Democratic legislators in Nassau district in New York sued the end of the program created last year by the executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican Republican who acquired armed citizens to the volunteer as a “special deputy” that he would activate in an emergency.
The Court described this program by an illegal and secret militia, which “represents a considerable and permanent waste of public funds” in the region east of New York.
The suit was filed by two regional legislators, Debra Mulé and Scott Davis on Tuesday.
He named Mr. Blakeman and his administration together with the sheriff Anthony Larocco and accused that Mr. Blakeman created a program without authorization of the regional legislature.
Officials Blakeman administration tried to “cover their illegal program in secrecy” by illegally rejecting the legislators of the lawmakers of the laws on details, the action said.
“Permitting at least trained private citizens to control the power of the government – and no less – in the emergency situation – represents clear and obvious security risks,” he said.
In response to this, Mr. Blakeman criticized Mrs. Mulé and Mr. Davis as “Shame for bringing this frivolous actions and relaxing volunteers, many of whom are military and retirement rights.”
At a press conference in front of a court building on Wednesday, the legislators of the democratic regions stated that the aim aims to deal with the power of Mr. Blakeman’s power and the lack of transparency surrounding the program of special Members.
“The Nassau Region is wasting dollars of taxpayers on the militia to protect us from problems that we do not have,” said Seth Koslow, a Democrat in the legislature, who plans to run for Mr. Blakeman’s chair in November and called Mr. Blakeman in November in November .”
The lawyer representing the prosecutor, Josh Kelner, said Mr. Blakeman exceeded because the law “does not allow the government to call private citizens and hand over the badges”.
Mr. Blakeman joined President Trump and gained national attention by throwing himself into the cultural wars. On Tuesday, he announced a partnership with Trump’s administration to seize the detectives of the Nassau district to be trained and represented as American immigration and customs coercive agents to arrest unaccualized immigrants committing crimes.
Last March, the volunteer power plan was caused by a firefighter between many democrats, when Mr. Blakeman said he would call on residents with permission for weapons to voluntarily join his choir of the “provisional emergency special representative of sheriffs”. Nassau plunged into a national debate on authoritarianism.
The political opponents of Mr. Blakeman accused him of creating an uninvited militia with little warning or explanation, which responded only to his political purposes. They centered petitions and organized a assembly that submerged both the program and the lack of details of the training, recruitment and parameters of the duties of the deputy. The provision of police powers to civil arms owners could lead to accidental shooting and is a presumed threat to minorities and political enemies, they said.
But Mr. Blakeman rejected criticism that the program was politically motivated, and said it was a testing and training of people to provide residents “another layer of protection” in the event of a major emergency situation.
At one point he told reporters that MEPs could be activated to guard chaotic demonstrations: “If the rebellion was to the level where they burned the buildings.” But he later said that the protests would be left to the police and that special MPs would not be used for political purposes ”.
Delia Deriggi-Whitton, the leader of the democratic minority of the regional legislature, told reporters in April that before World War II he heard from Jewish people who compared Mr. Blakeman’s initiative to Hitler’s paramilitary forces.
At that time, Mr. Blakeman, who is Jewish, called the comparative offensive and demanded her resignation. On Wednesday, he raised this problem again and said, “Anti -Semitic statements and rejects these good citizens by marking them as Nazi brownshirts, disqualify them for public service.”
Carey Dunne, a lawyer of the public interest representative, called the civilian power “by authoritarian power to catch in the heart of suburban America, where the hand -selected group of armed vigilant secretly works on Beck and calls an uncontrolled executive”.
Government leaders who set up their own groups of armed forces should launch alarms, said Mr. Dunne, a lawyer with a free and fair group of litigation. With regard to the storm of the American capitol 6. January 2021 he added: “He sends a signal to others in the country that could be encouraged to create their own militias.”
Natalie Chandler The report contributed.
