Irondequoit– With 700 United States Marines deployed to Los Angeles, News10NBC Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean talked to a retired Marine and veteran of the Iraq War about what it must be like for those Marines.
“So I’m a little conflicted actually on a couple of aspects. The first being their safety. We want to make sure that they are safe at all times. The second aspect is it’s really unconstitutional. And do these Marines really want to do it?” said Amy Cornell, U.S. Marine (ret.) and Iraq War veteran.
Amy Cornell grew up in Hilton. She joined the Marines in 2005, did one tour in Iraq in 2007 and was medically retired in 2011.
Berkeley Brean, News10NBC: “When you were in the Marines, were you ever trained to do operations like this?”
Amy Cornell: “You are a rifleman. You’re trying to do that, but I would not, we were not trained at all to do that. That is more of what an MP does, a military police officer.”
Berkeley Brean: “If a Marine objected to this mission, this deployment, could the Marine refuse to do it?”
Amy Cornell: “You know that’s a good question. With it being unconstitutional like this, I don’t know where that falls. Like I said, we take an oath to defend our nation in our Constitution but there’s a fine line right here.”
Berkeley Brean: “How would you feel if you were in that group?”
Amy Cornell: “If it was me, I can’t tell you that I would go. I think I would most definitely stand back.”
Amy Cornell told Berkeley she’s worried about the morale of the Marines deployed.
“I think a lot of them are thinking morally this is the wrong thing to do,” Cornell said. “Their morale is down and they’re stuck.”
President Trump has not invoked the Insurrection Act but in a court filing in California, the Justice Department says the president can deploy troops to “quell lawless violence.”
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