Where is ANTIFA? Where is their HQ? How can the NG take on ANTIFA? Where is the front?
Antifa is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement. It is sometimes described as a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups in the United States. Antifa political activism includes nonviolent methods of direct action such as poster and flyer campaigns, mutual aid, speeches, protest marches, and community organizing. Supporters of the movement aim to combat far-right extremists, including neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
Every shooter is a white man. Notice that?
Trump's just practicing up for his next coup
Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. This tradition is rooted in the fear that using a standing army for domestic policing could lead to government overreach and suppress individual liberties.
The National Guard is not trained for community policing or to make arrests, and that's not how they're generally used. In Washington, D.C., they've mainly been patrolling federal property and beautifying city parks.
The deployment to Memphis is part of a broader push by Trump to expand what he has called anti-crime efforts around the country, with particular focus on targeting Democratic-led cities. It follows a pattern of Trump forcing, or threatening, federal intervention onto cities that legal experts say is testing the limits of presidential power and the use of military force.
"I have a whole bunch of concerns," says Chris Mirasola, a national security law professor at the University of Houston Law Center. "I think fundamentally, there are deep problems with our politics becoming accustomed to the military having a recurring, consistent role in what are, frankly, non-emergency situations."
The White House has said that the deployment of troops to Memphis, which is majority Black, is to "restore public safety"
No, he sent them to Memphis because we were noticing that he was only sending troops to states he lost. He won TN.
Trump has deployed National Guard troops to both Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. in recent months, and has indicated he might send troops to around a dozen other cities around the country — like Chicago or Portland, Ore. — all of which are led by Democrats. In every case he's pointed to high crime rates in the cities as the reasoning, although data shows that violent crime in many of those places has decreased in recent years.
And sending troops isn't a long term solution.
