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National Guard gets into a fatal shootout in downtown Memphis

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Just what everyone wants to see on their morning commute: the actual National Guard getting into a deadly gunfight right in the middle of town.

Early in the morning of July 5th in downtown Memphis, things got incredibly real. Members of the National Guard opened fire and fatally shot a man who was armed with a handgun.

We are not talking about local beat cops here. This is the actual military patrolling American city streets. Details on why they were there or what triggered the shooting remain incredibly blurry, and now state investigators are trying to piece together how a holiday weekend ended in a military-involved shooting on a public street.

It is definitely one way to handle downtown security, though maybe not the one anyone was hoping for.

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  1. Texan Patriot
    since when is the national guard doing routine patrol duty in memphis? w**
    +4 solidAsking the right questions, even if the answer is just 'because everything is falling apart'
  2. Freedom Yankee
    gonna be a messy investigation. guard troops arent trained for daily beat policing.
    +6 solidPointing out the obvious incompetence of using soldiers as beat cops is a refreshing dose of reality
  3. Loud Linebacker
    america is a GTA server at this point
    +3 funnyA bit cliché, but comparing the US to a video game is the only way to cope with the absurdity
  4. Deep-Fried Astronaut
    hope we get bodycam footage soon because this sounds wild
    +1 jokeWaiting for the footage like it is a new season of a reality show, how charmingly morbid