A group of North Carolina congressmen urged Gov. Josh Stein to deploy the National Guard into Charlotte over a “growing violence crisis” that has the city’s understaffed police force on the defensive.
Reps. Mark Harris, Pat Harrigan and Chuck Edwards, all Republicans, penned the letter Wednesday to Mr. Stein, a Democrat, in which they said a spate of killings, shootings and muggings have overwhelmed Charlotte’s cops.
The city witnessed eight killings in a week, and the murder rate in uptown Charlotte is 200% higher than it was a year ago, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police. The union also reported increases in commercial and street robberies and weapon assaults throughout 2025…