The Texas National Guard said Monday it would dispatch up to 1,000 troops to five major cities around the state as early as this weekend, but a top general insisted Monday it was not in anticipation of trouble during the Nov. 3 election.
Maj. Gen. James K. “Red” Brown, chief of staff for the guard’s commander, said the activation of troops would be for “post election” support of local law enforcement and the Texas Department of Public Safety, “as we did previously to deter any civil disturbance at sites in various cities within Texas.”
Protecting polling stations “has not been on any mission request or in any conversation with the governor’s office,” he said.
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