The representative Cohen Slams deployment plan for the Trump National Guard in Memphis
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A member of the Tennessee Congress criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to send Memphis resources to Memphis, saying on Friday that as part-time Washingtonanananananananan is no longer sure after his own anti-crime operation.
“I had hoped that the National Guard would not be deployed here (in Memphis),” said representative Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., Who represents the “Blues house”.
Cohen said that the real way to solve the crime problem has better investments in “proven programs” and that the announcement seems to be the first “Trump Show 2.0” after the president previously deployed national guard troops in Washington, DC
“This is what I think that is, and it would harm our local economy, in particular the tourist industries and construction. It is Trump showing the world that he is a hard guy,” said Cohen.
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Representative Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., Represents Memphis and Shelby County. (Doug Mills / Reuters)
The legislator also said that as a part -time resident during the congress session, he has not seen any marked improvement in the district since Trump has initiated the custody earlier this year.
“DC has been my second house for 19 years. I have a condo and a car, and I live in the city after work, (and) not in my office. I did not perceive any change in the level of security since the deployment by Trump of the National Guard at DC
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“The president recently went to a restaurant in DC and said it was now the safest city in the world, and that he is sure to walk anywhere. This is not true.”
Cohen said that numerous procedural arrests had been “low level” offenders and that although crime in the capital was “bad”, it was already down with national trends.
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Memphis, he said, has a checkered past with the conflicts of Jim Crow but is not the “troubled city” that the president said.
“We have a crime problem. We have problems that can be” endemic “, but they are the result of centuries of racial discrimination, including slavery that separated families without any education possibilities,” he said.
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