By Black Star News
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Thursday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), in response to reports that governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., sent letters to the governors of Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and South Carolina, urging them to reverse their decisions.
The letters addresses Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in D.C., and corrects the lies Trump has been telling about a “crime emergency” in D.C. The letters also addresses the fact that the National Guard troops presence “makes residents feel more unsafe, as tensions rise and fear of intimidation and abuse from National Guard members spread throughout the city.”
The letters finally discuss “the anti-democratic threat to people’s civil rights and liberties caused by the military interference and its potential waste of millions of taxpayer dollars.”
LDF Director of Strategic Initiatives, Jin Hee Lee, released the following statement: “President Trump’s heedless call for additional National Guard troops to occupy Washington, D.C. risks the safety of both residents and visitors. Such a militarized show of force, in a city that has the lowest violent crime rate in decades, is an anti-democratic and authoritarian measure meant to stoke fear in D.C. residents and undermine their self-governance through democratically-elected, local leaders. President Trump is undermining public safety and our democracy, with ripple effects that far exceed the District’s borders. State governors have the duty to use their state’s resources responsibly and wisely, consistent with democratic principles and values. We thus urge the governors to live up to the duties of their office and reverse any decision to deploy their National Guard troops to our nation’s capital.”
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