Pearson condemns Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard to Memphis, calling it “a gross abuse of power” and likening it to “authoritarianism led by a white supremacist who is President of the United States against another Black community.”

President Donald Trump said Friday that Memphis will be the next target of a National Guard deployment, as his administration expands its use of the military to fight crime to its third Democratic-ru...

Saying “Memphis is deeply troubled,” Trump said “we’re going to fix that just like we did Washington.”