FORT BRAGG, N.C. — President Trump has ordered 500 active-duty military police to stand by for possible deployment to Minnesota. Sources at Fort Bragg, where the 16th Military Police Brigade is headquartered, called the White House order “precautionary.” Such deployment would be constitutionally risky. The 1807 Insurrection Act allows federal farmed forces into a locality only in desperate situations. The law hasn’t been used since 1992 when President George H.W. Bush sent troops to Los Angeles for riots following the police beating of Rodney King. Bush, however, was acting at the request of California Governor Pete Wison and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradle. In Minnesota there has been no such state request. In fact Governor Tim Walz and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul have declared that local citizen unrest has been caused solely by Trump himself for sending 3,500 deportation agents into the state and that the agents’ brutality has exceeded any acceptable Minnesota norms. The answer to the civic resistance in Minnesota is for Trump to end his uninvited deportation surge into the state, say Walz and the mayors.
16th Army Police Brigade. A diverse military police nit in garrisons at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Campbell in Kentucky; Fort Drum in New York; Fort Johnson in Louisiana; and Fort Stewart in Georgia.