Young Boy In Memphis Thanks Trump For Sending National Guard To Fight Crime

A young boy thanked President Donald Trump on Thursday for deploying the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, to fight crime.

The child, who is named Braylon, said in a TikTok post uploaded by his mother that he could not play outside before the arrival of the National Guard because he feared that he would get shot. He said that the National Guard’s presence has made the city “peaceful” and safer for all of the residents.

“My name is Braylon and I live here in Memphis. I’ve been noticing not just a slight change, more of a detrimental change of how peaceful Memphis is ever since the National Guard came,” the child said. “There were a lot of things that I couldn’t do before the National Guard came because I had to worry about guns and stuff. I couldn’t play because I was worried that somebody might pull out a gun or something. But now I can do that. And I just wanted to thank the President of the United States for bringing the National Guard here.”

Troops arrived in Memphis on Oct. 10 to quell the high crime rates and increase arrests of violent criminals throughout the city. As of Thursday, the Memphis Safe Task Force has made 978 total arrests and seized 197 illegal firearms.

In 2024, Memphis had the highest violent crime rate out of every major U.S. city, with 2,501 incidents per 100,000 residents, according to Stateline, citing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data. Despite this, Democratic Memphis Mayor Paul Young said