Trump terms peaceful protests as 'acts of domestic terrorism', threatens to deploy army
Washington DC, June 2, 2020 : US President Donald Trump said that peaceful protests following the death of African-American man George Floyd in police custody were derailed by acts of domestic terrorism. He also threatened to deploy army to ‘quickly solve the problem.’
On Monday press briefing Trump declared , "These are not acts of peaceful protests, these are acts of domestic terror - the destruction of innocent life, and the spilling of innocent blood is an offence to humanity and a crime against God," Trump said during a press briefing on Monday. Trump also added that the chaos is the work of professional agitators and provocateurs - anarchists and the far-left movement Antifa, among others - and put them on notice, vowing to enforce law and order.
At the same time US President also said that he is invoking an 1807 law to mobilize the military around the country to "quickly solve the problem."
"I am also taking swift and decisive action to protect our capital Washington DC. As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and enforcement officers to stop the rioting, vandalism, assaults & wanton destruction of property,"