On June 1, President Trump threatened to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across America. Trump and state governors eventually deployed at least 17,000 National Guard troops across the country. In the nation’s capital, Trump deployed nine Blackhawk assault helicopters, thousands of
Black Lives Matter Everywhere: Its Time to Defund the US Military
The case for Black Lives Matter should be applied globally and the push to defund police should be extended to the US military.