Theres tons of people right now egging on the looter violence including prominent politicians and Twitter is doing frack all about it. Its not about whether you 'violate' the TOS at all which is so vague it can mean anything anyway. Its whether you are on 'their' side.
To be fair, are they explicitly egging on the violence or just the protests at large?
Trump's comment is promising escalation to lethal force against admittedly violent, but non lethal protests by citizens. Reports indicate that the protests only escalated to violence after the police started using riot control against non-violent protests. The last thing the situation needs is to threaten further escalation, as here the anger of the protests is exacerbated by the threats and actions.
Only local (read:state) government can activate and deploy the National Guard domestically, as they are technically under the command of the state. For the federal government to deploy National Guard they have to activate them and federalize them under the DoD, bringing them under the jurisdiction of the Posse Comitatus Act. He can invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the feseralized Guard domestically, but I don't think we are to the point where it could be considered insurrection.
Burning a police station is absolutely insurrection. Choking a man to death in broad daylight is absolutely murder. That murder does not justify waging war against the United States, nor does it justify looting a Target. If someone shot that cop while he was choking that man in order to preserve human life, that would be justified use of force.
Yes, choking an unarmed person who was not resisting arrest is murder and it is a complete overreaction to any situation, let alone the fact that the accusation was over the use of a counterfeit $20 bill. And yes, burning down a police station due to a murder at the hands of police is also an overreaction. Overreactions beget overreactions which is the entire problem with escalation and why it's important for people in authority to de-escalate situations lest they incite a shitstorm. Given how many unarm
A) you're not a lawyer B) you're not repeating what a lawyer said, you're tying to think for yourself what the legal meaning might be, based on the small number of words you know about regarding the subject.
Complete fail.
As for the Posse Comitatus Act, it means that if the National Guard is under Federal activation, then they're not allowed to search, sieze, or make arrests. That means that when deployed, they're only allowed to shoot people. They're not allowed to arrest them.
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To be fair, are they explicitly egging on the violence or just the protests at large?
Trump's comment is promising escalation to lethal force against admittedly violent, but non lethal protests by citizens. Reports indicate that the protests only escalated to violence after the police started using riot control against non-violent protests. The last thing the situation needs is to threaten further escalation, as here the anger of the protests is exacerbated by the threats and actions.
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It's worse than that, he threatened use of the military, which he cannot do.
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Only local (read:state) government can activate and deploy the National Guard domestically, as they are technically under the command of the state. For the federal government to deploy National Guard they have to activate them and federalize them under the DoD, bringing them under the jurisdiction of the Posse Comitatus Act. He can invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the feseralized Guard domestically, but I don't think we are to the point where it could be considered insurrection.
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You misunderstanding, because
A) you're not a lawyer
B) you're not repeating what a lawyer said, you're tying to think for yourself what the legal meaning might be, based on the small number of words you know about regarding the subject.
Complete fail.
As for the Posse Comitatus Act, it means that if the National Guard is under Federal activation, then they're not allowed to search, sieze, or make arrests. That means that when deployed, they're only allowed to shoot people. They're not allowed to arrest them.
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Only local (read:state) government can activate and deploy the National Guard domestically
The Governor of that state has activated the National Guard.
Comically if they do shoot anybody you've just made it very clear that Trump can't be blamed, as they're under state and not federal control.