Well, at least they don’t eat cats and dogs.
To hear President Trump Saying, Washington, DC, has become a barbaric hell – worse still that Springfield, Ohio, it seems that he accused black immigrants, including a lot of Somalia, barbecue pets last year during the campaign.
At the time, Trump was just a candidate. Now he is the commander -in -chief of the American army with a clear desire to use war troops in the American streets, whether for a fancy birthday parade, to enforce his immigration program in Los Angeles or to stop the flights of cars in the national capital.
“It becomes a situation of complete and total anarchy,” said Trump at a press conference on Monday, announcing that he called national guard troops to help the national police at DC
“We will also get rid of slums. We have slums here. We will get rid of them,” he said. “I know it’s not politically correct. You say: “Oh, so terrible. No, we get rid of the slums where they live. »»
Where “they” live.
Although the use of soldiers in the American streets is alarming, it should be just as frightening how much this president links the race not only for crime, but also for the violence so uncontrollable that it requires military troops to arrest it. Attacing the breed to crime is not new, of course. It is a large part of American history and our judicial system was unfortunately imbued, from the Jim Crow era to the war against drugs in the 1990s, which targeted the center of cities with the same rhetoric as Trump recycle now.
The difference between this last attack on minorities – launched by President Nixon and lasts through the presidents Reagan and George HW Bush, also under the cover of law and order – and our current situation is that in this case, the notion of war is not only a hyperbola. We are literally talking about soldiers in the streets, targeting blacks and brown. Whether employees of cars in California or adolescents in school break at DC, real crimes do not seem to have any importance. The color of the skin is sufficient for control of the police, a sad and dangerous return at one time before civil rights.
“Admittedly, the language that President Trump uses with regard to DC has a racly -based message,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Chemerinsky stressed that just a few days ago, the 9th Circuit Court of American Appeals called the Trump administration for immigration raids that were unconstitutional because they were essentially racial sweeping. But he is shamelessly. His calls for violence against people of color increase. It appears more and more that bringing him troops to Los Angeles was a test for greater use of soldiers in civilians.
President Trump holds a painting before the defense secretary Pete Hegseth at the Monday press conference announcing the deployment of troops in Washington, DC
(Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
“It will go further,” Trump said, clearly indicating that he would like to see soldiers doing police services across America.
“We also have other cities that are bad. “We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you, of course, have Baltimore and Oakland. We don’t even mention that anymore, they are so much, they are so far. ”
In reality, crime falls through the United States, including in Washington. As the Washington Post pointed out, violent crime rates, including murders, have mostly intended for a downward trend since 2023. But it only takes a few explosive examples to ban the truth of consciousness. Trump highlighted some tragic and horrible examples – including Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, a former employee of the Government Ministry of the government of the government who was attacked after trying to defend a woman in a car car, not far from the White House.
These are crimes that should be punished, and certainly not tolerated. But the exploitation we see of Trump is a dangerous precedent to justify the military force for the national police, which has so far been prohibited – or at least prohibited – by the posse comitatus act of 1878.
This week, the strength of this ban will be debated in a courtroom in San Francisco, during the three -day trial on the deployment of troops in Los Angeles. Although it is not sure to know how this affair is resolved, “Los Angeles could provide a little roadmap for any jurisdiction seeking to repel the Trump administration when there is a potential threat to send federal troops,” said Jessica Levinson, a constitutional legal academic at the Loyola Law School, told me.
Again, California is the largest leaf of a Trump autocracy.
But as we expect in the hope that the courts will catch up with Trump, we cannot be blind to what is going on in our streets. Race and crime are only linked by racism.
Allowing our soldiers to terrorize blacks and brown under the cover of the law and order is nothing more than a takeover based on the exploitation of our darkest natures.
It is a tactic that Trump has perfected, but which will basically change and weaken American justice if we will not stop it.
