If not, they can ask for federal assistance.
He even said so while holding the Bible and standing in front of the church.
The officers emphasised the constitutional right to protest rather than the incidents of looting.The options were to simply obey regardless, resign or attempt to convince the “final decision authority”, in this case the president, they are making a mistake.Kayla Williams, who served as an intelligence officer in the 101st Airborne Division, said the flurry of public and private statements “reveals deep unease, even among senior levels, and a real lack of cohesion among the senior levels of our government at this point”.“None of the options are good options,” he said, but added that the best was to seek to persuade the president in private, which he added, “I suspect is going on right now.”“Just like most of the Black Airmen and so many others in our ranks … I am outraged at watching another Black man die on television before our very eyes,” Wright wrote, and was quickly supported by his senior officers.John Allen warns that politicisation of the military could be the beginning of the end of ‘the American experiment’The armed forces are one of the most diverse major US institutions, and are roughly representative of the country’s ethnic makeup.
Photograph: ISAF/EPA “The slide of the United States into illiberalism may well have begun on 1 June 2020. The vast majority of the people protesting in the streets are justifiably furious at the murder of George Floyd, but they’re even angrier over pervasive injustice, mass incarceration, frequent false arrests, and an institutionalized devaluation of black lives and property.”Finally, Allen condemned the use of force against D.C. protesters who “had done nothing to warrant such an attack.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/john-allen-trump-protests-george-floyd Indeed, the secretary of defense used the military term ‘battlespace’ to describe American cities.”He notes that “governors have sufficient law enforcement capacity — and, if necessary, the combat power of the National Guard — to handle their respective crises. All rights reserved. Senior officers have been deeply concerned about racial polarisation spreading to the military if it is drawn into dealing with the unrest.“Among the rank and file there also seems to be a great deal of discomfort at the prospect of having to intervene in civil unrest,” Williams, now a senior fellow at the Centre for a New American Security, said.Trump responded on Twitter by calling Mattis “the world’s most overrated General,” adding: “I didn’t like his leadership style or much else about him, and many others agree. Responding to Republican nominee Donald Trump's indication that he will support the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, General John Allen (Ret.)
“Donald Trump isn’t religious, has no need of religion, and doesn’t care about the devout, except insofar as they serve his political needs. '”The op-ed goes on to criticize the Trump administration for their focus on rioters and looters when “the truth is that they are minuscule in numbers.
John Allen is president of the Brookings Institution, a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general, and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Brookings President John R. Allen statement on the passing of John R. Lewis Saturday, July 18, 2020 Stopping Israel’s annexation is a US national security interest
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There is no precedent in modern U.S. history for a president to wield federal troops in a state or municipality over the objections of the respective governor. Glad he is gone!”“I absolutely do not think that this type of unit is well suited for responding to domestic unrest.
Retired General John Allen discusses his warning that President Trump's military threats could be "the beginning of the end of the American experiment."