A deployment of federal agencies and National Guard troops to Memphis is a political stunt, not a solution to crime. (Photo: Karen Pulfer Focht for Tennessee Lookout)

This is not about crime. This is about control.

The proposed deployment of the Tennessee National Guard to Memphis is not a response to public safety. It’s a political stunt engineered by a twice-impeached, multi-indicted president exploiting Black suffering and white fear to reclaim political relevance.

It’s a charade rooted in fearmongering, cloaked in the rhetoric of “law and order,” but animated by the same authoritarian impulse that called troops to Lafayette Square in Washington, DC and cages to the border for immigrants. And Memphis, yet again, finds itself on the night shift of American injustice.

Let’s be clear:

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