DHS Announces New Task Force to Protect American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues

[douglas9]

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad F. Wolf, has announced the establishment of the DHS Protecting American Communities Task Force (PACT), a special task force to coordinate Departmental law enforcement agency assets in protecting the nation’s historic monuments, memorials, statues, and federal facilities.

“DHS is answering the President’s call to use our law enforcement personnel across the country to protect our historic landmarks,” said Acting Secretary Wolf. “We won’t stand idly by while violent anarchists and rioters seek not only to vandalize and destroy the symbols of our nation, but to disrupt law and order and sow chaos in our communities.”

On June 26th, President Trump issued an Executive Order to ensure that historic monuments and statues in the U.S. will be protected. The Order, “Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Activity,” directs DHS, within its statutory authority, to provide personnel to assist with the protection of federal monuments, memorials, statues, or property.

As a result, DHS created the PACT, which will conduct ongoing assessments of potential civil unrest or destruction and allocate resources to protect people and property. This may involve potential surge activity to ensure the continuing protection of critical locations. DHS’s Office of Operations Coordination will also partner closely with the Departments of Justice and Interior to establish information and intelligence sharing.

“As we approach the July 4th holiday, I have directed the deployment and pre-positioning of Rapid Deployment Teams (RDT) across the country to respond to potential threats to facilities and property,” said Acting Secretary Wolf. “While the Department respects every American’s right to protest peacefully, violence and civil unrest will not be tolerated.”

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https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/infrastructure-security/dhs-announces-new-task-force-to-protect-american-monuments-memorials-and-statues/

[Sanity Claws]

1. They should get busy protecting live Americans

from COVID and Russian bounties.

Useless bastards.

[MineralMan]

2. The money for this comes from the part of military funding

that pays for protective devices for soldiers subject to assassinations funded by the Russians, I suppose.

[dalton99a]

3. America's Job 1

[riversedge]

8. whow. great toon. sad but true. mow down the nationsal parks and protect the confederate monuments.

[AleksS]

4. Glad to know that in the face of all that's going on

THIS is where the administration is devoting it’s effort and resources.

Gotta have priorities man.

(Sarcasm, of course. )

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Will his Space Force be protecting our historic space monuments?

KY............. ........

[Solly Mack]

6. Defend symbols. Let the people die. Nice.

Fuckers.

[riversedge]

7. this our presidents focus during an epidemic. damn.

[0rganism]

9. fantastic! let's get a statue/monument up for every POC cop victim too

every municipality with cops that acted as if it were okay to kill a non-violent POC should erect a life-size bronze statue of the victim real close to where the victim died. the base can include the reason for their final encounter with law enforcement: "killed for selling loose cigs", "inadvertently passed a counterfeit $20", "ran when yelled at", "looked suspicious", whatever. then we can have the DHS "Rapid Deployment Teams" ready on call to protect them.