At the direction of the President of the United States, unidentified federal agents have been deployed to America’s cities, like Washington, D.C., Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, to interrupt local protests and impose “law and order” for political purposes. 
Targeting and occupation of progressive cities is unacceptable, un-American and unconstitutional. Moreover, these federal agents are not trained in modern community policing, crowd control, or de-escalation strategies.
They do not know the communities in which they are operating, and they are not welcome there. This provocation is resulting in direct physical harm to our communities and must end.
We applaud efforts by the House of Representatives and Senate to rectify this dire situation, and support amendments being offered to the Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations bills in the House this week.
We call on Congress to swiftly pass legislation to block the administration from sending unwanted and unidentified federal agents to our cities.
The actions taken in recent weeks have no place in this nation. We demand that federal troops be removed from our cities and encourage Congress’ continued vigilance and action to pass legislation in both chambers to end this dangerous overreach.
This Administration has shown no hesitation or remorse in playing the most toxic and damaging form of politics with the lives and livelihoods of the American people. We say no more. We say unequivocally Black Lives Matter.
We demand the cynical ploy to coopt the movement for racial justice to come to an end.
Letter signed by: @chicagosmayor @MayorJenny @MayorKeller @MayorBowser @QuintonLucasKC @tedwheeler
Letter signed by: @chicagosmayor @MayorJenny @MayorKeller @MayorBowser @QuintonLucasKC @tedwheeler
