Desoto Sheriff Warns Thugs: Don’t Cross the State Line

Desoto County Sheriff Thomas Tuggle warned thugs to stay on their side of the state line. Tuggle was a guest on the Todd Starnes Show on Newsmax.

“If you come to DeSoto County to commit a crime, we’re going to hold you accountable,” the sheriff said. “So there’s no place for criminal activity in DeSoto County. We’re going be very aggressive about that.”

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The sheriff praised the National Guard crackdown and the surge in federal troops in Memphis.

“When we have partners and our partners work well together, especially being aggressive when it comes to crime, the entire region benefits,” Tuggle said. “And this is part of what we’re benefiting from when we had our federal partners along with our state partners, along with municipal partners working together. And that’s why crime is down.”

The sheriff also pushed back on accusations from. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson that President Trump’s use of the National Guard was rooted in racism.

“No one is going to convince me what the Trump administration is doing against black people and brown people can ever be justified. It is racist,” Mayor Johnson said.

“When you start talking about race, I’ve had more people in this community that look like me that are calling us to say, and ‘Sheriff, thank you for being proactive and thank you for being so aggressive when it comes to crime fighting,'” Sheriff Tuggle told Starnes.

“Nobody wants to live in a community where they feel threatened — they don’t feel safe,” he added. “So don’t bring the race thing into this it race has nothing to do with it When people use race all it is is their inability to deal with conflict resolution.”

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