commissioner joanne hardesty and i are calling for an immediate meeting with department of homeland security leadership on the ground in portland and with the acting secretary of the department chair to both to discuss a cease fire and removal of heightened federal forces from portland a cease fire with its own citizens is the u.s. crossing over the line from social unrest to something more serious judge for yourself. some are calling this trumps electoral battlefield and he is calling in reinforcements perhaps to maintain his persona as a law and order president as the violence continues to snowball today i'm announcing a surge of federal law enforcement in 2 american communities plagued by violent crime will work every single day to restore public safety protect our nation's children and bring violent perpetrators to justice but seattle's liberal mayor is blaming trump for the mayhem and in fact i think the president's actions said directly escalated and worst responsible for what happened this weekend i was just talking to a number of mayors throughout the country who saw a similar thing