Rahm
Emanuel is refusing help from the National Guard of the United States
of America to help him patrol the streets of Chicago but he is trying
to request the aid of the UN Peacekeeper Force instead. Now imagine
this, first, he turns Chicago into a Sanctuary city & now he's
trying to bring in the U.N.to patrol it's streets?
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December, 2017
President
Donald Trump’s implicit threat to put the National Guard on the
streets of Chicago to tackle the city’s violence problem attracted
widespread ridicule earlier this year.
But
if the soldiers were instead wearing the sky blue helmets of United
Nations peacekeepers there might not be such a problem, according to
Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, who flew to New York on
Thursday to discuss what he described as a “quiet genocide” in
Chicago’s black community with the U.N.’s assistant
secretary-general for peacebuilding support, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco.
“The
United Nations has a track record of protecting minority
populations,” Boykin told Inc. before his meeting. “There was
tribal warfare between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Africa, and they
deployed peacekeeping troops there to help save those populations and
reduce the bloodshed. We have to do something — black people in
Chicago make up 30 percent of the population but 80 percent of those
who are killed by gun violence.”
Asked
how that might differ from sending in the National Guard, Boykin
said, “The difference is, I’m not so sure that the National Guard
is so used to peacekeeping and a peacekeeping role: The U.N. is
trained in this.”
You’d
welcome foreign troops on the streets of Austin, North Lawndale,
Englewood and Roseland, commissioner?
“I’m
talking about whoever the U.N. would decide to send in,” Boykin
responded, adding, “I think that the assistant secretary-general
may have some ideas outside of sending in troops. He may have some
ideas about how we get to peace in these communities.
“We
can’t wait for the mayor to put another 1,000 police officers on
the streets, and I’m not so sure that’s going to be the panacea,
anyhow,” said Boykin, who added that he wanted local officials to
sit down together to come up with a solution.
“It’s
been a total devastation of the African-American community,” he
said.
Asked
Wednesday about Boykin’s plan to involve the U.N., Mayor Rahm
Emanuel did not respond directly but noted improvements in crime
statistics and said he was working to ensure that “people feel a
sense of security” in every neighborhood.
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