Protesters confront federal officers as Trump tightens grip on DC policing | Washington DC
The protesters heck the federal law enforcement officers on Wednesday that they were reported to stop dozens of cars at a checkpoint on a busy street on Washington DC. nightAfter explaining that Donald announced Trump’s control of the city’s police department and using national guards in the city, he underlined tensions.
Some of them seized drivers for violations such as approximately 20 law enforcement, broken rear lamps appearing from the Ministry of Internal Security and do not wear seat belts, According to Washington Post. It was reported that at least one woman was arrested since more than 100 protesters were gathered and shouting things like çık Get out of our streets ”. According to NBC News. Outlet reported that some protesters began to warn the drivers to avoid the region.
This week, approximately 800 National Guard Union began to come to the city. The White House said that the authorities have made more than 100 arrests since Trump announced the inheritance on Monday. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said that he had made 74 arrests on Wednesday and made 217 arrests since Monday.
MPD’s chef reported On Thursday, he ordered an executive order of the department to inform the immigration and Customs Protection (ICE) agencies about immigrants they found during the traffic stops. Previously, the department could not report immigrants to the ice if they were not accused of a crime.
DC’s 1973 home rule law It allows the president to seize the control of the police force for 30 days for the “federal purposes” for the President of the President for “necessary and appropriate”. Trump claimed that he would try to last the last 30 days. Doing this requires authorization from the Congress.
The US Senate’s democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday that his party would not support Trump’s efforts to expand the inheritance. “There is no damn way,” Schumer said During a Podcast interview with Aaron Parnas. “We will fight him with teeth and nail.”
If the congress did not give the extension, Trump proposed that he could declare an emergency to unilaterally expand the inheritance on Wednesday.
“If this is a national emergency, we can do it without a congress, but we hope to be very fast before the Congress,” Trump said.
Trump depicted the US capital as a guilty metropolis. However, the violent crime reached the lowest level of 30 years in 2024 after an increase in 2023.
“We don’t live in a dirty city,” said Democrat Muriel Bowser, the Mayor of Washington DC. “We are not 700,000 dirt and punks. We do not have neighborhoods to be found. We must be clear about our story.”
Democrat Phil Mendelson, who served as the President of the Washington DC City Council, said that the relationship between law enforcement officers is actually collaborators, despite Trump’s politicization to the Washington Post.
“I think it can be only for good to cooperate with MPD and to provide additional resources,” he said. “But the president has a national platform and painted the city as a criminal bag. We know it is not true, but it hurts the city.”
