cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34510026
Summary by Andi
President Donald Trump announced Monday he is federalizing Washington D.C.'s police department and deploying 800 National Guard troops in what he called “liberation day” for the nation’s capital[1].
Trump invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, appointing U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the department and DEA Administrator Terry Cole as interim federal commissioner[1:1][2].
“Crime in D.C. is ending and ending today,” said Attorney General Bondi[1:2]. However, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb called the actions “unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful,” noting that violent crime in the district reached “historic 30-year lows last year” and is down 26% in 2025[1:3].
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said National Guard troops will be “flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week” and the Pentagon was “prepared to bring in other National Guard units, other specialized units”[1:4].
The federal takeover can last 48 hours before requiring congressional notification and up to 30 days before needing congressional approval[1:5]. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who cannot activate the National Guard herself, questioned the effectiveness of using Guard troops to enforce city laws[3].
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton called the actions “counterproductive, potentially dangerous, and an egregious assault on D.C. home rule”[1:6]. Multiple sources said there was little to no coordination between the White House and local D.C. officials before the announcement[1:7].
This very likely will be a test bed for taking control of state police departments, mark my word.
:yea:
Don’t Tread on Me Hogs feasting well tonight
he said as much in the announcement
“crime crackdown”
thanks CBS news. very cool and fact-based.
The response would be the same even if Big Balls didn’t get hurt. No use in worrying about proportionate responses. If you and your friends ever get a chance to fight a member of Doge, make sure you put their fucking head on a fence post.
no more half measures.No, seriously though.
“To everyone living outside Gaza who says they feel powerless to change the reality:
The truth is, you are not powerless, you are simply not prepared to make the sacrifices required to change it. Sacrifices like giving up your job, [living] life in a foreign country, parting from your family, giving up your wealth, or even risking your life.
This, at its core, is why the US holds dominance over the world: there are few who are truly willing to sacrifice in order to change the course of events.
After all, Imam Hussein needed only 72 loyal companions to change history and instill in his followers the spirit of sacrifice.
History is not changed by those who feel powerless. It is changed by those who refuse to be.“
What happened to Big Balls?
He got beat up by two 15 year olds.
Internet says he got assaulted or some shit “trying to stop a carjacking”
I had to google who the fuck this nerd is, why in the absolute fuck is a 19 year old child working in any of these roles? Does he have the fucking Epstein files?
Big Balls getting carjacked by a mob of gangbangers is the falsest false flag shit that’s ever been planted on the soil of our Earth, and the media is treating it as a thing that happened for realsies. What the fuck??? The dude’s account of events reads like bad fanfiction.
“Ser Bigge Boules sensed danger from the roving blacke rapscallions, and rushed to the defense of his faire maiden! He bravely fought off all ten of the knaves, who took off his shirt and smeared blood on his pants, then didn’t steal his car during their carjacking. This is how crimes work and is very real.”
When the real story is probably this recent Hitler Youth graduate said something racist about some black kids, he got popped in the nose by a junior high kid, then started crying.
That’s exactly what I said about that story when it was first posted
This definitely won’t apply pressure to the largely black, unrepresented, population of DC, heighten existing contradictions, leading, sooner or later, to violent confrontations between the state and the colonized periphery it occupied and exploits.
This will definitely just end crime, and bring justice to Big Balls!
Maybe the National Guard will find the Epstein Files while patrolling DC
Like the Black Dahlia Murder where her left shoe was found like a mile away in a trash can, the Epstein files will be found stuffed into an empty gym locker somewhere at a local Planet Fitness
I better check when I go in the morning
Surprised they’re not sending them to the basement of Comet Ping Pong.
idk man, I’m still thinking about Epstein. Maybe if Trump drops down to the tighty-whities and does a lil’ dance I’ll forget. Maybe.
He walked in the desert in his tighty-whities for you.
Yeah, this is how it usually leads to a martial law.
