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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrump 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.
underpants
(182,788 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,452 posts)It's his go to statement when in trouble.
YCHDT
(962 posts)Zoonart
(11,855 posts)Tanks? National guard? Here we go. It's going to be a long, hot summer.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)border in Indiana people can pretty much get anything they want anytime they want.
lapislzi
(5,762 posts)Someone with a legal mind please explain why this would or would not apply. Constitutionality of such a measure?
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Read
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/10/803213/-
Northcom has units trained. The Attorney General has control.
lapislzi
(5,762 posts)But Keebler Elf probably is not. Too bad.
Doodley
(9,088 posts)And it's murder rate is lower that other cities.
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161003/downtown/most-dangerous-cities-in-america-2016
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)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)That is what is going on in my city Chicago.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Chicago asks what the hell is going on in DC??
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170622/downtown/trump-asked-what-hell-is-going-on-chicago-but-it-backfired
mopinko
(70,089 posts)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)Isn't that what their ilk has been saying for 40 years?