Who Actually Wants Trump to Send in the Feds? Police Unions.
Published Jul. 21, 2020 3:49AM ET
PORTLAND—Leaders of cities like Portland and Chicago publicly say they don’t want federal law enforcement policing protesters. But as President Donald Trump threatens to send in the troops to a handful of America’s largest cities, some of those same locales’ police unions appear to be circumventing elected officials to work with the feds.
On Monday, Trump indicated a desire to send federal law enforcement to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, and Oakland, apparently to crush protests there because police are “restricted from doing anything.” His remarks came after federal agents—revealed to be Customs and Border Protection in camouflage uniforms—were deployed to Portland, Oregon, where they faced outcry for shooting a less-lethal projectile into an activist’s head and shoving protesters into unmarked vans.
Although Portland leadership roundly decried the federal presence, the president of Portland’s police union met with the head of the Department of Homeland Security last week to discuss the agents, apparently without the knowledge of the city’s police chief. The president of Chicago’s police union made his own envoys, asking Trump for federal intervention.
Trump might have heard him: 150 federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations are gearing up to head to the city, the Chicago Tribune first reported. Either way, protesters say local cops and the feds are clearly colluding.
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There I said it, and I won't take it back. I live in Pittsburgh which is probably the most pro-union city we will ever see in the USA. Collective bargaining has its place, but police unions have abused their power. Nowadays they're mostly using mob mentality to keep people in line and to maintain status within municipal political regimes. It's time to outlaw these groups, and find other ways for law enforcement employees to be heard. Police unions are way out of line and this is the proof, in case anybody needed it.
