What Is The Insurrection Act That Trump Is Threatening To Invoke? <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />President Trump walks from the White House to visit St. John's Church after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />President Trump threatened Monday to take military action in American cities if the violent demonstrations that have been taking place in recent days aren't stamped out. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />To do that, the president would need to invoke what's known as the Insurrection Act of 1807. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />The act was last invoked in 1992 to quell the Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, a black man, and before that in 1989 during widespread looting in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, after Hurricane Hugo. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />Trump Says He'll Deploy Military To States If They Don't Stop Violent Protests <br /> <br />Before invoking it, the president "must first issue a proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse within a limited
