>> Donald Trump continues to threaten to send federal agents and troops to democratically
lead cities across the country. In fact, here he is on Sean Hannity's Fox News show making
that argument. >> We wanna go in and help the cities. We
wanna help Chicago, we wanna help all of them.
Detroit's having problems, a very good police chief in Detroit, but they have problems.
We'll go into all of the cities, any of the cities, we're ready, we'll put in 50,000,
60,000 people that really know what they're doing, and they're strong. They're tough.
We could solve these problems so fast, but as you know we have to be invited in.
>> Mr President I wanna ask you about that. >> At some point we gonna have to do something
that's much stronger than being invited in >> Now, while the elected officials in Portland,
for instance, or some of these cities claim that they absolutely do not want federal agents
to be involved, unfortunately, there are is some indication that some of them have asked
for help.
But more importantly, there's definitely evidence indicating that local police unions have been
asking for help from the federal government. And I, help is definitely a euphemism here
considering the brutality that we've seen in some of these videos featuring these federal
agents attacking these protesters. Now, the local police unions have asked for help in
so many different cities that we weren't even previously aware of yet.
And thanks to the excellent reporting by Ken Klippenstein from The Nation we now know just
how severe this problem really is. So he writes in The Nation that CBP's support to local
law enforcement has extended far beyond its controversial Portland deployment, and includes
not just thousands of personnel but also drones and dozens of other aircraft and that's according
to a CBP document that was obtained exclusively by The Nation.
So the draft of the agency's answers to questions posed to them by Senator Kamala Harris on
June 5th details the assets that CBP deployed in response to requests for assistance from
local law enforcement agencies across the country. So many local law enforcement agencies
requested support that according to the document, CBP was not aware of any state or local entities
that explicitly declined assistance.
The assistance includes a broad array of services like aerial surveillance, crowd control, unmarked
vehicles and plainclothes surveillance. Several requests involve specialized tactical units
like CBP's amphibious Riverine Force. So military grade stuff used against civilians who are
practicing their constitutionally protected right to protest. And this has been the case
in places like New York, the New York PD requested this, Chicago PD, Miami PD, Philadelphia PD,
San Diego PD and DC's Metropolitan PD just to name a few.
>> Yeah, look, there's two different things here. In terms of the equipment yes, all police
departments are going to request that even in the most progressive cities. Why they love
toys. My God, I get to play soldier. I'm now GI Joe so fun. No, it's not fun to roll a
tank through an American city.
No, it's not fun to use a lot of these military equipment as an occupying force in the cities
you're supposed to protect and serve. Now on the issue of sending the federal forces
here we go again with the moron in chief. So when he's talking to Sean Hannity, he says,
well, maybe we send in 50 to 60,000.
And a little bit later in the interview, he says, maybe we send in 55 or 75,000. Did you
do any homework? I mean, you know the answer. Of course he didn't. Do you know how many
federal forces there are at DHS? Of course he didn't do that homework.
And did you put even one second of thought into it to know whether it should be 50, 55,
65 or 75,000, which are all vastly different numbers. Now you want to know how many federal
officers, full time law enforcement officers, DHS has? 62,000. So it'd be a challenge to
send 75,000 in when there's only 62,000.
So, but he doesn't care. He doesn't, it's all optics. Solve it really quickly. It's
gonna be so quick. You wouldn't believe it. You're right. I wouldn't believe it. Cuz that's
literally what you said in your acceptance speech at the RNC four years ago, you said,
fix it so quick.
There's gonna be no more violent crime and I alone can fix it. Well, what happened? In
Trump's America, according to you, there's out of control crime, and you had four years
to fix it. Not only did it not happen quickly, it apparently didn't happen at all.
>> The CBP deployed a predator drone in Minneapolis after the George Floyd protests broke out,
a predator drone.
I just think that for everyone who thinks that these foreign policy stories are boring,
and you don't care what's happening in Afghanistan, you don't care about the US orchestrated coups
and Latin American countries. Just understand that our bloated military budget, which by
the way, just passed with the help of Democrats in Congress, is a boomerang.
Those weapons end up being used against us. And by the way, you should have some compassion,
some empathy for people who don't live in the United States. It shouldn't only be about
us, but we ignore these stories. They don't do well in cable news. They don't even do
well with independent media.
And there's a price to pay for that. The fact that we've remained complicit with this type
of behavior makes me upset because again, like we're suffering the consequences and
civilians in other countries have been suffering the consequences. Finally, I wanna go to the
last graphic here that shows something that I suggested protesters do.
I'm sure that protesters had all ready been doing this. But this kind of imagery is so
powerful. There you have a protester holding the American flag, someone practicing his
or her, a constitutionally protected right. And there's tear gas everywhere. There's chaos
everywhere. They're met with brutal violence at the hands of federal agents and the right
wing is completely supportive of it.
It's just absolutely disgusting. >> And remember good our Second Amendment
rights in case there's government tyranny in this way, like when the federal forces
came in and crushed states rights and people exercising their constitutional rights, tyranny
like that, like right now. No, I love that tyranny. Love that tyranny.
You guys are so full of crap. Every right winger out there, that was sent states' rights.
Now all of a sudden you turn around you say I hate states' rights. Why? Well before the
states wanted to be racist, and I love that. Now the federal government is saying they
don't wanna have protests against racism.
And the states said that they should be having protests. No then I hate states' rights. Because
at the end of the day, what's the one thing that unifies your message? Racism. That's
what unifies it. You never believed in states' rights. Never, not for one second, all you
believed in was I just want to keep other people down so I can have a false sense of
confidence about myself.
By the way, that moron Donald Trump actually took all 62,000 law enforcement officers at
the federal level away, you'd have no border patrol and you'd also have no secret service
left.