When I become mayor, we're going to work to organize the business community, the labor community, to begin to talk to federal officials and federal allies about some of this intrusion that we've Never seen before. The National Guard is there for national emergencies, and they should be deployed [for] a flood, a hurricane, some episodic event. But patrolling the streets as armed thugs is not what we should be about. And the people need to trust our military. They need to trust our police. (02:16–02:22)
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Asserts that the National Guard should only be deployed for national emergencies like floods or hurricanes.
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