Continuing his campaign promise to have the most diverse cabinet in history, President Joe Biden has named former Richmond, California and Tucson, Arizona chief of police Chris Magnus as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. Magnus is an openly gay man.
“During his time in Richmond, Magnus played a key role in rebuilding community trust in law enforcement and dramatically reducing the number of shootings and homicides,” the White House said in a press release. “In Tucson, Magnus implemented de-escalation training, sentinel event review processes, and programs to promote officer health and wellness.”
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Magnus, 60, already holds another “first” distinction under his belt. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that he is also the first openly gay police chief to marry. Magnus and his husband Terrance Cheung wed in 2014.
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In all fairness: "As police chief of gritty Richmond, California, Chris Magnus embraced Black Lives Matter, all but eliminated fatal shootings by police, and cut homicides" pic.twitter.com/myW9nrhFMD
— Jay Love (@JayBirdOne) April 24, 2018
Magnus has also earned wide praise for his reforms while serving as police chief in Richmond. He improved community relations with police during his tenure, and the homicide rate for the city fell from 38 homicides in 2006 to just 11 in 2014, prompting the Obama Justice Department to appoint him a special investigator into police misconduct in Ferguson, Missouri. He also made headlines in 2014 when a picture of him taking part in a #BlackLivesMatter protest holding a sign of support went viral on the internet.
If confirmed, Magnus will inherit an ongoing border crisis in the United States, as thousands of migrants have rushed the nation’s southern border in hopes of entering the country.
Cam
There is going to be a huge reckoning among the rank and file at CBP. A lot of them loved that the Trump administration basically gave them free rein to mistreat people. So this is a needed change, but this guy has his work cut out for him!
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Let me correct your incorrect statement, President Trump gave the border patrol permission to enforce legal immigration laws, your president who undid all that and created this disaster bares all responsibilities for this nightmare. By the way where is crying AOC now that these encampments have 700 children vs the 45 they are supposed too. Just wondering aloud
ScottOnEarth
@TheAbsolutetruth. Um, you are not very good at revisionist history. The atrocities committed by the inept, corrupt, heartless trump administration are well-documented. Not only did that vile administration allow border patrol to mistreat people at-will, but supported such treatment of the many people seeking a better life in the U.S. Try all you want, but the record speaks for itself.
jsmu
to The ABSOLUTE LIE:
Run along now with your ten year old Faux Noise talking-point lies and shite–perhaps you could mount another riot/insurrection, little dRUMPfanzee mutant. This is an adult conversation
MountainCowboyMan
That is not an issue, time to clean house on the Boarder Patrol & being it is 2021 not 1921 we move forward not backward in the mindset of those before.
JromeGervais09
Fire the bastards. That’s how you clean up. No matter what!
msfrost
So true!
Fahd
Appointing such a well-qualified de-escalator, who happens to be gay, to an impossible job is a start, but the most important way to ease the rush at the border is to spend the aid dollars to make a few of these Central American nations places where people can live with hope and dignity and without fear for the lives on a daily basis. Let’s have the courage to do a Marshall plan for Central America.
Then we need to address the self-help family reunification that’s going on where immigrants already here – with or without papers-are paying coyotes to bring their children and minor relatives across the border. The human trafficking that’s going on needs to be addressed by both the U.S./Mexican governments. I blame the Republicans in Congress for years of blocking any sensible approach to immigration reform.
CityguyUSA
How about the US just stop the governmental coups in Latin America?
Fahd
@City.. That’s just not enough. It’s 2021, not 1981, and then there’s the hurricanes last year.
Openminded
Fahd is right on point. The root of this problem is that so many people feel the need to leave their home country just to survive. Help or possibly Force these countries to reform themselves so their citizens can survive and thrive and the immigration problem is mostly taken care of. As much as I bemoan America’s roller coaster political catastrophe and all the inequities in the haves and have nots, I still can’t imagine actually packing a few bags of possessions and walking into another country in hopes of a better life.
Ambonec
Would be nice if Biden established a new post as Police Commissioner, and appoint him there,
as relations with marginalized group is atrocious currently with cops
woodroad34
Lucky Terrance Cheung.
barryaksarben
So the troll Absolute truth seems to forget the number of people MURDERED at the border by trump and his brown shirts. You wont win here as we are not mindless FOX viewers so dont bother. trump didnt want to really be president but when he was elected by Murdoch he took full advantage like any thief left alone in someones home. Trump and his racist administration went way past anything any past president has ever done on the border. He lied and lied and lied and lied and then lied a whole lot more. He is a pathetic loser who almost destroyed all that is good about this nation and history will not be kind to him or his supporters altho you all wont get all the shame and blame you should get as there are too many of you.Like regular Germans who were glad to elect Hitler in their selfishness that is how his supporters will be remembered. NOT as decent Americans but fools who sold their country down the river to a madman because of their greed and selfishness. Why do you come here? I guess it is because you have no life and no guy would ever F**k you which is what you so obviously want
mark2029
Good. Guys like strippers for t and a. Lgbtq more. We are senators and governors and Congressmen and cabinet secretaries and soldiers and executives.
jniceny
Biden’s cabinet is two-thirds lobbyists. It is the most corrupt and most “rotating-door”-filled administration of my lifetime–but he’s weaponized identity politics. His Secretary of Defense was on the Board of a weapons manufacture, but as he’s making sure the Saudi jets get fueled in midair and get targeting information so they can bomb a school bus in Yemen or a hospital in Afganastan, we can all be proud that he is the first black SOD.
Did anyone watch the press conference with Biden? Or anyone else wonder, who really has the nuclear football? I hope it is Harris, but if that is the case then she should be president. He is clearly has significant cognitive impairment if not dementia.
No, I’m not a Republican, but I really don’t see much difference between Trump and Biden, except Biden only has one allegation of sexual assault/rape vs Trump’s 20+.
Den
“No, I’m not a Republican,”
You do not lie very well. Nor does your revisionist history ring true at all.
We are not as stupid as you are, thankfully.