Rep. Cohen slams Trump's Nationwide Guard deployment plan to Memphis

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A Tennessee congressman criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to ship Nationwide Guard sources to Memphis, saying Friday that as a part-time Washingtonian, town doesn’t really feel any safer after its personal anti-crime operation.

"I had hoped the National Guard wouldn't be deployed right here [to Memphis]," mentioned the Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., who represents the "Dwelling of the Blues."

Cohen mentioned the actual option to repair the crime downside there may be through higher investments in "confirmed applications," and that the announcement seems to be the premiere of the "Trump Present 2.0" after the president beforehand deployed National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.

"That’s what I feel that is about, and that might hurt our native economic system, notably the vacationer and building industries. That is all about Trump exhibiting the world that he’s a troublesome man," Cohen mentioned.

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Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., represents Memphis and Shelby County. (Doug Mills/Reuters)

The lawmaker additionally claimed that as a part-time resident throughout congressional session, he has not seen any marked enchancment within the District since Trump engaged the guard there earlier this yr.

"D.C. has been my second house for 19 years. I've a apartment and a automotive, and I stay within the metropolis after work, [and] not in my workplace. I don't understand any change within the degree of security since Trump’s deployment of the Nationwide Guard in D.C."

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"The president just lately went out to a restaurant in D.C. and mentioned that it's now the most secure city on this planet, and that it's secure to stroll anyplace. That’s not true."

Cohen claimed lots of the arrests made have been "low-level" offenders and that whereas the crime within the capital is "unhealthy," it was already declining together with nationwide traits.

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Memphis, he mentioned, has a checkered previous with Jim Crow conflicts, however just isn't the "troubled metropolis" the president claimed.

"We've a criminal offense downside. We do have issues which may be ‘endemic,’ however they're the results of centuries of racial discrimination, together with slavery that separated households with out academic alternatives," he mentioned.

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