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.
"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."
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