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Trump’s Crime Crackdown Spreads to Surprising Red State-Blue City of Memphis
Red State ^ | 09/12/2025 | Katie Jerkovich

Posted on 09/12/2025 9:49:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/12/2025 9:49:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I mentioned going to Memphis at the family reunion and my cousin said it was a bad place to go to.

So I’m going somewhere else.


2 posted on 09/12/2025 9:52:54 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: SeekAndFind

Red state, blue city.


3 posted on 09/12/2025 9:59:45 PM PDT by roving
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We drove through Memphis. Do it during the day and you will be fine.

We made sure to not stay there. We drove past the Children's Hospital all the way down that street going east.

Glad to have done it, but when you see West Memphis, you think it's been through a war.

4 posted on 09/12/2025 10:09:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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“Surprising” only to DemocRATS and those who are clueless.


5 posted on 09/12/2025 10:10:53 PM PDT by BB62
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Many of the Katrina refugees from New Orleans stayed and never returned home.


6 posted on 09/12/2025 10:20:11 PM PDT by Swirl
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I do believe we’ll all be arrested in Graceland.


7 posted on 09/12/2025 10:37:06 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Recipe for taglini: noodles, meat, sauce, a touch of b.s. )
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This will be the second time I've seen the National Guard deployed to Memphis. The first time was in 1978/79 when I was attending college there. That Summer, salary negotiations broke down between the city and the firefighters' union, and suddenly fires started mysteriously popping up throughout the city. "Scab" firefighters were brought in, and someone started taking pot shots of them while fighting fires.

Eventually the National Guard was deployed. Some stood on street corners with rifles slung over their shoulders, while others traveled the streets by military jeep.

It seemed to settle things down pretty nicely at the time.

8 posted on 09/12/2025 10:53:49 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump is Bruce Wayne and Batman


9 posted on 09/12/2025 11:12:20 PM PDT by Rad_J
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Is he leaving DC?


10 posted on 09/12/2025 11:45:50 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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icwydt!


11 posted on 09/13/2025 12:26:16 AM PDT by NCcatdaddy
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To: SeekAndFind

Why is it surprising? A blue crime-ridden city is still a blue crime-ridden city even when it’s inside a red state.


12 posted on 09/13/2025 1:05:21 AM PDT by skr (1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation)
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Several years ago, the USA Political Left and the Hard Left USA News Media started pounding the idea that Memphis is a high crime city in a Red voting state.

They rarely explain that more than 60% of Memphis residents are Black, and that less than 25% of residents are white.

They also fail to explain that, after major Black rioting and forced busing began in the early 1970s, half of the white Memphis population literally moved out.

13 posted on 09/13/2025 3:10:16 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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Stuck inside of Mobile


14 posted on 09/13/2025 3:18:53 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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Can they arrest Turtle?


15 posted on 09/13/2025 3:47:26 AM PDT by Zathras
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The most common complaint I hear from the left (dementiacrats, socialists, muslim invaders, outright communists) shrieking in congress is “tRUmP isn’T GOiNg iNtO rEd sTaTEs, dErP!”

Because “red” (-blooded American) states aren’t really the PROBLEM, it’s dementiacrat-run CITIES.

ennessee, considered “RED” has a major problem with four progressive Democrat-run cities, Memphis (highest crime rate in the nation), Chattanooga, Knoxville and Nashville - the latter run by a populist corruptocrat who is violating his oath of office, US Code and should be arrested RFN (or RFQ for my southern friends here) for aiding and abetting illegal alien invaders and supporting terrorists in ANTIFA and BLM.

I’m okay with President Trump starting with Memphis. I’d like to go there for ribs and a riverboat tour sometime and, while I carry concealed, (I’ve an enhanced handgun carry permit) I do try to shoot as few people as necessary as a general rule.


16 posted on 09/13/2025 4:12:32 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: Swirl

Same, Houston...


17 posted on 09/13/2025 4:31:55 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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Red state, blue city.
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News flash, most states are red, most cities are blue and it has been that way for years, at least since the 80s.


18 posted on 09/13/2025 4:58:20 AM PDT by yldstrk
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You’re no fun at all.


19 posted on 09/13/2025 5:01:04 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (is merely pawn on chessboard of life.)
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To: Palio di Siena

With the Memphis Blues again


20 posted on 09/13/2025 5:15:42 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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