San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie addressed the public Wednesday after Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed reports that federal agents are headed to the city.

“We have been taking steps to prepare for this kind of escalation here in San Francisco, and I want to be very clear, we are prepared,” Lurie said in a briefing.

Just minutes before Lurie’s briefing Wednesday, Newsom posted a video on social media saying that federal agents are coming to San Francisco.

“This is right out of the dictator’s handbook,” the governor said. “He says he’s going to send in the National Guard to address uncontrollable crime rates, which are fictitious.”

The announcement comes one week after President Donald Trump first threatened to send the National Guard to the city, and a few days after U.S. Secretary of Homela

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