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A number of public officials, retired military officers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/politics/military-national-guard-trump-protests.html , and protesters were concerned with the Washington, DC, National Guard’s role in clearing Lafayette Square https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21277610/monday-lafayette-square-tear-gas and suppressing protests https://www.vox.com/2020/6/2/21277877/trump-law-and-order-protests-chaos-dc in the nation’s capital last week for a presidential photo op. So, too, were the Guard members themselves, according to new https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/national-guard-protests.html reports https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/national-guard-protests-309932 . According to reporting from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/national-guard-protests.html , when asked to employ “aggressive tactics” against local civilians, “black members of the D.C. Guard objected to turning on their neighbors.” Some members of the majority-minority force “were so ashamed in taking part against the protests that they have kept it from family members,” the Times’s Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt, and Helene Cooper report: > “Typically, as the D.C. National Guard, we are viewed as the heroes,” > said another soldier, First Lt. Malik Jenkins-Bey, 42, who was the acting > commander of the 273rd Military Police Company during the first days of the > protests. But last week was different, he said. > > “It’s a very tough conversation to have when a soldier turns to me and > they’re saying, ‘Hey sir, you know my cousin was up there yelling at me, that > was my neighbor, my best friend from high school,’” said Lieutenant > Jenkins-Bey, who is African-American. > Full at: https://www.vox.com/2020/6/11/21288006/black-national-guardsman-discomfort-enforcers-black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
