SassyLady
06-06-2020, 12:08 AM
Talk about in your face ...
After another night of protests — relatively peaceful compared with those earlier in the week — in Washington, D.C., the city’s mayor has escalated her efforts to extricate the city from the presence of troops and law enforcement officers who had been ordered there by federal officials.
“The very first thing is we want the military — we want troops from out of state out of Washington, D.C.,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday.
Because the District of Columbia is not a state, the federal government has different powers in the nation’s capital than it does in other cities. More than 4,500 National Guard troops from nearly a dozen states were directed to the city as demonstrations grew following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.
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Washington, D.C., renamed a portion of 16th Street Black Lives Matter Plaza on Friday. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images/Assisted by City of D.C.)Washington streets are also being patrolled by uniformed, heavily armed personnel without name badges or insignia to indicate which agencies they work for.
https://news.yahoo.com/washington-dc-muriel-bowser-black-lives-matter-plaza-white-house-172701340.html
After another night of protests — relatively peaceful compared with those earlier in the week — in Washington, D.C., the city’s mayor has escalated her efforts to extricate the city from the presence of troops and law enforcement officers who had been ordered there by federal officials.
“The very first thing is we want the military — we want troops from out of state out of Washington, D.C.,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday.
Because the District of Columbia is not a state, the federal government has different powers in the nation’s capital than it does in other cities. More than 4,500 National Guard troops from nearly a dozen states were directed to the city as demonstrations grew following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/QWYR_GfEsAQbMdm0Sr_r6g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQyNS44MjAxMDU4Mj AxMDU4/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.WhMPxUqYzwATQbnzwwOJw--~B/aD00MDI0O3c9NjA0ODtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2020-06/d29f7b20-a754-11ea-bef6-d562620a42c0
Washington, D.C., renamed a portion of 16th Street Black Lives Matter Plaza on Friday. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images/Assisted by City of D.C.)Washington streets are also being patrolled by uniformed, heavily armed personnel without name badges or insignia to indicate which agencies they work for.
https://news.yahoo.com/washington-dc-muriel-bowser-black-lives-matter-plaza-white-house-172701340.html