Trump Sending National Guard to Memphis in Next Deployment [View all]

Source: Bloomberg News

President Donald Trump said he plans to deploy the National Guard to Memphis in the latest escalation of his administration’s efforts to crack down on what it casts as rampant crime in Democratic-run cities.

“We’re going to Memphis,” Trump said Friday in an interview with Fox News, adding that the city was “deeply troubled.”

The president said that the deployment had the support of Memphis mayor Paul Young, a Democrat, and would include “National Guard and anyone else we need.”

“We’ll bring in the military too if we need it,” Trump said, adding that “we’re going to straighten out the crime of these cities.”

The move follows Trump’s earlier decision to place the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, under federal control and order about 2,000 National Guard troops into the nation’s capital, as well as the deployment of troops into Los Angeles to assist immigration officials.

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