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Memphis eh?
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“I woulda preferred going to Chicago. I had a man in a big the head of a big big railroad they’re doing a merger and he came to see me all that stuff and I asked him cause it’s you know one of the largest train companies maybe the largest so you can figure out who it is OK? Union Pacific. And he was in my office and he saw started off 45 years ago with the railroad so that’s a great story [sir voice] Sir, I’m a railroader[/end sir voice] that’s the kinda guy that should run it as opposed to a Wall Street guy who’d destroys the railroad but he’s good financially, right? And he was a very impressive guy.

And I said so what do you think, where should we go next as a city cause we’ll do one two three next then we’ll do a few at a time but we’re we’re going to straighten out the crime in these cities. He said ‘Sir Memphis would be good’ because he’s on the board of FedEx he said ‘when I walk one block to my hotel they won’t allow me to do it they put me in an armored vehicle with bullet-proof glass to take me one block.’ He said it’s the so terrible. I said let me ask you a question, so we’re going to Memphis, I’m just announcing that now straighten that out [Ainsley: National Guard?] [Trump nods] National Guard and anybody else we need. And by the way we’ll bring in the military too if we need it. But National Guard, but Memphis is uhh look it’s a great music city you know it’s home of Elvis and everything else.”
 


“You know the people in DC are sooo happy they bring coffee [mumble] the National Guard.”
 
nycfan said:
“I woulda preferred going to Chicago. I had a man in a big the head of a big big railroad they’re doing a merger and he came to see me all that stuff and I asked him cause it’s you know one of the largest train companies maybe the largest so you can figure out who it is OK? Union Pacific. And he was in my office and he saw started off 45 years ago with the railroad so that’s a great story [sir voice] Sir, I’m a railroader[/end sir voice] that’s the kinda guy that should run it as opposed to a Wall Street guy who’d destroys the railroad but he’s good financially, right? And he was a very impressive guy.

And I said so what do you think, where should we go next as a city cause we’ll do one two three next then we’ll do a few at a time but we’re we’re going to straighten out the crime in these cities. He said ‘Sir Memphis would be good’ because he’s on the board of FedEx he said ‘when I walk one block to my hotel they won’t allow me to do it they put me in an armored vehicle with bullet-proof glass to take me one block.’ He said it’s the so terrible. I said let me ask you a question, so we’re going to Memphis, I’m just announcing that now straighten that out [Ainsley: National Guard?] [Trump nods] National Guard and anybody else we need. And by the way we’ll bring in the military too if we need it. But National Guard, but Memphis is uhh look it’s a great music city you know it’s home of Elvis and everything else.”
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Wouldn't shock me if Memphians really do want federal help. That city has struggled for a LONG time.
 
nycfan said:
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“… “New Orleans is in really bad shape, and the governor wants us to go in,” Trump said on Fox. He claimed as well, “I can fix that up in a week and a half.”

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The Pentagon’s plan, which has not been previously reported, calls for the Louisiana mobilization to last until Sept. 30, 2026 — far longer than the president’s timeline, if an announcement is imminent. The materials reviewed by The Washington Post do not identify a start date….”

They have decided for now that they need an invitation to proceed (though they did not think that was the case in Los Angeles — I guess for now they’ve determined they will need some pretext to override the wishes of a governor of a state).
 
It's going to be interesting how Bill Lee and Jeff Landry play this, being red state governors who (presumably) support what's going on in LA, DC, and CHI.

Do they stick with their party and cheer it on? Or do they throw their own constituents under the bus?
 


🎁 —> https://wapo.st/4pouJqp

“… The Washington Post gathered more than a thousand charging documents from local and federal courts, mapped the incidents and examined how they played out. The documents portray an expanded law enforcement presence that considered no crime too small while hunting for guns and employing tactics that have sparked community opposition in the past.

More than a third of the 1,273 arrests examined by The Post from the first four weeks of Trump’s crackdown in D.C. involved federal law enforcement, a figure that doesn’t include arrests made by immigration officers.

Those arrests occurred in all eight city wards, but were concentrated in the city’s poorest, least White and most crime-riddled neighborhoods.

…Of the 470 arrests where federal officers were present:
  • Weapons charges were the most common, primarily illegal gun possession. One in 4 cases involved gun charges. Officers found firearms in cars, waistbands and a child’s backpack.
  • About 1 in 7 cases accused people of having open containers of alcohol, in cars or parks or curbside.
  • Almost two dozen cases involved public consumption of marijuana — possession of which, in small quantities, is legal in D.C.
  • One in 8 cases involved people accused of assaulting a police officer or resisting arrest. Most involved other charges, but on 20 occasions, assaulting or resisting was the sole charge — including people who have screamed at, spat on and, in one viral case, hurled a sandwich at a federal officer.
  • One in 12 arrests included solely minor charges, such as using marijuana in public, fare evasion and traffic offenses like driving without a valid license.
  • Those arrested were overwhelmingly young, Black men. Black men have made up the majority of D.C. police arrests for years.
  • The quarter of the D.C. census tracts with the highest violent crime rates were the site of nearly half of arrests, while the quarter with the lowest rates had 11 percent.
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nycfan said:


🎁 —> https://wapo.st/4pouJqp

“… The Washington Post gathered more than a thousand charging documents from local and federal courts, mapped the incidents and examined how they played out. The documents portray an expanded law enforcement presence that considered no crime too small while hunting for guns and employing tactics that have sparked community opposition in the past.

More than a third of the 1,273 arrests examined by The Post from the first four weeks of Trump’s crackdown in D.C. involved federal law enforcement, a figure that doesn’t include arrests made by immigration officers.

Those arrests occurred in all eight city wards, but were concentrated in the city’s poorest, least White and most crime-riddled neighborhoods.

…Of the 470 arrests where federal officers were present:
  • Weapons charges were the most common, primarily illegal gun possession. One in 4 cases involved gun charges. Officers found firearms in cars, waistbands and a child’s backpack.
  • About 1 in 7 cases accused people of having open containers of alcohol, in cars or parks or curbside.
  • Almost two dozen cases involved public consumption of marijuana — possession of which, in small quantities, is legal in D.C.
  • One in 8 cases involved people accused of assaulting a police officer or resisting arrest. Most involved other charges, but on 20 occasions, assaulting or resisting was the sole charge — including people who have screamed at, spat on and, in one viral case, hurled a sandwich at a federal officer.
  • One in 12 arrests included solely minor charges, such as using marijuana in public, fare evasion and traffic offenses like driving without a valid license.
  • Those arrested were overwhelmingly young, Black men. Black men have made up the majority of D.C. police arrests for years.
  • The quarter of the D.C. census tracts with the highest violent crime rates were the site of nearly half of arrests, while the quarter with the lowest rates had 11 percent.
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“… There were six homicides in D.C. during the four weeks examined by The Post — from Aug. 7, when Trump first ordered a boosted federal presence, through Sept. 4. That’s eight fewer homicides than the same period last year, according to D.C. police data. Robberies more than halved and carjackings plummeted.

During that period, D.C. police made 26 percent more arrests and recovered dozens more firearms — 266, up from 231 — compared with the same period last year….”
 
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