Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser revealed officials within her office were “very shocked and, quite frankly, outraged” by the president's aggressive dispersal of crowds demonstrating outside the White House on Monday evening
on CNN that the use of violence “to remove peacemakers from in front of the church — so you can hold up a Bible and say how great America is while you’re promising military action against peaceful protesters — seems to me to be the complete opposite of what Jesus taught.”
The president has repeatedly advocated for a reinforced law enforcement presence, including the deployment of the National Guard, in states to quash the increasingly volatile protests that have spread across the country since George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in Minneapolis police custody last week.
later that evening at the White House to call on the military to put an end to the nationwide wave of racial unrest if state and local officials refused to activate the National Guard.to the president’s comments on the call, declared Tuesday he would “reject” any attempt by Trump to foist a military presence upon his state, and warned that such a maneuver by the commander in chief would be met with a legal challenge.
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