Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Hall’s top lawyer on Wednesday roundly rejected threats by President Donald Trump to send federal agents to quell protests in U.S. cities, as the New York City Bar Association likened the forces to an unlawful “standing army.”
In public comments, de Blasio and corporation counsel Jim Johnson vowed to sue the Trump administration if federal agents were deployed in New York City, where protesters have gathered in mass demonstrations following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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