After President Trump deployed the Nationwide Guard on Washington D.C., he vowed that this wasn’t the final metropolis that may face occupation after which singled out Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore and Oakland, Calif. as “different cities additionally which are dangerous, very dangerous.”
“Our capital metropolis has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, globing mobs of untamed youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless folks, and we’re not going to let it occur anymore,” Trump stated throughout a press convention Monday.
“It’s very notable that each one of many cities known as out by the president has a Black mayor,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott instructed CNN’s Laura Coates later that night.
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Scott refused to just accept the President’s declare that these cities had been “thus far gone” explaining that these Black-led cities “…are seeing historic lows in violent crime.”
“Possibly we’re too far gone,” Scott stated in response to Trump, including, “Too far gone from the damaged right-wing insurance policies of zero-tolerance policing and all of the issues that didn’t make our metropolis safer for all these a few years.”
Since Scott took over as mayor, Baltimore has skilled a 50-year low in homicides. Scott defined that making a navy method through which the president appears to be like to occupy cities led by Black mayors shouldn’t be the way in which to drive violence down.
“We all know that having the navy there may be not the way in which to do it,” Scott stated.
“The way in which to drive down violence in cities has been confirmed. Mayors throughout the nation have introduced collectively regulation enforcement, the authorized group, the precise group, group violence intervention work to cut back violence throughout this nation and cities to lows that we’ve got not seen in a long time.”
The Baltimore mayor famous that Trump may “study rather a lot from us.”
“We’re safer than we’ve got been in a long time, in my lifetime, in most cities,” defined the two-term 41-year-old mayor. “That’s one thing that every of those mayors ought to stand on [and] one thing the president needs to be coming to work alongside them to proceed that partnership.”
Scott added that Trump is as an alternative “canine whistling via right-wing propaganda and, fairly frankly, racist viewpoints that [Republicans] have about these cities, and attempting to persuade the American those that what they know shouldn’t be true.”
