National Guard troops appear in Washington DC as mayor rejects ‘authoritarian push’

The US National Guard troops began to appear on the streets of Washington DC the day after the President Donald Trump placed troops in the city and claimed that violent crimes were out of control.

Armored vehicles were detected in the city centers and touristic places in the US capital on Tuesday evening.

Authorities, 800 national guard soldiers and 500 federal law enforcement force is expected to be deployed, he said.

Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser described the deployment of unity as a “authoritarian pressure”, a democrat who rejected the crime out of control in the city.

Trump, one Republican, threatened to talk similar to two other democratic controlled cities, New York and Chicago.

The camouflaged troops have been entering the US capital since Trump’s statement on Monday.

Apart from several government buildings, they see barricades and take pictures with tourists.

According to the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, twenty -three people were arrested by federal agents on Monday night. Representatives help local law enforcement officers.

He said the arrests were for murder, weapon crimes, drug trafficking, immoral actions, follow -up, reckless driving and other crimes.

“It’s just start, Leav said Leavitt.

He continued: “The Trump administration will brutally follow and arrest every violent criminal who violates the law in the region, weakens public security and endangered the laws in the region.”

FBI Director Kash Patel said that the FBI agents were about half of these arrests.

Both the Mayor of Washington and the City Police Chief said they shared the same target with federal agents in the early hours of the day.

“What I’m focusing on is federal fluctuations and how to make the best use of the federal officers we have.” He said.

Pamela Smith, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, said: “We know that we need to buy illegal weapons from our streets, and if we have this advanced flow of assets, we know that it will make our city even better.”

However, on Tuesday night, Mayor Trump sharpened his critique of Trump.

According to the New York Times, Bowser called the community members to “protect our city, protect our autonomy, protect our home rule, and reach the other side of this man and to make sure we have chosen a democratic house”.

On Monday night, a manhunt was launched for an armed attacker who killed a man just one mile away from the White House in Logan Circle, one of the most trendy neighborhoods of Washington DC.

According to the local media, this year was the 100th murder recorded in Washington DC.

Police said the suspect was wearing a last black shirt and carried a rifle.

The shooting enabled the US Secret Service to support the security outside the house as a precaution.

According to the crime figures published by the Washington DC metropolitan police, violent crimes peaked in 2023 and fell 35% last year and fell to the lowest levels in thirty years.

However, the President of the DC Police Association, GregG Pemberton objected to these figures, accusing the City Police Department of “intentionally falsifying crime data, a false narrative of the reduced crime while communities suffered”.

FBI data also showed that there was a crime decrease in Washington DC last year -9%is a more modest decline.

Studies show that the murder rate of capital is higher than the average than other major US cities.