{"id":56332,"date":"2020-06-25T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56332"},"modified":"2020-06-25T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:33:07","slug":"56332","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56332","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/24\/us-marshals-to-immediately-prepare-to-defend-national-monuments\/\">US Marshals told to \u2018immediately prepare\u2019 to defend national monuments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Marshals have been told they should gear up to defend national monuments across the country, after several of the structures were toppled or vandalized during recent protests, a report said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The service \u201chas been asked to immediately prepare to provide federal law enforcement support to protect national monuments,\u201d Marshals Assistant Director Andrew C. Smith wrote in an email obtained by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a challenging assignment due to the breadth of possible targets for criminal activity,\u201d Smith wrote.<\/p>\n<p>To coordinate, the Marshals Incident Management Team will start a Joint Operations Center in Springfield, Va., and every Special Operations Group deputy will be made available to help as soon as Thursday, he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, the Trump administration activated the National Guard to protect monuments in Washington, D.C., as anti-racism protests continue to rage in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says FBI investigating &#8216;hundreds&#8217; of monument vandals<br \/>\nThe move came following the toppling on Friday of a statue of Confederate leader Albert Pike near the city\u2019s police headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, protesters tried to take down a statue of President Andrew Jackson in a park next to the White House, but police in riot gear stopped them.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump tweeted the next day that he had \u201cauthorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran\u2019s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Marshals told to \u2018immediately prepare\u2019 to defend national monuments U.S. Marshals have been told they should gear up to defend national monuments across the country, after several of the structures were toppled or vandalized during recent protests, a report said on Wednesday. The service \u201chas been asked to immediately prepare to provide federal law &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56333,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56332\/revisions\/56333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}