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mucifer

(23,537 posts)
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 08:47 AM Jun 2017

trump tweet this morning "sending federal help to Chicago"


Crime and killings in Chicago have reached such epidemic proportions that I am sending in Federal help. 1714 shootings in Chicago this year!


Oy vey! I don't know what he is going to do here. Hopefully, it's just his usual bullcrap where nothing happens.
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Vinca

(50,269 posts)
4. But I imagine gun control is out of the question. Chicago actually has it, but just over the
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 08:52 AM
Jun 2017

border in Indiana people can pretty much get anything they want anytime they want.

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
5. Posse Comitatus? Appeal to legal scholars.
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 08:55 AM
Jun 2017

Someone with a legal mind please explain why this would or would not apply. Constitutionality of such a measure?

Else You Are Mad

(3,040 posts)
7. This is what the conservatives...
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 09:10 AM
Jun 2017

Were shitting their pants frightened about because they though Obama would do this. We're are the tea party protesters?!? They should be in the streets complaining that this is federal overreach that violates the states rights!!

::crickets::

mucifer

(23,537 posts)
8. We need help but cutting state local and federal programs is not help.
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 09:12 AM
Jun 2017

That is what is going on in my city Chicago.

mopinko

(70,089 posts)
12. the fbi, i believe, has a mobile ballistics lab here.
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 09:51 AM
Jun 2017

it was supposed to stay for a few weeks, but they are trying to get it to stay longer.

how the hell the city doesnt have one, i dont know. if we are waiting a month to get analysis done by the state or the feds, we need our own.

ProfessorGAC

(65,010 posts)
14. I Thought The Federal Government Was Never The Solution
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:12 PM
Jun 2017

Isn't that what their ilk has been saying for 40 years?

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