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The Mayor of Chicaga Brandon Johnson, Democrat, has signed the city officers on Saturday to cooperate with the troops of national warders or federal agents that President Donald Trump follows its threats to apply them Windy city.
“This executive order makes it clear clear that this president will not enter and replace our police department,” Johnson said at a press conference with other city leaders.
The mayor’s order confirms that police officers in Chicago will continue to conduct state and local laws, but will not cooperate with national guards or federal agents, arrests, immigration implementation or other law enforcement.
“We will protect our constitution, we will protect our city and protect our people,” he said. “We don’t want to see the tanks on the streets. We don’t want grandparents to take her grandmothers in the back of the unmarked vans don’t want the homeless people not wanting to bully or disappear with federal.
The Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson signed an executive order to ban the city police officers to cooperate with the national troops of the guards. (Getty Image / Kamil Kracaczinski)
The order also instructs the City Police to carry its official police uniforms, continues to be identified, monitoring body cameras and not to wear masks so that they can clearly differ from any federal operation.
“The police department in Chicago will not cooperate with military personnel at police patrols or conducting civil immigration,” Johnson said. “We will not have our police officers who work every day to launch a crime that is prescribed to stop traffic and checkpoints for the president.”
The order says that the deployment of federal military forces in Chicago without the consent of the Democratic Norms, violates the sovereignty of the city, threatening civil liberties, and not to achieve violence, not to ensure violence. “
This command comes as Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker They referred to Trump due to the potential of national troops for guards arranged in Chicago to interfere with crime in the city.
Johnson stated the information that shows that violent crime He has dropped in the last year, including murder and robbery who has done more than 30%, and shootings fall by almost 40%.
Pritzker also warned Trump that “the action will be filled with the answer” and to make federal scheduling without claiming the state “unconstitutional” and “un-American”.
The mayor’s order confirms that police officers in Chicago will not work with national guards or federal agents about any patrols, arrests or other actions for law enforcement. (Graeme Sloan for Washington Post via Getty Images)
Trump replied Democratic leaders last week, saying Pritzker is “incompetent” and Johnson “not better”.
The White House rejected Johnson’s order on Saturday, claiming that democracies tried to make efforts to reduce the crime of the partisan issue.
“If these democrats focused on fastening crime in their own cities, instead of the people to criticize the president, their communities would be much safer,” said the white-house spokesman Abigail Jackson in Reuters’s statement.
Johnson said on Saturday that he considered all legal and legislative measures to stop the federal government, including possible lawsuits.
“We will use the dishes if necessary,” Johnson said.
President Donald Trump speaks with members of soldiers for law enforcement and state services in Washington, DC (Jacquelin Martin / AP Photography)
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Previous deployment of the National Guardian in Chicago is coordinated with local officials, in accordance with Reuters. The president’s authority for the implementation of the troops is limited under American law, although there are no restrictions on sending icy means or other federal law enforcement officers.
Trump’s threat to implement troops in the windy city comes after increasing the presence of federal law enforcement in Washington, DC, in an attempt to reduce the crime.
Hundreds of federal funds and troops of national gards are deployed at DC streets as part of the federal district takeover.
Reuters contributed to this report.