Wes Moore is doubling down on his criticism of Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., and plans to send the National Guard into cities like Baltimore.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is doubling down on his criticism of Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., mere days after he extended an invitation to Trump to put his bone spurs where his mouth is and join Moore on a safety walk around Baltimore, slated for October.
According to Politico, Moore stated in his Aug. 21 letter to Trump that, regardless of the administration’s stance on funding gun violence prevention programs, Baltimore City and the State of Maryland are reporting record lows in violent crime.
Gov. Moore was undeterred by Trump’s bluster on his social media platform, joining CBS’s “Face The Nation” program on Aug. 24 and blasting him in 4K. According to Moore, “the last time the homicide rate was this low in Baltimore City, I was not born yet.”
Baltimore’s Mayor Brandon Scott issued his own comments in response to Gov. Wes Moore’s letter to Trump; many of his statements echoed the points that the governor raised.
Scott continued, “In contrast, the President has embraced unconstitutional stop-and-frisk tactics, diverted federal law enforcement from their actual jobs to instead conduct indiscriminate traffic stops, and slashed funding for public safety programs that are driving real progress. “Whether the President chooses to accept Governor Moore’s invitation or not,” Scott noted there are a number of financial commitments the federal government could make to further increase the drop in violent crime in Baltimore.
Scott closed his comments, noting that “Only these commitments, not actions that erode our residents’ rights, would help our work to reduce violent crime. Otherwise, if Trump wants to roll into Baltimore purely to stage a photo op and spew racist narratives about Black-led cities, I speak for the vast majority of our residents when I say: We are not interested.”
Source: Black Enterprise
