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No one would want to live in the District of Columbia of Donald Trump’s fever dream. At a press conference on Monday, the president described a city “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals,” a place teeming with “roving mobs of wild youth” and “drugged-out maniacs.”
That was his excuse for deploying 800 National Guard troops and 500 federal agents to patrol the city and harass unhoused people for living on the street. He will also attempt to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, though the extent to which he can legally take over remains to be seen.
For the past few days, all across D.C., federal law enforcement officers have been popping up in most incongruous places. Homeland Security officials wandered the pricey, condo-filled corridors of Navy Yard, where the baseball stadium sits. Border Patrol cops loitered on the sidewalks of a popular nightlife strip, where they got an earful from a passerby in a pink pointelle shirt. (They arrested him after he tossed his Subway sub at one of their bulletproof vests.) Over the weekend, a crew of Drug Enforcement Administration officers was spotted strolling along a path by the National Mall, surrounded by joggers and tourists enjoying the afternoon sun.
Bewildered by the sudden influx of armed and armored agents swarming my hometown, on Tuesday morning, I decided to walk a sweltering mile in their shoes. Trump claims that emergency conditions require him to use the MPD to protect federal buildings and national monuments—so I went down to the Mall to follow the pathway of those DEA agents, hoping to see what they saw.
Bewildered by the sudden influx of armed and armored agents swarming my hometown, on Tuesday morning, I decided to walk a sweltering mile in their shoes. Trump claims that emergency conditions require him to use the MPD to protect federal buildings and national monuments—so I went down to the Mall to follow the pathway of those DEA agents, hoping to see what they saw.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/walked-trump-d-c-hellscape-143530717.html
That was his excuse for deploying 800 National Guard troops and 500 federal agents to patrol the city and harass unhoused people for living on the street. He will also attempt to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, though the extent to which he can legally take over remains to be seen.
For the past few days, all across D.C., federal law enforcement officers have been popping up in most incongruous places. Homeland Security officials wandered the pricey, condo-filled corridors of Navy Yard, where the baseball stadium sits. Border Patrol cops loitered on the sidewalks of a popular nightlife strip, where they got an earful from a passerby in a pink pointelle shirt. (They arrested him after he tossed his Subway sub at one of their bulletproof vests.) Over the weekend, a crew of Drug Enforcement Administration officers was spotted strolling along a path by the National Mall, surrounded by joggers and tourists enjoying the afternoon sun.
Bewildered by the sudden influx of armed and armored agents swarming my hometown, on Tuesday morning, I decided to walk a sweltering mile in their shoes. Trump claims that emergency conditions require him to use the MPD to protect federal buildings and national monuments—so I went down to the Mall to follow the pathway of those DEA agents, hoping to see what they saw.
Bewildered by the sudden influx of armed and armored agents swarming my hometown, on Tuesday morning, I decided to walk a sweltering mile in their shoes. Trump claims that emergency conditions require him to use the MPD to protect federal buildings and national monuments—so I went down to the Mall to follow the pathway of those DEA agents, hoping to see what they saw.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/walked-trump-d-c-hellscape-143530717.html
