agents deployed to Chicago.”

In an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Monday night, Lightfoot said she would go to court to try to block Trump if he made any unilateral actions as he did in Portland. “If we need to, we will,” Lightfoot told Reid. “And we will be prepared.”

...


What Mayor Lightfoot calls a disaster may be what Trump calls a win.

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»Homeland Security making ...»Reply #19