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Trump Dispatching 'Thousands' of Troops and Police
The US president announces he is deploying the military to quell unrest in Washington DC.
President Donald Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest in the US over the death of a black man in police custody.
He said if cities and states failed to control the protests and "defend their residents" he would deploy the army and "quickly solve the problem for them".
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