Nashville, Teen – For two weeks, Memphis was preparing for the influx of the National Guard after President Donald Trump Declare To publish it to the city. On Friday, the residents finally learn more about this plan, and it seems completely different from publishing operations Los Angeles and Washington, DC
On Friday, the governor of Tennessee Bell Lee said that the forces would be part of increasing resources to combat crime in the city, which includes 13 federal agencies and state forces. The National Guard forces will be from Tennessee, and will be implemented by the American Marshall service to support local law enforcement.
The Republican Governor said that the forces will not be arrested and will not be armed unless local law enforcement officials ask for this. He told me before He does not think that there will be more than 150 members of the Guard who was deployed in Memphis, but he later said that the number is still in the planning stages.
“The crime story in Memphis is about to be the story of the past,” Lee told a press conference in Memphis, where he stood with government officials and unionists, including the mayor of Memphis and the head of the police.
He said that what he called me the “safe work squad in Memphis” will start operations next week. He could not give an accurate schedule for the date of each agency to start spreading resources to the city, saying it would happen in stages. He said that agents of the FBI, the alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives, and drug control agency will arrive next week. He said he would not announce a state of emergency.
Trump first Forces deployed in Los Angeles In early June, due to the objections of the governor of the state of Gavin Gavin New Roosome by placing the National Guard in California under the federal judicial jurisdiction to protect federal property from Protests against immigration raids. The guard later helped protect the officers while the migration was arrested.
Besides 4000 guard members, 700 actual naval infantry has been sent. California prosecution On intervention.
In Memphis, Mayor Paul Young I followed a more pragmatic approach, saying that he had never requested the National Guard forces but realized that they would come regardless of his opinion.
He said at the news conference on Friday: “My goal is to ensure that the resources are entering our society, we find ways to use them effectively and for the benefit of the inhabitants of our great city.” Young pointed out that the crime rates in Memphis have decreased, but “we know that we have a lot of work to do it for crime at a level in which people really feel.”
“It will be easy to get to know the guards and women in their regular uniforms they wear every day. They will not wear guards and women masks,” says a post on the city’s website. He continues: “Armored tanks will not be a supplier used in this task.”
Trump announced in Fox News on September 12 that he would send the National Guard to Memphis. He signed an order to prepare the workplace in law enforcement agencies for the mission on September 15.
Trump has deviated back and forth to send the forces To Chicago Sometimes he insists that he will act unilaterally to publish it and at other points indicates that he prefers Send them to New Orleansand PortlandOr a city in the state of “their ruler wants us to come.” Last week, she said Chicago “maybe the next” after Memphis.