President Trump says he may send National Guard to New Orleans next instead of Chicago “We’re making a determination now,” Trump said in the Oval Office to reporters. “Do we go to Chicago or do we go to a place like New Orleans?” Portrait of Joey GarrisonJoey Garrison USA TODAY
President Donald Trump suggested he may not send National Guard troops into Chicago as he’s repeatedly threatened, and for the first time introduced a potential new target for his next crime crackdown: New Orleans.
One day after he declared, “We’re going in” about plans for Chicago, Trump on Sept. 3 said his administration still hadn’t decided whether he would deploy troops to the nation’s third-largest city. Trump instead pointed to New Orleans, a city in a Republican-led state, in contrast to Democratic-led Illinois.
“We’re making a determination now,” Trump said in the Oval Office to reporters. “Do we go to Chicago or do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to straighten out a very nice section of this country that’s become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad”?
“So, we’re going to be going to maybe Louisiana,” Trump added.
Fuuuuck. So once again I am guessing he’s going with the path of least resistance bc our governor would literally burn us to the ground if Trump asked him to show his loyalty. I have no no doubt he would let Trump use us to test out any authoritarian bullshit requested.
Meanwhile, I believe Trump lost a lawsuit yesterday with California and I know Chicago’s mayor and governor were both making plans and preparations to resist occupation. So again this will be a very easy way to signal he’s doing something.
BTW, in addition to already having a private nonprofit surveillance company that works with NOPD and LSP (and already set up the only live tracking facial recognition surveillance system of its kind in the U.S. with no notice or input to the public) the National Guard will be New Orleans 4th official branch of city dedicated law enforcement:
NOPD
Louisiana State Police (LSP) branch Troop Nola was permanently established in the city last year by Governor Landry almost as soon as he took office.
And if you have anything like a car wreck, you have to deal with a private company the city contracts out to called On Scene Services (OSS)
All I’ve heard since Troop Nola was established is how much crime is down and we should be grateful for their presence. But apparently that has suddenly changed and we need to add a 4th (in addition to ICE and official ICE State police partners who may already be using the facial recognition surveillance tracking system with zero oversight.
He’s trying so hard to make people forget that he’s a pedophile
What list?
Trump attacked Iran???
Are the Epstein Files in the French Quarter?
LA mayor, black woman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Bass
DC mayor, black woman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Bowser
Chicago mayor, black man https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Johnson
Baltimore mayor, black man https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Scott
New Orleans mayor, black woman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Bass
What a very odd coincidence. Every city he wants to deploy troops to happens to have black leadership. So strange. I wonder why…
Quick AI assisted search gives this:
There are currently 13 black mayors of major cities in the United States. The cities with black mayors include:
- Los Angeles, California
- Chicago, Illinois
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Washington, D.C.
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Detroit, Michigan
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Killeen, Texas
- New Orleans, Louisiana (Mayor LaToya Cantrell)
Don’t know if this is an exhaustive list of black mayors of major cities, but it definitely is a familiar sounding list
Don’t post this trash if you’re not going to verify it.
Here’s an idea, I’ll do what I want!
Some people, honestly…
Don’t know what constitutes “major”, but if you expand out to the top 50 by population then over half have a mayor that is a PoC. A lot of those are in red states and are in trouble if these fascists start targeting blue dots specifically, I fear
You have to be careful, saying you used ai gets you mega down voted. Lemmy is a weird place at times.
Well my reply to that would be that it’s as dumb as saying you’ll never use Google because it shows you porn sometimes.
For general searches that are common knowledge, it’s a very good tool for fetching information. No it’s not perfect so don’t take anything from it to the bank.
But for discussion purposes? More than good enough, no more subject to error than real humans and almost always more accurate and thorough.
TACOs do seem like a good idea for dinner.
Trump needed to get his goon squad to punch a bunch of black people on camera and Jeff Laundry was more willing to play ball than J.B. Pritsker.
I’m not looking forward to the Louisiana National Guard getting back into practice shooting black people trying to leave the Superdome twenty years after last time. I don’t really consider slow rolling one of America’s largest black cities until it looks like The West Bank any kind of win.
I’m not looking forward to the Louisiana National Guard getting back into practice shooting black people trying to leave the Superdome twenty years after last time.
Hey, first of all, okay, they were black! And, y’know, suspicious! Probably escaping from something!
For those who don’t know also it was just regular cops, not the guard, but that was twenty years ago, before the mask-off fascism.
Heck, it’s probably the plan.
TACO knows Chicago ain’t gonna mess around. A red state will roll over and show it’s belly.
Still not detracting from: WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES, PEDOnald???
So it’s not an emergency? It’s on a rota?
Yea. They discovered that New Orleans’ public gardens and spaces are overrun with weeds; a problem that needs to fixed asap
Get ya po’ boys ready!
Trump Always Chickens Out
Got to intimidate the blue states. Notice how he isn’t sending his SA to Houston, one of the highest crime rates in the nation?
President Donald Trump suggested he may not send National Guard troops into Chicago as he’s repeatedly threatened, and for the first time introduced a potential new target for his next crime crackdown: New Orleans.
This really goes to show that this has shit to do with crime. It’s just "what other state will I fuck over now? Who don’t I like?
Dems should lock down every city in similar ways so that it’s only Republicans forced to see how useless it is to have the National Guard aimlessly wandering around the streets with weapons
What weapons? Illinois has very strict gun control, including an assault weapons ban.
There are exceptions for federal officers. But if Trump can’t find a way to federalize the Texas Guard…
The Louisiana governor is receptive to it. Dumbass sycophant.
It’s all made-up bullshit anyway; might as well flip a coin, dumbass.
As long as you got a friendly governor and a city with enough black people, I’ll launch a domestic “liberation” campaign.
- Trump, probably
