President Trump visited Memphis on Monday for a Roundtable discussion with federal and state leaders to discuss the success of his Memphis Safe Task Force months after its launch.
Many reports indicate federal agents have been working successfully with Memphis Highway Patrol officers and local police to make more than 7,000 arrests, with more than 700 gang members having also been arrested.
“Here in Memphis, we’ve achieved one of the largest, fastest declines in violent crime ever recorded, Trump said.
Even the mayor of the city, Paul Young, a Democrat, seemed to welcome Trump’s help. “My goal is to make sure that as the mayor of Memphis, that I’m at the table helping to drive how the federal agencies showed up in our community,” Young said.
Ironically, while the President was visiting to celebrate the success of his task force, hundreds of left-wing protestors gathered outside a Memphis shopping plaza to protest his arrival in the city. Right on cue many of them used racial discrimination as an excuse to discredit the President. Seems many of the protestors were against lowering crime because they felt Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force was purposely “targeting” Black and Latino residents.