Trump expands troop deployments to more American cities
Mayor Keith Wilson said, “This is an American city. We don’t need intervention,” he said. “This is not a military target.”
Kotote said that the President did not give a timeline for the troops coming. He told him that the Oregon national guards were not necessary and that he did not plan to call him.
However, although Trump opposed this, California Governor Gavin Newsom, he previously deployed the guard soldiers and active task sailors in Los Angeles. The Federal Government appeals the decision of a judge that Trump’s use of guard is illegal.
Kotote called on the people to stay calm and saying that all kinds of material damage or violence would not be tolerated. Im Let’s not take the bait, ”he said. “Let’s not answer what the president is trying to do.”
Residents ask: ‘Where is the Emergency?’
In the early hours of Saturday, there was no signal of assets in the city center where people run along the Willamette River, relieved by a fountain on a sunny autumn or bike bikes.
“Where is the emergency?” 72 -year -old settled Allen Schmertzler, said the President’s decision was “disgusted”.
Another, 74 -year -old John McNeur called Trump’s statement “ridiculous .. He said that he had received a “slow walk” along the river on a peaceful, sunny day.
“This is not a city out of control,” he said. “It’s just a good place.”
Trump also named Chicago, Memphis
Trump threatened to send national guards to Chicago before, but he hasn’t followed him yet. Memphis, Tennessee, is expected to be soon expected, and Trump will contain much less than 150 soldiers than sent to Los Angeles in response to the violent migration protests with the arrival of troops to get stuck in the crime of Trump.
In Memphis, about 80 to 100 people walked into a plaza in front of the City Hall to protest the federal law enforcement force for more than a dozen to the next week of the guards and the application of migration to drugs.
Protesters kept signs with messages such as “not resources, not task forces” and “Memphis does not need a profession, Memphis does not need government control” – a game in Pink Floyd Song another Brick in the Wall.
Speakers previously said that Memphis needed more financing for education, crime, youth services and hospitals instead of federal troops and agents. Oregon officials made similar comments.
A few details from the Pentagon
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Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that the Ministry of Defense will provide information and updates when it is available.
“We are ready to mobilize US military personnel to support the President of the DHS in Portland, Par said Parnell.
Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Bomar, Oregon National Guard spokesman, said that there is no official request at the moment for the support of the guard via e -mail. “No request will have to be coordinated through the governorship,” he added.
Oregon’s congress delegation asked the Trump administration to keep federal agents and troops away from Portland, except for the Republican Congress Member Cliff Bentz.
“This unilateral action represents the abuse of the executive authority, trying to provoke violence and weakens the balance of constitutional power between the federal government and states,” Democratic MPs, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Noem.
Protests in Portland
Portland, a population of 636,000, was the place where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020 by Minneapolis police and sometimes there were severe racial justice protests. The Trump administration sent hundreds of agencies, including the US border patrol, to protect the federal court and other federal goods from vandalism.
The latest demonstrations were much quieter and focused on the area around the ice building, the heart of the 2020 protests in the city center. The main entrance and ground floor windows were boarded and tagged with graffiti.
Some federal agents were injured and several protesters were accused of attacks. Some demonstrators say they were injured. When the protesters founded a propeller guillotine at the beginning of this month, the Ministry of Internal Security called it “Unhanged Behavior ..
Police Chief Bob Day, at a press conference, said the agency did not participate in immigration sanctions. He said that the federal protective services were responsible for the Ice Building and that the police would only intervene in the surrounding vandalism or criminal activities.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson speaks at a press conference on Saturday (USA time).Credit: AP
The city said that this month would give a land use infringement notification to the ice building because it was used to detain people overnight or more than 12 hours-violation of the use of land use approval.
Portland is one of the so -called sacred cities. There is no strict definition for sacred cities, but the term usually defines places that limit cooperation with ice.
Portland officials emphasized the healing of the city
City groups and officials have tried to emphasize the healing of the city center since 2020.
Last summer, the pedestrian traffic before Pandemik was reported to be the most intense, and according to a recent report of the Great Cities Association, the general violence from January -June to June decreased by 17 percent compared to the same period in 2024. Downtown saw a decrease in homeless camps.
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has increased efforts to confront what Trump has accused of “radical left ğı for political violence since the assassination of 10 September.
“We will go there and make a big number for people in Portland,” he said on Thursday. “Professional agitators and anarchists,” he said to these people.


