Worst Mayors in America Demand Congress Stop Trump From Ruining Their Riots
The nation’s worst mayors, who oversee the nation’s most violent cities, sent a letter to Congress complaining that President Trump is ruining their election-year riots.
They’re calling for an investigation into federal officers arresting rioters for attacking federal buildings.
The mayors of Portland, Seattle, Chicago, D.C., Atlanta, and Kansas City wrote to the leaders of Congress arguing that their nightly riots and bloodshed are made worse by President Trump because federal police aren’t nice to the rioters.
Whereas the mayor of Portland, who’s also the police commissioner, orders his kneeling officers to spectate the violence, the federal police use tear gas to back the rioters away from federal property, investigate, arrest, and charge the perpetrators of the violence.
Democrat Mayors Say Riots Are Trump’s Fault
As you know, Portland is in its 8th straight week of rioting. Antifa and Black Lives Matter groups, comprised of devoutly anti-American, communist and anarchist militants, hold nightly riots to burn, vandalize and terrorize Portlanders. It’s a low-level war on civil society by groups that are revealed as the shock troops of the Democratic Party. No high-profile Democrats condemn their actions. In fact, Nancy Pelosi dismisses the attacks on statues as “people are going to do what they do.”
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During the sixth week, as antifa and BLM terrorists continued their attacks on the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in downtown Portland, federal officers were called in to protect the building and arrest rioters. Now Mayor Ted Wheeler blames President Trump for all the riots.
While the riots continue, instead of catching, releasing and dropping charges against rioters, as Multnomah County prosecutors do, federal authorities have brought federal charges against the terrorists, who have come from all over the country to riot and attack police.
Democrat Mayors Sic Pelosi on Trump Over Rioters
In their complaint letter to Congress, Mayors Muriel Bowser (D.C.), Jenny Durkan (Seattle), Keisha Lance Bottoms (Atlanta), Lori Lightfoot (Chicago), Quinton D. Lucas (Kanas City) and Ted Wheeler (Portland) accuse President Trump of abuse of power because he’s “creating an environment of fear and mistrust.”
The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a national uprising and reckoning. Millions have joined protests and exercised their constitutional rights. The majority of the protests have been peaceful and are aimed at improving our communities. Even in circumstances where this is not the case, it is still a matter for local law enforcement
The President’s decision to unilaterally deploy these paramilitary type forces into our cities mirrors the very tyranny our country has fought against and is wholly inconsistent with our democracy.
Instead, he is politicizing conflict, creating an environment of fear and mistrust, and raising the prospect of more deployments of federal forces in cities like Seattle, Chicago, and other American communities. This abuse of power cannot continue.
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