The Long Beach City Attorney was directed Tuesday night to draft a resolution expressing support for the impeachment or removal of Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem. The resolution will also urge “an end to the federal policies and enforcement operations that subject local communities to violence and harm” and affirm the City’s “commitment to protecting civil rights, community trust and the dignity of all residents.”
That commitment was called into question earlier that night when local activist Anthony Bryson asked the City Council why Long Beach police show up to “every protest in riot gear when protestors are simply expressing their First Amendment right to protest.” Bryson said he felt the City has been “suppressing and repressing” residents’ right to protest.
“We spent over a year coming to the city council asking for you guys to be proactive and not be one of the cities joining other cities, but the city leading the initiative to get ICE out,” Bryson said.
Copies of Long Beach’s resolution will be sent to California federal and state representatives. Congressional representatives from states like New York, Ohio, California and Pennsylvania have called for Noem’s impeachment or resignation…