Newspaper drops initial defence of ‘Send in the troops’ piece that called for
Donald Trump to use
MILITARY against protesters
The
New York Times has issued a mea culpa over the paper’s decision to publish an op-ed by the
Republican senator Tom Cotton entitled: “Send in the troops”.
The decision to run the piece, which advocated for the deployment of the military against
protesters rallying against
police brutality toward black Americans, drew widespread criticism. Dozens of Times journalists voiced their opposition, noting that inciting a heavy-handed response to the
protests put black journalists, and people of color more broadly, in danger.