Local citizens, business owners, workers, etc. need to get off their a*&es and ‘petition’ their community leaders and the WH, both. USE THE SYSTEM damn it!
Trump doesn’t need to walk into a gratuitous, avoidable, Liberal, ‘made to-order’ trap!!
The President can’t be conned into a black eye that will NOT resolve anything, and will ONLY harm his administration!
Unfortunately, almost all chiefs of police (unlike sheriffs) - and ALL of them in major cities - aren’t elected, but appointed by mayors, and many of them from other jurisdictions. As an Arizona sheriff once told me, “I’m elected to serve and protect the citizens of this county and I don’t have to follow the orders of any mayor.” He once told Fyfe Symington, the former governor, “I’m elected too, governor!”