Maybe you've seen the videos, federal officers and camo and riot gear standing off against

protesters in Portland, Oregon.

Tear gas and rubber bullets spraying across the crowds.

People being pulled off the streets into on my vans.

Earlier this month, the federal government sent Department of Homeland Security officers

to Portland to protect federal buildings from protesters.

Instead, chaos erupted.

Tear gas has been deployed here in Portland, but there are so thousands of people in the

crowd shaking to reinforce fencing that has been triton to place by federal agents as

we're hearing yet another disbursement announcement they made several throughout midnight.

So when President Donald Trump threatened to send federal law enforcement to other cities

led by Democrats not to deal with the protest, but to help with the spike in violent crime,

that was concerning to a lot of people, people like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

What we do not welcome and what we will not tolerate and we will fight against is the

deployment of unnamed federal special secret agents onto our streets to detain people without

cause and effectively take away their civil rights and their civil liberties without

any due process.

On Wednesday, the president followed through on his plan.

This rampage of violence shocks the conscience of our nation and we will not stand by and watch

it happen. Can't do that. The citizens of Chicago are citizens of America and they have the same

right as every other American to live in safety, dignity and peace.

Chicago is confronting a spike in violence this summer.

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