Before President Trump’s August 2025 deployment of armed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., when was the last time armed federal soldiers regularly patrolled the streets of an American city with loaded weapons for an extended period?
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In April 1992, following the acquittal of police officers in the Rodney King beating, President George H.W. Bush invoked the Insurrection Act and federalized the California National Guard alongside el...
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