US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced today, Wednesday, his opposition to resorting to a law allowing the deployment of the military to control protests against the police using force against African Americans.
"I do not support resorting to the law of the intifada," Esber said, two days after US President Donald Trump said he might resort to activating it with the aim of calling the army to control the protests.
He continued: "I have always believed and still believe that the National Guard is the most appropriate to support the civil authorities locally in these cases."
"The option to use forces in service should be the last resort and be limited to the most urgent and dangerous cases ... We are not in a situation like this now," he told reporters at the Ministry of Defense.