{"id":73884,"date":"2020-06-03T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=73884"},"modified":"2020-06-03T16:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:59:45","slug":"defense-chief-breaks-with-trump-on-response-to-protests-says-racism-in-the-us-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/defense-chief-breaks-with-trump-on-response-to-protests-says-racism-in-the-us-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense chief breaks with Trump on response to protests, says racism in the US is real\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Washington \u00a0(CNN) &#8211; Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Wednesday that he does not support using active duty troops to quell the large-scale protests across the United States triggered by the death of George Floyd and those forces should only be used in a law enforcement role as a last resort after President Donald Trump recently threatened to deploy the military to enforce order.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. 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I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act,&#8221; he said during a briefing at the Pentagon.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Esper also attempted to explain his use of the word &#8220;battlespace&#8221; when discussing quelling violence on the streets amid civil unrest.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Esper also addressed the killing of Floyd, calling it a &#8220;horrible crime&#8221; and said &#8220;racism is real in America, and we must all do our very best to recognize it, to confront it, and to eradicate it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u00a0(CNN) &#8211; Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Wednesday that he does not support using active duty troops to quell the large-scale protests across the United States triggered by&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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