J. Pharoah Doss: From Cleveland to Chicago to Trump to ‘violence to the constitution’

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To stop the strikers’ “reign of terror,” President Cleveland deployed 12,000 federal troops to Chicago. When Illinois Governor John Altgeld discovered that the president sent troops into Chicago without his authorization, he demanded an immediate evacuation. President Cleveland replied: Federal troops were sent to Chicago in strict accordance with the Constitution. Returning to the present, over Labor Day weekend in Chicago there were at least 58 shootings, with 8 people killed. They also reported that the Chicago Police Department attempted to reduce gun violence over the holiday weekend.