President Trump is naming more and more cities to which his administration may deploy federal agents in order to stop protests against police violence and structural racism. Even as Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is now suing federal officials, alleging that agents who were dispatched to Portland have rounded up people “without warning or explanation, without a warrant, and without providing any way to determine who is directing this action,” the president says agents deployed to that city have been doing “a fantastic job.” And Trump adds that he is “going to do something” in “New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore and all of these [cities] run by liberal Democrats.”
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