Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, August 21, 2017. Happy solar eclipse day!
Rahm: Trump administration is “playing politics” to promote its law enforcement policies
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says President Donald Trump’s administration is “playing politics” in order to promote its stringent law enforcement policies, and claimed the White House is using a “racial component” to link big cities like Chicago and high violence rates. “They use cities as a way of describing violence, as a characterization which they never use around the violence associated with opiates and the drugs that are in suburban and rural communities,” the mayor told former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod on an episode of the Axe Files, a podcast from CNN and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. “They’re using the immigrant community, particularly, as a way to create something that’s not of us that we have to be frightened [of].” [CNN]
