WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order sending national guard troops to the city of Memphis in the latest stage of his crime crackdown that critics have branded authoritarian.
Trump said the task force would be a “replica” of the one he sent into the capital Washington in August.
“The effort will include the national guard as well as the FBI and other federal agencies,” Trump told reporters at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, adding that it was “very important because of the crime that’s going on.”