‘There’s No Reason to Shoot Anybody’: 86-year-old Congresswoman Stands Up to Trump’s Troops
Maxine Waters confronts military personnel directly
A long-serving, 86-year-old congresswoman from Los Angeles, Calif, personally confronted the military troops Donald Trump deployed in her city, urging them not to turn their weapons on their countrymen.
As the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, Rep Maxine Waters is an extraordinarily powerful lawmaker.
But standing in the street back home on Sunday standing her ground with a phalanx of the US military personnel which Trump deployed to quell protests against his campaign of mass deportations of migrants, she was simply an elderly Black woman standing up for her neighbors.
Trump in recent days has been calling up US military personnel — first federalized National Guard, and then active-duty Marines — over the objections of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov Gavin Newsom (D).
Waters, who has represented swaths of Angeles for nearly 35 years, personally urged these troops not to fire on the protesters.
“What are you going to do, shoot some kids? You’re going to shoot an elected official? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight,” she said. “I don’t know why you’re in my city. The governor was not contacted. This is Trump and his outrageous attempt to not only target our sanctuary city, but to frighten us, intimidate us.
“This is wrong,” she added. “I know that none of you will use those guns to shoot anybody. There’s no reason to shoot anybody.
“Don’t allow them to make your service in a service that you’re killing people. Don’t do it,” Waters said.
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