How DC’s Mayor Is Responding to Trump’s Police Takeover
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser responded to President Donald Trump on Monday after he announced a federal takeover of the city’s police.
Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/BloombergProtests bubbled up outside the White House in Washington, DC, soon after President Donald Trump announced that he would send in the National Guard and take over the city's police force to tackle crime and homelessness. But the city remained largely quiet in the first 24 hours.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser responded in a press conference Monday afternoon. Bowser, who has taken a much more cautious tone with Trump than during his first administration, called the intrusion “unsettling and unprecedented” but said it would be difficult to legally challenge the president’s announcement under the special legal relationship between Washington and the district, known as “home rule.”