McMaster said he was sending troops “to support President Trump in his mission to restore law and order to our nation’s capital,” and that the Guard members would return home if an emergency affected...

Three states moved to deploy hundreds of members of their National Guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crac...

Many of the demonstrators dismissed that pretext and said the National Guard deployment was an abuse of power.