Trump to deploy National Guard across 19 states
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President Donald Trump threatened to send more troops to other cities that he claimed were being overrun with crime as he continues the deployments in Washington, D.C.
In a statement to the Washington Post, the Pentagon confirmed that soldiers will “soon be on mission with their service-issued weapons.” For most infantry and military police, their “service-issued weapon” is the M-4 or M4A1 carbine. The latter is capable of fully automatic fire, while the former has semi-automatic fire or a three-round burst.
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Mayor Johnson has "grave concerns" about President Trump eyeing Chicago for federal crime crackdown
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday criticized President Donald Trump's suggestion that Chicago will be the next target of his efforts to crack down on crime by sending in the National Guard, saying troops on the streets would not help the city fight crime.
President Donald Trump last week declared a “crime emergency” in the District of Columbia, which gave his administration power to direct the use of local police resources and to call in the National Guard. A number of Republican governors subsequently have announced they’re sending hundreds of Guard troops under their jurisdiction to D.C.
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Agence France-Presse on MSNNational Guard troops will soon carry weapons in US capital
National Guard troops will soon carry weapons in Washington, DC, where President Donald Trump ordered their deployment as part of a crackdown on crime, a US defense official said Friday. "At the direction of the secretary of defense,
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department earlier this month, he included a not-so-subtle threat to liberal cities beyond Washington: either clean up or face the threat of a federal takeover.
In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic cameras and helping to secure crime scene perimeters, tasks not usually part of the job.