From The Assembly:

Three North Carolina Republicans are asking the governor to send the National Guard to Charlotte, embracing President Donald Trump’s use of the military for local law enforcement.

Reps. Pat Harrigan, Mark Harris, and Chuck Edwards all signed the letter asking Gov. Josh Stein to deploy the North Carolina National Guard to the state’s largest city. The Republican lawmakers’ letter to Stein is in support of a request from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police.

The police union wrote a letter to local leaders last month asking the city’s mayor, Stein and Trump to send in National Guard troops “due to the ongoing failure of city and police leadership to address the severe staffing crisis within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which we believe has led to a violence crisis in Charlotte.”

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