Trump’s orders are “the actions of a dictator,” one Democrat said
Bishop Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop for the Diocese of Washington,a Washington Post reporter that she was “outraged” and that church officials were never told “they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.” On CNN, she said Trump’s message was “antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our churches stand for.”
As Trump spoke, police officers used force in an attempt to suppress protests in major cities throughout the country, including New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle and Louisville, Kentucky., making it easier for police to arrest peaceful demonstrators on curfew violation charges.
The American Civil Liberties Union’s Hina Shamsi called the plan “irresponsible and dangerous” and said that no “level-headed governor is asking for an even more militarized response to civilian protests against police brutality and systemic racism.” Trump tweeted Sunday that he would label antifa, a term that applies to loosely organized groups of anti-fascists, as a. Although current law does not allow the federal government to prosecute members of any domestic group the way it treats foreign terrorist groups, like al Qaeda, the proclamation is likely to encourage prosecutors to pursue aggressive charges designed to maximize prison sentences against protesters.
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