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Breaking News: Trump Signs A New Executive Order To Arrest Anyone Vandalizing Monuments



The United  States President, Donald Trump has vowed to arrest anyone caught trying to tear down/vandalize monuments or statues, threatening they could be jailed for 10 years.

Trump added the new order applies "retroactively" so those who previously participated in bringing down memorials could be detained. 

"I have authorised the federal government to arrest anyone who vandalises or destroys any monument, statue or other such federal property in the US with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran's Memorial Preservation Act," the president said in a tweet on Tuesday.

A wave of nationwide rallies calling for racial justice has swept the US since May 25 when George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Since then, monuments from the civil war era or associated with slavery and the colonisation of Native Americans by Europeans have been targeted for destruction.

Trump's order on Tuesday follows a statement by Republican Senator Tom Cotton, from the state of Arkansas, who demanded the federal government take action against the pulling down of statues of historical American figures.

In recent weeks, violent mob defaced and torn down statues, memorials, and monuments around our country," Cotton said in a letter to Attorney General William Barr.

"These criminals masquerade as protesters exercising their lawful right to peaceably assemble, but there can be no right to destroy public or private property." 

Cotton has taken a hard line against the anti-racism demonstrations that have gripped the United States after the police killings of Floyd and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. 

Also, in an opinion piece for The New York Times titled Send in The Military, the conservative senator encouraged an "overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers". 

After Cotton's op-ed was published, Trump threatened to deploy the US military on the streets - a move widely condemned by rights activists, politicians, and even American military leaders.

On Monday night protesters tried to pull down a statue of former US president Andrew Jackson near the White House before being dispersed by police with pepper-spray at Lafayette Square, where the Jackson statue is located.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was at the scene on Monday and issued a statement.

"Let me be clear: we will not bow to anarchists. Law and order will prevail, and justice will be served," said Bernhardt.

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