National Guard going to Memphis next to address ‘crime’

President Donald Trump said on Friday, Washington, one month after federalizing the law enforcement officers in DC, the National Guard Memphis, will send Tennessee to Tennessee and said he would deploy soldiers throughout the city to address the crime.

Uz We’re going to Memphis, Tr Trump said to the city in Fox News, “deeply troubled.”

Trump, both the state’s republican gov. Bill Lee said that he was “happy” with the plan of Paul Young, Mayor of Memphis Democrat.

“We will correct the troubles of the city,” Trump Memphis said, “Just like Washington,” he said.

Local affiliated organization ABC24 Members of Memphis City Council on Wednesday was informed On the possibility of the presence of a national guard in the city.

Lee said In a statement On Friday, he was “in constant communication” with Trump administration for several months about how to fight crime in Memphis. Governor said he would talk to Trump in the afternoon to discuss the details of the expansion of a mission led by the FBI, called “Viper Operation” in Memphis.

The White House confirmed the plan in a Friday press release and said that the use of federal resources is part of the efforts to “eliminate the crime of widespread violence against the unsuccessful democratic governance in big cities”.

Memphis Police Department He said this week The general crime in the first eight months of 2025 is at the lowest level of 25 years. The department, the murder reached the lowest level of six years.

Trump said he was inspired by Memphis CEO Jim Vena’s priority. Unity Pacific railway. Vena is a former board member. FedexHeadquartered in Memphis. Vena resigned In 2023, when he was chosen to lead Union Pacific.

Trump said that Vena should use a “bullet -proof -lappers armored vehicle” to go to a block in Memphis.

Trump, Vena’s St. Louis said he proposed Missouri and Chicago as potential cities.

Previously, the president said that despite a violent opposition to the idea from the mayor of the city and the governor of Illinois, the troops would be deployed to Chicago.

Trump did not explain which legal framework to justify the White House’s deployment of soldiers to another US city.

Washington argued that the president has exceeded the constitutional authority of the President and filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on deploying troops in the US capital at the beginning of this month.

This case arrived days after a federal judge prevented the administration from using the national guards in Los Angeles.

During his interview on Friday, Trump, California Gov. Gavin criticized Newsom and said he expected to win all court cases for the deployment of national guards.

Uz We think we’d win them all, Tr Trump said. “And we win them all.”