Why would police refuse to take Trump to Riker's Island if sentenced?More national guard at a migrant shelter in Brooklyn. Their job is to do administration work . They are at almost every migrant shelter in NYC .15 hours ago — To address fears about violent crime in the subway, Gov. Kathy Hochul in March deployed hundreds of National Guard soldiers and State Police officers to patrol ...The video captured two uniformed people walking into the Dekalb Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York (archived here), implying that the sighting proves the imminence of martial law.
When asked about the claim of imminent martial law, Director of Public Affairs at New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs Eric Durr (archived here) told Lead Stories over the phone on September 5, 2024:
That's plain wrong.
He continued to explain the functions of the National Guard:
The National Guard has both state and federal duties. So in our federal duties, we deploy overseas and become part of the army of the Air Force. In our state duties, we conduct missions that assist the state of New York, so that can be a tornado, flood, COVID-19... So what we have is we have people in New York City who are at the direction of the governor of New York on state active duty. That means we're paid for by the state. We take orders from the governor. We have been assisting the city of New York in manning these migrant shelters. So that's why there are soldiers out in the streets.
That mission is also described on the New York Military and Naval Affairs website (archived here).
Durr added that, as of this writing, the presence of the National Guard in shelters is currently being reduced, not increased.
In the video, the specific inscription on the back of the man's bulletproof vest reads:
Joint Task Force Empire Shield
When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced additional security measures aimed at combating crimes on the subway in the spring of 2024, it was the 750 members of the Joint Task Force Empire Shield and 250 state police officers who were recruited for the mission. As the governor's website (archived here) explicitly says, it was done "to supplement the NYPD's enhanced baggage checks at heavily trafficked areas," not to replace the NYPD, as the video claims.
The Dekalb Avenue station captured in the video is located between the Oculus (archived here) in Downtown Manhattan and the Atlantic Avenue - Barclays Center station in Brooklyn. Both are major transportation hubs.
Furthermore, the Joint Task Force Empire Shield is headquartered in Brooklyn (archived here). Thus, their presence in the borough is not new and not out of the ordinary.
The video that is the focus of this fact check has been recycled in other claims. One (archived here), for example, implied that the National Guard members were coming to the city because of Donald Trump's sentencing (archived here).
To that, Durr said:
That post there -- we are not bringing in soldiers to prepare for the sentencing of Donald Trump on September 18.
Rumors about a declaration of martial law are not new.
Gullible deceptive Trumptards are sucked in again.
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