Faith Leaders Launch Moral Counteroffensive to City Occupations - The Sacramento Observer

Faith Leaders Launch Moral Counteroffensive to City Occupations - The Sacramento Observer

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – First, it was the National Guard and Marines occupying the streets of Los Angeles, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents snatching men, women, and children from car washes, schools, and Home Depot Parking lots.  And then it became Washington, D.C.’s turn. The Trump administration federalized the D.C. police and deployed the National Guard to patrol streets and round up unhoused residen…

National Guard takes over Washington, Chicago potentially next in line

DeKALB – On Aug. 11, Washington, D.C. was put under military occupation as part of an effort by President Donald Trump to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. “I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor,” Trump said during a press conference. “This is liberation day in D.C. and we’re going to take our capital back.” Many residents near the Washington area protested the act, c…

What Washington D.C.’s occupation can teach Baltimore

The last time the military was sent to bend Baltimore to the president’s will, it was 1861 and 1,000 soldiers slipped into the city on a dark and stormy night to hastily erect a fort and battery of guns on Federal Hill.