Once again, President Trump has deployed the U.S. military on American soil for law-enforcement purposes. A few months ago it was Los Angeles; this time, it’s a supposed crime wave in Washington, D.C., that has prompted Trump to flood an American city with armed soldiers.

There is crime in D.C., just as there is in every U.S. city. Murders, like the June killing in Washington of UMass student Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, are unacceptable, and the federal government would certainly be justified in offering the city’s government more resources to fight crime. ×

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