Washington, National Guard
Digest more
Republican governors are sending hundreds of National Guard troops to aid in Trump's takeover of policing in D.C.
GOP-led states announced they would send their own National Guard troops to augment President Donald Trump’s law enforcement takeover in the nation’s capital, The Washington Post reports. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed.
In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic cameras and helping to secure crime scene perimeters, tasks not usually part of the job.
The Post mapped locations of law enforcement throughout D.C. in the days since Trump’s announcement to deploy the Guard.
The Republican governors of West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio announced Saturday they will send National Guard troops to Washington, DC, in an escalation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to federally take over law enforcement in the city.