Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff initially supported President Trump's decision to deploy National Guard troops to San Francisco for security, but later apologized, highlighting the blurring of power between private wealth and political force.

Over the objections of local and state officials, armed National Guards members are now appearing in places civilians frequent. They are walking down pedestrian streets in Washington, D.C., and they have patrolled outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Los Angeles and outside a Memphis landmark.

Most Guard members serve one weekend monthly while balancing civilian careers now disrupted by contested federal deployments.

The Trump administration branded Chicago a "war zone" Sunday as a justification for deploying soldiers against the will of local Democratic officials, while a judge blocked the White House from sending troops to another Democrat-run city.They want to create the war zone, so that they can send in even more troops."

Multiple decisions in a lawsuit brought by Oregon and the city of Portland against the federal government are being decided in two different courts It’s been two and a half weeks since President Donald Trump posted on social media that he would send the military to Portland,

With a National Guard “surge” underway, a Memphis pastor presses for calm as leaders balance security with community trust.