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Wednesday, June 3, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
US defense chief opposes use of Insurrection Act to quell unrest
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he opposes invoking a rarely used law to deploy US military troops to quell nationwide protests over police brutality against African Americans.
“I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act,” Esper says, two days after President Donald Trump said he could do so to call up the army to quash protests.
“I’ve always believed and continue to believe that the National Guard is best-suited for performing domestic support to civil authorities in these situations,” Esper says.
“The option to use active-duty forces should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations,” he tells reporters in the Pentagon. “We are not in one of those situations now.”
— AFP
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