He stressed that protests were “nowhere near” the level required to deploy the troops.
Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell sharply countered Donald Trump’s claims that the city needed National Guard support, emphasizing Wednesday that protests were “nowhere near” that level.
McDonnell’s remarks come after Trump cited the police chief as validating the White House’s decision to send in troops to address largely peaceful protests over immigration raids.
When asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins if Trump had correctly described his position, McDonnell disputed the president’s statement.
“No, we were not in a position to request the National Guard,” he said. “We’re nowhere near a level where we would be reaching out to the governor for National Guard at this stage. And my hope is that things are going in the right direction now and that we wouldn’t have had to have done that, or we won’t either.”
please, I beg of you, understand that it is so, so, so much worse than incompetence.
how can you see that officer raise his gun and fire at that journalist while she was on camera, to the point where he obviously had absolutely nothing at all going on around him, and wildly understate that as “gross incompetence”?
No you’re right I should have used different phrasing. It’s not incompetence it’s straight up just being a piece of shit.