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"I did not know that the request of #MPD (Metropolitan Police Department) would be made," Mayor #MurielBowser told reporters.

"I believed that they would announce that they were going to call up the #NationalGuard, I had a one brief phone call related to the National Guard issue over the weekend."

#Washington #DC #Trump #law #MilitaryState #military #NationalGuard #authoritarianism #autocracy #Gestapo

Nonilex
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#Bowser noted that she could contest #Trump's decision, but added that his "authority is pretty broad" under the #HomeRule charter that gives the White House power to control #Washington, #DC police in the case of emergencies.

#law #MilitaryState #military #NationalGuard #FBI #authoritarianism #autocracy #Gestapo

Nonilex
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Reverend #AlSharpton, the founder & president of #CivilRights org National Action Network, is organizing a late-August #protest against #Trump's #Washington crackdown.

"Let's call the inspiration for this assault on a majority Black city for what it is: another bid to distract his angry, frustrated base over his administration's handling of the #Epstein files," he said in a statement.

Some #Democrats shared the same critique on social media.

#DC #Trump #law #MilitaryState #JeffreyEpstein

Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai

The WH has dismissed reporting about #Trump's ties to #JeffreyEpstein as "fake news," though it has acknowledged his name appears in documents related to his case.

Rev #AlSharpton criticized Trump's reference to "slums" in Washington & his equating of #homeless people to criminals.
"We cannot, nor will we, take this lying down," he said.
Sharpton says he will lead a march on Aug 28 in downtown #NYC from near the courthouse where Trump was convicted towards a Trump-owned building on Wall Street.

Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai

The United States Conference of Mayors #USCM, a non-partisan org that represents #mayors of at least 1,400 cities, said in a statement it hopes federal officials will work on "a partnership – not a #takeover" in #Washington.

"Ultimately, the best public safety outcomes are delivered by local police departments & local officials, who know the communities. America’s mayors never see takeovers by other levels of government as a tactic that has any track record of producing results," it read.

#law