- Pentagon tells active-duty military police to be ready to deploy to Minneapolis
- Trump communicated orders verbally to Defense Secretary Mark Esper
- Minneapolis has seen looting and unrest since death of George Floyd, 46
- Cop was filmed pinning Floyd to the ground with his knee on his neck
- Insurrection Act of 1807 gives Trump authority to use army for domestic unrest
- Last time military was sent to put down riot was in Los Angeles in 1992
- Rioting erupted in LA in wake of acquittal of officers who beat Rodney King
Associated Press and Ariel Zilber – Daily Mail.com May 30, 2020
A police car burns as protesters gather near CNN offices in Atlanta, Georgia. Click to enlarge
As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty US military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis, where the police killing of George Floyd sparked the widespread protests.
Soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called, according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders.
Soldiers in Fort Carson, in Colorado, and Fort Riley in Kansas have been told to be ready within 24 hours.
The people did not want their names used because they were not authorized to discuss the preparations
The get-ready orders were sent verbally on Friday, after President Donald Trump asked Defense Secretary Mark Esper for military options to help quell the unrest in Minneapolis after protests descended into looting and arson in some parts of the city.
Trump made the request on a phone call from the Oval Office on Thursday night that included Esper, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and several others.
The president asked Esper for rapid deployment options if the Minneapolis protests continued to spiral out of control, according to one of the people, senior Pentagon official who was on the call.
‘When the White House asks for options, someone opens the drawer and pulls them out so to speak,’ the official said.
The person said the military units would be deployed under the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was last used in 1992 during the riots in Los Angeles that followed the Rodney King trial.
‘If this is where the president is headed response-wise, it would represent a significant escalation and a determination that the various state and local authorities are not up to the task of responding to the growing unrest,’ Brad Moss, a Washington DC-based attorney, who specializes in national security.
Members of the police units were on a 30-minute recall alert early Saturday, meaning they would have to return to their bases inside that time limit in preparation for deployment to Minneapolis inside of four hours.
Units at Fort Drum are slated to head to Minneapolis first, according to the three people, including two Defense Department officials.
Roughly 800 US soldiers would deploy to the city if called.
Protests erupted in Minneapolis this week after video emerged showing a police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck.
Floyd later died of his injuries and the officer, Derek Chauvin, was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter on Friday.
The protests turned violent and on Thursday rioters torched the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct near where Floyd was arrested.
Mayor Jacob Frey ordered a citywide curfew at 8pm beginning on Friday.
The unrest has since spread across the country, with protests, some violent, erupting in cities including Washington DC, Atlanta, Phoenix, Denver and Los Angeles.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz ordered 500 of his National Guard troops into Minneapolis, St. Paul, and surrounding communities.
But a Pentagon spokesman said Walz did not ask for the Army to be deployed to his state.
‘The Department has been in touch with the Governor and there is no request for Title 10 forces to support the Minnesota National Guard or state law enforcement.’
Title 10 is the US law that governs the armed forces, and would authorize active duty military to operate within the U.S.
Alyssa Farah, the White House director of strategic communications said the deployment of active-duty military police is untrue.
‘False: off the record – title 10 not under discussion,’ said Farah in an email response.
No off-record agreement was negotiated with The Associated Press.
The 16th Military Police Brigade forwarded the AP’s questions to the Defense Department.
The three officials with direct knowledge of the potential deployment say the orders are on a classified system, known as the Secret Internet Protocol Router or SIPR for short.
Active-duty forces are normally prohibited from acting as a domestic law enforcement agency. But the Insurrection Act offers an exception.
The Insurrection Act would allow the military to take up a policing authority it otherwise would not be allowed to do, enforcing state and federal laws, said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas School of Law professor who specializes in constitutional and national security law.
The statute ‘is deliberately vague’ when it comes to the instances in which the Insurrection Act could be used, he said.
The state’s governor could ask Trump to take action or Trump could act on his own authority if he’s determined that the local authorities are so overwhelmed that they can’t adequately enforce the law, Vladeck said.
‘It is a very, very broad grant of authority for the president,’ he added.
A quick looked at the protocols, shows the exact road map, to where this is heading. If manity(not hew-manity=color of man=fiction=artificial person) could do ONE simple thing, this would never been an issue.
COME TOGETHER AGAINST OUR COMMON ENEMY: ZIONISM.
This looks like a severe violation of the Posse Comitatus Act
They are inching their way towards tyranny one step at a time.
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prohibits the use of U.S. military forces to perform the tasks of civilian law enforcement such as arrest, apprehension, interrogation, and detention unless explicitly authorized by Congress.
The Posse Comitatus Act, signed into law by President Rutherford B. Hayes on June 18, 1878, limits the power of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce U.S. laws and domestic policies within the borders of the United States. The law was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and was subsequently amended in 1956 and 1981.
https://www.thoughtco.com/posse-comitatus-act-military-on-border-3321286
I have no doubt that this is another false flag and that Floyd is not dead especially since they have been working together for a few years as security guards Chauvin and Floyd
The U.S. army was on the Mexican border BEFORE the Posse Comitatus Act.
Between 1846 and the early decades of the 20th century, the US Army
carried out its security missions under a variety of hardships imposed by
the massive length and ruggedness of the border. The shortage of soldiers to
police the new and oft-disputed border also proved especially problematic.
Mexican domestic politics and US-Mexican international relations greatly
affected the Army’s operations.
Border Control is also policing the region, and today people keep distorting the underlying reason for the act. At end of civil war it was a way of demilitarizing.
Third amendment to Constitution disallows quartering of troops in private homes without owners consent. The framers also wanted State and Local Militia’s rather than a standing army. The Posse Comitatus act is just that… an act, and hence it is not at the amendment level. The Framers would have unleashed the Kraken, and Local Militia’s would have knocked heads. There would be no need for an army. Even so, the U.S. used standing armies for police actions, especially border control.
I would personally object to the use of the word “elite” in the headline with military police,
but there IS a legit need. GIVE EM LIVE AMMO! Posse Comitatus is no more the law in the land than burning and looting is protesting.
Problem > Reaction > Solution: false flag (9/11, Sandy Hook, George Floyd) > pay rioters to incite others Ro loot > justification for Martial Law. It’s the SAME old shit over and over!!!!