The president of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced Monday that the Federal Government will take control of the Washington DC Police and will activate the National Guard troops as part of a campaign to control crime and “restore public order” in the capital.
“I officially invoke section 740 of the Autonomy Law of the Columbia district, and put the department of Washington DC Metropolitan Police under direct federal control”Said the president at a press conference at the White House with members of his cabinet.
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This clause of the so -called Home Rule Act, which governs Washington’s autonomy since 1973, gives the President the power to assume emergency control of the Metropolitan Police Force in specific circumstances.
In a press conference from the White House, the president declared a “Public Security emergency”put the Metropolitan Police of the Columbia district under the control of the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and appointed interimly to the director of the Drug Control Administration (DEA), Terry Cole, the city police commissioner.
Trump indicated that within this “Historical action to rescue the national capital of crime, bloodshed and chaos”, It will also be “deploying the National Guard to help restore public order and security” in the city, something that Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, confirmed that he was already underway.
“It’s the day of liberation for Washington DC”he insisted, while he advanced – without going into details – that he would also end the camps of homeless people and that would impose hard hand to the “youth criminals who terrify the capital.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, in the state dining room of the White House in Washington, DC, US
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The New York warned that this campaign to “release” and “beautify” Washington will only be the beginning of an operation nationwide to “resume control” of US cities that, he said, are threatened by street violence and undocumented immigrants.
“We are not going to allow that to happen. We are not going to lose our cities because of this. We are starting strongly in DC and we are going to clean it very fastvery fast, but this will go further, ”he added.
Local media had already reported that the Pentagon enlisted some 800 National Guard Troops before an imminent Trump.
Last week, the president has already announced the deployment of federal agents in the streets of what he considers a city full of crimes and that is very permissive with crimes.
