Memphis Next targets for the deployment of the National Guard, says Trump

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would send the national guard troops to Memphis, Tenn., To combat crime, following the unprecedented police repurchase of his administration in Washington, DC last month.

Trump sought to make crime a central problem, although violent crimes have dropped in many cities. Its repression against the municipalities led by democrats stimulated demonstrations, including a demonstration of several thousand in Washington last weekend.

“We are going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply disturbed,” said Trump in an interview with The Fox News Fox and friends program. “We are going to solve this problem, just as we did Washington.”

Trump said the mayor of Memphis, a democrat, was “happy” from the move. Mayor Paul Young, a Democrat, confirmed the deployment during a press conference on Friday.

“I did not ask for the national guard and I do not think that it is the means of reducing crime,” said Young, while acknowledging that the city has remained high on too many “bad lists”.

New Orleans can be the next

The governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, a republican, confirmed that the deployment would arrive and said that he planned to speak to the president on Friday to determine the details of the mission. He said that he was still the best roles for the National Guard alongside the FBI, the Patrol of the State Road, the City Police and other law enforcement organizations.

Memphis, a city of 611,000 people along the Mississippi, has one of the highest violent crimes in the United States, according to FBI statistics. According to the US Census Bureau, some 24% of residents live in poverty, more than double the national average.

The United States Ministry of Justice sent federal agents to help fight violent crimes in the city in 2020, during Trump’s first term.

Trump said he could also send federal staff to New Orleans who, like Memphis, is a democratic city in a state-controlled state. He has threatened to deploy national guard troops in Chicago, but so far has not done so.

Look | Protests in Chicago:

CHICAGO ACCOLADES AFTER TRUMP threaten the deployment of the National Guard

Demonstrations broke out in Chicago after US President Donald Trump threatened federal repression, in particular by sending troops from the National Guard and expanding deportations.

Trump argues that crime made the flight of American cities like Washington and has placed in recent weeks the police service of the US capital under direct federal control and has sent federal law to apply the law to patrol the streets of the city.

Data from the Ministry of Justice showed that violent crimes in 2024 have reached a 30 -year -old hollow in Washington.