A child raises her fist during protesters rally outside Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's home in demand for the defunding of OPD in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (Ching Wong/SFBay.ca)
Oakland needs help overcoming Covid-19 rather than troops, Mayor Libby Schaaf said following comments Monday morning by President Donald Trump that he may send more federal law enforcement to the city.
Schaaf said in an interview on Twitter:
“I don’t need law enforcement in Oakland, I need testing. I need personal protective equipment.
Schaaf said:
“We need direct income support for people who are out of work.”
The president said that federal law enforcement in Portland did a great job over the past three days quelling civil unrest there and he’s not going to let it threaten the country.
He said leaders of cities like Oakland, Chicago, New York and Baltimore are afraid of what he called anarchists not protesters.
He said all the cities he mentioned are run by liberal Democrats who are afraid of “anarchists.”
In a statement late Monday, Schaaf said:
“We are not experiencing any civil unrest now, but I can think of nothing more likely to incite it than the presence of Trump-ordered military troops into Oakland.”
Oakland police said that they and city officials have not, nor would they, request federal help to manage crowds in the city.
Oakland police said they are part of a statewide mutual aid incident command system and they work through a regional coordinator to make requests for help if they need aid from outside the city.
Last modified July 20, 2020 10:23 pm
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