As protests in Minnesota continue amid ongoing tension between demonstrators and federal agents in the area, Gov. Tim Walz and local safety officials announced Jan. 17 that the Minnesota National Guard has been “mobilized” and is on standby if needed.
In a Facebook post Jan. 17, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said that at “Gov. Walz’s direction,” the Minnesota National Guard was mobilized and was “staging to support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies.”
The department further clarified in the post that troops had not been deployed.
When the next American civil war starts this is what it will look like. He will push until he gets to declare martial law.
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Can we do national guard vs immigration custom enforcement?
Honestly have no idea how that would work out legally.
Closest thing I can think of is Governor Wallace’s stand at the schoolhouse door, when Kennedy called in the national guard to escort a black child to class after integration and for all the theatrics, there was no violence. (And if a state/federal confrontation can achieve that in this case, I think that’s the best case scenario.)
I’m sure others in this sub-lemmy know way more.
No troops deployed.
So does this do anything meaningful?
Stand by means they are contacting all of the soldiers and making sure everything is good to go.
Also It makes trumps threat of sending the Army look like even a more bad Idea.
Hopefully not just getting them ready to be federally commandeered
Let’s hope their mandate is
- no one masked
- no weapons
- no kidnapping
So, like, protecting the people from this rash of kidnappings.
I dont know how you expect to protect the people from ice without weapons anymore
I talked to a mn guardsman I know this morning about it. He said that the way they do the activations is in phases starting with MPs.
My understanding is that it’s basically a warning and a plan for where you’re at on the list of getting called up, so you know what to expect as the situation changes.
It takes time for an army to show up.
“Assemble the troops!!!”
“Eh…we’ll get there by Tuesday. Maybe Wednesday if we pass a Dairy Queen.”
It’s a threat.
This guy loves doing that
