President Donald Trump announced he would delay sending the National Guard to San Francisco, CA, after receiving phone calls from friends.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
The Federal Government was preparing to “surge” San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress. I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around. I told him I think he is making a mistake, because we can do it much faster, and remove the criminals that the Law does not permit him to remove. I told him, “It’s an easier process if we do it, faster, stronger, and safer but, let’s see how you do?” The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject. Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others have called saying that the future of San Francisco is great. They want to give it a “shot.” Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco on Saturday. Stay tuned!
There have already been clashes in Alameda as federal agents arrived at the Coast Guard Station:
Protesters early Thursday flooded the roadway along the lone entrance to the Coast Guard’s installation on the Oakland Estuary, where more than 100 federal agents were reportedly expected to arrive as part of the next phase of Trump’s immigration-enforcement campaign. Masked federal agents in U.S. Border Patrol bulletproof vests forced their way through the crowd, as marchers held signs declaring “No ICE or Troops in the Bay,” and “Move ICE to get out of the bay.”“Get out the way, because once we go, we’re not stopping,” one masked agent told protesters before a vehicle started moving slowly through the crowd. “I’m telling you now, this is a warning. We’re not stopping.”
The Mercury News claimed “a demonstrator in religious garb was shot directly in the face with pepper spray, leaving his chin bloodied.”
However, I do not know if the person or anyone else provoked the agents.
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