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Mayor Says NYPD Incidents Being Investigated, Curfew an Option

June 1, 2020

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said police vehicles shouldn’t have driven into a crowd of protesters and an officer who drew his gun should have his badge taken away.

The mayor said the majority of weekend protests across the most populous U.S. city were peaceful, and most officers handled crowds with restraint and respect. Some late-evening protests included people from outside the city and were not peaceful or acceptable, and led to some looting in lower Manhattan, the mayor said. A curfew is an option, but is not planned for tonight, he said.

It is “not acceptable ever” to drive a police vehicle into a crowd, and the matter is under investigation, de Blasio said Monday at a press briefing. Over the weekend, de Blasio had said the police who drove into the crowds were wrong, but that the protesters had created conditions for the incident.

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De Blasio said the police discipline process must be sped up, and a state law that shields officers’ disciplinary records should be repealed. Officers “who hold racism in their heart” don’t belong in the NYPD, the mayor said.

The mayor also said his 25-year-old daughter was arrested during a Saturday night protest and told him she was acting in a peaceful manner. He said he would let her speak for herself. “I admire that she was out there trying to change something that she thought was unjust,” he said.

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Mayor Says NYPD Incidents Being Investigated, Curfew an Option

(Bloomberg) -- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said police vehicles shouldn’t have driven into a crowd of protesters and an officer who drew his gun should have his badge taken away.The mayor said the majority of weekend protests across the most populous U.S. city were peaceful, and most officers
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An agitated Trump encourages governors to use aggressive tactics on protesters

Updated 1:34 PM ET, Mon June 1, 2020

President Donald Trump, agitated and distressed after three nights of violent protests in dozens of cities across the country, including outside of his home, told the nation's governors in a video teleconference Monday to aggressively target violent protesters he said would only respond to a show of force.

"You have to dominate or you'll look like a bunch of jerks, you have to arrest and try people," the President told the governors in a call from the basement White House Situation Room, according to an audio recording of the call obtained by CNN.

In the conversation, Trump appeared angry and chastised what he characterized as a weak response to protests in certain places, which he said allowed violence to take hold. Trump emphasized his belief the violence is being fomented by forces from the "radical left."

And he suggested to governors it was their responsibility, not his, to tamp down harshly on the continued unrest.

"It's a movement, if you don't put it down it will get worse and worse," Trump said. "The only time its successful is when you're weak and most of you are weak."

In admonishing the governors for not doing more to quell the violence, which raged again on Sunday night, Trump was reverting to a hardline "law and order" mantle he believes is the best way to confront growing racial unrest across the nation.

Trump said the "whole world was laughing at Minneapolis over the police station getting burned," referring to the city where protests began last week after the death of an unarmed black man who was being taken into police custody.

In a back-and-forth with Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Trump said the state was "a laughingstock all over the world" for not responding harshly enough during a first evening of protests.

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An agitated Trump encourages governors to use aggressive tactics on protesters

President Donald Trump, agitated and distressed after three nights of violent protests in dozens of cities across the country, including outside of his home, told the nation's governors in a video teleconference Monday to aggressively target violent protesters he said would only respond to a...
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Pentagon officials express concern as Trump threatens to use military to 'dominate' protestors

Updated 9:44 PM ET, Mon June 1, 2020

Washington (CNN)Defense officials tell CNN there was deep and growing discomfort among some in the Pentagon even before President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is ready to deploy the military to enforce order inside the United States.

As tear gas wafted through the air in Lafayette Park across from the White House, Trump announced from the Rose Garden that if state or city leaders refuse "to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents," he will invoke the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that allows a president to deploy the US military to suppress civil disorder.

But some Pentagon officials are deeply wary, several defense officials tell CNN. They have tried to respond by making a strong case that the situation does not yet call for deploying active duty troops unless state governors make a clear argument that such forces are needed.

"There is an intense desire for local law enforcement to be in charge," a defense official said, alluding to the laws that forbid the military from performing law enforcement roles inside the United States.

There is also discomfort with the civil order mission among some National Guard troops -- more of whom are now mobilized inside the US than at any previous time in history.


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Pentagon officials express concern as Trump threatens to use military to 'dominate' protestors

Defense officials tell CNN there was deep and growing discomfort among some in the Pentagon even before President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is ready to deploy the military to enforce order inside the United States.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville’s police chief was fired Monday after the mayor learned that officers involved in a shooting that killed the popular owner of a barbecue spot failed to activate body cameras during the chaotic scene. A huge group marched hours later to the spot in a peaceful protest.

David McAtee, known for offering meals to police officers, died early Monday while police officers and National Guard soldiers were enforcing a curfew amid ongoing protests over a previous police shooting in Kentucky’s largest city. Police said they were responding to gunfire from a crowd.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville’s police chief was fired Monday after the mayor learned that officers involved in a shooting that killed the popular owner of a barbecue spot failed to activate body cameras during the chaotic scene. A huge group marched hours later to the spot in a peaceful protest.

David McAtee, known for offering meals to police officers, died early Monday while police officers and National Guard soldiers were enforcing a curfew amid ongoing protests over a previous police shooting in Kentucky’s largest city. Police said they were responding to gunfire from a crowd.

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The incident itself is terrible; but the firing of the chief is a good start by way of a response.

But not nearly fulsome enough.

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Protesters have been demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed in her home in Louisville in March. The 26-year-old EMT was shot eight times by narcotics detectives who knocked down her front door as they attempted to enforce a search warrant. No drugs were found in the home.

After Taylor’s death, the mayor said Louisville police would be required to wear body cameras. Fischer said recently that officers in plainclothes units like the one that served a warrant at Taylor’s home would now wear the cameras during search warrants.
 
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