U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would send National Guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee, to combat crime, following his administration's unprecedented police takeover in Washington,

Trump did not say on Friday what law he would invoke to send troops to Memphis. A federal judge ruled earlier in September that the National Guard’s deployment in Los Angeles this summer violated federal law due to the troops’ use in civil law enforcement functions.

This week, President Trump announced he will be sending National Guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee. He says it’s to clamp down on crime. Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson represents parts of Memphis and says that the administration has done nothing to address the root causes of crime and explains why “we should all be terrified by what we are seeing.

National Guard armored vehicles were lined up along Riverside Drive in May 2020. Gov. Bill Lee, like 29 other state governors at the time, called on

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