Pentagon orders extra active-duty troopers to organize for deployment in Minnesota: report | EUROtoday

Hundreds extra active-duty troopers have been given orders to organize for attainable deployment in Minnesota, amid ongoing tensions and concern that Donald Trump might invoke the Insurrection Act to quash anti-immigration enforcement protests.

The Pentagon has ordered members of an Army army police brigade primarily based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, to be on standby, sources acquainted with the matter advised MS NOW.

The Independent has contacted the Pentagon for remark concerning the reviews of additional preparation orders. A spokesperson advised MS NOW, “We have nothing to announce at this time, and any tip about this is pre-decisional.”

The outlet reported that a minimum of just a few hundred troopers got the prepare-to-deploy order on Tuesday.

It comes after earlier reviews that roughly 1,500 active-duty troopers have been getting ready for attainable deployment in Minneapolis and different Minnesota cities, following the protests within the wake of the deadly taking pictures of Renee Nicole Good.

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Service members are assigned to 2 infantry battalions with the Army’s eleventh Airborne Division, which relies in Alaska and educated for cold-weather operations, in line with The Washington Post, citing protection officers. ABC News first reported the transfer Saturday.

“The Department of War is always prepared to execute the orders of the Commander-in-Chief if called upon,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell advised The Independent in a press release on the time.

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Pentagon officers added that inserting troops on alert was merely “prudent planning.”

Trump has repeatedly instructed he might deploy active-duty army in opposition to Americans after demonstrations escalated within the wake of the killing of 37-year-old Good, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier this month.

The president has stated he “felt horribly” about Good’s dying, however labeled protesters “professional agitators and insurrectionists” in a state run by “corrupt politicians.” The Department of Justice can be investigating what critics have labeled spurious obstruction allegations.

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The not often invoked Nineteenth-century Insurrection Act permits the president to dispatch active-duty troops and federalize National Guard service members to occupy a state and metropolis led by Democratic officers and his political opponents.

It was final invoked by former president George H.W. Bush to suppress the Los Angeles riots in 1992 after the acquittal of 4 law enforcement officials over the beating of Rodney King.

Last yr, the president started ordering National Guard troops to a number of Democratic-led cities, an effort that one federal decide rebuked as “a national police force with the president as its chief.”