Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced that a small number of federal officers were sent to Seattle after President Donald Trump said the agents would be deployed in Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a bid to fight a rise in crime.
Seattle was not mentioned when Trump made the announcement or in a news release issued by the White House, which stated that Milwaukee, Detroit, and Cleveland could also see federal officers. Agents were deployed to Portland, Oregon, earlier this month after a federal courthouse was attacked and demonstrators attempted to set it on fire, while the move to deploy officers drew condemnation from Portland’s mayor and Oregon’s governor.
