Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he opposes sending active-duty troops to put down national protests after Trump threatened to do so
Defense Secretary Mark Esper declared on Wednesday that he doesn't support sending active-duty troops into the U.S. to deal with violent protesters, two days after President Donald Trump threatened to do so if governors don't call up National Guard troops.
"I don't support invoking the Insurrection Act," Esper said in his first public comments since the protests erupted, referring to a statute the president could invoke the deploy active-duty troops to respond to the protests. These measures "should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire situations."The act was last invoked in 1992 to quell violent protests in Los Angeles after the Rodney King trial.
Esper also condemned Floyd's killing, calling it "a horrible crime" and called for the officers on the scene to be "held accountable for his murder."
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