MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WTVF-TV) — Memphis is preparing for national guard troops to come into the city as part of a law enforcement surge announced by President Donald Trump.

The Memphis City Council failed to pass a resolution opposing the guard's deployment earlier this week.

State Representative Antonio Parkinson (D-Memphis) discussed the deployment on Inside Politics.

"If this is going to happen, we will make the best of it," State Representative Parkinson said.

He added, "We did not ask for it. We didn't want it, but it's outside our purview. It's outside our decision making."

Parkinson served in the Marine Corps and is a retired Memphis firefighter.

He seemed to want to calm some of the rhetoric around the deployment.

"Here's what I will not do, be emotionally driven by any of this,

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