"When you have what looks like a deliberate end run around not just a concept but a law that's been around for a long time, Posse Comitatus, that says you don't use our military on domestic soil unless there is an extraordinary emergency of some sort; that when you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or Obama said."
"When I watch television last night, and I'm watching the news and I see that nine people were killed in Chicago and 54 were badly wounded with bullets, I say, That's not our country. We have to do something,' Trump said in early September. ABC 7 in Chicago reported 58 people were shot in the city over the holiday weekend, which was an 87% surge from the same time the year before."
Barack Obama condemned the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago, calling domestic military force inherently corrupting and warning against politicizing the military. Obama invoked Posse Comitatus, emphasizing the long-standing legal prohibition on using the military on domestic soil absent an extraordinary emergency. Obama criticized equating ordinary street crime with insurrection or terrorism as a tactic that weakens democratic practice. President Donald Trump deployed 200 National Guard troops from Texas after a surge in Labor Day weekend shootings. Trump framed the deployment as a response to deadly weekend violence in Chicago and said the situation necessitated action.
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