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US Politics · District of ColumbiaThe Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the nation’s capital, on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” with all the powers of the police chief — a significant move that increases national control over the city as part of the federal government’s law-enforcement takeover.See the Story
Bondi names DEA head as DC’s ‘emergency police commissioner,’ but capital leaders push back
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US Politics · District of ColumbiaMayor Muriel Bowser held a press conference to address President Trump's announcement of his plans to put the city's police under federal control and deploy the National Guard to address crime in the city.
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DC Mayor Bowser: Trump police takeover ‘unsettling and unprecedented’
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