Author Vanessa Batters-Thompson, executive director of DC Appleseed is pictured with (left) Beth Halpern, chair of the DC Appleseed Board and (center) Brian Schwalb, attorney general for the District of Columbia. (Photo courtesy of DC Appleseed by Krista Boccio of rebelwithaview.com)
South Carolina has doubled down and sent additional National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. as part of a second wave of federal deployment. We urge South Carolinians to ask what this effort is really accomplishing and at what cost.
Deploying the National Guard may play well in headlines, but it doesn’t build safer neighborhoods…