ENVÍE LAS TROPAS: Cientos de Guardias Nacionales se movilizaron para proteger los monumentos de DC

Cientos de tropas de la Guardia Nacional se están movilizando para ayudar a proteger los monumentos de DC de los manifestantes que quieren derribarlos o destruirlos:

Trang Anh Nam – Hundreds of troops with the Washington, D.C., National Guard have mobilized to protect monuments in the nation’s capital, a Pentagon spokesperson has confirmed.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt requested the action earlier this week, as protesters target statues and other historical markers during ongoing demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd’s police custody death in Minneapolis at the end of May.

The Pentagon confirmed that roughly 400 D.C. Guard members have been activated and are on standby.

“Since their activation, none of the National Guard members have been dispatched to actual monument locations to provide assistance to the NPP,” Pentagon spokesperson Lt. Col. Christian Mitchell said in a statement. “They remain on standby at the DC Armory at this time. They will support U.S. Park Police at key monuments to prevent any defacing or destruction.”

Mientras asistirán a la Policía de Parques de EE. UU., El portavoz del Pentágono dice que los miembros de la Guardia Nacional estarán desarmados:

Mitchell noted that the National Guard members are unarmed and “will serve as a uniformed deterrence” and in a “crowd management capacity.”

Protesters on Monday attempted to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square by the White House, and defaced it with the phrase “killer scum,” Reuters reported. Bernhardt said afterward that he visited Lafayette Square and witnessed the destruction. He said the country “will not bow to anarchists,” and that “law and order will prevail, and justice will be served.”

The Lincoln Memorial and WWII Memorial were also defaced in earlier protests.

During a protest on Tuesday that took place in front of D.C.’s Emancipation Memorial, one demonstrator announced that on Thursday they would tear down the memorial’s statue of Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed slave.

Entiendo que el Pentágono quiere reducir la situación y todo eso, pero enviar tropas desarmadas para tratar con algunos de estos alborotadores simplemente no me parece inteligente. Nadie quiere ver a nadie muerto o herido, pero estas turbas se vuelven violentas y si nuestras tropas de la Guardia Nacional no pueden defenderse adecuadamente, serán las que estén en el hospital o algo peor.