The Insurrection Act Is A Tool For Racist Violence — No Wonder Trump Likes It

The message of this particular act, and the history of when it's been instituted, is a clear attack on activism in defense of Black lives in America.

police killing of George Floyd

and other unarmed Black people. But the moment where officials charged at demonstrators to pave room for Trump's announcement that he will institute the Insurrection Act felt surreal, and left a lot of questions about what this meant and how far the president was willing to go to stop the Black Lives Matter movement.President Thomas Jefferson signed the Insurrection Act

in an effort to squash civil disorder and rebellion. The Act gives the sitting president authority to deploy the military within the United States and was last used in 1992 to suppress the Los Angeles riots which erupted after four white police officers were acquitted for the

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